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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 66, No. 119

Wednesday, June 20, 2001

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service

Arkansas Electric Cooperative

Corporation; Notice of Finding of No

Significant Impact

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of finding of no

significant impact.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has

made a finding of no significant impact

with respect to a request for financing

assistance by Arkansas Electric

Cooperative Corporation to finance the

repowering of an existing electric

generating station in Franklin County,

Arkansas.

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

bquigel@rus.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Arkansas

Electric Cooperative Corporation

proposes to remove the existing boiler

and stack at its Fitzhugh Generating

Station. (The station is located on the

east side of the Arkansas River southeast

of Ozark, Arkansas, at river mile 255.9.)

The existing steam turbine, generator,

and other steam cycle related equipment

will remain. A new combustion turbine

and electric generator will be added.

The exhaust gas from the turbine will be

connected to a heat recovery steam

generator which will be connected to

the existing steam turbine. There will be

a 90-foot bypass stack between the

combustion turbine and the heat

recovery steam generator. This will

allow for quick start-up of the plant and

for operation of the new combustion

turbine and generator in simple-cycle

mode. The heat recovery steam

generator will have a 110-foot stack.

These two stacks will replace the

existing 200-foot stack at the plant. The

modification will also include the

addition of a 25-foot tall, three-module

cooling tower and step-up transformers.

The repowered generation station will

be fired with natural gas with fuel oil

backup.

The repowering will increase the

output of the plant from 59 megawatts

to 170.6 megawatts (based on summer

rating) and the plant’s thermal

efficiency will be increased. The

repowered plant will have less air

emissions than the existing plant.

Copies of the Finding of No

Significant Impact are available from

RUS at the address provided herein or

from Mr. Curtis Warner of Arkansas

Electric Cooperative Corporation, P.O.

Box 194208, Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr.

Warner’s telephone number is (501)

570–2462.

Dated: June 8, 2001.

Blaine D. Stockton,

Assistant Administrator, Electric Program.

[FR Doc. 01–15531 Filed 6–19–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–869, A–428–831, A–475–831, A–423–

810, A–821–814, A–791–811, A–469–811, A–

583–838]

Initiation of Antidumping Duty

Investigations: Structural Steel Beams

From the People’s Republic of China,

Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia,

South Africa, Spain, and Taiwan

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 20, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Schauer (Germany, Italy,

Luxembourg) at (202) 482–0410; Davina

Hashmi (Spain, South Africa, Taiwan) at

(202) 482–5760; Rebecca Trainor (The

People’s Republic of China) at (202)

482–4007; or Dinah McDougall (Russia)

at (202) 482–3773, Import

Administration-Room 1870,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Initiation of Investigations

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendments

made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the

Act’’) by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department of Commerce’s (‘‘the

Department’s’’) regulations are to the

regulations codified at 19 CFR Part 351

(2001).

The Petition

On May 23, 2001, the Department

received a petition filed in proper form

by the Committee for Fair Beam Imports

and its individual members,

Northwestern Steel and Wire Company,

Nucor Corporation, Nucor-Yamato Steel

Company, and TXI-Chaparral Steel

Company (‘‘the petitioners’’).

In accordance with section 732(b) of

the Act, the petitioners allege that

imports of structural steel beams from

the People’s Republic of China (the

PRC), Germany, Italy, Luxembourg,

Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Taiwan

are being, or are likely to be, sold in the

United States at less than fair value

within the meaning of section 731 of the

Act and that such imports are materially

injuring, or threatening material injury

to, an industry in the United States.

The Department finds that the

petitioners filed the petition on behalf of

the domestic industry because they are

interested parties as defined in section

771(9)(C) and (D) of the Act and they

have demonstrated sufficient industry

support with respect to the antidumping

duty investigations they are requesting

the Department to initiate (see

‘‘Determination of Industry Support for

the Petitions,’’ below).

Scope of Investigations

For purposes of these investigations,

the products covered are doublysymmetric shapes, whether hot-or coldrolled, drawn, extruded, formed or

finished, having at least one dimension

of at least 80 mm (3.2 inches or more),

whether of carbon or alloy (other than

stainless) steel, and whether or not

drilled, punched, notched, painted,

coated, or clad. These products

(‘‘structural steel beams’’) include, but