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CONCURRENT NOTICE : NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF A FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT (FONSI) ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS (RROF) Recipient: Indian River County Date: Friday February 8, 2008 Address: Indian River County Administration 1801 27th Street Vero Beach, Florida 32960 - TO ALL- INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPSANDPERSONS: On or about Tuesday February 26, 2008 Indian River County will request the Florida Department of Community Affairs, designated by the U .S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, to remove the environmental conditions and release Federal funds under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (PL 93-383) for the following project : Project Title: Community Development Block Grant, Neighborhood Revitalization DCA Contract OSDB-T3- 10-40-03-N25 Purpose: Indian River County proposes to complete a CDBG national objective with this project by providing Fire Protection/EMS facilities in a predominantly LMI neighborhood within the unincorporated area of Gifford in Indian River County. The service area is a low income, older residential area without a Fire/ EMS Station . The new Fire/EMS Station will provide for a much more rapid response time to local emergencies and fires in this LMI community. A new fire station has been designed for this project. The $750,000 in CDBG funds will pay a portion of the cost for the new Fire/EMS Station . The full cost is expected to be about $2, 200,000. The Project will be on vacant, undeveloped land in a residential neighborhood . The project is not within the floodplain . Local revenues of $250,000 revenues have been pledged as a match for the CDBG . The balance of funds needed came from local revenues. Location : 3620 491" Street, Vero Beach (Gifford ) , Florida in the Unincorporated County. The site is publicly owned , unimproved and vacant. Estimated Cost: $21200,000 It has been determined that such request for removal of environmental conditions will not constitute an action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment; accordingly the above-named recipient has decided not to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (PL 91- 190). The Reasons for such decision not to prepare such Statement are as follows : An environmental assessment was performed which verified that the only impacts to the environment would be minimal and beneficial .