Identification_Information:
  Citation:
    Citation_Information:
      Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
      Publication_Date: 1999
      Title: Nuclear Site Locations in the United States
      Publication_Information:
        Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia
        Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
 
  Description:
    Abstract:
      This data set contains the latitude and longitude 
      location, as determined by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
      Commission's (NRC) Shared Information Network (SINET), 
      of selected NRC regulated facilities.  The file includes 
      nuclear power plants, fuel cycle and material licensees 
      with emergency plans, site decommissioning management plan
      sites and uranium mill sites with planned environmental 
      justice reviews, and a site undergoing characterization 
      for a high level waste repository.   

    Purpose:
      The Environmental Protection Agency defines Environmental 
      Justice as the "fair treatment for people of all races, 
      cultures, and incomes, regarding the development of 
      environmental laws, regulations, and policies."  Over the
      last decade, attention to the impact of environmental 
      pollution on particular segments of our society has been 
      steadily growing.  Concern that minority populations 
      and/or low-income populations bear a disproportionate 
      amount of adverse health and environmental effects, led 
      President Clinton to issue Executive Order 12898 in 1994, 
      focusing Federal agency attention on these issues. 
      Through their participation with EPA to address these 
      concerns, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission produced 
      this data set.  These data are intended for geographic 
      display and analysis at the national level, and for large
      regional areas.  The data should be displayed and analyzed
      at scales appropriate for 1:2,000,000-scale data.  No
      responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in 
      the use of these data. 


  Time_Period_of_Content:
    Time_Period_Information:
      Single_Date/Time:
        Calendar_Date: 1999
    Currentness_Reference: publication date

  Status:
    Progress: Complete
    Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular

  Spatial_Domain:
    Bounding_Coordinates:
      West_Bounding_Coordinate: -125.00
      East_Bounding_Coordinate: -69.00
      North_Bounding_Coordinate: 47.00
      South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.00

  Keywords:
    Theme:
      Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
      Theme_Keyword: nuclear
      Theme_Keyword: nuclear sites
      Theme_Keyword: nuclear plant
      Theme_Keyword: nuclear power plant
      Theme_Keyword: power plant
      Theme_Keyword: Fuel Cycle Licensee
      Theme_Keyword: Material Licensee
      Theme_Keyword: Site Decommissioning
      Theme_Keyword: Uranium Mill Site

    Place:
      Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
      Place_Keyword: United States
      Place_Keyword: USA

    Place:
      Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
        U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the
        Identification of the States, the District of Columbia
        and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and
        Associated Areas (Federal Processing Standard 5-2): 
        Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and
        Technology. 
      Place_Keyword: Alabama
      Place_Keyword: Arkansas
      Place_Keyword: Arizona
      Place_Keyword: California
      Place_Keyword: Colorado
      Place_Keyword: Connecticut
      Place_Keyword: Florida
      Place_Keyword: Georgia
      Place_Keyword: Illinois
      Place_Keyword: Indiana
      Place_Keyword: Iowa
      Place_Keyword: Kansas
      Place_Keyword: Kentucky
      Place_Keyword: Louisiana
      Place_Keyword: Maine
      Place_Keyword: Maryland
      Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
      Place_Keyword: Michigan
      Place_Keyword: Minnesota
      Place_Keyword: Mississippi
      Place_Keyword: Missouri
      Place_Keyword: New York
      Place_Keyword: North Carolina
      Place_Keyword: Nebraska
      Place_Keyword: New Hampshire
      Place_Keyword: New Jersey
      Place_Keyword: New Mexico
      Place_Keyword: Nevada
      Place_Keyword: Ohio
      Place_Keyword: Oklahoma
      Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania
      Place_Keyword: Rhode Island
      Place_Keyword: South Carolina
      Place_Keyword: Tennessee
      Place_Keyword: Texas
      Place_Keyword: United States
      Place_Keyword: Utah
      Place_Keyword: Vermont
      Place_Keyword: Virginia
      Place_Keyword: Wisconsin
      Place_Keyword: Washington

  Access_Constraints: None

  Use_Constraints:
    None.  Acknowledgment of the National Atlas of the United
    States of America and (or) the U.S. Geological Survey would
    be appreciated in products derived from these data.

  Point_of_Contact:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Person_Primary:
        Contact_Person: Rosetta Virgilio
        Contact_Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: physical address
        City: Rockville
        State_or_Province: MD
        Postal_Code: 20192
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-415-2307
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ROV@nrc.gov
      Contact_Instructions: Please contact via electronic mail

Data_Quality_Information:
  Logical_Consistency_Report:
    No tests for logical consistency have been performed on this
    data set.

  Completeness_Report: 
    This data base is not an all inclusive listing of nuclear 
    site locations.  It contains data from NRC's SINET database 
    or that are NRC/NMSS licensees which have the potential for 
    Environnmental Justice reviews or emergency plans.  The center
    of the site was used in cases where there are multiple plants.
   
