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Site and New Expansion Area”, dated June 2005, is attached to the application. The evaluation concluded that the proposed expansion of excavation (of the expansion area) could have an effect on groundwater resources in the immediate vicinity of the excavation. As accumulated water (rainwater and groundwater flowing into the excavations) is pumped from the excavations, the groundwater table could be lowered radially outward from the excavation edge. EGR noted that expansion of excavation in the area will not significantly affect municipal water supply system users in the area and that only one known significant groundwater user still exists in the vicinity of excavation site. The report concludes that that user is the plant nursery immediately to the north of the site that has already experienced most of the impact it will experience from present or expanded excavation. The evaluation concluded that mitigation may be required if other significant groundwater users exist in the vicinity of the excavation. (B) Potential conflicts to local roads used for access and egress to the mining site within one mile of the entrance to the mining site unless a greater distance is necessary in order to include the intersection with the nearest arterial identified in the local transportation plan. Conflicts shall be determined based on clear and objective standards regarding sight distances, road capacity, cross section elements, horizontal and vertical alignment, and similar items in the transportation plan and implementing ordinances. Such standards for trucks associated with the mining operation shall be equivalent to standards for other trucks of equivalent size, weight, and capacity that haul other materials; We find that approval of the application will not result in any conflicts to local roads used for access and egress to the mining site. Approval of the application will not result in any change in the applicant’s current use of local roads used for access to and egress from its facility. The proposed expansion area will merely be an additional area of land, adjacent to the applicant’s existing facility, used by the applicant to provide the resource that it processes on its existing site into a marketable product. No change or modification of the applicant’s existing aggregate processing methodology or facility will be required as a result of the proposed expansion of its resource extraction site. Approval of the application will result only in the applicant’s use of the proposed expansion area as an additional, continual and consistent source of aggregate material needed for the continuation of the applicant’s business, at its current level of operation and production, at its current facility. We find that that use will not result in any increase in the number of vehicles leaving or entering the applicant’s facility for the purpose of delivering its finished product to market. Furthermore, we find that that use will not result in an increase in the number of third party vehicles servicing applicant’s business. Because no increase in product delivery or service is associated with the applicant’s proposed addition to its source of aggregate material, no conflicts to local roads will result from approval of the application. C) Safety conflicts with existing public airports due to bird ( attractants, i.e., open water impoundments. This paragraph shall not apply after the effective date of commission rules adopted pursuant to Chapter 285, Oregon Laws 1995; The Eugene Airport is the only existing public airport in the general metropolitan area and is located several miles from the proposed expansion area and outside the impact area. Due to that distance separating the airport from the proposed expansion area, we find that any bird attraction by open water impoundment on the expansion area will be negligible if at all. Furthermore, this provision is no longer applicable since the December 23, 1996 effective date of adoption of division 13 of OAR Chapter 660, which carries out Chapter 285, Oregon Laws 1985. (D) Conflicts with other Goal 5 resource sites within the impact area that are shown on an acknowledged list of significant Ordinance - 15