Transportation.

(1) Conditional Consideration Criteria. (a) Quality of Mode. Consider sites that are not serviced by highways or rail lines that meet applicable state and federal low-level radioactive waste transportation laws and regulations on condition that the mode to be used for delivery of waste to the site is able to be constructed or otherwise upgraded to come into compliance with said laws or regulations prior to construction of the facility. (b) Accidents and Congestion. Consider sites that are not serviced by sufficiently safe or uncongested highways or raillines onthe conditionthat the mode to be used for delivery of waste to the site is able to be constructed or otherwise upgraded to achieve reductions to a level of safety and lack of congestion necessary to adequately protect the public health and safety prior to construction of the facility. (2) Preference Criteria. (a) Distance from Major Routes. Prefer sites at shorter distances from the interstate highway system, other multi-lane, limited access roadways or existing rail lines, over sites at greater distances from such transportation routes. (b) Congestion. Prefer sites served by routes which are not currently congested, over more congested routes. (c) Multiple Modes. Prefer sites that are accessible by more modes of transportation, over sites with fewer available modes. (d) Housing Density. Prefer sites that have primary access routes from the interstate highway system, other than multi-laned limited access roadways or exisiting rail lines, witha lower average number of residential dwellings per route mile, over sites having primary access roads with a higher average number of dwellings per route mile. (e) Public Places Density. Prefer sites where the primary access routes to the facility from the entrance of an interstate or limited access highway has fewerpublic facilities such as schools, parks, or hospitals, over sites where the primary access roads abut more such facilities. (f) Accident Rates. Prefer sites for which the access routes exhibit lower accident rates as measured by the actual number of accidents, resulting property damage, and lives lost over sites with higher accident rates.