Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: b0a0b132-269c-48c5-ac4c-6f67298c2f61
Document Type: esrp
Title: TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
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: 9.4.3
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posed system, the review should be limited to an analysis of alternative transmission systems in the depth necessary to judge their environmental equivalence to the applicant’s proposed system. When environmentally preferable alternatives are identified, the review should be expanded to consider the economic costs of any such alternative. This analysis should be done in consultation with appropriate reviewers for ESRPs 10.4.1, 10.4.2, and 10.4.3. Assistance from these reviewers should be sought to establish the economic-cost data used to develop a benefit-cost comparison with the baseline (proposed) transmission system. October 1999 9.4.3-7 NUREG-1555 In this analysis, the reviewer should consider alternatives to the following elements of the proposed transmission system: ` transmission corridor routes ` design, construction, and maintenance. The analysis should consider only those alternatives applicable to and compatible with the proposed plant, the applicant’s service area, and the regional transmission network. The reviewer should conduct an initial environmental screening of each alternative transmission system to eliminate those systems that are obviously unsuitable for application to the proposed project. Economic factors should not be considered in this initial screening. Working through the EPM, the reviewer may consult with appropriate Federal, State, regional, local, and affected Native American tribal agencies when needed to conduct this screening. When the reviewer rejects an alternative, that alternative needs no further consideration other than the preparation of the reasons and justification for the rejection. The following procedure for developing the analysis of alternative transmission systems considers both environmental and economic-cost factors. In following this procedure, the reviewer should initially consider only the environmental factors, and should repeat the procedure for economic factors only for those alternatives shown to be