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Applicants whose projects are disqualified may appeal and participate in the review and <br />determination of eligibility at the Technical Advisory Committee Funding & Programming (TAC <br />F&P) Committee meeting. <br />11. A set of prioritizing criteria with a range of points assigned is provided for each application <br />category. The applicant must respond directly to each prioritizing criterion in order for it to be <br />scored and receive points. Projects are scored based on how well the response meets the <br />requirements of the prioritizing criteria and, in some cases, how well the responses compare to <br />those of other qualifying applications in the same project application category. <br />12. Members of the TAC Funding and Programming Committee or other designees will evaluate the <br />applications and prepare a ranked list of projects by application category based on a total score <br />of all the prioritizing criteria. The TAC will forward the ranked list of projects with funding options <br />to TAB. TAB may develop its own funding proposals. TAB will then recommend a list of projects <br />to be included in the region's TIP and the Metropolitan Council concurs. TAB submits the Draft <br />TIP to the Metropolitan Council for concurrence. <br />13. TAB may or may not choose to fund at least one project from each application category. <br />14. Scoring committees have the option to recommend a deviation from the approved scoring <br />guidance if a rationale for the deviation is provided to the TAC Funding and Programming <br />Committee. <br />15. For many of the quantitative measures in the Regional Solicitation, the scoring guidance gives <br />the top project 100% of the points and the remaining projects a proportionate share of the full <br />points. If there is a high -scoring outlier on a particular measure, the scorer will have the option <br />to prorate the other scores based on the second highest scoring project instead of the top <br />project. <br />16. TAB will only fund a roadway or bridge project on a roadway that is spaced at least 3.5 miles <br />away from the center point of another funded project on the same roadway (only applies to two <br />separate applications selected in the same solicitation). <br />17. TAB will not fund more than one transit capital project in a transitway corridor (only applies to <br />two separate applications selected in the same solicitation). <br />18. TAB will not fund more than one bicycle or pedestrian facility project in the same corridor (only <br />applies to two separate applications selected in the same solicitation). For trails, a funded <br />project may be on the same trail facility as another funded project as long as the two projects <br />serve different users and destinations. <br />6I <br />