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accommodate 6 combustion turbine

units and would have a total output of

1,020 megawatts. The environmental

impact has been described for 6 units.

The entire plant will be situated on

approximately 26 acres of the 93-acre

site. No major natural gas pipeline or

electric transmission line improvements

will be needed at either location beyond

the proposed site boundaries. A short

electric transmission line span will be

constructed on a 5-acre parcel owned by

Old Dominion and is adjacent to the

plant to tie the plant to an existing 500

kilovolt transmission line located

southwest of Old Mill Road.

Alternatives considered by RUS and

Old Dominion to constructing the

generation facility as proposed include:

(a) No action, (b) load management, (c)

purchased power, (d) renewable energy,

(e) a combined cycle combustion

turbine plant, and (f) alternative site

locations.

Old Dominion is preparing an

environmental analysis to be submitted

to RUS for review. RUS will use the

environmental analysis to determine the

significance of the impacts of the project

and may adopt it as its environmental

assessment of the project. RUS’

environmental assessment of the project

will be available for review and

comment for 30 days. Notice of

availability of the environmental

assessment will be published in the

Federal Register and in newspapers

with a circulation in the project area. It

is anticipated that the environmental

assessment will be available in

November or December of this year.

RUS will determine, based on the

environmental assessment of the

project, whether or not the impacts of

the construction and operation of the

plant poses a significant impact. Public

notification of RUS’ finding will be

published in the Federal Register and in

newspapers with a circulation in the

project area.

Any final action related to the

proposed project will be subject to, and

contingent upon, compliance with

environmental review requirements

prescribed by the Council on

Environmental Quality and the Rural

Utilities Service’s regulations.

Dated: November 17, 2000.

Mark S. Plank,

Acting Director, Engineering and

Environmental Staff.

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BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical

Advisory Committee; Notice of Open

Meeting

The Regulations and Procedures

Technical Advisory Committee will

meet on December 12, 2000, 9 a.m.,

Room 3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, 14th Street between

Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues

NW, Washington, DC. The Committee

advises the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Export Administration on

implementation of the Export

Administration Regulations (EAR) and

provides for continuing review to

update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments

by the public.

3. Update on pending regulations.

4. Discussion of deemed export rule.

5. Discussion of anti-boycott

regulations.

6. Roundtable discussion with Bureau

of Export Administration officials.

7. Election of Chair and Vice Chair.

The meeting will be open to the

public and a limited number of seats

will be available. Reservations are not

accepted. To the extent time permits,

members of the public may present oral

statements to the Committee. Written

statements may be submitted at any

time before or after the meeting.

However, to facilitate distribution of

public presentation materials to

Committee members, the Committee

suggests that presenters forward the

public presentation materials, two

weeks prior to the meeting date, to the

following address: Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS: 3876,

14th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC 20230.

For more information or copies of the

minutes, contact Lee Ann Carpenter on

(202) 482–2583.

Dated: November 20, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–30130 Filed 11–24–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 57–2000]

Foreign-Trade Zone 54—Clinton

County, New York; Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the County of Clinton, New

York, grantee of FTZ 54, requesting

authority to expand its general-purpose

zone site to include an additional site in

Plattsburgh, New York. The application

was submitted pursuant to the

provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),

and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR

Part 400). It was formally filed on

November 13, 2000.

FTZ 54 was approved on February 14,

1980 (Board Order 153, 45 FR 12469, 2/

26/80) and expanded on September 23,

1982 (Board Order 196, 47 FR 43102, 9/

30/82), and on May 29, 1996 (Board

Order 829, 61 FR 28840, 6/6/96). The

zone project currently includes three

general-purpose zone sites: Site 1 (123

acres)—Clinton County Air Industrial

Park, Plattsburgh; Site 2 (11 acres)—One

Trans-Boarder Drive, Champlain, at I–87

and U.S. Route 11, operated by TransBorder Customs Services, Inc.; and Site

3 (200 acres)—Champlain Industrial

Park, located on New York State Route

11 in Champlain (also includes two

temporary parcels (both expire 11/30/

01) located at 5 Coton Lane (4 acres) and

2002 Ridge Road (15,000 sq ft)).

The applicant is now requesting

authority, on behalf of the Plattsburgh

Airbase Redevelopment Corporation, to

expand the general-purpose zone to

include an additional site (Proposed

Site 4; 3,200 acres) located at the former

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Interstate 87

and U.S. Route 9, Plattsburgh. The

property is owned by the United States

Air Force, which is in the process of

conveying the property to the County of

Clinton Industrial Development Agency,

a municipal corporation, as part of a

base conversion project.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment is invited from

interested parties. Submissions (original

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the

Board’s Executive Secretary at the

address below. The closing period for

their receipt is January 26, 2001.

Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing

period may be submitted during the