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AGENDA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MAY 11, 1999
Item 1 Minutes Submittal of the minutes of the March 9, 1999 Cabinet Meeting. RECOMMEND ACCEPTANCE
Item 2 New Smyrna Beach Power Project Land Use Order/Duke
Energy New Smyrna Beach Power Company, Ltd., L.L.P./Utilities Commission
of the City of New Smyrna Beach REQUEST: Consideration of a Land Use Order recommending that
the Siting Board adopt the Administrative Law Judge's Recommended Order
finding the New Smyrna Beach Power Project site to be consistent and in
compliance with the existing land use plans and zoning ordinances of Volusia
County, pursuant to section 403.508(2), F. S. COUNTY: Volusia APPLICANTS: Duke Energy New Smyrna Beach Power Company, Ltd.,
L.L.P. (Duke) and Utilities Commission of the City of New Smyrna Beach
(UCCNSB) LOCATION: The site is located approximately five miles west of
downtown New Smyrna Beach and one-half mile northwest of the intersection
of State Road 44 and Interstate 95 in Volusia County. STAFF REMARKS: Duke and the UCCNSB wish to construct new
generating capacity by building a 500 megawatt, high efficiency,
natural gas-fired, combined cycle generating unit on the City of New Smyrna
Beach's property. New Smyrna Beach and Duke have signed a contract to
provide the UCCNSB with 30 megawatts of power. The project includes construction
of a mechanical draft cooling tower, water treatment facilities, use of
treated sewage effluent from the adjacent New Smyrna Beach sewage treatment
plant and use of an existing New Smyrna Beach substation and transmission
line that interconnects with Florida Power and Light Company's transmission
system. Natural gas is the only fuel proposed for use at the site. The
site was recently annexed into the City of New Smyrna Beach. The project
site contains 30.5 acres, but only 16.3 acres will be developed. On January
27, 1999, Administrative Law Judge Don W. Davis conducted a public hearing
on compliance of the site with the existing land use plan and zoning ordinances.
No one testified against or opposed the proposed use of the site. The Land Use Order approves and adopts the Recommended Order as submitted
by Judge Davis, pursuant to the Florida Electrical Power Plant Siting
Act, section 403.501, et seq., F.S., finding the New Smyrna Beach
Power Project site to be consistent and in compliance with the existing
land use plans and zoning ordinances of Volusia County, pursuant to section
403.508(2), F. S. (See Attachment 2, Pages 1-23) RECOMMEND APPROVAL |