Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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which may be mitigated by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. Their final Environmental Impact
Statement is being done in the summer of 2012 so it
will follow the orders, and they may in fact reduce
some of the risks. But I would commend to you the
studies of the National Academy of Engineering and
other studies that show that if you have, for all your
contractors, training to remove equipment from all
four lanes of I-95, especially at the bridge where you
have the bottleneck, and if you give financial bonuses
to have employees who take the training course, and
they're certified to have taken it, and penalties for
any contractor who would leave equipment blocking a
lane of evacuation during an emergency, you could save
thousands of lives.
And it's a low probably event but you have a duty
under NEPA and MEPA to consider low probability
high-consequence events that could cost thousands of
lives lost and tens of thousands injured.
So these are mitigation measures entirely within
the control of Mass. DOT. This will be your
department and your contractors and I strongly urge
you to plan for the training to be sure there are not
lanes that are left obstructed as has happened during
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