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WVJIV 118sch,com - - - - LI~)J:H LIESCH ASSOCIATES, INC. 13400 15TH AVENUE NORTH MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55441 763/559-1423 FAX: 763/559-2202 March 8, 2001 Mr. Innocent Eyoh Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 520 Lafayette Road St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 RE; Centre Point Business Park; January 16,2001 Application to Update Indirect Source Permit, 97-4 (ISP Application); Follow-up Calculations Dear Innocent: This letter is in response to the March 7, 2001 conference call betvv'een you, myself, Steve Schwanke with RLK-Kuusisto (RLK) and Paul Klappa with Benshoof and Associates, Inc. (Benshoof). The conference call was in response to your letter addressed to Mr. Val Orton, Vice President and Corporate Trust for First Security Bank, National Association (First Security), dated March 1,2001 (MPCA Letter). In the MPCA Letter you indicated that roadway improvements assumed in the traffic and air quality analyses as part of the ISP Application must be completed and open to traffic before the City of Roseville can issue a certificate of occupancy for the project. As we discussed during the March 7, 200 I, conference call, this has raised some concern from the parties involved. This concern stems from the fact that the roadway improvements incorporated into the traffic study have little to do with the proposed project and were included only at the request of the City of Roseville (the City). The roadway improvements assumed in the MPCA Letter included the construction of Twin Lakes Parkway and reconstruction and grading of County Roads C and D. The following are reasons why the roadway improvements are not related to the proposed project: 1. Although the traffic study referenced anticipated changes to County Roads C and D as part of the discussion of background information, the traffic analysis assumed existing roadway conditions with respect to these roadways. Therefore, changes made to these roadways in the future will not affect the results of the air and noise analyses submitted with the ISP Application. Based on our discussion during the March 7, 2001 conference call, it is understood that commitments to these improvements are unnecessary as part of the ISP Application and no special conditions relative to future improvements of County Roads C and D will be included in the final ISP. 2. The construction of Twin Lakes Parkway was assumed as a roadway improvement in the traffic analysis at the request of the City. Having been included in the traffic analysis it was therefore incorporated into the air and noise analysis submitted with the ISP Application. However,