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U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Headquaflem 400 Seventh St., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20590 Michael Schadauer, P.E. .project Manager Passenger Rail Transit Office Minnesota Department of Transportation 395 John Ireland Boulevard, Mail Stop - 475 St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 Re: Northstar Corridor Rail Project Dear Mr. Schadauer: On February 3, 2003, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published the FY 2004 Annual Report on New Starts. The Annual Report, which supplements the President's FY 2004 budget request for major transit capital investments, includes a profile of each project in preliminary engineering and final design pursuing Section 5309 New Starts funding. Except for projects that are exempted from FTA's New Starts criteria, these project profiles summarize FTA's evaluation and rating of each proposed investment, as required by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21~t Century (TEA-2 i). Over the past several years, the FTA Office of Planning and Environment has provided annual feedback to local project sponsors on the assigned project ratings, in addition to offering numerous New Starts Workshops and distributing guidance on planning and project development. We are continuing our program of ongoing feedback and outreach again this year. Enclosed please find a set of materials related to FTA' s evaluation and rating of the Interstate 71 Corridor LRT project for the FY 2004 Annual Report on New Starts. These materials include: The project's Financial Assessment, including a summary of recommendations for improving the rating for the local financial commitment criterion; and, The project's Land Use Assessment, including a summary of recommendations for improving the rating for the transit supportive land use and future patterns criterion.