[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 20627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10116]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


Oglethorpe Power Corporation; 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 with respect to the 
construction and operation of a 520-megawatt, natural gas fired, 
combined cycle electric generation plant in Heard County, Georgia. 
Oglethorpe Power Corporation proposes to be the agent to construct and 
operate the plant. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) may provide 
financing for the plant to an entity made up of members of Oglethorpe 
Power Corporation. The specifics of that entity have yet to be 
determined.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Oglethorpe Power Corporation proposes to 
construct the proposed facility at the Hal B. Wansley Plant site in 
northeast Heard County approximately six miles southeast of Roopville, 
Georgia. The Wansley Plant is owned by Georgia Power Company, 
Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the Municipal Electricity Authority of 
Georgia, and the City of Dalton. Currently in operation at the site are 
two 865-megawatt, coal fired, electric generation units and a 49-
megawatt, oil fired, combustion turbine. Oglethorpe Power Corporation's 
proposed plant is one of four blocks of additional electric generation 
facilities planned for construction at the site. Each block of 
additional generation is proposed to consist of two combustion 
turbines, two heat recovery steam generators, and one steam turbine. 
The total build-out of the four blocks would total approximately 2,280 
megawatts.
    The proposed project will be composed of two, nominal 167 megawatt 
Siemens V84.3A2 combustion turbines, each connected to a heat recovery 
steam generator which will power a nominal 187 megawatt Siemens steam 
turbine, for a total of 520 megawatts. It is the goal of Oglethorpe 
Power Corporation to have the plant in operation by the spring of 2003.
    Copies of the Finding of No Significant Impact are available from 
RUS at the address provided herein or from Mr. Greg Jones of Oglethorpe 
Power Corporation, P.O. Box 1349, Tucker, Georgia 30085-1349, (800) 
241-5374 x7890; [email protected]. Copies of the environmental 
assessment are available for review at Oglethorpe Power Corporation and 
RUS at the addresses provided herein.

    Dated: April 18, 2001.
Blaine D. Stockton,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program.
[FR Doc. 01-10116 Filed 4-23-01; 8:45 am]
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