Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 5dfd9baa-1db9-4ea5-b908-aecd5e0be326
Document Type: esrp
Title: WATER-USE IMPACTS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.2.2
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use. The reviewer should coordinate this input with the reviewer of ESRP 5.2.1 to avoid duplication. The reviewer’s analysis of operational impacts on water use should be linked to the environmental descriptions provided by ESRPs 2.3 and 3.3 to ensure that the environmental factors most likely to be impacted by the proposed plant operation are described in sufficient detail to permit assessment of the predicted impacts. The reviewer should coordinate this analysis with the reviewer for ESRP 2.3.3 and with the reviewers for ESRPs 5.3.2.2 and 5.5 to identify and analyze those water-quality changes affecting water use. The reviewer should also coordinate this review with the analysis of construction impacts described in ESRP 4.2.2 because the analyses for many of the water-use changes considered in the staff’s environ- mental review of construction impacts will be sufficient to cover subsequent (period of plant operation) impacts due to the physical presence of the plant. Where these changes will not be further altered by plant operation, the plant construction impact analyses (environmental standard) will suffice for plant operation. This environmental review should be limited to consideration of the impacts on water use that are direct results of plant operation. Unless the reviewers for ESRP 2.3 indicate a potential for opera- tional water-use impacts along transmission corridors or at offsite areas, this review may be limited to potential site and vicinity water-use impacts. Site Visit During the site visit, the reviewer should ` Observe the general pattern of water use at the site and vicinity and at those identified offsite and transmission corridor areas where operational activities could be expected to impact water use. ` Identify those water users and water-use areas that should be considered. ` Consult with appropriate nearby Federal, State, regional, local, and affected Native American tribal agencies for further identification of water users, water-use