IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF CARBON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA CIVIL DIVISION IN RE: CONDEMNATION BY THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE COMMISSION OF PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF EAST PENN, COUNTY OF CARBON, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, FOR THE MP A072.52 BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT (PARCEL ID: NATIONAL ROAD I-476) TO: LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD, its successors in interest and assigns, as their interests may appear. ALL THAT CERTAIN piece of land located in the Township of East Penn, County of Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania identified on the PTC Property Plot Plan No. 8940-B1, being Exhibit "B" attached to the Declaration of Taking. NOTICE TO CONDEMNEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 305 OF THE EMINENT DOMAIN CODE, CODIFIED AT 26 Pa.C.S. §305, THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE COMMISSION HEREBY GIVES NOTICE THAT: 1. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission filed a Declaration of Taking on September 17, 2025 in the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County, Pennsylvania at No. 25-CV-2228 (the "Declaration of Taking"). This was filed pursuant to the requirements of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code as amended by 2006, May 4, P.L. 112, No. 34, §1, effective in 120 days [Sept. 1, 2006]. 2. A subsequent Amended Declaration of Taking was filed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on September 25, 2025 in the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County, Pennsylvania at No. 25-CV-2228 (the "Amended Declaration of Taking"). This Amended Declaration of Taking was also filed pursuant to the requirements of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Eminent Domain Code as amended by 2006, May 4, P.L. 112, No. 34, §1, effective in 120 days [Sept. 1, 2006] 3. The Condemnor is the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Its principal office is located at Exit 247 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System in Lower Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Its post office address is P. O. Box 67676, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17106-7676. 4. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is authorized and empowered by Section 6 of Act of May 21, 1937, P.L. 774, No. 211, as amended, to acquire by condemnation any lands, rights, easements, franchises and other property deemed necessary or convenient for the construction or efficient operation of the Turnpike. 5. The Declaration of Taking and the Amended Declaration of Taking were authorized by a Resolution adopted September 2, 2025, by said Condemnor. The record of the proceedings regarding this adoption may be examined at the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Central Office, located at Exit 247 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 6. The purpose of the condemnation is to acquire property interests for the MP A072.52 Bridge Replacement Project, and its requirements. 7. The property is situated in the Township of East Penn, Carbon County, Pennsylvania and consists of 5.502 acres in fee simple, as required right-of-way for limited access, a total take. A plan of the property condemned sufficient for its identification has been filed with the Declaration of Taking and Amended Declaration of Taking, which were filed with the Prothonotary of Carbon County and with the Recorder of Deeds of Carbon County in accordance with Section 304 of the Eminent Domain Code of 2006. 8. The nature of the title hereby acquired is (i) 5.502 acre in fee simple, as required right-of-way of limited access, (ii) only so much of any minerals, oil, or gas beneath the surface of any separate estate in any of those minerals, oil, or gas as is necessary for the lateral and subjacent support of the surface and any improvements now or hereafter erected thereon, (iii) the right to access those minerals, oil, or gas from the surface of the land hereby condemned, and (iv) any and all rights of way into, upon, or over the surface of said land, including the right to drill for, dig, mine, drain, ventilate, transport, or carry away said minerals, oil or gas now owned or hereafter acquired by the Condemnees; together with the right to use any of the surface for storing materials, disposing of refuse or overburden, or to erect any buildings, structures, or fixtures necessary, convenient, or incident to the producing, mining or removing of minerals, oil, or gas from beneath the surface of the land hereby condemned or from any other lands of the Condemnees. 9. A plan showing the property may be inspected at the Condemnor's field office located at the Mahoning Valley Interchange, Exit 74 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension during regular business hours. 10. The Condemnor filed with the Declaration of Taking and Amended Declaration of Taking its Open-End Bond without surety pursuant to Section 303(a) of the Eminent Domain Code of 2006. Just compensation is made or secured by the filing of said Bond. 11. If you wish to challenge the power or right of the Condemnor, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, to appropriate the condemned property, the sufficiency of the security, the procedure followed by the Condemnor, or the Declaration of Taking or Amended Declaration of Taking, you are required to file preliminary objections with the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, within thirty (30) days after publication of this Notice. PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE COMMISSION Date: December 2, 2025 By: /s/ Robert J. 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