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Objective 7.3: Ensure an environmentally responsible/environmentally sound transportation system that minimizes adverse impacts on air and water. Objective 7.4: Ensure transportation-related activities comply with clean air and water requirements and fish and wildlife habitat management regulations. The TAMP documents that the project area is in attainment for all air quality requirements and that the project does not require an air quality analysis. As described in Statewide Planning Goal 6 findings, the Preferred Alternative improvements trigger stormwater management requirements due to the addition of new impervious surface, roadway reconstruction, and the alteration of drainage patterns. The project will provide stormwater treatment for 33.1 acres of impervious surface, none of which is currently treated. The project also proposes to construct a total of 6 detention ponds. These measures will ensure compliance with clean water requirements. The National Marine Fisheries Service also will be consulted to consider potential effects due to changes in base and peak stream flows caused by new impervious surface and potential impacts to water quality within the study area as well as in waters downstream of the study area discharges (including Senecal Creek, Mill Creek, and the Pudding River). There are no critical fish or wildlife habitats designated within the study area, and no Endangered Species Act-listed fish, animal, or plant species are present within the project area. The project would remove some riparian vegetation adjacent to a non-fish-bearing stream and mitigation for lost riparian vegetation would be required. These Objectives have been met. Objective 7.5: Protect established land uses including prime farmland,forestland, and other natural resources. The Preferred Alternative includes modifications to the interchange and local roadway system that are located on land zoned exclusive farm use (EFU). With full buildout of the interchange improvements (Phase 1 and 2), some EFU land will be needed for the proposed improvements to 1-5 and the interchange ramps, Bents Road, Ehlen Road, and Dolores Way. Findings under Statewide Planning Goal 3 explain how the proposed improvements are consistent with State and County objectives to preserve prime farmland; natural resources protection objectives are addressed above, in earlier County Goal 7 objective findings. Goal 8: Address Transportation Policy Issues and Intergovernmental Coordination Background information and conclusions in the Aurora/Donald (Fargo) Interchange Area Sub-Area Plan is largely out of date, supplanted by the analysis and recommendations in the TAMP. The requested action to update the RTSP to include the proposed local roadway improvements and access management necessary to ensure safe and efficient operations at the interchange will update County policy with regards to the transportation system in the area. 1-5:Aurora Donald Interchange(Exit 278)TAMP:Supporting Findings for Marion County Adoption 20