Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 274c9153-7a73-42bb-846f-1ee87cbc87bf
Document Type: esrp
Title: TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY AND LAND USE
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: 6.5.1
CFR Part: 
CFR Title: 

Content:
ion, and station operation. The reviewer should ensure that the applicant’s plans for measurement of conditions before site preparation include all environmental parameters that must subsequently be monitored during station operation, as well as during site preparation and station construction. ` Regulatory Guide 4.7, Rev. 2, General Site Suitability for Nuclear Power Stations (NRC 1998), states that the ecological systems and biota at potential sites and their environs should be sufficiently well known to allow reasonably certain predictions that there would be no significant impacts to the terrestrial ecology associated with the construction or operation of a nuclear-power station at the site. The reviewer should ensure that the applicant’s monitoring program is capable of identifying important species or ecological systems and detecting whether station construction and operation would have any deleterious impacts on these resources. ` Regulatory Guide 4.11, Rev. 1, Terrestrial Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations (NRC 1977), contains technical information for the design and execution of environmental monitoring studies, the results of which may be appropriate for inclusion in the applicant’s environmental report. The reviewer should ensure that the appropriate results are included in the environmental report (ER). ` ANSI/ANS-18.5-1982 contains guidance and a rationale for performing terrestrial ecological monitoring at each stage of the licensing process and for specific power plant designs. The type, frequency, duration, and magnitude of impacts to terrestrial biota vary with power plant location, October 1999 6.5.1-5 NUREG-1555 design, and methods of construction and operation. Thus, the reviewer should ensure that the applicant’s proposed monitoring programs include study of those ecological variables that will most likely be impacted by the construction and operation of the individual power plant. Technical Rationale The technical