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i Intermodal 0 erations The existing intermodal facility(see Table 1 for a summary of existing and proposed facility operations)covers approximately 135 acres and can handle 270,400 lifts per year.A lift is defined as the loading or unloading of a cargo unit to or from a rail car. The facility utilizes three working tracks3 which provide a capacity for 70 double-stack units .to be staged on-site. inbound and outbound cargo units are loaded and unloaded to and from rail cars by rubber tire gantry cranes. Gantry cranes or front end loaders are used to transfer containers to and from trailer chassis.Once a cargo unit is ready for transport, hostlers move the chassis and container to a parking location where it awaits transport by local, regional,and in rare circumstances, long haul tractor trailer operators.The facility currently has approximately 1,800 on-site container bays where cargo units are parked and staged until the customer picks them up. Goods enter or leave the facility in one of two scenarios: 1. A cargo unit(container or truck trailer) bearing locally produced goods is brought in to the facility via tractor trailers and parked at an on-site container bay.The cargo unit is eventually moved to a location adjacent to one of the working tracks by a hostler,where a gantry crane lifts the container off the chassis and places it on a railcar for shipment to another region of the country. 2. A container bearing goods destined for the local region is brought in to the facility via railcar.A gantry crane lifts the container off the railcar and places it on a chassis.A hostler then moves the chassis and container to an on-site parking location where the unit awaits pickup by a tractor-trailer for delivery to local destination. When entering and leaving the facility,trucks are required to pass through a secure gate area. The existing gate consists of 9 manually operated lanes;4 inbound lanes, 4 outbound lanes, and 1 bypass lane,for bobtails exiting the facility(with no attached trailer).At the inbound and outbound gates,tractor-trailers pull up to a gate station where an employee with a handheld wireless device logs certain data about the truck and trailer, including serial numbers, truck owners and drivers, and notes any visible damage to the chassis or the container. Once this screening is complete,the truck continues on,either into or out of the facility. Trucks can enter and leave the facility either with a loaded trailer each way, an empty trailer each way,or any combination thereof. Bobtail trucks may enter the facility to pick up a trailer,or bobtail trucks may leave the facility, having dropped off a trailer. It should be noted that none of the trucks entering or leaving the facility belong to Union Pacific. Union Pacific only notifies customers when their containers are ready for pickup, Traffic generation associated with the current operation consists of employees and visitors entering and departing the facility and customer trucks delivering and/or retrieving cargo units, including bobtail trucks. 'The current observed traffic generation at the facility is summarized in Table 1. Customer truck traffic is well distributed during the day, and ' does not follow a"peak"hour pattern associated with most industrial operations, because the traffic is timed to coordinate with train schedules and not employee shifts. It is the Union Pacific's experience that one"lift"equates to approximately.85 truck round trips(all trips in this report are defined as round trips,that is, one truck pulling a trailer into and out of the facility) not including employee vehicle traffic. For instance, if a truck enters and leaves the facility with a cargo unit each way,two lifts are utilized for one truck round trip,whereas other trucks either retrieve or deposit a cargo unit only,so truck roundtrips are a subset of the number of lifts. Public Roadway Access Trucks and Union Pacific employees currently enter and leave the facility through a single access point on Roth Road, between the Union Pacific Main Line and South Airport Way. In general,trucks enter from and depart to the west, destined for Interstate 5,and to the east, destined for State Route-99, J 3 A glossary of terms commonly used to describe operations and equipment at intermodal facilities is provided as Attachment 2. 2