Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point Report No.: RPT-3014537-002
FIGURE 5-1: OVERVIEW OF THE MUA APPLIED TO BRP ISFSI
5.2 Description of Evaluated Routes As noted in Section 3.0, there are numerous routes from the BRP ISFSI site (Step 1). The general sequences of the transportation operations for these routes fall into the following categories: Transport by HHT directly to an existing rail transload facility (HHT to rail), or establish a private transload facility Transport by on-site HHT to a barge, barge transport to a port, and either transfer to port transfer trailer then to a railcar or directly from the barge to a railcar (HHT to barge to rail) Due to the numerous routes identified in Section 3.0, a set of screening criteria was utilized to reduce these routes to a number that can be reasonably evaluated by the MUA (Step 2). If the routes were not reduced by performing this screening activity, then the MUA could take an inordinate amount of time to perform and the pairwise comparison may not be able to distinguish between many of the routes due to the compression of results between the favored routes relative to the evaluated metrics. That is, if the difference between a favored route over another route that clearly has some disadvantages is identified at an extremity of the evaluation range, then the MUA will show a distinct difference between these two routes. However, if there are other favored routes with only slight differences between one another, these differences may be
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Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point May 10, 2017
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