Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: c8ab765a-d7cc-47c7-86a2-0406e48bca9e
Document Type: esrp
Title: IRREVERSIBLE AND IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENTS OF RESOURCES
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 10
Section ID: 10.2
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applicant’s environmental report. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluating the applicant’s described relationship between short-term uses and long-term productivity of the human environment is discussed in the following paragraph: The NRC’s environmental impact statement (EIS) represents the staff’s findings related to the environmental consequences of the proposed action. It includes a description of the action, October 1999 10.3-3 NUREG-1555 identification, and evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of the action, and evaluation of the alternatives. Input from ESRPs 10.1 and 10.2 are used in the EIS to summarize the unavoidable adverse impacts and the irreversible and irretrievable commitment of resources of the action. The review conducted for ESRP 10.3 leads to the staff’s findings related to the relationship between short-term uses and long term productivity of the environment as required by 10 CFR 51, Appendix A(7). III. REVIEW PROCEDURES The reviewer’s analysis of the relationship between short term uses and long term productivity should be based on the tabulation of unavoidable adverse environmental impacts and irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources prepared by the reviewers for ESRPs 10.1 and 10.2 using the following steps: (1) Consider that an occupation of land by plant structures for an indefinite period represents the maximum impact on long term productivity, unless other long term preemptions have been identified by these reviewers. (2) Identify through consultation with the appropriate ESRP Chapters 4.0 and 5.0 reviewers those other uses of the environment that will be precluded by plant construction and operation (e.g., loss of productive farmland) and that will classify these as either short term or long term preemptions. (3) Determine how any short term or long term benefits of the proposed project, as identified by appropriate ESRP Chapters 4.0 or 5.0 reviewers, affect any such