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St. Jude Medical Project Environmental Assessment Worksheet Synopsis 1. Project Title: St. Jude Medical 2. Proposer: St. Jude Medical 3. Responsible Governmental Unit: City of Little Canada 4. Reason for EAW Preparation: mandatory 5. Project Location: northwest quadrant of Highway 36 and 35E in Little Canada 6. Description: The three-phased project consists of adding 475,000 square feet of office, laboratory, manufacturing and employee amenity space and 2,460 associated parking spaces in parking decks on a 47-acre site currently occupied by 112,500 square feet in two office buildings that will remain and 438 surface parking spaces that will be eliminated. 7. Project Magnitude: 375,833 square feet office; 32,500 square feet manufacturing; 54,167 square feet laboratory; and 12,500 square feet employee amenity space on 47.22 acres; Top of 2nd phase building will be 28 to 29 feet above townhouses to south which are closest adjacent use. 8. Permits and Approvals Required: Watermain, sanitary sewer, NPDES, and plat approvals required from state; Comp plan, zoning map, planned unit development, plat wetland permit, grading, drainage, right-of-way and building permits required from City; Plat and entrance/ driveway permit required from County; and watershed permit required from watershed. 9. Land Use: Existing land use of site consists of 112,500 square foot office building on 47.22 acres. Land use surrounding the project site includes a school for specialized learning west of the site, the middle school north across County Road B2, high density residential northeast and east-southeast, single family residential east-northeast, townhouse residential southwest and mixture of single family and office to the south. 10. Cover Types: 11.27 acres of site is being converted from forest cover to development use including lawn/landscaping, impervious surface, building and stormwater ponding. 11. Fish, Wildlife and Ecologically Sensitive Resources: No wildlife preserves refuges or parks are located on or in close proximity to the site. Forested area will be reduced by about 11 acres (50%) from 22 to 11 but project will not isolate remaining forest from other forest. 12. Physical Impacts on Water Resources: Three wetlands are located on the site, none of which will be impacted by the project. 13. Water Use: Build out will require as much as 20,000 gallons per day. Looping of water mains will assure adequate capacity and pressure. 14. Water-Related Land Use Management District: Wetlands are also Zone A-100-year flood. 15. Water Surface Use: None at present or proposed. 16. Erosion and Sedimentation: 11.27 acres of land is being graded. 125,000 cubic yards of fill is being moved.