Environmental Impact Statement - radioactive monticello

Environmental Impacts of Operation
and there is little or no likelihood of any impact during the renewal period the contributions to
cumulative impacts to Federally listed threatened or endangered species due to continued
operation of Monticello and its transmission lines is.SMALL and no mitigation is warranted.
4.8.7 Conclusions Regarding Cumulative Impacts
The staff considered the potential impacts resulting from operation of Monticello during the
license renewal term and other past, present, and future actions in the vicinity of Monticello.
For each impact area, the staff has determined that the potential cumulative impacts resulting
from Monticello operation during the license renewal term are SMALL, and mitigation is not
warranted.
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4.9 Summary of Impacts of Operations During the Renewal
Term
Neither NMC nor the staff -is aware of information that is both new and significant related to any
of the applicable Category-1 issues associated with the Monticello operations during the
renewal term. Consequently, the staff concludes that the environmental impacts associated
with these issues are bounded by the impacts described in the GELS. For each of these issues,
the GEIS concluded that the impacts would be SMALL and that additional plant-specific
mitigation measures are not likely to be sufficiently beneficial to warrant implementation.
Plant-specific environmental evaluations were conducted for 13 Category 2 issues applicable to
Monticello operations during the renewal term, and for environmental justice and chronic effects
of electromagnetic fields. For1 3 issues and environmental justice, the staff concluded that the
potential environmental impacbof renewal term operations of Monticello would be of SMALL
significance in the context of the standards set forth in the GElS, and that additional mitigation
would not be warranted. In addition, the staff determined that a consensus has not been
reached by appropriate Federal health agencies regarding chronic adverse effects from
electromagnetic fields. Therefore, the staff did not conduct an evaluation of this issue:
Cumulative impacts of past, present, and reasonably forseeable future actions were
considered, regardless of what agency (Federal or non-Federal) or person undertakes such
other actions. For purposes of this :analysis, where Monticello license renewal impacts are
deemed to be SMALL, the staff concluded that these impacts would not result in significant
cumulative impacts on potentially affected resources.
August 2006 4-49 NUREG-1437, Supplement 26