Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: c08b7422-df76-4e73-9a5e-2496adb22ac5
Document Type: esrp
Title: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACTS
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: 4.4.3
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nes if it permits the identification of minority and low- income populations as required in that guidance. ` Regulatory Guide 4.7, Rev. 2., General Site Suitability Criteria for Nuclear Power Stations (NRC 1998a), which specifies the avoidance of disproportionately high and adverse impacts on minority and low-income populations during plant siting. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluating the applicant’s potential environmental justice impacts is discussed in the following paragraphs: 10 CFR 51.45(e) requires applicants to provide the information that the Commission needs in its development of independent analysis of environmental impacts. Executive Order 12898 directs Federal agencies to consider environmental justice as part of the NEPA process. NRC, while an independent agency, has agreed to comply with the Executive Order. (a) An example of unusual practices or pathways can be found in NRC (1998b), where proposed relocation of a road between two settlements disproportionately or adversely affected minority and low-income individuals, who ordinarily walked between the two settlements. NUREG-1555 4.4.3-4 October 1999 The purpose of the environmental justice assessment is to identify and address, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects on minority and low- income populations. These populations may be present in scattered small groups or may have unusual customs, practices, or dependencies on specific resources that would be overlooked in a reconnaissance level analysis that focuses on the majority population. As a result, it is necessary to evaluate impacts for each such population and more carefully examine unusual environmental pathways (including socioeconomic pathways) that could result in disproportionately high and adverse impacts on them.(a) III. REVIEW PROCEDURES To determine which impacts are likely to be of concern and, therefore, what environmental impact areas should be discussed,