Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 275ce6e2-545d-4f18-b489-b1863bf651e4
Document Type: esrp
Title: NO-ACTION ALTERNATIVE
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.1
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native is taken here to mean that such factors as the denial of the necessary Federal, State, regional, local, and/or affected Native American tribal agencies permits or financing or some other factor unrelated to the need for power could lead to the applicant’s decision not to proceed with the construction and operation of the proposed facility, even though the project is needed. ` Environmental impacts of the no-action alternative are compared with those of other alternatives in this section. The no-action alternative would result in the facility not being built, and no other facility would be built or other strategy implemented to take its place. This would mean that the electrical capacity to be provided by the project would not become available. The no-action alternative also presupposes that no additional conservation measures would be enacted to decrease the amount of electrical capacity that would otherwise be required. ` The most significant regional effect of taking no action would be the power resource loss to the utility(ies) associated with the project. Assuming that a need for the facility exists, the utilities could be forced to (1) implement power-reduction measures such as curtailment of power, (2) attempt to purchase power elsewhere, or (3) begin to plan their own generating facilities. Costs for an identical plant built later could be higher because of inflation. The EIS should also contain the following: ` the regional forecast data for the total energy consequences expected in the absence of the proposed facility and as the result of taking no further action to increase energy capacity ` a statement that the predicted environmental impacts from the project would not occur at the site if the facility were not built. If other generating sources were built in the future, some of these impacts (air, groundwater, socioeconomic) could eventually occur in other areas. V. IMPLEMENTATION The method described herein will be used by the staff in