Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: f0baf50b-5bb7-4783-b2f9-9586e09c97e1
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Preparation of Environmental Reports for Nuclear Power Stations + HISTORY - HISTORY 02/2017 – DG-4026 , Proposed Revision 3 09/2014 – Periodic Review of Revision 2 – Revise (Rev. 3)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1611/ML16116A068.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 
Section ID: RG-4.2
CFR Part: 
CFR Title: 

Content:
dering Environmental Issues” provides the staff’s methodology for performing EJ analyses (Ref. 36). The environmental justice review involves identifying minority and low-income populations in the vicinity of the plant that could experience disproportionately high and adverse health or environmental effects from building and operation of a new nuclear power plant. To assist the NRC staff in its review of potential human health or environmental effects that could occur, the applicant should identify: • minority or low-income populations of interest, termed “EJ populations of interest,” that could be affected by building and operation of the proposed project; and • pathways that could result in any disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects to EJ populations of interest. 2.5.1 Identification of EJ Populations of Interest The applicant should use the following process to identify and characterize the demographic region in terms of its minority and low-income populations and communities residing in a 50-mile radius (the demographic region). The principal steps in the process of identifying the EJ populations of interest include: • A quantitative assessment of minority and low-income populations living in the demographic region, performed at the CBG level and a determination of whether or not the identified minority or low-income populations in the CBGs are of sufficient size to merit further investigation (i.e., “EJ populations of interest”). As described in the socioeconomics section, minority populations are defined by race as African American or Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and by ethnicity as Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin (of any race). Low-income populations refer to individuals or households meeting the official poverty definition (at or below the Federal poverty level) (LIC-203, Revision 3). The NRC includes two additional minority or low-income