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IS!n Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. A SUBSIDIARY OF lED A DALY CONSULTANT TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION May 13, 2004 County: Lamar ROW CSJ: 0045-09-082 Parcel No.: 19 TE Project Limits: From FM 195 to Collegiate Drive Federal Project No.: N/A Highway: Business U.S. 82 City of Paris ATTN: Shawn Napier, City Engineer 150S.E.lstSt. Paris, TX 75460 Dear Owners: An offer was made by the Texas Department of Transportation on May 13, 2004, to purchase the above- designated property, on which you are located, for highway right of way. This Department assists persons displaced by the purchase of land for transportation purposes through our Relocation Assistance Program. The payments and services to which you may be entitled are outlined in the enclosed brochure which is entitled "Relocation Assistance. " We believe that you will fmd that this brochure is very helpful. Please take careful note of each and all of the following statements: 1. You will not be required to move from the property being acquired for at least 90 days from the date of this letter. At some later date you will be given a written notice and a date by which you must vacate the property. You will have at least 30 days after receipt of the written notice before you must move. 2. You may be entitled to a relocation assistance payment for moving costs and related expenses as explained in our brochure. This payment, however, is limited to the cost of relocating your displaced personal property and will not include any costs for moving real property. Such payment may includ~ actual reasonable costs and related expenses in moving and reinstalling your personal property from the real property acquired by the State for highway right of way. 3. Application for moving payments shall be made in writing on standard fonns provided by this Department and the application must be fIled with this Department no later than eighteen (18) months after the date you actually move from the State-acquired real property. " 4. Any person or entity who is not lawfully present in the United States is ineligible for relocation advisory services and relocation payments, unless such ineligibility would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying spouse, parent, or child. 5. Finally, if you are dissatisfied with a determination as to your eligibility for a payment or the amount of any relocation payment, you may request a review of your case by the Texas Department of Transportation's Relocation Assistance Review Committee as explained in our brochure. 2925 Briarpark Drive. Houston, Texas 77042 . 713.266.6900 . Fax: 713.266.2089