Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 370a4104-eb75-459b-b1b5-2e9df9c6f819
Document Type: esrp
Title: AQUATIC ECOLOGY
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: 6.5.2
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al monitoring program will be covered under the relevant NPDES permit. General When evaluating these four types of monitoring programs, the following features should be considered: (1) Ensure that the applicant has, to the extent feasible, described the general scope and objectives of its intended programs and provided a tentative listing of parameters that it believes should be monitored. ` The application should include the time period over which the parameters will be monitored. ` Provisions for updating the program (included in the applicant’s ER). (2) Establish whether data will be provided as outlined above. Where the monitoring programs are judged to be inadequate or to include unnecessary elements, the reviewer should evaluate potential additions and deletions. (3) Consider the following features for each of the four types of monitoring programs: ` the continuity of design, i.e., each monitoring program builds upon the methodology and informational outputs of the previous program ` the relationship to environmental monitoring conducted by other agencies in the vicinity of the power station ` the bases and objective of each element of the monitoring program, as well as its relationship to the overall environmental monitoring program NUREG-1555 6.5.2-8 October 1999 ` data from an earlier monitoring program or project. Where data demonstrate no significant impacts, then provisions to study such effects in successive monitoring programs should be reduced or deleted. ` The program should allow for periodic modification based on the results of previous monitoring to ensure that the current monitoring effort is sufficient and justified when compared with a current assessment of the effects that plant construction and/or operation are having on the environment. ` The intensity of sampling necessary for each anticipated impact should be commensurate with the degree of impact expected. The reviewer should balance the potential impacts of any sampling program against