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Federal law/Executive Order Compliance The NEPA process must also include coordination with related federal laws and executive orders, including NHPA, Section 106; ESA, Section 7; Executive Orders 11988 and 11990; Executive Order 12898; and DO[ Compliance Memorandum 95-2. These requirements will be addressed in the Environmental Assessment. Environmental Assessment The NEPA EA will follow the format prescribed by the NPS and include: Purpose and Need for Federal Action, Alternatives, Affected Environment, and Environmental Consequences. Notice will be provided to interested groups that an EA is being prepared for this project. PlaceWorks is available to attend and coordinate community meetings as optional tasks, Recreational Value Assessment Residents living near Santa Ana College's Career Education Center have raised concerns about the amount of parking used by the campus. Although the College leases 2.6 acres at Centennial Park, the National Park Service has questioned whether the replacement parkland should be increased because of the parking spaces used by the College. PlaceWorks will review and document applicable parking regulations for community colleges and city parks in the City of Santa Ana Municipal Code. In addition, we will pay site visits and make parking demand counts at the parking areas serving the Centennial Education Center in the northeast quadrant of Centennial Regional Park. Parking counts at the Centennial Education Center site will be conducted in 1- hour intervals for a 12-hour period on a weekday and for an 8-hour period on a weekend. Parking conditions at the Centennial site will be reviewed and documented. Parking demand rates and hourly demand distribution will be researched for each of the uses in transportation publications from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). The parking analysis will identify the required number of off-street parking spaces for the existing Centennial Education Center and the off-street parking requirements in the City of Santa Ana Municipal Code, and based on field data and published data available. The hourly parking demand rates for the existing and proposed land uses will be identified at the existing and proposed sites at any given time on weekdays and weekends. Finally, an estimate of the land area required for the parking area needed to accommodate the existing Centennial Education Center will be provided. A technical memorandum will be provided to summarize the findings of the parking study. Following completion of this parking assessment and the Recreational Value Assessment, a draft of the RVA will be submitted to NPS for review. If the NPS occurs with the resulting recommended land exchange, PlaceWorks will continue with processing the EA. if this assessment determines that greater parkland compensation is required for the exchange, the City may be required to identify an additional site, which would require amendment to this scope of work. Summary Document The EA will include a detailed summary describing the City's proposal to exchange other parkland in underserved areas of the City for the College's leased property. The summary will review how the three sites qualify as eligible for the exchange and how they satisfy the requirement as "reasonably equivalent" to the leased property. NPS's legal requirements for the land exchange will be described. November 27, 2017 1 Page