Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 5810150e-ee20-4cd1-b72f-6e918a603f73
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1523/ML15233A056.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.206
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ptions and representations made in the ESP ER are still valid; h. verifying that the NRC staff’s assumptions documented in the ESP EIS are still valid; and i. reviewing information needed to perform the review described in the Environmental Standard Review Plan (NUREG-1555) and RG 4.2 The COL applicant’s process for evaluating the significance of new information should also include the organizational procedures for handling reports of new information and the criteria used to determine the applicability of such information. The ER does not need to include detailed supporting information, but such information should be available in auditable form for review by the NRC staff. Such supporting information may include the following: • qualifications of participants involved in the process, their organizational affiliations, how they interact among themselves, and the role they serve in the process; • communications with subject matter experts and Federal, State, Tribal, and local environmental, natural resource, permitting, and land use agencies; and • new information identified and the assessment of its significance (with information that the applicant determines to be both new and significant submitted in the ER) (10 CFR 51.50(c)(1)(iii)). Finality of Environmental Issues Associated with a Design Certification The NRC staff’s review of a DC application results, in part, in its preparation of an EA. For a COLA referencing a DC, the COL ER may incorporate by reference the EA prepared for the referenced DC, thereby resolving for the COL applicant those environmental issues that were previously resolved in the DC EA. The COL applicant should provide sufficient information in the COL ER to demonstrate that the site characteristics for the COL fall within the site parameters in the DC EA (10 CFR 51.50(c)(2)). If a given environmental issue is not resolved at the ESP stage for instances in which sufficient environmental information was not available to permit