Re: Transportation Impacts

["Richard F. Orthen" <rorthen@EARTHSCIENCES.NET>]

Health effects (potential consequences) are EXHAUSTIVELY covered in the EIS.

Costs of cleanup are also discussed. I was addressing ONLY the fact that the

economic module in RADTRAN is not used. DOE didn't "truncate" anything.

Perhaps Rick Orthen should read the EIS.



Perhaps he has.



This still doesn't answer the mail, particularly the tired globalism

"EXHAUSTIVELY covered."



DOE's "analysis" of cleanup costs consisted of tiering to previous reports

(one prepared by NASA for a Cassini mission launch accident) and concluding

with a belief that the costs "could be a few million dollars".  However, DOE

also states that costs really require speculation and "could be less" or "10

times greater depending on the contributing factors."  I agree with DOE that

such costs are speculative (and thus beyond NEPA consideration) given DOE's

technical approach chosen for the cost analysis.   However, DOE certainly

had at its disposal all the resources necessary (except, perhaps, the

budget) to translate MRFA impacted land area (as defined by RADTRAN/RISKIND)

in restoration cost terms without having to speculate (or at least have to

speculate on par with the MRFA analysis itself).  There are many businesses

today that are required to predict such things routinely and the resulting

RFQ response better not be speculative if you want to survive.



Similarly, DOE's analysis of the impacts from "environmental restoration" is

a reference to a 1996 document.  No useful conclusion is offered by DOE, nor

are impacts to the affected workforce even acknowledged.  And

who/what/when/where/how would the restoration waste volume by managed?



Is this "EXHAUSTIVE" coverage?  I do say that the truncation occurred at the

edge of convenient speculation.





Rick Orthen

Export, Pennsylvania







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