I have a material that was extracted 425 km from the manufacture point and transported by truck. After manufacture the material was shipped via rail to the project site which is 2076 km. The distance from manufacture to project site would quality as a regional material, but I'm unsure of how the distance travelled by truck plays into this. Both distances are within the acceptable limits for truck and rail, but my only thought was to do a weighted average, which I don't believe would make this a regional material (425/800 + 2045/2400 = 1.38). Am I going about this in the right way? Distance directly from extraction to project site is 2234 km. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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L W

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Fri, 06/28/2013 - 21:10

Karleigh, I have same question. I'm not clear how you mean to apply the 1.38 figure? I have a product that travelled 95.95% (1736km) of the way by rail, and 4.05% (73.33km) of the way by truck. How to document?

Charles Clark Jr

Brick Industry Association

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Tue, 08/13/2013 - 17:56

Karleigh: This is the way I would do it: 425km + (2076km / 3) = 1117km Since this exceeds 800 km, it does not comply. The formula is: (Distance by rail/3) + (Distance by inland waterway/2) + (Distance by sea/15) + (Distance by all other means) <= 500 miles [800 kilometers] The interesting thing is that Option 2 specifically indicates the distance traveled must be from the project site. But raw material does not go to the project site since it goes to the manufacturing facility.

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