  Lineage:
    Source_Information:
      Source_Citation:
        Citation_Information:
          Originator: 
            United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
          Publication_Date: 1999
          Title: Nuclear Site Locations
          Publication_Information:
            Publication_Place: Rockville, Maryland
            Publisher: 
              United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
          Online_Linkage:
            http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/GEOSPATIAL/lvsites.html
      Type_of_Source_Media: online
      Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
        Time_Period_Information:
          Single_Date/Time:
            Calendar_Date: 1999
        Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
      Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCSITE
      Source_Contribution: spatial and attribute information
 
    Process_Step:
      Process_Description:
        NRCSITE was downloaded from 
        http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/GEOSPATIAL/lvsites.html
        The file was loaded into WordPerfect and edited.  The 
        edits included deleting information not needed to create 
        a DBase file, cleaning up the columns that could not be 
        converted a DBF table (changed column names to latdms, 
        londms, latdd, londd; deleted extra commas is Name field;
        deleted extra space in longitute DMS; added decimal 
        degrees where they were missing). The file was saved
        as an ASCII delimited text file.  This file was loaded 
        into ArcView and a shapefile was created.  The columns 
        for latdms and londms were redefined so that all the 
        records were the same length - seven characters with a 
        leading negative if needed.  
      Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCSITE
      Process_Date: 1999

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
  Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
  Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
    SDTS_Terms_Description:
      SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
      Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 103

Spatial_Reference_Information:
  Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
    Geographic: 
      Latitude_Resolution: 0.000278  
      Longitude_Resolution: 0.000278  
      Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees 
    Geodetic_Model: 
      Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983 
      Ellipsoid_Name: GRS1980
      Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0 
      Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
  Detailed_Description:
    Entity_Type:
      Entity_Type_Label:
        Nuclear site locations (described by nrcsitx020.dbf)
      Entity_Type_Definition:
        The locations of selected nuclear sites.
      Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Shape
      Attribute_Definition:
        The representation of the entity in the data.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Enumerated_Domain:
          Enumerated_Domain_Value: Point
          Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
            0-dimensional element
          Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source:
            ESRI GIS software
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Area
      Attribute_Definition:
        The size of the shape in coverage units.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 0.000
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Perimeter
      Attribute_Definition:
        The perimeter of the shape in coverage units.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 0.000
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: nrcsitx020
      Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 103
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: nrcsitx020
      Attribute_Definition: User-assigned feature number
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 103
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Name
      Attribute_Definition:
        The name of the company who owns the site.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Unrepresentable_Domain: There is no predefined set of
          valid company names.  
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Type
      Attribute_Definition:
        The type of the facility on the site.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Unrepresentable_Domain: There is no predefined set of
          valid facility types.  
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: City
      Attribute_Definition:
        The name the city were the site is located.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Unrepresentable_Domain: There is no predefined set of
          valid city names.  
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: State
      Attribute_Definition:
        The 2-letter abbreviation of the State in which the 
        the site is located.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Codeset_Domain:
          Codeset_Name:
            Codes for the Identification of the States, the
            District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the
            United States, and Associated Areas, FIPS PUB 5-2.
          Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Latdms
      Attribute_Definition:
        The latitude of the site in degrees, minutes, and 
        seconds (format: dddmmss).
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 0252606
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 0462817
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Londms
      Attribute_Definition:
        The longitude of the site in degrees, minutes, and 
        seconds (format: -dddmmss).
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: -1241200
          Range_Domain_Maximum: -0694146
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Latdd
      Attribute_Definition:
        The latitude of the site in decimal degrees.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: 25.43500
          Range_Domain_Maximum: 46.47139
    Attribute:
      Attribute_Label: Londd
      Attribute_Definition:
        The longitude of the site in decimal degrees.
      Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
      Attribute_Domain_Values:
        Range_Domain:
          Range_Domain_Minimum: -124.20000
          Range_Domain_Maximum: -69.69611

Distribution_Information:
  Distributor:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Organization_Primary:
        Contact_Organization: Earth Science Information Center,
          U.S. Geological Survey
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: mailing address
        Address: 507 National Center
        City: Reston
        State_or_Province: VA
        Postal_Code: 20192
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS (1-888-275-8747)
      Hours_of_Service: 0800-1600
      Contact_Instructions: In addition to the address above
       there are other ESIC offices throughout the country.  A
       full list of these offices is at
       http://mapping.usgs.gov/esic/esic_index.html

  Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed 
    successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological 
    Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S.
    Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any
    other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute
    any such warranty.  No responsibility is assumed by the U.S.
    Geological Survey in the use of these data.

Metadata_Reference_Information:
  Metadata_Date: 19991126
  Metadata_Contact:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Person_Primary:
        Contact_Person: Gita Urban-Mathieux
        Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: mailing address
        Address: 521 National Center
        City: Reston
        State_or_Province: VA
        Postal_Code: 20192
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-5175
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: burbanma@usgs.gov
  Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital
    Geospatial Metadata
  Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
  Metadata_Security_Information:
    Metadata_Security_Classification_System: None
    Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified
    Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: None