Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: ff0641d9-a372-423d-a595-0b1ffbb956d1
Document Type: esrp
Title: ALTERNATIVE SITES
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.3
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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 alternatives to the applicant’s proposed site for the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant. The scope of the review directed by this plan should include the analysis and evaluation of the region of interest, candidate sites and a reasonable number of proposed alternative sites identified by the applicant, and the methodology used by the applicant to identify these sites. The review should also include the staff’s independent comparison of alternative sites with the applicant’s preferred site to determine if there are any alternative sites that are environmentally preferable to the proposed site. When one or more environmentally preferable alternative sites are identified, the scope of this review should be extended, using benefit-cost techniques and other procedures to determine if any environmentally preferable site can be shown to be obviously superior to the applicant’s proposed site. “Region of interest” (ROI) is the geographic area considered in searching for candidate sites. “Candidate sites” are those sites (at least four) that are within the region of interest and that are considered in the comparative evaluation of sites to be among the best that can reasonably be found for the siting of a nuclear power plant. “Proposed site” is the candidate site submitted to the NRC by the applicant, or by a person requesting an early site review pursuant to Appendix A to 10 CFR 50, as the proposed location for a nuclear power plant. “Alternative sites” are those candidate sites that are specifically compared to the proposed site to determine if there is an obviously superior site. An “environmentally preferred” alternative site is a site for which the environmental impacts are sufficiently less than for the proposed site so that environmental