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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume III Part 4
Comment-Response Document,
Chapters 8 through 13

Section
8. Transportation Modes, Routes, Affected Environment, and Impacts

  8.1 General Opposition to Transporting Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste

  8.2 Number of Shipments

  8.3 Transportation Modes and Routes
    8.3.1 State Highway 127, Hoover Dam, Nevada Department of Transportation Alternatives
    8.3.2 Caliente/Chalk Mountain
    8.3.3 Alternative Routes and Modes

  8.4 Transportation Casks

  8.5 Intermodal Transfer Facilities and Heavy-Haul Trucks
    8.5.1 Intermodal Facility Operations
    8.5.2 Highway Upgrades
    8.5.3 Heavy-Haul Truck Operations

  8.6 Rail Transport
    8.6.1 Dedicated Trains
    8.6.2 Rail-Line Construction
    8.6.3 Operations

  8.7 Transportation Operational Policy and Procedures

  8.8 Transportation Analyses
    8.8.1 General
    8.8.2 Nevada General
    8.8.3 Special Topics

  8.9 Transportation Costs

  8.10 Transportation Accidents
    8.10.1 Sabotage
    8.10.2 Emergency Response
    8.10.3 Liability

  8.11 Transportation – Affected Environment and Impacts
    8.11.1 Land Use
    8.11.2 Air Quality
    8.11.3 Hydrology/Geology
    8.11.4 Biology and Soils
      8.11.4.1 Vegetation
      8.11.4.2 Wildlife
      8.11.4.3 Soils
    8.11.5 Cultural Resources
      8.11.5.1 Archaeological and Historical Resources
      8.11.5.2 Native American Interests
    8.11.6 Socioeconomics
    8.11.7 Human Health and Safety
    8.11.8 Noise
    8.11.9 Aesthetics
    8.11.10 Waste Management
    8.11.11 Environmental Justice/Native American Issues
      8.11.11.1 Environmental Justice Issues
      8.11.11.2 Native American Issues

  8.12 Transportation-Related Comments on the Supplement to the Draft EIS

References

9. No-Action Alternative

  9.1 Technical Issues

  9.2 Accidents

  9.3 Socioeconomics

  9.4 Human Health and Safety

  9.5 Native American Issues

References

10. Cumulative Impacts

References

11. Impacts Mitigation and Compensation

  11.1 Impacts Mitigation

  11.2 Impacts Compensation

References

12. DOE Credibility

13. Comments Outside the Scope of the Environmental Impact Statement and the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project

References