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Table 4-22. Number of vehicles per hour during peak hours under alternative A.






Design capacity



No-action alternative
(Percentage of




Waste Forecast
Road
(vehicles per hour)
design capacity)
Minimum
Expected
Maximum
Offsite
(percentage of design capacity)
SC 193,000b 2,821(94)2,831(94) 2,837(95)2,917(97)
SC 1253,200b 2,720(85)2,730(85) 2,736(85)2,812(88)
SC 572,100b 706(33)707(34) 709(34)729(35)
Onsite
Road E at E­Area2,300c 788d(34) 809e(35) 824e(36) 999e(43)

a. Number in parentheses represents percentage of design capacity.

b. Adapted from Smith (1989).

c. Adapted from TRB (1985).

d. Includes baseline plus the maximum number (47) of construction workers (Hess 1995a, b).

e. Includes baseline plus the maximum number (68 for the minimum, 83 for the expected, and 258 for the maximum waste forecast) of construction workers (Hess 1995a, b).


Table 4-23.SRS daily hazardous and radioactive waste shipments by truck under alternative A.a


Change from no-action
Waste type
1994 no-action traffica
Minimum
Expected
Maximum
Hazardous14-6 <1b6
Low-level7-3 012
Mixed8-4 225
Transuranicc1<1 <115
Total change
NAd
-13258
Total shipments per day30 173288

a. Shipments per day: To arrive at shipments per day, the total number of waste shipments estimated for the 30 years considered in this EIS was divided by 30 to determine estimated shipments per year. These numbers were divided by 250, which represents working days in a calendar year, to determine shipments per day. Supplemental data are provided in the traffic and transportation section of Appendix E.

b. Values less than 1 are treated as zero for purposes of comparison.

c. Includes mixed and nonmixed transuranic wastetransuranic waste shipments.

d. NA = not applicable.




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