Paragraph 44 Cooling Water Intake and Outfall Heads, Shafts and Tunnels
Water abstraction must not commence until a FIEMP has been submitted to and approved by the MMO in writing in consultation with the Environment Agency and Natural England. The FIEMP must be in general accordance with the Draft Fish Impingement and Entrainment Monitoring Plan and must include, but is not limited to—
the monitoring arrangements for assessing the efficacy of the FRR during the commissioning of Unit 1 and Unit 2;
the undertaker’s duty to consider future additional adaptive measures arising from (a) that may be required during operation of Unit 1 and Unit 2;
the monitoring methodology, frequency of monitoring and format of monitoring reports; and
examples of mitigation measures which could be implemented and which would be effective to mitigate particular results of the monitoring and how the appropriateness of each measure will be considered.
an obligation to make the impingement and entrainment data publicly available with the reports required by the FIEMP.
The FIEMP must be implemented as approved in writing by the MMO.
Monitoring reports, as defined within the FIEMP, must be submitted to the MMO for approval in writing.
Unless a shorter period is agreed with the MMO in writing, the undertaker must use reasonable endeavours to submit the FIEMP at least 6 months prior to the proposed commencement of water abstraction.