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Submitted by Bolton & Menk, Inc. Little Canada Road Improvements | City of Little Canada 6 will transition to final design. This phase of the project relies heavily on the work performed and memorialized during the preliminary design phase. Detailed construction plans and specifications are developed in order to prepare the project for formal bidding. Items typically included in final design include: • Final vertical modeling • Tabulations and quantities • Private utility accommodations • Public utility plans • Construction sequencing, phasing, and traffic control • Landscaping and electrical plans • Signing and striping plans • Constructability reviews • Agency review and comment periods Upon completion of final design, a contract manual will be prepared, and the project will be let for bidding. Task 7 – Water Resources Design & Permitting This project is located in the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District and will be subject to its stormwater management rules. Our team has extensive experience designing linear roadway projects that incorporate stormwater management infrastructure to manage rate, volume control, and water quality. This project will require early water resources design and coordination with the watershed so that necessary stormwater features can be sited as part of final design. Any easement acquisition necessary for stormwater management infrastructure will be incorporated into the Feasibility Report for consideration by the project team. The watershed’s cost cap for linear projects will be monitored and the associate stormwater scope reduced if and where necessary. In addition to watershed coordination, the project team will coordinate early and often with the DNR and ACOE to ensure impacts to public waters are minimized and permitted in accordance with their rules. Filling public waters as shown in the project concept layout are permittable but may require additional up or downstream creek improvements to mitigate the loss of public waterways. The final water resources design task deliverables includes final permit approval from all permitting agencies. Task 8 – Environmental Review, Documentation, and Permitting With federal and state funding tied to this project, it will need to follow MnDOT Federal Aid’s delegated contract process and follow all associated project delivery rules and requirements. Although wetland impacts won’t be known until completion of the wetland delineations, a preliminary field review of the road realignment indicates that wetlands appear to exist within the St. Paul Regional Water Services property but that they may be classified as incidental wetlands. Our natural resources staff will work diligently to delineate any wetlands and coordinate the permitting in accordance with the Wetland Conservation Act requirements to ensure no delay to the project schedule. The federal project designation requires an Early Notification Memo (ENM) to MnDOT environmental groups. This process will help identify which environmental documents will be required during the design and delivery of the project. Our environmental staff has proactively submitted the ENM to MnDOT understand the environmental requirements in order to best scope this professional services proposal. We currently anticipate the following environmental documents: • Modified Corridor Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment • Noise Analysis • Threatened and Endangered Species Analysis • CatEx/Final Environmental Documentation Summary It is possible that additional environmental investigation or documentation becomes required as the subtasks above are completed. For example, completion of the Modified Corridor Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment may indicate that site risks exist and that a Phase 2 Environmental Site Assessment should be completed. A Phase 2 ESA is not currently scoped in this proposal, but Task 14 exists to buffer against unknown