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Dated: September 12, 2007.
Curtis M. Anderson,
Deputy Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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East Kentucky Power Cooperative:
Notice of Finding of No Significant
Impact
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice of finding of no
significant impact.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Rural Utilities Service
(RUS), an agency delivering the United
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States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Rural Development Utilities
Programs, hereinafter referred to as
Rural Development, has made a finding
of no significant impact (FONSI) with
respect to a request for possible
financing assistance to East Kentucky
Power Cooperative (EKPC) for the
construction of two new Smith Station
combustion turbine electric generating
units (CTs), two new electric switching
stations, and the 36-mile, Smith-West
Garrard 345 kilovolt (kV) electric
transmission line located in Clark,
Madison, and Garrard Counties,
Kentucky (Proposal).
ADDRESSES: The Environmental
Assessment (EA) and FONSI are
available for public review at USDA
Rural Development, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250–
1571; and at EKPC’s headquarters office
located at 4775 Lexington Road,
Winchester, Kentucky 40391. To obtain
copies of the EA, or for further
information, contact: Stephanie
Strength, Environmental Protection
Specialist, USDA, Rural Development,
Utilities Programs, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Stop 1571 Washington,
DC 20250–1571, Telephone: (202) 720–
0468 or e-mail:
stephanie.strength@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EKPC
proposes to construct 2 new CTs at
EKPC’s existing J. K. Smith Electric
Generating Station in southern Clark
County, Kentucky. The proposed CTs
would be fueled by natural gas and
would each have a net electrical output
of between 82 and 98 megawatts. The
proposed new units are needed to
provide additional electric generating
capacity that would allow EKPC to meet
its projected electrical peaking demand
for 2009–2011. The Proposal also
includes the construction of 2 new
electric switching stations, 1 at its
existing J. K. Smith Generating Station
(utilizing approximately 8 acres) and 1
in western Garrard County, Kentucky
(disturbing between 5 and 10 acres), and
a 36-mile, 345-kV electric transmission
line (on a 150-foot right-of-way) that
would extend through Clark, Madison,
and Garrard Counties, Kentucky. The
proposed new transmission facilities are
needed to provide an outlet for the
additional electric power that would be
generated at the J. K. Smith Generating
Station as a result of the installation of
the proposed new CTs. The new
transmission line would be supported
by vertical H-frame steel pole structures
that would range in height from 90 to
130 feet above ground. The construction
of the Proposal is tentatively scheduled
to begin in the fall of 2007 with
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estimated construction duration of 2
years.
Alternatives considered by Rural
Development and EKPC include: (a) No
action, (b) alternative generation
technology, (c) alternative transmission
improvements, (d) alternative sites, and
(e) alternate transmission line corridors.
The alternatives are discussed in the
Smith Station CT Units 9 & 10 and the
Smith-West Garrard Transmission Line
Project Environmental Report (ER).
Rural Development has accepted the
ER as its EA for the proposed project.
Rural Development held an agency
meeting and a public scoping meeting in
an open house format on Tuesday, July
11, 2006 in Richmond, Kentucky.
Approximately 22 people attended the
meeting. EKPC held 2 additional public
open houses, and, as a result of the 3
meetings, 117 comments were received.
The comments were subsequently
addressed in the EA. The notice of
availability of the EA for public review
was published in the Federal Register
Vol. 72, No. 122, Tuesday, June 26,
2007, and was also published in the
local papers Lexington Herald Leader,
Lexington, Kentucky; Richmond
Register, Richmond, KY; Garrard
Central Record, Lancaster, KY; and the
Winchester Sun, Winchester, Kentucky.
The EA was distributed for public and
agency review. The 30-day comment
period on the EA ended July 26, 2007.
Comments were received from 2 parties
and the concerns were addressed. Rural
Development has determined that the
Proposal will have no significant impact
to water quality, wetlands, the 100-year
floodplain, land use, aesthetics,
transportation, or human health and
safety.
The Proposal will have an adverse
effect on 1 historic property eligible for
listing on the National Register of
Historic Places and 1 currently listed
historic property. Mitigation measures
for the Proposal are stipulated in a
Memorandum of Agreement signed on
July 23, 2007 by Rural Development, the
Kentucky State Historic Preservation
Officer, and EKPC.
Rural Development has also
concluded that the Proposal is not likely
to affect federally listed threatened and
endangered species or designated
critical habitat. The Proposal will not
disproportionately affect minority and/
or low-income populations. No other
potential significant impacts resulting
from the Proposal have been identified.
Therefore, Rural Development has
determined that this finding of no
significant impact fulfills its obligations
under the National Environmental
Policy Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.), the Council on Environmental
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Quality Regulations (40 CFR 1500–
1508), and USDA Rural Development’s
Environmental Policies and Procedures
(7 CFR Part 1794). Since Rural
Development’s Federal action would not
result in significant impacts to the
quality of the human environment, an
environmental impact statement will
not be prepared for its action related to
the Proposal.
