Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: f0baf50b-5bb7-4783-b2f9-9586e09c97e1
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Preparation of Environmental Reports for Nuclear Power Stations + HISTORY - HISTORY 02/2017 – DG-4026 , Proposed Revision 3 09/2014 – Periodic Review of Revision 2 – Revise (Rev. 3)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1611/ML16116A068.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-4.2
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uction activities. Applicants should involve the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO), local historic preservation officials, and affected American Indian tribes in the assessment. The ER should include the following information (with appropriate reference to Chapter 2 of the ER to avoid duplication of information): • Description of any operational activities including maintenance activities that could affect onsite or offsite resources (e.g., ground-disturbing activity-not discussed in Chapter 4, increases in traffic, and noise and visual intrusions (i.e., cooling towers and other plant structures)). • Description of historic properties found in the direct and indirect APEs that will be affected by operational activities. Use the criteria specified in 36 CFR 800.5 to assess adverse effects to historic properties. Provide a basis and documentation for how a conclusion is reached. • Description of the effects associated with operational including maintenance activities on historic and cultural resources that are not determined to be historic properties, but may be considered by DG-4026, Page 92 SHPO, Tribes, or members of the public to have cultural significance/importance in the context of National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (e.g., sacred sites, cemeteries, local gathering areas). • Discuss the direct and indirect effects (e.g., ground disturbance, physical, visual, auditory, atmospheric such as fugitive dust, light, and traffic), if any, from the period of plant operations, including maintenance-related and reasonably foreseeable future construction activities (e.g., warehouse, independent spent fuel storage facility), on nearby historic properties or important historic and cultural resources. • For indirect effects, the assessment should include drawings or modified photographs indicating the station facilities and their surroundings, if visible from these nearby important vantage points. The assessment should lead to one of three