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office of Commissioner <br /> <br /> May 29', 1981 <br /> <br />Minnesota <br />Department of Transportation <br />Transportation Building ,. <br />St. Paul. Minnesota 55155 <br /> <br />For <br /> <br />Your lnforma#on <br /> <br />(612) 2~-3000 <br /> <br />Mr. Edward ~.. Fields .. <br />Vice Chairman' <br />Anoka. County~Board of Commissioner~ <br />Court House <br />Anoka, Minnesota 55303 <br /> <br />Dear Ed: <br /> <br /> This is in' answer to your letter dated April 16, 1981, <br /> concerning building a bridge over the Rum River. In addition <br /> to doing some checkin? in our State Aid Division and on <br /> the federal level, I talked to Ralph McGinley before he <br /> made his trip to Washington, I believe on May 6th. I <br /> understand that in addition to looking into the availability <br /> of Community Development Block Grants, Ralph was also <br /> going to do some checking on the federal processin9 of <br /> this project, i ' <br /> <br /> This really is a mess! Our people say.that Paul Ruud's <br /> chronology is generally correct. Our State Aid Division <br /> has also prepared one based on St~ate Aid records and find <br /> that I guess the turn-around time-on both the State and <br /> County levels was. not the greatest. Unfortunately, the ~ <br /> Project Development Report had to be resubmitted five times <br /> before a final version was found ~cceptable and submitted <br /> to FHWA. <br /> <br />Then there's the matter of funding. Based on the best <br />information in our department there are no f~deral or <br />state programs available to finance the bridge. Federal <br />Aid Urban Funds could be used but as far as we know no effort <br />has been made by Anoka County.to apply for such funds to th6 <br />Metropolitan Council. - ~ - <br /> <br />Hindsight is always greet; but in retrospect it appears as <br />if considering this is a project on new alignment, a ,lew <br />river crossing, four lanes wide, wetland involvement, flood <br />plain involvement, and 4(f) lands, and other-involvementS, <br />this was not a routine job and p~rhaps it would have been <br />best to decide to do an Environmental Impact Statement right <br />from the startf <br /> <br />An Equal Opportunity Emptoyer <br /> <br /> <br />