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4.Minor Revisions to the Draft Environmental Impact Report V Planned Roadway Improvements The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)has long-range plans to upgrade SR 132 to a four-lane freeway between I-580 and Modesto.Interim plans may include an expressway V configuration. These plans,however,are neither programmed, funded,nor designed. The segment of SR 132 between SR 33 and the San Joaquin River has been funded for environmental studies and selection of alternatives. 6. Existing mining operations near the project site,as part of their conditions of project approval, fund the construction of a four-lane expressway section in the Bird Road/SR 132 intersection vicinity,from the end of the existing four-lane section west of the SR 132/1-5 interchange to a point approximately 1,000 feet west of Bird Road. This widening will include left-tum and right-turn lanes,and acceleration and deceleration lanes on SR 132 at Bird Road, and will be part of the future construction of a freeway interchange currently planned by Caltrans n eemmeneing in 2007 Another condition of approval for the mining projects is that Blewett and Bird Roads shall be reconstructed as 50-foot-wide right-of-way rural roads,specifically Blewett Road from Bird Road r to the north main entrance for the project,and Bird Road from Blewett Road to SR 132, A Traffic Indexz of 13 shall be used for road design purposes (San Joaquin County, 1992b). Agency Consultation On October 22,2003,a meeting was held at San Joaquin County offices to discuss the scope of ` the traffic analysis. The attendance for this meeting list is included in Appendix A. The meeting resulted in several issues including additional intersection analysis east of Koster Road on SR 132, status of infrastructure improvements initiated by previous mining projects within the L, vicinity and accident data requests have not been responded to by various agencies. A methodology paper was issued in January 2003. San Joaquin County was the only agency that provided comments on this paper. L L L L L2 Traffic Index is a logarithmically based scale that indicates the ability of the pavement structure to support repetitive wheel and axle loads of large trucks,given a sound structural roadway sub-base.The etTects on pavement life of passenger cars,pickups,and two-axle/four-wheel trucks are considered to be negligible. LCemex Vernalis Quany Mining aM Reclamation Project 4-21 ESA/203015 Final Environmental Impact Report June 2008 L