ML19312E460
| ML19312E460 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/01/1980 |
| From: | Laroche G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Little L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8006040478 | |
| Download: ML19312E460 (2) | |
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h9f APR 1 M Dr. Linda W. Little P. O. Box 10035 Raleigh, North Carolina 27G05 Dear Dr. Little As discussed on the telephone yesterday there will be a meeting April 10 at 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 conplate 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.
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Individuals planning to attend the meeting besides myself are NRC Ronald Ballard, Chief. Environmental Engirteering Branch Dr. Jerry Kline Section Leader. Terrestrial Ecology USGS_
James Wray, Land Information and Analysis Office Others as deemed appropriate by USGS 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, DISTRIBUTION:
Central Files ET Rdg Germain LaRoche, Ph.D.
ESB Rdg Senior Land Use Analyst GlaRoche Environmental Specialists Branch Division of Site Safety and lg Environmental Analysis
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m-8 A LAND USE AND LAND COVER CLAS81FICATION SYSTEa! l'OR USE WITH REa!OTE SENSOtt DATA R rVice of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Tente 2.-Lud n e-crd innd cor r cNni;'ea!% an ws for supplemented from other sources. These statistics,
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which are available only for States, are provided by 1 Urban or Built up Land g gegry the various government agencies which compile in-fermation en same categories of land use, several of 13 Tdustriat which parallel the U.S.G.S. land use classification T*M"ah. fiyts"
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15 Liivtr. d and 0.m:r;erdal Ccn 4xes.
Mixed Ur an or Buil:.up 5
TA:LE 1.
.WJ9r uses of land, Unitel States, loss a 16 Land.
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Per-2 Agricultural Land 21 Crapland and Pasture.
= OrMs. Grom h C rt p' sn d.................. _ _..
47 191 20.9 yards. Norxcies, and Cropland usel for crops....
333 135 Ornmrental IIorticultural Cropland harvested......
2S6 116 A s cas.
Crop failure _ __.._ _ _ _...
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23 Cennned Fer!!ng Opera-Cultivated summer fallow.
41 17 tions.
Suil improvernent crops and 2s Other Agricultural Land.
Idle cropland __..._ _......
51 21 3 Range!and 31 Herbaceous Rangeland.
Cropland used only for pasture 88 35 32 Shrub and Brush Range-Grasaland pa4ture and range
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604 2i5 26.7
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33 Mixed Rangeland.
Fo re st lan d................ _ _...
723 293 31.9-4 Forvt Land 41 Deciduous Fcrest Land, qrazed...............__....
--193 80 42 Evergreen Forest Land.
Not grazed....._.. _ _.__ __ __
525 213 Special uses 178 72 43 Mixed Forest Land.
7.9 5 Water 51 Streams and Canals.
U rb an areas........_ _.....
35 14 52 Lakes.
Transportatiori areas........
26 11 53 Reservo!rs.
R u ral parks................
49 19 54 Eays and Estuaries.
Wildlife refuges............
32 13 6 Wetland 61 Forested Wetland.
National defense. Fcod control, State-owred institutions and 62 Nonfere>ted Wetland.
and industrial reas.......
26 11 7 Barren Land 71 Dry Salt Fla's.
miscellamus other uses...
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Farmsteads, farm roads, 72 Beaches.
73 Sandy Aras other than and Innes 8
3 reaches.
M,nelhneous land *............__
287 116 12.6 74 Eare Expsed Rock.
i 75 Strip Eras. Qcarri s, and 8 ra cy. H. T., IM3. D:es not Inchde ares cowred by water in sticams Gravel Pits.
rnore than % of a r=:Pe ! wid:b and lakes. re.nwirs, and so f#rth of 7G Tran5!-ior.31 Araag.
n.nic than 43 seres in size.
77 Mixed Darren Land.
= >-w.s pasture itas is to te inclueed with c cr'and in the U.s c s.
Nr fir"IrIan and tuut.up areas and transper ation uses, the.e 8 Tundra 81 Shrub and B-ush Tundra.
s pe:!al ues tviIl be cia.,irmi by dorsinant cover under the U.s.G.S. classi.
82 Herb:*ceous Tundra,
%.are Ground Tundra.
f cat %n oste-i.
83 B
- Tun !ra. g!ac.ters. ard !ceP.1ds. marshes. open swarnps, tare rock areas.
84 et Tundra.
eeserts, twactes, and other rntseet!aneous rand.
S5 Mixed Tundra.
The land use and land cover classification system 9 Perennial Snow or Ice 91 Perenr.!al Snowfields.
presented in this report (table 2) includes only the SEP N U"*i'
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 names 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 LANDSAT mitted; and (0) it allows inductive generalizations and Skylab missions and the high-altitude aircraft i
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 informatien on a and !and cover classification system for use in land uniform basis.
use planning and management activities. Attainment The approach to land use and land cover classifi.
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 contra.st, for example, with land cover classification for national and regional the " people orientation" of the " Standard Land Use
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