Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: e569e961-f78c-49bc-a431-63f96ad2baed
Document Type: esrp
Title: WATER USE
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.3.2
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or operation. This NUREG-1555 2.3.2-6 October 1999 ESRP reviews the key water-use background material that is essential for understanding the impacts on water use, water quality, land use, ecological systems, and monitoring programs during both construction and operation. III. REVIEW PROCEDURES The reviewer’s analysis of surface-water and groundwater use should consider the aspects of water use that are concerned with consumptive use, nonconsumptive use, and effluent pathways. The depth of analysis will be related to the importance of water use and proximity of the use to the plant. With this in mind, the reviewer should take the following steps: (1) Identify consumptive water uses that could affect the water supply of the plant or that may be adversely affected by the plant, including the following important characteristics: ` water source ` locations of diversions and returns ` amount and time variation of use ` water rights. (2) Identify recreational, navigational, and other nonconsumptive water uses, including those that could be affected by transmission line and offsite area construction and operation. The important characteristics to be quantified are ` location ` activity ` amount and time variation of use. (3) Identify the water uses that provide potential pathways for both radiological and nonradiological effluents, including the following important characteristics: ` water sources ` location of diversions for consumptive uses ` location of receptors for nonconsumptive uses ` amount and time variation of use for each. (4) In addition to information obtained from the applicant’s ER and from responses to subsequent questions to the applicant, use additional sources of data, such as ` local water supply companies or agencies ` river basin commissions ` State agencies (e.g., water resources, fish and wildlife) October 1999 2.3.2-7 NUREG-1555 ` various Federal agencies, such as the Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey, and Native American