[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 61580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29529]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


M&A Electric Power Cooperative; finding of no significant impact

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of finding of no significant impact.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) 
has made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) with respect to a 
request from M&A Electric Power Cooperative for assistance from the 
Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to finance the construction of a 69 kV 
electric transmission line and electric substation in Wayne County, 
Missouri.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Quigel, Environmental Protection 
Specialist, Engineering and Environmental Staff, RUS, Stop 1571, 1400 
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-1571, telephone (202) 
720-0468, e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 69 kV electric transmission line will 
tie into M&A Electric Power Cooperative's existing Patterson Substation 
located west of Patterson, Missouri, and extend in an easterly 
direction to the proposed Silva Substation to be located south of 
Silva, Missouri. The length of the transmission line is approximately 7 
miles. The amount of land required for the Silva Substation will be 
approximately 4 acres. Approximately 30 acres of land to be used for 
the transmission line right-of-way will traverse the Wappapello Lake 
Project which is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. M&A 
Electric Power Cooperative has acquired an equal amount of land with a 
habitat value equal to that which will be cleared for the right-of-way 
of the proposed transmission line. This acquired land will be deeded to 
the Corps of Engineers as mitigation for the transmission line easement 
across the Wappapello Lake Project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
was a cooperating agency in the review of the potential environmental 
impacts associated with this project.2
    Copies of the FONSI are available from RUS at the address provided 
herein or Tony Gott, M&A Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., Highway PP, 
West, Poplar Bluff, Missouri 63901, (573) 785-9651.

    Dated: November 4, 1999.
Blaine D. Stockton, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator--Electric Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 99-29529 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]
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