[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 181 (Monday, September 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 56292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23827]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


National Power Cooperative; Notice of 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 National Power Cooperative for financing assistance from 
the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to finance the construction of a 500 
megawatt combustion turbine plant in Van Wert County, Ohio.

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 proposed plant will be a natural gas 
fired, simple cycle, combustion turbine plant constructed on a 56.5 
acre site in Van Wert County, Ohio. About 30 acres of the site will be 
needed for the plant buildings and other structures. The site is 
located near Convoy just southwest of the intersection of Mentzer Road 
and Shaner Road. No natural gas pipeline or electric transmission line 
improvements will be needed beyond the proposed plant boundaries.
    Based on its environmental assessment of the project, RUS has 
concluded that the construction and operation of the 500 megawatt plant 
at the proposed site would have no significant impact to the quality of 
the human environment. Therefore, RUS will not prepare an environmental 
impact statement for its action related to this project.
    Copies of the FONSI are available from RUS at the address provided 
herein or from Keith A. Crabtree of National Power Cooperative at (614) 
846-5757. Keith's e-mail address is [email protected].

    Dated: September 11, 2000.
Blaine D. Stockton, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program.
[FR Doc. 00-23827 Filed 9-15-00; 8:45 am]
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