Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 3d0785e0-b95c-4d8c-b957-005cf3cd61c6
Document Type: esrp
Title: TRANSMISSION CORRIDORS AND OFFSITE AREAS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 4
Section ID: 4.1.2
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EIS or other environmental document. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluating the applicant’s potential impacts to the transmission corridors and offsite areas is discussed in the following paragraphs: NRC’s regulations implementing NEPA provide that NRC EISs are to include a section discussing the environmental consequences of alternatives (10 CFR 51, Appendix A(7)). The section is to include a discussion of “possible conflicts between the alternatives and the objectives of Federal, State, regional, and local (and in the case of a reservation, Native American tribe) land-use plans, policies, and controls for the area concerned.” In addition, the regulations provide that due consideration is to be given in an EIS to compliance with applicable zoning and land-use regulations (10 CFR 51.71(d)). October 1999 4.1.2-5 NUREG-1555 Table 4.1.2-1. Federal Sources to be Consulted for Various Special Land Types Land Type Sources to be Consulted Coastal Zones 1. Coastal Zone Management Act (16 USC 1451-1464) 2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration regulations implementing the Coastal Zone Management Act (15 CFR 923) Farmland 1. Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 USC 4201) 2. U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations implementing the Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 CFR 658) 3. CEQ memorandum on “Analysis of Impacts on Prime and Unique Agricultural Lands in Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act” (45 FR 59189) (CEQ 1980a) Floodplains(a) 1. Executive Order 11988, “Floodplain Management” (42 FR 26951) 2. U.S. Water Resources Council, “Floodplain Management Guidelines” (40 FR 6030) Wetlands(b) 1. Executive Order 11990, “Protection of Wetlands” (42 FR 26961) as amended by Executive Order 12608 (52 FR 34617) Wild and Scenic Rivers 1. Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 USC 1271-1287) 2. CEQ memorandum on “Procedures for Interagency Consultation to Avoid or Mitigate Adverse Effects on Rivers in the Nationwide Inventory”