Dated: September 13, 2007.
James R. Newby,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Programs,
Rural Utilities Service.
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International Trade Administration
we are preliminarily rescinding the
review for nine companies 2 which
reported having no shipments of subject
merchandise to the United States during
the POR. We are also preliminarily
rescinding the review for an affiliate of
QVD, QVD Dong Thap Food Co., Ltd.
(‘‘QVD Dong Thap’’), because QVD
reported that QVD Dong Thap did not
ship any subject merchandise to the
United States during the POR.3 Finally,
we continue to apply an adverse facts
available rate of 80.88 percent to Can
Tho Agricultural and Animal Products
Import Export Company (‘‘CATACO’’)
because it failed to respond to the
Department’s two quantity and value
questionnaires. If these preliminary
results are adopted in our final results
of review, we will instruct U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) to assess
antidumping duties on entries of subject
merchandise during the POR for which
the importer-specific assessment rates
are above de minimis.
[A–552–801]
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Certain Frozen Fish Fillets From the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Notice
of Preliminary Results and Partial
Rescission of the Third Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
Committee was established September
2, 1999. The Committee advises the
Director of BEA on matters related to the
development and improvement of BEA’s
national, regional, industry, and
international economic accounts,
especially in areas of new and rapidly
growing economic activities arising
from innovative and advancing
technologies, and provides
recommendations from the perspectives
of the economics profession, business,
and government. This will be the
Committee’s sixteenth meeting.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: September 12, 2007.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Bureau of Economic Analysis Advisory
Committee
Bureau of Economic Analysis.
ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463 as amended by Pub. L. 94–409, Pub.
L. 96–523, Pub. L. 97–375 and Pub. L.
105–153), we are announcing a meeting
of the Bureau of Economic Analysis
Advisory Committee. The meeting’s
agenda focuses on prototypes estimates
of quarterly GDP by industry and GDP
by metro area, aspects involved with
measuring R&D by industry and the
treatment of exports and imports of R&D
and intellectual property. In addition,
there will be discussion of the bureau’s
long term plans.
DATE: Friday, November 2, 2007, the
meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn
at approximately 3:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
at the Bureau of Economic Analysis at
1441 L St. NW., Washington DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Wehausen, Communications
Program Analyst, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230;
telephone number: (202) 606–9687.
Public Participation: This meeting is
open to the public. Because of security
procedures, anyone planning to attend
the meeting must contact Robert
Wehausen of BEA at (202) 606–9687 in
advance. The meeting is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for foreign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Robert Wehausen
at (202) 606–9687.
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Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘Department’’) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on certain
frozen fish fillets from the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam (‘‘Vietnam’’). See
Notice of Antidumping Duty Order:
Certain Frozen Fish Fillets From the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 68 FR
47909 (August 12, 2003) (‘‘Order’’). We
preliminarily find that QVD Food
Company Ltd. (‘‘QVD’’) sold subject
merchandise at less than normal value
(‘‘NV’’) during the period of review
(‘‘POR’’), August 1, 2005, through July
31, 2006. We also preliminarily
determine that East Sea Seafoods Joint
Venture Co., Ltd. (‘‘East Sea’’) has not
made sales in the United States at prices
below normal value. We continue to
find that certain frozen fish fillets
produced during the expanded POR 1 by
Lian Heng Investment Co., Ltd. and Lian
Heng Trading Co., Ltd. (collectively
‘‘Lian Heng’’) were made from
Vietnamese-origin fish and therefore,
are covered by this review. In addition,
AGENCY:
1 Lian Heng has an expanded POR which covers
the period October 22, 2004, through July 31, 2006.
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Administrative Reviews, 71 FR 57465
(September 29, 2006) (‘‘Initiation Notice’’).
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Cindy Lai Robinson (Respondent East
Sea), Michael Holton (Respondent
QVD), and Paul Walker (Respondent
Lian Heng), AD/CVD Operations, Office
9, Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3797,
(202) 482–1324 and (202) 482–0413,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Case History
General
On August 1, 2006, the Department
published a notice of an opportunity to
request an administrative review of the
Order. See Antidumping or
Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity
To Request Administrative Review, 71
FR 43441 (August 1, 2006). On August
31, 2006, the Department received a
request from the Catfish Farmers of
America and individual U.S. catfish
processors (collectively, ‘‘Petitioners’’)
for a review covering 51 exporters/
2 The nine companies are: Ben Tre Forestry and
Aquaproduct Import-Export Company
(‘‘FAQUIMEX’’); Hung Vuong Co., Ltd.; Nam Viet
Company Limited (‘‘NAVICO’’); Phu Thuan
Company; Sadec Aquatic Products Import
Enterprise (‘‘DOCIFISH’’); Thuan Hung Co., Ltd.
