Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 16926a77-3e00-433b-ac3e-b749ca8bc68e
Document Type: esrp
Title: SUMMARY OF MONITORING PROGRAMS
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 6
Section ID: 6.7
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Content:
ided in one or more EIS sections (as follows), depending on the nature of the application under consideration: Site Preparation, Construction, and Refurbishment Monitoring This section should describe the applicant’s existing or proposed environmental monitoring program for site preparation and construction in tabular form. The table should describe the purposes and objectives of each program, provide sufficient program detail to establish the scope and content of the program and NUREG-1555 6.7-4 October 1999 to minimize the possibility of misinterpretation of a program or program element. For each monitoring program element, the table should also indicate whether the element exists or is a commitment of the applicant. Preoperational Monitoring This section should describe the applicant’s existing or proposed preoperational environmental monitoring program. A tabular format should be used. Each program should be sufficiently specific to establish the scope and content of the program and to minimize the possibility of misinterpretation of a program or program element. When an element of a monitoring program has been described earlier and that element of the program will continue unchanged, a note referring to the previous description will be sufficient. When a previously described program element changes, the description should focus on the change. The input should specify the date or time period when these data should be made available for staff review, if complete preoperational program descriptions are not available. Operational Monitoring This section should describe the applicant’s existing or proposed operational environmental monitoring program. Because this program may be proposed well before the initiation of operations and changes based on site-specific circumstances and because new regulations are likely to result in program changes, this program is understood to be preliminary. A tabular format should be used. Each program should be as specific as