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Preparation of environmental reports for NP stations (1976)

AuteurUS NRC
Datumjuli 1976
Classificatie 3.01.0.00/18 (VS - ALGEMEEN)
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A. INTRODUCTION

1. National Environmental Goals

The national environmental goals are expressed by the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (Public Law 91-190, 83 Stat. 852), as follows:

" ... it is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all 
practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of national policy, 
to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to the 
end that the Nation may -

"(1) fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment 
for succeeding generations;

"(2) assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and 
culturally pleasing surroundings;

"(3) attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, 
risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences;

"(4) preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of national heritage, 
and maintain, wherever possible, an environment which supports diversity and 
variety of individual choice;

"(5) achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit high 
standards of living and a wide sharing of life's amenities; and

"(6) enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum 
attainable recycling of depletable resources."

Prior to the issuance of a construction permit or an operating license for a nuclear 
power station, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is required to assess the 
potential environmental effects of that facility to ensure that issuance of the permit 
or license will be consistent with the national environmental goals presented above. 
In order to obtain information essential to this assessment, the NRC requires each 
applicant for a permit or a license to submit a report on the potential environmental 
impacts of the proposed station and associated facilities. The Commission's 
implementation of NEPA is discussed in Section 3 of this Introduction.

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