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:
public sources. Reconnaissance-level information does not normally require the collection of new data or new field studies. Reconnaissance should include more than just a literature search for issues that are critical to the evaluation of sites. So, for example, reconnaissance should include contact with the water-management agency about water availability in most cases, as discussed in the most recent version of RG 4.7. The amount and quality of information must be sufficient based on the expert judgment of the reviewer to make the required determination for which the information is needed. DG-4026, Page 139 To be a candidate site, the following minimum criteria should be satisfied: • Consumptive use of water should not cause significant adverse effects on other users. • The proposed action should not appreciably reduce the likelihood of survival or recovery of Federal, State, or affected American Indian Tribal listed threatened, endangered, or candidate species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat. • There should not be any potential significant impacts to essential fish habitat or other federally protected aquatic habitats or to known spawning grounds or nursery areas of populations of important aquatic species on Federal, State, or affected American Indian Tribal lists. • Discharges of effluents into waterways should be in accordance with Federal, State, regional, local, and affected American Indian Tribal regulations and should not adversely impact efforts to meet water-quality objectives. • There should be no preemption of, or adverse impacts on, land specially designated for environmental, recreational, or other special purposes. • There should not be destabilizing impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, including wetlands that are unique to the resource area. • There should not be other significant issues (e.g., environmental justice, historic and cultural resources, traditional cultural properties,