NR 111.41(8)(c)(c) Analysis and supporting documentation. Documentation of the current entrainment of all life stages of fish, shellfish, and any threatened or endangered species. The documentation may include historical data that are representative of the current operation of the facility and of biological conditions at the site. Entrainment data to support the facility’s calculations shall be collected during periods of representative operational flows for the cooling water intake structure, and the flows associated with the data collection shall be documented. The method used to determine latent mortality along with data for specific organism mortality or survival that is applied to other life-stages or species shall be identified. The owner or operator of the facility shall identify and document all assumptions and calculations used to determine the total entrainment for the facility, together with all methods and quality assurance or quality control procedures for data collection and data analysis. The proposed data collection and data analysis methods shall be appropriate for a quantitative survey. NR 111.41(9)(9) Comprehensive technical feasibility and cost evaluation study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 MGD AIF shall develop for submission to the department an engineering study of the technical feasibility and incremental costs of candidate entrainment control technologies. In addition, the study shall include all of the following: NR 111.41(9)(a)(a) Technical feasibility. An evaluation of the technical feasibility of closed-cycle recirculating systems, fine mesh screens with a mesh size of 2 millimeters or smaller, variable speed pumps, and water reuse or alternate sources of cooling water. In addition, this study shall include all of the following: NR 111.41(9)(a)1.1. A description of all technologies and operational measures considered, including alternative designs of closed-cycle recirculating systems such as natural draft cooling towers, mechanical draft cooling towers, hybrid designs, and compact or multi-cell arrangements. NR 111.41(9)(a)2.2. A discussion of land availability, including evaluations of all of the following: NR 111.41(9)(a)2.a.a. Adjacent land and acres potentially available due to retirements of generating units, production units, and other buildings and equipment. NR 111.41(9)(a)2.b.b. Potential for repurposing of areas devoted to ponds, coal piles, rail yards, transmission yards, and parking lots. NR 111.41(9)(a)3.3. A discussion of available sources of process water, gray water, wastewater, reclaimed water, or other waters of appropriate quantity and quality for use as some or all of the cooling water needs of the facility. NR 111.41(9)(a)4.4. Documentation of factors other than cost that may make a candidate technology impractical or infeasible for further evaluation. NR 111.41(9)(b)(b) Other entrainment control technologies. An evaluation of additional technologies for reducing entrainment, if required by the department. NR 111.41(9)(c)(c) Cost evaluations. Engineering cost estimates of all technologies considered under pars. (a) and (b). Facility costs shall also be adjusted to estimate social costs. All costs shall be presented as the net present value and the corresponding annual value. Costs shall be clearly labeled as compliance costs or social costs. Compliance costs are calculated after-tax while social costs are calculated pre-tax. Compliance costs include the facility’s administrative costs, including costs of the permit application while the social cost adjustment includes the department’s administrative costs. Any outages, downtime, or other impacts to facility net revenue are included in compliance costs while only that portion of lost net revenue that does not accrue to other producers can be included in social costs. Social costs shall also be discounted using social discount rates of 3 percent and 7 percent. Assumptions relating to depreciation schedules, tax rates, interest rates, and discount rates shall be identified. The applicant shall separately discuss facility level compliance costs and social costs and provide all of the following documentation: NR 111.41(9)(c)1.1. Costs and explanation of any additional facility modifications necessary to support construction and operation of technologies considered under pars. (a) and (b), including relocation of existing buildings or equipment, reinforcement or upgrading of existing equipment, and additional construction and operating permits. Assumptions related to depreciation schedules, interest rates, and useful life of the technology considered shall be identified. NR 111.41(9)(c)2.2. Costs and explanation for addressing any non-water quality environmental and other impacts identified in sub. (11). The cost evaluation shall include a discussion of all reasonable attempts to mitigate each of these impacts. NR 111.41(10)(10) Benefits valuation study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 MGD AIF shall develop for submission to the department an evaluation of the benefits of the candidate entrainment reduction technologies and operational measures evaluated in sub. (9), including using the entrainment characterization study completed in sub. (8). Each category of benefits shall be described narratively, and when possible, benefits shall be quantified in physical or biological units and monetized using appropriate economic valuation methods. The benefits valuation study shall include all of the following elements: NR 111.41(10)(a)(a) Incremental changes in the numbers of individual fish and shellfish lost due to impingement mortality and entrainment for all life stages of each exposed species. NR 111.41(10)(b)(b) A description of the basis for any estimates of changes in the stock sizes or harvest levels of commercial and recreational fish or shellfish species or forage species. NR 111.41(10)(c)(c) A description of the basis for any monetized values assigned to changes in the stock size or harvest levels of commercial and recreational fish or shellfish species, forage fish, and to any other ecosystem or nonuse benefits. NR 111.41(10)(d)(d) A discussion of mitigation efforts completed prior to October 14, 2014, including how long they have been in effect and how effective they have been. NR 111.41(10)(e)(e) A discussion, with quantification and monetization, where possible, of any other benefits expected to accrue to the environment and local communities, including improvements for mammals, birds, and other organisms and aquatic habitats. NR 111.41(10)(f)(f) A discussion, with quantification and monetization, where possible, of any benefits expected to result from any reductions in thermal discharges from entrainment technologies. NR 111.41(11)(11) Non-water quality environmental and other impacts study. The owner or operator of an existing facility that withdraws greater than 125 MGD AIF shall develop for submission to the department a detailed facility-specific discussion of the changes in non-water quality environmental and other impacts attributed to each technology and operational measure considered under sub. (9), including both impacts increased and impacts decreased. The study shall include all of the following: NR 111.41(11)(a)(a) Estimates of changes to energy consumption, including auxiliary power consumption and turbine backpressure energy penalty. NR 111.41(11)(b)(b) Estimates of air pollutant emissions and of the human health and environmental impacts associated with the emissions. NR 111.41(11)(d)(d) A discussion of impacts to safety, including documentation of the potential for plumes, icing, and availability of emergency cooling water. NR 111.41(11)(e)(e) A discussion of facility reliability, including facility availability, production of steam, impacts to production based on process unit heating or cooling, and reliability due to cooling water availability. NR 111.41(11)(f)(f) Estimates of expected significant changes in consumption of water, including a facility-specific comparison of the evaporative losses of both once-through cooling and closed-cycle recirculating systems, and documentation of impacts attributable to changes in water consumption. NR 111.41(11)(g)(g) A discussion of all reasonable attempts to mitigate each of the factors specified in pars. (a) to (f). NR 111.41(12)(12) Peer review. If the applicant is required to submit studies under subs. (9) to (11), the applicant shall conduct an external peer review of each report to be submitted with the permit application. The applicant shall select peer reviewers and notify the department in advance of the peer review. The department may disapprove of a peer reviewer or require additional peer reviewers. The department may confer with the U.S. environmental protection agency; federal, state, and tribal fish and wildlife management agencies with responsibility for fish and wildlife potentially affected by the cooling water intake structure; independent system operators; and state public utility regulatory agencies to determine which peer review comments shall be addressed. The applicant shall provide an explanation for any significant reviewer comments not accepted. Peer reviewers shall have appropriate qualifications and their names and credentials shall be included in the peer review report.