IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. That the Applicants, Arkansas Power and Light Company, Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation, and City Water and Light Plant of Jonesboro, Arkansas, are hereby granted a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need pursuant to Act 866 of 1977, to construct, maintain, and operate a major utility facility consisting of two coal-fired electric generating units and related cooling towers, intake and discharge facilities, and transportation and other necessary facilities to be located near Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, as proposed in this Application. 2. That such Certificate is conditioned upon Applicants' filing with the Commission an acceptable off-site monitoring program as described in Application and in this Order. 3. That such Certificate is conditioned on a reservation of the Commission's right to order Applicants to take any and all steps necessary to insure that construction, maintenance, and operation of the plant does not result in Prevention of Significant Deterioration Class I increments being exceeded in either the Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area or the proposed Lower Buffalo Wilderness Area. 4. That such Certificate is conditioned on Applicants' filing within 180 days of the date of this Order an acceptable proposal for monitoring the construction of the plant as described in this Order. 5. That such Certificate is conditioned upon the plant being designed to allow for future installation of flue gas desulphurization equipment should the Commission or some other regulatory authority order their installation. 6. That such Certificate is conditioned on reservation of the Commission's right to order the off-site monitoring program described herein converted to an Intermittent Control System should such action be deemed necessary in the future. |