Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 2654196f-c25a-40d1-8edc-e828353b6377
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Standard Format and Content of Environmental Reports for Near-Surface Disposal of Radioactive Waste + HISTORY - HISTORY 04/1982 – Draft WM 013-4
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1218/ML12187A698.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-4.18
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Other potential social and economic effects may include: 1. Tax revenues to be received by local and State governments, 2. Temporary and permanent new jobs created and payroll, 3. Incremental increase in regional product (value-added concept), 4. Creation and improvement of local roads or other transportation facilities, 5. Shortages of housing, including inflationary rentals or prices, 6. Congestion of local streets and highways, 7. Noise and esthetic disturbances, 8. Overloading of water supply and sewerage treatment facilities, 9. Crowding of local schools, hospitals, and other public facilities, 10. Overtaxing of community services, 11. Disruptions of local community caused by using the land, 12. Impairment of recreational values, 13. Deterioration of esthetic or scenic values, 14. Restrictions on access to areas of scenic, historic, or cultural interest, 15. Degradation of areas having historic, cultural, natural, or archeological value, 16. Removal of land from present or contemplated alternative uses, 17. Lost income from alternative land uses, 18. Decrease in real estate values in areas affected by the disposal operation, 19. Increased costs to local governments for the services required by the wurkers, 20. Esthetic effects of effluents, 31 21. Effects of ground-water alteration on local water supplies, and E 22. Public attitude and public confidence. Discuss significant costs and benefits that may be realized from the proposed project. Where the costs and benefits can be expressed in monetary terms, they should be presented in constant base dollars. In each instance where a particular cost or benefit is discussed, indicate, to the extent practical, who is likely to be affected and for how long. In the case of esthetic impacts that are diffi- cult to quantify, provide, where applicable, pictorial drawings of structures or ground surface modifications visible to the public. Any special measures to be taken to alleviate certain impacts should be described.