Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 151ab883-1221-4a79-88d6-a2631cce2239
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2134/ML21347A080.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-1.184
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ederally issued environmental review documents. Licensees should also provide a discussion of the reasons for the conclusions reached with respect to bounded impacts. If relying on the Decommissioning GEIS, licensees should pay particular attention to the environmental issues for which the NRC staff was unable to reach a generic impact conclusion. For these environmental issues, the licensee would need to either conduct a site-specific assessment or determine whether another federally issued environmental review document provides an adequate site-specific bounding environmental impact assessment. For example, the NRC staff was unable to reach a generic environmental impact determination for threatened and endangered species in the Decommissioning GEIS. For this resource area, the licensee can obtain a current list of threatened, endangered, proposed, and candidate species that could occur on the site from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) online database, “Information for Planning and Consultation: Environmental Conservation Online System,” and, if appropriate, by coordinating with the appropriate FWS or National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) office. In addition, the licensee should determine if any protected habitats, such as designated critical habitat or Essential Fish Habitat, occur at DG-1347 Revision 1, Page 16 or near the site. In many cases, the federally listed species, designated critical habitat, and Essential Fish Habitat would have changed since the NRC staff engaged in the last consultation under the Endangered Species Act or the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) (Ref. 37). For any federally listed species, designated critical habitat, or Essential Fish Habitat on or near the site, the licensee should determine what the impacts from planned decommissioning activities would be to those species and habitats, coordinating, as appropriate, with FWS and NMFS. If planned decommissioning