ML19309F541
| ML19309F541 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/01/1980 |
| From: | Laroche G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Little L Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| NUDOCS 8004300005 | |
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Dear Dr. Little:
As discussed cn the telephone yesterday there will be a meeting April 10 dt 10:00 AM at U.S. Geological Survey-(USGS) Headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the production by the USGS of maps to be used for the TMI-l hearings that will be held in June or July of this year.
You will be providing a complete list of items to be mapped by the end of this week.
Definitely to be included are:
Land Use and Land Cover, evacuation routes, population, reception centers for evacuees and meteorological data.
Individuals planning to attend the meeting besides myself are:
NRC Ronald Ballard, Chief. Environmental Engineering Branch Dr. Jerry Kline, Section Leader, Terrestrial Ecology USGS James Wray, Land Information and Analysis Office Others as deemad appropriate by USGS l
Enclosed for your information is a list of Level I and II land Use and Land Cover that the USGS is capable of mapping for the TMI area. Also enclosed is a brochure entitled " Access Routes,to USGS National Center at Reston, Va."
and Mr. Wray's telephone number Sincerely, e
JJL> wh.,.
wh Germain LaRoche, ph.D.
Senior Land Use Analyst Environmental Specialists Branch Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis Enclosures : As stated cc:
I. Smith, ASLB G. Lear, DSE R. Ballard, DSE J. Kline, DSE J. Uray, USGS L
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A LAND USE AND LAND (OVER CLASSIFICA TION 8YSTE31 ron UE WITH RE310TE SEN%;t DATA Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and TABLE 2r-End HM CHd Ignd rot er c'Gssi[CatiM syd Mt [pr supplemented from other sources. These statistics, which are available only for States, are Novided by 1 Urban or Built.up Land 11 Residential.
the various government agencies which compile in-12 Commercial and Snic-s.
formation on some categories of land use, several of 13 Industrial.
14 Transportat.wn, Ccmmuni-which parallel the U.S.G.S. land use class.fication cations. ana critities.
i 15 Ind utrial an.10.mmer:isi y'c vem, Cenp' exes.
16 3!ixed Urban or nuil:.up Tant.E 1.
.k ifor uses of land, United States, nss s Land.
17 Other Urb sn or Baitt.up A:ree Hectarse
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Crob and and Pasture.
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2 Agricultural Land 21 Ore..ards Grove, Vine-Cruphin d.......................
472 191 20.9 yards, Nurxries, and Ornamental Iforticultur nl Cropland used for crops....
333 ~~ 135 A reas.
Cropland harvested......
286 116 Cultivated summer fallow.
41 17 23 Confined Feet,ng Opera.
Crop failure ____..__....
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tions.
24 Other Agr,icultural Land.
Soil improvement crops and idle cropland.............
51 21 3 Rangeland 31 Herbaceous Rangeland.
Cropland used only for pasture 88 35 32 Shrub and Brush Rangs-yx Rangeland.
Grassland pasture and range'...
604 245 26.7 g
Forest land....................
723 293 31.9~
4 Forest Land 41 Deciduous Forest Land.
G raz ed.....................
193 80 42 Evergreen Forest Land.
Not grazed.................
525 213 43 SIIxed Forest Land.
S pecial u se s *..................
178 72 7.9 Urb an areas.............,..
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Water 51 Streams and Canals.
52 Lakes.
Transportation areas...__...
26 11 53 Reservoirs.
Rural parks................
49 19 54 Bays and Estuaries.
Wildlife refuges............
32 13 6 Wetland 61 Foreeted Wetland.
National <!efense, f'. cod control, 62 Nonforested Wetland.
and industrial areas.......
26 11 State-owned institutions and 7 Barren Land 71 Dry Salt F1#.s.
macel'aneous other uses...
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72 Beaches.
Farmsteads, farm roads, 73 Sandy Areas other than and lanes......_.........
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Beaches.
3 fiscal!aneous land '..............
287 116 12.6 74 Bare Exposed Rock.
75 Strip Mim. Qttarr!*s, and Gravel Pits.
1 rrey. H. T. 1M3. Does not include area covered by watee in streams rios e than % of a rire is width and takes re=+rve!rs, ar:d so forth of 76 Transitional AT*as.
77 Mixed Barren Land.
a$yh=apay'*,,la*[**g, is to be included with crer. land in the U.s c.s.
8 Tundra 81 Shrub and Brush Tundra.
>N'+7tlr$*rEn at:d buct.up areas and trarsrcreatten us. thue 62 IIerbaceous Tundra.
soeval uses wC1 be c?au.f.ed by dominant cover under the U.S.G.S. classi.
reamn ostes 83 Bare Ground Tandrs.
- Tundra, gincters. and Icehlds, marshes, cr en swamps. Late reek areas-84 Wet Tundra.
dearts. tsactes, and other m!seel!aneous land.
85 Mixed Tundm.
The land use and land cover classification system 9 Perennial Snow or Ice 91 Perennial Snowftelds, presented in this report (table 2) includes only the 7,Jt(d clacien.
more generalized first and second levels. The system studies will depend on the improvement that should satisfies the three major attributes of the classifica-result from widespread use of the system.
tion process as outlined by Grigg (1965): (1) it As further advances in technology'are made, it gives aames to categories by simply using accepted may be necessary to modify the classification system terminology; (2) it enables information to be trans-for use with automatic data analysis.The LANDS AT mitted; and (3) it allows inductive generalizations and Skylab missions and the high. altitude aircraft to be made. The classification system is capable of program of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad.
further refinement on the basis of more extended and ministration have offered opportunities for nation.
Varied use. At the more generalized levels it should wide testing of the feasibility of using this classifica-meet the principal objective of providing a land use tion system to obtain land use information on a and !and cover classification system for use in land uniform basis.
use planning and management activities. Attainment The approach to tant'. use and land cover classifi.
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of the more fundamental and long. range objective cation embodied in the system described herein is of providing a standardized system of land use and
" resource oriented," in contrast, for example, with -
land cover classification for national and regional the " people orientation" of the " Standard Land Use i