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I I. I I I I I I I Ie I I I I I I I {' I DRAFT MITIGATION PLAN 1.0 INTRODUCTION This Mitigation Plan is a part of the Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review ("Final AUAR") for Guidant Campus Master Plan prepared by Guidant Corporation and reviewed by the City of Arden Hills ("City," the Regulatory Governmental Unit (RGU)) as a substitute form of environmental review pursuant to Minn. Rules, PI. 441O.36l0. The Final AUAR identified the impacts anticipated to result from the development planned for the geographic area within which the Final AUAR applies. The Mitigation Plan identifies the mitigation measures that will be followed by the proposer (the Guidant Corporation) and/or other responsible parties and reviewed by the City to avoid and mitigate potential environmental impacts. The Mitigation Plan was prepared in accordance with Minnesota Environmental Quality Board Environmental Review Program, Minnesota Rules 44 10.3610 and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board memorandum entitled, Recommended Content and Format - Alternative Urban Areawide Review Documents, dated October 2000. This plan addresses the mitigation methods to be implemented for impacts that could result from the study area devclopment scenario examined in this AUAR. The Final AUAR determined that the following development-related impacts require implementation of mitigation measures to avoid or mitigate potential environmental impacts: wildlife/ecologically sensitive resources, physical impacts on water resources, erosion and sedimentation, water quality-surface water runoff, traffic and visual. The sections below summarize potential environmental impacts and the mitigation measures proposed to be implemented to avoid, minimize or compensate for these impacts. Each section also includes information concerning the agency or agencies involved in review, approval or implementation of spccific mitigation measures; the time frames for implcmcnting mitigation measures; and the party or parties with financial responsibility for impjementing mitigation measures. 2.0 RESPONSIBLE PARTIES The City of Arden Hills is the RGU for preparing and adopting the Final AUAR and Mitigation Plan. The City is also the governmental unit with the greatest responsibility for supervising or approving development within the geographic area as a whole. The City's review and approval of the proposers' Planned Unit Devejopment (PUD) Pennit and Development Agrcement is thc primary local government mechanism for ensuring compliancc with the mitigation measures identified in this Mitigation Plan. City approval of the development agreement for the Guidant Campus Master Plan also involves reaching agreement with the proposcrs rcgarding plan elements to avoid or minimize potential environmental impacts and financial and regulatory assurances that the Mitigation Plan will be implemented. In addition, the City will inspect the dcvelopment as it is constructed, or will, through other means, asccrtain that the prescribed Ci-uidant Campus Master Plan Final Mitigation Plan -1- January 2003