AGENDA

SITING BOARD

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

MAY 30, 2000

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Item 1 Minutes

Subittal of the Minutes from the April 24, 2001 Cabinet Meeting.

(See Attachment 1, Pages 1-2)

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Item 2 Florida Power Corporation, Hines Energy Complex Power Block 2 Final Order

REQUEST: Consideration of an Order, to be executed by the Siting Board, adopting the Administrative Law Judge’s Recommended Order recommending the Siting Board grant full and final certification to Florida Power Corporation’s Hines Energy Complex Power Block 2, under Section 403, Part II, F.S., for the location, construction and operation of Power Block 2, pursuant to Subsections 403.509(1), and 403.511(1), F.S.

COUNTY: Polk

APPLICANT: Florida Power Corporation (FPC)

LOCATION: The existing Hines Energy Complex plant is located three miles south of the community of Bartow in an unincorporated area of Polk County, Florida.

STAFF REMARKS: Florida Power Corporation’s proposed Power Block 2 project consists of two combustion turbines and a single steam turbine operating as a combined cycle unit, with a total summer peak generating capacity of 530 megawatts (MW). The new Power Block 2 will be fired primarily with natural gas. Low sulfur distillate fuel oil will be used as backup fuel. The Hines Energy Complex Site, formerly known as the Polk County Site, is an approximately 8,200-acre parcel on land previously used for phosphate mining. The site was certified by the Siting Board for an ultimate generating capacity of 3,000 MW in January 1994. FPC currently operates Power Block 1, a 470 MW gas-fired, combined cycle generating unit at the Hines site. Power Block 2 will be directly adjacent to Power Block 1. Power Block 2 will utilize some of the existing Hines facilities such as transmission lines, wastewater treatment facilities, and cooling water system, including the cooling pond. The Florida Public Service Commission issued an affirmative need determination on January 5, 2001.

On April 5, 2001, the Administrative Law Judge issued his Recommended Order recommending the Siting Board grant full and final certification to Florida Power Corporation, under Section 403, Part II, F.S., for the location, construction and operation of Hines Power Block 2 subject to the Conditions of Certification.

(See Attachment 2, Pages 1-33)

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