[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1417]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Barry Electric 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 by Barry Electric Cooperative to use its general funds to
construct a new headquarters facility in Barry County, Missouri. The
FONSI is based on a borrower's environmental report (BER) submitted to
RUS by Barry Electric Cooperative. RUS conducted an independent
evaluation of the report and concurs with its scope and content. In
accordance with RUS Environmental Policies and Procedures, 7 CFR Part
1794.61, RUS has adopted the BER as its environmental assessment for
the project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lawrence R. Wolfe, Senior
Environmental Protection Specialist, Engineering and Environmental
Staff, RUS, Ag. Box 1569, Washington, D.C. 20250-1569, telephone (202)
720-1784.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The headquarters facility is proposed to be
located just north of Cassville adjacent to Highway 37 in Section 17,
Township 23 North, Range 27 West. The size of the proposed site for the
headquarters facility is approximately 30 acres of which 10 acres would
be developed.
The headquarters facility would consist of a 7,000 square foot
office, a 35,000 square foot warehouse and 850 square foot covered
storage building, and approximately 36,000 square feet of open storage
area for poles, transformers, dumpsters, service and field employee
vehicles, radio antenna, and salvage. The facility will also include
parking for the cooperative employees and the public and a drive
through depository window.
The buildings to be constructed will be pre-engineered metal. The
parking and drive lanes will be a hard surface of either asphalt or
concrete. The covered and open storage area will be surfaced with
crushed rock and surrounded by a chain-link fence.
RUS considered the alternative of taking no action that would
approve Barry Electric Cooperative's construction of the proposed
headquarters facility.
Copies of the BER and FONSI are available for review at, or can be
obtained from, RUS at the address provided herein or from Mr. Earle W.
Shiveley, Barry Electric Cooperative, P.O. Box 307, 100 Main Street,
Cassville, Missouri 65625, telephone (417) 847-2131.
Dated: January 22, 1996.
Adam M. Golodner,
Deputy Administrator, Program Operations.
[FR Doc. 96-1417 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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