ML18230B016

Letter Submitting Comments on Draft Environmental Statement for Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1,2,3 and 4

ML18230B016
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	03/05/1973
From:	Thornton P US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service
To:	Muller D US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
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8 Qgs The Forest Service has completed its review of the draft environmental statement for the SHEARON HARRIS NUCLEAR POWER PI ANT, UNITS 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Our comments follow:

Table 2. 14 lists 13, 688 acres as forest land (14, 954 acres less 1, 266 acres of fields, } From this amount, 10, 500 acres willbecome the reservoirs.

Loss to the reservoirs amounts to 77fo of the total forest acreage.

Because there are no standards established for measuring significance of land use changes, it is questionable that the AEC staff can conclude that this loss of forest acreage is not significant.

In the same paragraph the AEC staff stated that there is a large amount of forested acreage within a 40-mile radius of the plant site.

This statement would imply that the surrounding forest land might make up for the loss of forest productivity in the withdrawal of 10, 500 acres.

This assumption cannot be made without more infor<<

mation on the quality of management now practiced by owners', of the neighboring tracts.

To belabor a point:

any loss of forest acreage is significant in the light of the total shift in land use>>- to highways, power lines, residential and commercial development.

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