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EXHIBIT A-1 October 14, 2009 LSA Associates Inc. (LSA) has been preparing environmental documentation for the First Street Bridge Widening Project as a subcontractor to DMJM/AECOM since January 2007. The project was put on hold in February 2008 due to funding issues. The City of Santa Ana (City) has now requested that the AECOM team re-initiate work on the project. The 18 month delay has resulted in additional and in some cases substantial new requirements for Local Assistance projects as a result of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) delegation to Caltrans. Additional work will be required for processing the technical studies for the First Street Bridge Widening Project to meet the new requirements of Section 6004 (d) (3) for Categorical Exclusions under SAFETEALU. Therefore, LSA is submitting this contract change order request. This change order request is based on several discussions with DMJM/AECOM over the past year and more recent discussions in the past 2 weeks with AECOM, the City, and Caltrans. The suite of technical studies that LSA is currently contracted to prepare include: traffic, water quality, air quality, noise, Historic Property Survey Report (HPSR), Archeological Survey Report (ASR), the Natural Environment Study Minimal Impacts (NESMI), Jurisdictional Delineation (JD), Section 4(f), and Initial Site Assessment (ISA). BACKGROUND LSA had an original budget of $144,430 for the completion of the scope of work: preparation of the Preliminary Environmental Study (PES) Form, technical studies (listed above), environmental document - a Categorical Exclusion (CE)/Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND), and Resource Agencies permitting and coordination. Additional budget of $7,500 was authorized in March 2009 for completion of an updated PES Form, for a total authorized budget of 151,930. ADDITIONAL WORK The following describes work that LSA will need to perform in order to revise and update technical studies due to the inactivity of the project, updated requirements of Caltrans, and additional studies that are currently required by Caltrans Local Assistance and that were not included in the original scope. As noted above, the factors that have changed the scope of work and budget are new Caltrans Local Assistance Requirements as a result of SAFTEA-LU, and Caltrans requirements for new technical reports such as Noise Abatement Decision Report (NADR) and Historic Resources Evaluation Report (HRER) that were recently identified in the PES form and that were not included in the original scope of work. 25B-5