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Minnesota <br />Department of Transportation <br />Transportation Building <br />395 John Ireland Boulevard <br />Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155 <br /> <br />February 17, 1993 <br /> <br />State Agency Commissioners <br />County Board Chairs <br />City Administrators/Clerks <br />Town Board Clerks <br /> <br />RE: INTERIM SOLICITATION PROCESS FOR ENHANCEMENTS PROJECTS...IMMEDIATE ACTION <br /> <br />Dear Public Officials: <br /> <br />The purpose of this letter is to request the submittal of projects to be funded up to 80% by <br />federal Enhancements Funds. You should forward this solicitation to individuals in your <br />organization responsible for proposing and developing projects which are historic, scenic, or <br />environmental in nature and or focus on facilities for bicycles or pedestrians. This project <br />solicitation is exclusively for Enhancements Funds. It is separate from and should not be <br />confused with any other project solicitations which may consider similar kinds of projects for' <br />use of other funding from the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), <br />other federal acts, or state funded programs. <br /> <br />Enhancements funds are to be expended exclusively on ten activities (identified in the <br />attached materials) which have been grouped in three project categories; 1) Pedestrian and <br />Bicycle, 2) Historic, and 3) Scenic and Environmental. Enhancements Funds are a portion <br />(10%) of the Surface Transportation Program under Tire 1 of the Intermodal Surface <br />Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. <br /> <br />I am making this solicitation on behalf of the Enhancements Task Force. This task force is <br />comprised of representatives from thirteen public organizations. The task force was <br />established by Mn/DOT to recommend a process Minnesota should use to solicit, prioritize <br />and select projects to be funded with Enhancements Funds. <br /> <br />The task force has developed an Interim Process which is being used for this solicitation. <br />Experience gained from this solicitation will be used by the task force to develop a Permanent <br />Process. , <br /> <br />Minnesota will receive Enhancements Funds of about seven million dollars per year. This <br />solicitation using the Interim Process will be used to allocate about seven mill.ion dollars of <br />Enhancements Funds. It is expected that a first solicitation using the Permanent Process <br />will be made during the last quarter of calendar 1993. Federal law requires that every <br />project utilizing federal txansportation funds in urbanized areas over 50,000 population be <br />included in that urbanized area metropolitan planning organization's transportation <br />improvement program. Proposers of projects in affected areas should coordinate their <br />proposal(s) with the metropolitan planning organization. <br /> An Equal Opportunity £mployer <br /> <br /> <br />