(‘‘Thuan Hung’’); United Seafood Packers Co., Ltd.;
Van Duc Foods Export Joint Stock Co.; Viet Hai
Seafood Company Limited (‘‘Vietnam Fish-One’’).
3 See QVD’s Separate-Rate Certification dated
December 11, 2006.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Rural Utilities Service
East Kentucky Power Cooperative: 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: The Rural Utilities Service (RUS), an agency delivering the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development
Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural Development, has
made a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) with respect to a
request for possible financing assistance to East Kentucky Power
Cooperative (EKPC) for the construction of two new Smith Station
combustion turbine electric generating units (CTs), two new electric
switching stations, and the 36-mile, Smith-West Garrard 345 kilovolt
(kV) electric transmission line located in Clark, Madison, and Garrard
Counties, Kentucky (Proposal).
ADDRESSES: The Environmental Assessment (EA) and FONSI are available
for public review at USDA Rural Development, 1400 Independence Avenue,
SW., Washington, DC 20250-1571; and at EKPC's headquarters office
located at 4775 Lexington Road, Winchester, Kentucky 40391. To obtain
copies of the EA, or for further information, contact: Stephanie
Strength, Environmental Protection Specialist, USDA, Rural Development,
Utilities Programs, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Stop 1571
Washington, DC 20250-1571, Telephone: (202) 720-0468 or e-mail:
stephanie.strength@wdc.usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EKPC proposes to construct 2 new CTs at
EKPC's existing J. K. Smith Electric Generating Station in southern
Clark County, Kentucky. The proposed CTs would be fueled by natural gas
and would each have a net electrical output of between 82 and 98
megawatts. The proposed new units are needed to provide additional
electric generating capacity that would allow EKPC to meet its
projected electrical peaking demand for 2009-2011. The Proposal also
includes the construction of 2 new electric switching stations, 1 at
its existing J. K. Smith Generating Station (utilizing approximately 8
acres) and 1 in western Garrard County, Kentucky (disturbing between 5
and 10 acres), and a 36-mile, 345-kV electric transmission line (on a
150-foot right-of-way) that would extend through Clark, Madison, and
Garrard Counties, Kentucky. The proposed new transmission facilities
are needed to provide an outlet for the additional electric power that
would be generated at the J. K. Smith Generating Station as a result of
the installation of the proposed new CTs. The new transmission line
would be supported by vertical H-frame steel pole structures that would
range in height from 90 to 130 feet above ground. The construction of
the Proposal is tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall of 2007 with
estimated construction duration of 2 years.
Alternatives considered by Rural Development and EKPC include: (a)
No action, (b) alternative generation technology, (c) alternative
transmission improvements, (d) alternative sites, and (e) alternate
transmission line corridors. The alternatives are discussed in the
Smith Station CT Units 9 & 10 and the Smith-West Garrard Transmission
Line Project Environmental Report (ER).
Rural Development has accepted the ER as its EA for the proposed
project. Rural Development held an agency meeting and a public scoping
meeting in an open house format on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 in Richmond,
Kentucky. Approximately 22 people attended the meeting. EKPC held 2
additional public open houses, and, as a result of the 3 meetings, 117
comments were received. The comments were subsequently addressed in the
EA. The notice of availability of the EA for public review was
published in the Federal Register Vol. 72, No. 122, Tuesday, June 26,
2007, and was also published in the local papers Lexington Herald
Leader, Lexington, Kentucky; Richmond Register, Richmond, KY; Garrard
Central Record, Lancaster, KY; and the Winchester Sun, Winchester,
Kentucky. The EA was distributed for public and agency review. The 30-
day comment period on the EA ended July 26, 2007. Comments were
received from 2 parties and the concerns were addressed. Rural
Development has determined that the Proposal will have no significant
impact to water quality, wetlands, the 100-year floodplain, land use,
aesthetics, transportation, or human health and safety.
The Proposal will have an adverse effect on 1 historic property
eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and 1
currently listed historic property. Mitigation measures for the
Proposal are stipulated in a Memorandum of Agreement signed on July 23,
2007 by Rural Development, the Kentucky State Historic Preservation
Officer, and EKPC.
Rural Development has also concluded that the Proposal is not
likely to affect federally listed threatened and endangered species or
designated critical habitat. The Proposal will not disproportionately
affect minority and/or low-income populations. No other potential
significant impacts resulting from the Proposal have been identified.
Therefore, Rural Development has determined that this finding of no
significant impact fulfills its obligations under the National
Environmental Policy Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the
Council on Environmental
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Quality Regulations (40 CFR 1500-1508), and USDA Rural Development's
Environmental Policies and Procedures (7 CFR Part 1794). Since Rural
Development's Federal action would not result in significant impacts to
the quality of the human environment, an environmental impact statement
will not be prepared for its action related to the Proposal.
Dated: September 13, 2007.
James R. Newby,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Programs, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. E7-18385 Filed 9-18-07; 8:45 am]
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