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1.0 INTRODUCTION Frenchman Place V Addition, Outlot B Rosemary Way Hugo, MN 45.166* N., 93.012*W. Section 19, T.31 N., R.21 W. Washington County, Minnesota As authorized by Mr. Chris Stokka, Development Manager for MWF Properties, Earth Science Associates, Inc. (ESA) has performed a MNRAM Functional Asessment on the above referenced parcel. MWF intends to develop the south part of Frenchman 15t Addition, Outlot B, into a 45 unit apartment complex. This property is a commercial lot, located along the north side of Rosemary Way, which had been constructed in 2014. The north part of Outlot B contains a wetland mitigation area created for the purposes of providing in -advance wetland mitigation for the street construction and for unavoidable wetland which would occur as the commercial lots along the street became developed. MNRAM, an acronym for Minnesota Routine Assessment Method for Evaluating Wetland Functions, was originally devised after passage of the Minnesota Wetland Conservation Act (WCA) in 1991 in order to fill the need for a practical assessment tool that would help local authorities make sound wetland management decisions as they assumed responsibility for regulating wetland impacts. Wetland Management Classification within MNRAM applies the results of wetland functions and values in order to determine the various management classifications. For each management classification level, management strategies can then be applied to meet the general goals of wetland protection. Our focus is on those wetlands which will be unavoidably impacted by the planned development. A wetlands functional assessment has also been completed for the on -site replacement wetland in order to provide assurance that the functions and values of the replacement wetland will exceed the functions and values of those wetlands unavoidably impacted. 2.0 METHODS Following completion of a wetland delineation and report of the subject property, the results were entered into MNRAM version 3.4, the current edition of the program. The program asks 72 questions based on the physical setting and field observations relating to the subject wetland. For each wetland evaluated, the program creates Wetland Functional Assessment Summary for 12 wetland functions/value characteristics, a Wetland Community Summary, and a Management Classification Report for each wetland evaluated. The current grading plan will unavoidably fill portions of wetland areas at the margins of the upland area to be developed. A description of each wetland has been summarized in the wetland delineation report previously prepared for this site. Information from the delineation report is entered into the MNRAM program. Two summary reports are then generated by the program, 1) A Wetland Functional Assessment & Community Summary, and 2) a Management Classification Report.