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Vol. 65, No. 193

Wednesday, October 4, 2000

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Klamath Provincial Advisory

Committee (PAC)

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Klamath Provincial

Advisory Committee will meet on

October 11, 2000, at the Northern

California Service Center, Training

Room 1, 6101 Airport Road, Redding,

California. The meeting will start at 9

A.M. and adjourn at 5 P.M. Agenda

items for the meeting include: (1)

Discussion on topics of general interest

to the PAC (Implementation Monitoring

Field Trips); (2) the President’s Fire and

Fuels Report; (3) Socio-Economic Issues:

and (4) Public Comment Periods. All

Provincial Advisory Committee

meetings are open to the public.

Interested citizens are encouraged to

attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Connie Hendryx, USDA, Klamath

National Forest, 11263 N. Hwy 3, Fort

Jones, California 96032; telephone 530–

468–1281 (voice), TDD 530–468–2783.

Dated: September 27, 2000.

Constance J. Hendryx,

PAC Support Staff.

[FR Doc. 00–25385 Filed 10–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service

Oglethorpe Power Corporation; Notice

of Intent

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Hold a Public

Meeting and Prepare an Environmental

Assessment.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS),

pursuant to the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et

seq.), the Council on Environmental

Quality (CEQ) Regulations for

Implementing NEPA (40 CFR Parts

1500–1508), and RUS Environmental

Policies and Procedures (7 CFR Part

1794) proposes to prepare an

Environmental Assessment related to

possible financing assistance to

Oglethorpe Power Corporation to

construct a 520 megawatt, combined

cycle combustion turbine project in

Heard County, Georgia.

DATES: RUS will conduct a public

scoping meeting in an open house

format on Thursday, October 19, 2000,

from 4:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The scoping meeting will be

held at the Heard County Parks and

Recreation Department, Riverside Park

Gymnasium, 101 Glover Road, Franklin,

Georgia. All interested parties are

invited to attend the meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob

Quigel, Engineering and Environmental

Staff, Rural Utilities Service, at (202)

720–0468. Bob’s E-mail address is

bquigel@rus.usda.gov. You can also

contact Greg Jones of Oglethorpe Power

Corporation at 1–800–241–5374,

extension 7890. Greg’s email address is

greg.jones@opc.com.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Oglethorpe Power Corporation proposes

to construct the natural gas fired electric

generation plant at the Hal B. Wansley

Plant site in northeast Heard County

approximately six miles southeast of

Roopville, Georgia. The existing

Wansley Plant is a 1,730 megawatt, coal

fired, electric generation facility owned

by Oglethorpe Power Corporation,

Georgia Power Company, the Municipal

Electricity Authority of Georgia, and the

City of Dalton. The 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 and

one heat recovery steam generator. The

total build-out of the four blocks would

total approximately 2,280 megawatts.

No new electric transmission lines will

need to be constructed to connect this

plant to the existing electric

transmission grid. No new natural gas

pipeline will be constructed to

exclusively serve this plant. Georgia

Power Company is proposing to

construct a natural gas pipeline that is

planned to provide an adequate gas

supply to the total build-out at the

Wansley Plant site.

The proposed project will be

composed of two, nominal 167

megawatt Siemens V84.3A2 connected

to a heat recovery steam generator

which will power a Siemens steam

turbine. Which This will increase the

total plant output by 187 megawatts 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.

Alternatives considered by RUS and

Oglethorpe Power Corporation to

constructing the proposed generation

facility proposed include: (a) No action,

(b) purchased power, (c) load

management, (d) renewable energy, (e)

hydroelectric generation, (f) pumped

storage hydroelectric generation, and (g)

distributed generation.

An alternative evaluation and site

selection study for the project was

prepared by Oglethorpe Power

Corporation. The alternative evaluation

and site selection study are available for

public review at RUS in Room 2242,

1400 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC, and at the

headquarters of Oglethorpe Power

Corporation located at 2100 East

Exchange Place, Tucker, Georgia. This

document will also be available at the

West Georgia Regional Library at 710

Rome Street, Carrollton, Georgia, phone

(770) 836–6711,; the Heard County

Public Library at 564 Main Street,

Franklin, Georgia, phone (706) 675–

6501; and the Newnan-Coweta Public

Library at 25 Hospital Road, Newnan,

Georgia, phone (770) 253–3625.

Government agencies, private

organizations, and the public are invited

to participate in the planning and

analysis of the proposed project.

Representatives of RUS and Oglethorpe

Power Corporation will be available at

the scoping meeting to discuss RUS’

environmental review process, describe

the project and alternatives under

consideration, discuss the scope of

environmental issues to be considered,

answer questions, and accept oral and

written comments. Written comments

will be accepted for at least 30 days after

the public scoping meeting.

From information provided in the

alternative evaluation and site selection