That telephone survey asked multiple questions about the respondent's support for a LLRW disposal site, as well as other attitudinal questions. While by no means a comprehensive SIA, the results of that survey would provide at least minimal baseline data. The authors also acknowledge that the scope of work severely limited their ability to predict with any certainty future events in Boyd County. Similarly, efforts to predict future impacts of the project are constrained by the need to rely on data collected only during a relatively brief research period prior to actual licensing, construction, or facility operation. Under the best circumstances, multiple over-time measures would have been made, allowing for more valid predictions of future behavior.
Synchronic data are simply inadequate for trend analysis.
Once again, USE chose to selectively quote from a paragraph. A key phrase from the above quote was omitted, that phrase came after the word 'available' in the final sentence of the quote. In the section Methods and Procedures, the authors acknowledge the assessment was further limited by financial constraints. It is more than reasonable to assume that those living closer to the proposed site would be more effected by the proposed project. The US Ecology review also identified another potential study limitation not clearly identified as such by the Assessment authors.