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Construction of the proposed project will disturb approximately 14.5 hectares (35.9 acres). Construction for the proposed project is anticipated to begin in October 1999 and bc completed by December 2000. More spccif/c information on cor}struction staging will be provided, as required, as part of the NPDES permitting and watershed approval documents. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MnDNR) (MnDNR concluded that an EIS is not necessary.) Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) As stated in the Economic h'npacts Section of thc EA, the extension of Sunwood Drive woulcl result in the potential for redevelopment £or the properties located west of the TH 47/149 Avenue NW intersection. As there are no wetlands located in the area southwest of the proposed Sunwood Drive extenslo~, no secondary environmental impacts to wetlands would result if redevelopment occurs at this location. The area northeast of the proposed Sunwood Drive extension wit1 be rcdeveloped as a wetland mitigation site as part or the proposed project. Them will be no additional developable land at the northeast Sunwood Drive extension, therefore, there will be no future seconchtry environmental impacts to wetlands in this area, either. This informatio~ will be submitted, as required, with the request for Section 401 Certification for the Section 404 Permit. 2 A hot-spot analysis was completed as part of the EA. See Section III.C, 1, page 25. Noise abatement was not analyzed or proposed bccausc thc project is a Czttcgorical Exclusion (i.e. it includes the addition of turn lanes, intersection channclization and safety improvements, but no significant change in alignment or capacity), The Categorical Exclusion status makes the project exempt from noise abatement requircn'tcnts. In addition, it should be noted that, because Build and No Build volumes are the same, construction of the project would not result in additional adverse noise impacts (compared to the No Build conditions) for existing residents in thc study re'ca. Therefore, noise mitigation is not proposed as a part of the project. 4 As the year 2008 forecast traffic volumes for the No Build and Build conditions are the same and no additional through lanes are being proposed in thc con'/der that w~mld bring noise levels closer to adjacent sensitive receptors, the modeled noise levels are also thc same. See Section 11I.C.2, page 28 of the EA.