Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: c8ab765a-d7cc-47c7-86a2-0406e48bca9e
Document Type: esrp
Title: IRREVERSIBLE AND IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENTS OF RESOURCES
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 10
Section ID: 10.2
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er short term or long term preemptions. (3) Determine how any short term or long term benefits of the proposed project, as identified by appropriate ESRP Chapters 4.0 or 5.0 reviewers, affect any such preemptions. (4) As necessary, consult with appropriate Federal, State, regional, local, and affected Native American tribal agencies to make these determinations. (5) Evaluate the project’s impact on short term use and long term productivity capabilities of the environment and determine if the EIS input statement given below is accurate and applicable. IV. EVALUATION FINDINGS Unless the reviewer has identified other long term environmental impacts, the following input to the EIS should be used: ` The local use of the human environment by the proposed project can be summarized in terms of the unavoidable adverse environmental impacts of construction and operation and the irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources. With the exception of the consumption of depletable resources as a result of plant construction and operation, these uses may be classed as short term. The principal short term benefit of the plant is represented by the production of electrical energy; and the economic productivity of the site, when used for this purpose, will be extremely large compared with the productivity from agriculture or from other probable uses for the site. NUREG-1555 10.3-4 October 1999 ` The maximum long term impact to productivity will result when the plant is not dismantled at the end of the period of plant operation, and consequently the land occupied by the plant structures will not be available for any other use. However, the enhancement of regional productivity resulting from the electrical energy produced by the plant is expected to result in a correspondingly large increase in regional long term productivity that would not be equaled by any other long term use of the site. In addition, most long term impacts resulting from land-use preemption by plant