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[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 33048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15531]

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Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 119 / Wednesday, June 20, 2001 / 
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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.

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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 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 [email protected].

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
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