[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 221 (Tuesday, November 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63833-63834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30669]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
Associated 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 with respect to its action
related to the construction of a 200 megawatt simple cycle combustion
turbine electric generation plant in Northwest Missouri by Associated
Electric Cooperative (Associated). The finding of no significant impact
is the conclusion of an environmental assessment prepared by RUS. The
environmental assessment is based on a environmental analysis submitted
to RUS by Associated. RUS conducted an independent evaluation of the
environmental analysis and concurs with its scope and content. The
environmental analysis has been incorporated by reference in the
environmental assessment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Quigel, Environmental Protection
Specialist, Engineering and Environmental Staff, RUS, Stop 1571, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202) 720-
0468, E-mail bquigel@rus.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The preferred site for the plant is located
in south-central Nodaway County, Missouri, approximately 5.5 miles
southeast of Maryville and \1/2\ mile southwest of the intersection of
Highways N and F. The proposed project involves two 100-megawatt
(nominal), simple-cycle combustion turbine generators. Simple-cycle
units are typically used for peak power generation and operate only a
few hundred to a few thousand hours per year. The combustion turbines
for the proposed plant would be Westinghouse 501D5 simple-cycle/dry
low-nitrogen oxides combustors. Initially, fuel for the combustion
turbines would be natural gas only. Each main generating unit would be
approximately 40 feet wide and 140 feet long. The exhaust stack
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would be 50 feet high. Together the combustion turbines would occupy
less than six acres of a site located in Nodaway County in northwest
Missouri. A maintenance building approximately 90 by 45-foot, a small
control building, and a water storage container would also be located
on the site next to the combustion turbines. A 150-foot high microwave
tower would be located on the site, enabling control of the plant from
a remote location. The plant would be connected to one of Associated's
161-kilovolt transmission lines. Natural gas would be supplied from
either a 24-or 30-inch diameter gas line which passes northeast to
southwest through northwestern Missouri. It is estimated that
approximately 200 feet of two, 10 inch gas transmission lines will need
to be constructed outside the proposed plant boundary to connect the
plant to the existing gas line in the area.
Alternatives considered to constructing the project as proposed
included no action, load management, power purchases, renewable energy,
combined cycle combustion turbine technology, and an alternative site
location.
Copies of the environmental assessment and finding of no
significant impact along with the environmental analysis are available
for review at, or can be obtained from, RUS at the address provided
herein or from Jerry Bindel, Associated Electric Cooperative, P.O. Box
754, Springfield, Missouri, 65801-0754 telephone (417) 885-9272. Mr.
Bindel's E-mail address is jbindel@aeci.org. These documents are also
available at Maryville Public Library, 5th and Main Street, Maryville,
Missouri. Interested parties wishing to comment on the adequacy of the
environmental assessment should do so within 30 days of the publication
of this notice. RUS will take no action that would approve clearing or
construction activities related to the proposed combined cycle power
plant prior to the expiration of the 30-day comment period.
Dated: November 10, 1998.
Blaine D. Stockton, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program.
[FR Doc. 98-30669 Filed 11-16-98; 8:45 am]
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