Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 3cb66d4f-d9e6-4d2c-848a-a0a6595ac915
Document Type: esrp
Title: THE SITE AND VICINITY
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.1.1
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s, assess the probable impacts of plant operation on crops or other vegetation or on transportation systems to establish if any would be severe enough to result in a change in land-use patterns in the site vicinity. (a) Realize that the impacts on land use resulting from plant operation are primarily those related to salt drift from cooling tower or spray pond operation and are thus limited in scope. (b) Explore all possibilities of “special case” land-use impacts (e.g., operational impacts to flood- plain(a) land use and reallocation of irrigation water to plant cooling water), but specific instruc- tions for such special cases are not provided in this ESRP. (2) Using the predictions of drift and plume from the cooling system (ESRP 5.3.3.1), establish the areas in which there is potential for fogging, icing, or drift damage (ESRP 5.3.3.2) of sufficient magnitude to result in potential land-use changes. (a) Add the additional land area potentially changed to the area already committed by plant construc- tion (ESRP 4.1.1). (b) Conduct an analysis as outlined in ESRP 4.1.1, preferably as a part of the analysis called for in ESRP 4.1.1. (3) Plants with once-through cooling systems have no general impacts on land use because of plant operation; nevertheless, conduct a limited inquiry to reveal any site-specific or unusual impacts. The evaluation of land-use impacts at the site or in the vicinity resulting from station operation should follow the procedures outlined in the “Review Procedures” of ESRP 4.1.1 for any additional land area potentially changed beyond that land area committed because of plant construction. IV. EVALUATION FINDINGS The review should be directed toward the following objectives: (1) public disclosure of major direct land-use consequences of the proposed project, (2) presentation of the basis of staff analysis of the project, and (3) presentation of staff conclusions, recommendations, and conditions regarding land use. Because the review for