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Class 25

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• Highway/street– New– Upgrade– Segment– Bridge– Interchange– Grade separation– HOV, managed lanes– Multimodal

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• Transit– Transitway– Transit street– Station– Transit center– Joint development– Maintenance facility

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• Pathway– Bike– Pedestrian– Joint

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• Safety and operational– Hazard removal/protection– Intersections– Minor improvements– ITS

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1. Initiation

1. Identify project leadership team

2. Review initial project scope based on inputs from system or corridor planning and any system or programmatic EIS, context statements, core values, or other prior input as well as CSS guidelines.

3. Partner identification

4. Public involvement plan1

5. Initial stakeholder meetings1

6. Preliminary partnership building

7. Select resource agency consultation team

8. Identify multidisciplinary project staff including owner and consultants

9. Agree on project limits1

10. Clarify intended project outcomes1

11. (NEPA) Identify probable level of documentation required (EIS, FONSI, EA) and develop initial purpose and need statement

12. (NEPA) If EIS needed, publish notice of intent

13. (NEPA) Initiate agency scoping

14. (NEPA) Identify agency project teams, roles, initial membership1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

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1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

2. Vision and work plan

1. Develop and sign memorandum of understanding with project partners

2. Review team roles and responsibilities

3. Stakeholder, public meetings to establish vision1

4. (NEPA) perform scoping with stakeholders, public1

5. Identify interests, values, issues, opportunities, constraints, strengths, weaknesses, concerns with stakeholders, public1

6. Identify and analyze context1

7. Reconfirm problems and needs statement1

8. (NEPA) Collect data and assess existing conditions for the affected environment1

9. Develop project and area goals and objectives1

10. (NEPA) confirm purpose and need1

11. Refine and confirm project work plan

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1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

3. Evaluation process and criteria

1. Establish applicable design criteria

2. Establish evaluation criteria based on stakeholder needs, objectives, values, issues, opportunities, constraints, strengths, weaknesses, concerns, environmental impacts, value capture, costs, and operational and regulatory factors as applicable1

3. (NEPA) Establish evaluation based on the purpose and need and the above factors1

4. Establish evaluation process and measures for applying criteria in analysis and evaluation1

5. Develop analysis and evaluation methodologies

6. Identify additional information needs to supply analyses and evaluation

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1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

4. Vision and work plan

1. Develop and sign memorandum of understanding with project partners

2. Review team roles and responsibilities

3. Stakeholder, public meetings to establish vision1

4. (NEPA) perform scoping with stakeholders, public1

5. Identify interests, values, issues, opportunities, constraints, strengths, weaknesses, concerns with stakeholders, public1

6. Identify and analyze context1

7. Reconfirm problems and needs statement1

8. (NEPA) Collect data and assess existing conditions for the affected environment1

9. Develop project and area goals and objectives1

10. (NEPA) confirm purpose and need1

11. Refine and confirm project work plan

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1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

5. Evaluate, refine alternatives1. Form issue task forces as necessary to address specific topics or issues1

2. Evaluate and further narrow alternatives based on measures reflecting environmental impacts, purpose, need, value capture, sustainability, costs, other objectives, issues and concerns

3. Select best performing alternatives based on evaluation1

4. (NEPA) Refine best performing alternatives to avoid or minimize environmental impacts and better address other criteria or issues

5. Conduct detailed evaluation of final alternatives

6. Develop recommendation for preferred alternative that best meets project’s stated purpose and needs as well as stakeholder objectives1

7. (NEPA) Analyze environmental impacts and determine needs for mitigation1

8. Propose FONSI or EIS

9. Refine preferred alternative considering additional factors such as sustainability community core values, aesthetics, and other features consistent with community/stakeholder objects and issues

10. Secure consensus on preferred alternative1

11. Spin off related community projects

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1 Likely stakeholder and/or public involvement; actual involvement to be determined in public involvement plan

6. Final documentation, evaluation, and conceptual design

1. (NEPA) Prepare draft FONSI or DEIS

2. (NEPA) Public and resource agency reviews of FONSI or DEIS1

3. (NEPA) Respond to comments and refine FONSI or DEIS

4. Finalize documentation of recommendation and decision-making process

5. Finalize conceptual design for preferred alternative1

6. (NEPA) Finalize FONSI or EIS

7. (NEPA) Prepare decision document

8. Agency approvals1

9. (NEPA) Record of decision

10. Develop preliminary partnership (funding, implementation) agreements

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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Evaluation – different detail levels

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• Starts from the very beginning– Open, meaningful involvement

– Seek buy-in from start

– Seek to provide benefits

• Project

• Community

– Accept input constructively

– Address issues early and continuously

– Reduce/improve objectionable components

– At end – few issues, concerns

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Project approvals

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• Projects to be – Presented Class 28– Submitted at start of Class 29

• Last minute student questions?

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Colorado DOT I-70 project development process

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