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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eparation would not be warranted to appropriately inform the NEPA decision-making process. Based on experience from other construction projects of similar size, the air quality impact will probably be assessed as small during scoping, if the area is in attainment under EPA regulations. Under these circumstances, no effort beyond a very simple estimate of the preconstruction-construction impact separation, such as 50–50 percent, would be necessary to assess the impact of the construction activities. In addition, the staff anticipates that the USACE will be a cooperating agency on the majority of EISs because it is likely to have permitting actions related to the preconstruction and construction activities and, in some cases, operational activities for the plant. The USACE views the impacts from preconstruction and construction activities as impacts of the proposed project based on USACE regulations. The NRC and the USACE will cooperate on the EISs in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed on September 12, 2008 and published in the Federal Register (73 FR 55546) (Ref. 29), covering environmental reviews related to the issuance of authorizations to construct and operate nuclear power plants. The NRC and the USACE established the cooperative agreement because DG-4026, Page 23 both agencies have concluded it is the most effective and efficient use of Federal resources to write one EIS that will address both agencies’ NEPA obligations. VII. Storage of Spent Fuel In 2014, the NRC issued a revised rule at 10 CFR 51.23, “Environmental impacts of continued storage of spent nuclear fuel beyond the licensed life for operation of a reactor,” and published NUREG-2157, “Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel” (Ref. 30). As a result of the revised rule, the environmental impacts of the continued storage of spent fuel (beyond the licensed life of the plant), are deemed incorporated into an EIS for a new reactor