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� 1 PROPOSED FACILITY OPERATIONS Intermodal Operations The expansion will result in the development of approximately 145 acres of additional land'to the south and east of the facility and,at full build-out,would increase the capacity of the facility from 270,000 lifts per year to 730,000 lifts per year to serve the needs of the region.The expansion will add 5 new support tracks and 2 new working tracks and. will lengthen 3 existing working tracks.The resulting track infrastructure will provide enough capacity for 145 double- stack units and up to 18 locomotives to be staged on-site. One operational change will be the addition of a new 10 lane Automated Gate System(AGS)that will make the truck processing more efficient and more secure. The AGS will consist of 5 inbound and 5 outbound lanes and two bobtail bypass lanes; one inbound and one outbound.The AGS functions differently than the manual gate system in that it will allow the employees who collect data on loads entering and leaving the facility to do so from inside the gate building.An extensive Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)system, as well as serial number readers and other technology allow an inbound truck to be processed in as little as 45 seconds, as opposed to the 4 to 5 minutes that this process takes using the current manual system. The AGS provides increased safety for employees and truck drivers, as well as increased traffic flow through the gate. In addition,the AGS greatly reduces the formation of long queues of idling trucks waiting to be processed into the facility during peak business hours,as the time required to get through the gate is greatly reduced. In the new facility,the gate complex will be moved from the south end of the facility to the north end, near Roth Road. Public Roadway Access As part of the expansion,the current facility entrance at Roth Road will be removed, and a new entrance will be constructed further east. Trucks travelling in and out of the facility and Union Pacific employees who work at the gate building will enter the facility via this entrance. Union Pacific employees who work in the maintenance building will enter the facility at the south end of the site via an indirect connection to Lathrop Road. Traffic The expansion of the facility is expected to increase local truck traffic on Roth Road, roughly corresponding to the increased lift capacity as more customers opt to take advantage of the efficiencies of rail transport. Union Pacific understands that a traffic study will be conducted as part of an Environmental Impact Report(EIR)for the expansion to quantify any increased traffic generation. As noted, one lift equates to approximately .85 truck round trips. Lift capacities for each phase of expansion are given in Table 1. It should be noted that customer(truck)and employee trips are directly related to the actual lifts performed, not lift capacity;therefore,the truck and passenger trips shown in Table 1 will not be realized at the beginning of Phase I or Phase IL For example,the projected increase in truck traffic between existing and Phase 1 (612 round trips)will not happen instantaneously; instead,truck traffic would grow, in direct relation to demand, by 612 round trips over a number of years. The number of years required to realize that full increase will be based on market and economic conditions. At the same time, Union Pacific is proposing several measures to mitigate traffic impacts associated with the expansion. First, as noted,the AGS will reduce truck processing time and therefore the amount of time trucks are idling, reducing fuel emissions and improving traffic flow to and from the facility entrance and on Roth Road, Second, Union Pacific will propose adding additional tum lanes to Roth Road to mitigate potential level of service issues. Third, as discussed below, Union Pacific will consider participating in the funding of a project to separate Roth Road from the Union Pacific main line rail crossing,alleviating increased traffic generation from an expanded facility and allowing switching operations to occur to the north without impeding traffic flow on Roth Road. Fourth,as discussed below, Union Pacific is proposing the creation of an internal access road between its Intermodal Facility and the 4 See Attachment 6 for a map and summary of the expansion parcels, including property currently owned by Union Pacific and property being acquired by Union Pacific and for which a letter of permission has been received from the existing parcel owner to file this Use Permit application. 4