Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 2d4a35b7-c091-4532-b503-bf35a5bdc380
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: 4
Section ID: 4.1.1
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ree of change and its acceptability by comparing specific cases with existing standards, guides, regulations, or legislation; or to Federal, State, regional, local, and affected Native American tribal land-use plans and zoning ordinances, consulting with these sources, and ensuring consistency with them where required or desirable. ` Refer to the Federal sources listed in Table 4.1.1-1 (and comparable State sources applicable to the applicant’s proposed site) for particular types of land. ` If there are no relevant standards, guides, regulations, legislation, or land-use plans, analyze the severity of the impact without these aids. October 1999 4.1.1-7 NUREG-1555 (c) Analyze the restriction on the use of land such as farmland or forests in the context of the amount and quality of the land in the vicinity of the plant. ` Removal of less than 2% of such land, or up to 500 hectares, generally has minor effects, particularly if the land is not unique or otherwise distinguished. ` When larger land areas are to be committed for a proposed nuclear station (e.g., greater than 500 hectares) or if the reviewer for ESRP 2.2.1 indicates that the proposed land areas are unique or otherwise distinguished, further analysis is needed to determine the quality of the land. There are three indices of land quality that may be used for guidance. The first is the definitions of prime and unique farmland in the Farmland Protection Policy Act of 1981. The second is the land relative value rating prepared by the NRCS. The third and oldest index is the land capability classification system first published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Klingebiel and Montgomery 1961). The indices are further defined as follows: - Prime and Unique Farmland. The terms “prime farmland” and “unique farmland” are defined in the Farmland Protection Policy Act of 1981. Prime farmland is defined to be land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food,