from the Yucca Mountain Repository System

Impact Area

Site Characterization

Transportation System Construction

Transportation System Operation

Repository Construction

Repository Operation

Radiation Exposure

• No impacts anticipated

• No impacts anticipated

• Radiation exposure to transportation operators • Radiation exposure to citizens in close proximity to the transportation corridors and rest stops • Cumulative impacts from NTS, LLRW, and Yucca Mountain.

• No impacts anticipated

• In the event there is a release from Yucca Mountain, White Pine Co. is downwind

Employment

• Limited impacts due to repository oversight

• Limited impacts due to repository oversight • Impacts due to servicing transportation system construction operations

• Stigma induced job loss • Transportation service employment • Limited employment due to repository oversight

• Possible if White Pine County residents leave to seek jobs at Yucca Mtn. • Indirect employment due to purchases of goods and material from White Pine County • Limited impacts due to repository oversight

• Possible indirect employment due to the purchase of goods and material from White Pine County • Continued employment for oversight functions

Income

• Limited due to repository oversight

• Limited income due to repository oversight • Income due to servicing transportation system construction operations

• Limited direct and indirect income from servicing transportation operators • Transportation service income • Stigma induced income loss

• Indirect income depends on the degree to which White Pine Co. resources and goods are utilized

• Indirect income depends on the degree to which White Pine Co. resources and goods are utilized

Population

• No impacts anticipated

• No impacts anticipated

•Stigma induced out-migration • Transportation Service Population

• No impacts anticipated

• No impacts anticipated

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Impact Area

Site Characterization

Transportation System Construction

Transportation System Operation

Repository Construction

Repository Operation

Emergency Management

• No impacts anticipated

• Industrial accidents

• Additional trucks and vehicles will result in additional accidents • Possible incident involving radiation release to the environment and contamination

• No impacts anticipated

• Downwind response to atmospheric release

Emergency Medical

• No impacts anticipated

• Industrial accidents

• Transportation accidents due to additional trucks on the road • Potential incident involving radiation contamination

• No impacts anticipated

• Downwind response to atmospheric release

Local Oversight

• Repository oversight functions

• Repository oversight functions

• Repository oversight functions

• Repository oversight functions

• Repository oversight functions

Local Government Finance

• Limited, due to repository oversight functions

• Purchase of local goods and services

• Possible if stigma reduces the population • Purchase of local goods and services • Stigma induced loss of revenue

• Possible if stigma reduces the population • Purchase of local goods and services • Stigma induced loss of revenue

• Possible if stigma reduces the population • Purchase of local goods and services • Stigma induced loss of revenue

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Impact Area

Site Characterization

Transportation System Construction

Transportation System Operation

Repository Construction

Repository Operation

Highway Transportation Accident Risk

• No impacts anticipated

• Accidents involving material transport • Additional accident risk due to construction activities

• Significant risk of highway accidents with increased trucks and large, slow-moving trucks

• Accidents involving material transport

• No impacts anticipated

Tourism

• No impacts anticipated

• Construction delay induced loss in visitation

• Possible reductions in tourism if stigma causes tourists to avoid White Pine County due to the close proximity of the transport of high-level nuclear waste

• No impacts anticipated

• Stigma induced reductions in visitation to Nevada and White Pine County

Economic Development

• Stigma effects may begin to impact decisions to relocate in White Pine County

• Stigma effects may begin to impact decisions to relocate in White Pine County

• Stigma effects may begin to impact decisions to relocate in White Pine County

• Stigma effects may begin to impact decisions to relocate in White Pine County

• Stigma effects may begin to impact decisions to relocate in White Pine County

Real Property

• Devaluation of property in White Pine County due to stigma effect • Possible greater loss in property value of locations near the transportation corridor such as Ely and McGill

• Devaluation of property in White Pine County due to stigma effect • Possible greater loss in property value of locations near the transportation corridor such as Ely and McGill

• Devaluation of property in White Pine County due to stigma effect • Possible greater loss in property value of locations near the transportation corridor such as Ely and McGill

• Devaluation of property in White Pine County due to stigma effect • Possible greater loss in property value of locations near the transportation corridor such as Ely and McGill

• Devaluation of property in White Pine County due to stigma effect • Possible greater loss in property value of locations near the transportation corridor such as Ely and McGill