Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 370a4104-eb75-459b-b1b5-2e9df9c6f819
Document Type: esrp
Title: AQUATIC ECOLOGY
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: 6.5.2
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REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary—Appendix B Secondary—Appendix B I. AREAS OF REVIEW This environmental standard review plan (ESRP) directs the staff’s analysis and evaluation of the applicant’s preapplication, site preparation and construction, preoperational, and operational monitoring programs in sufficient detail for making decisions on site acceptability and, ultimately, plant construction and operational procedures. Monitoring programs should cover elements of the ecosystem for which a causal relationship between station construction and/or operation and adverse change is established or strongly suspected. The scope of the review directed by this plan includes evaluations of standardization, adequacy and accuracy of data collection, and analytical methods used in the aquatic monitoring programs. If elements of the monitoring program are determined to be inadequate, staff evaluation of potential supplemental programs should be presented. Review Interfaces The reviewer for this ESRP should obtain input from or provide input to the reviewers for the following ESRPs, as indicated: ` ESRP 2.3.3. Obtain appropriate information about the preexisting water-quality characteristics of the site and any expected changes to these characteristics that may result from power plant construction or operation. NUREG-1555 6.5.2-2 October 1999 ` ESRP 2.4.2. Obtain appropriate information on the principal aquatic ecological features of the site and vicinity, including sanctuaries and preserves, natural areas and related areas, as well as important species and habitats (defined in ESRP 2.4.1). ` ESRP 3.4.1. Obtain a description of the cooling system and its operational modes that is detailed enough to support an analysis of the applicant’s aquatic ecology monitoring program. ` ESRP 3.6. Obtain a description of the nonradioactive waste systems that is detailed enough to support an analysis of the applicant’s aquatic ecology monitoring program. ` ESRP 3.7. Obtain a