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frame and budget is to determine where a recommended project is at in the environmental review <br />process. MnDOT has developed the table below to award the Project Deliverability criteria points based <br />upon where the project is at in the environmental review process. <br /> <br /> <br />Table 5 <br /> <br />Description Points <br />Projects with environmental review process 100 <br />complete <br />Project with environmental review process 50 <br />started, but not yet complete. <br />Projects that have not started the 0 <br />environmental review process. <br /> <br /> <br />Regional Balance. The criteria Regional Balance does not have any accompanying language with it in <br />the law. MnDOT intends to use the division/awarding of the funding across the state as the way this <br />criteria gets incorporated. <br /> <br />Project Selection Process <br /> <br />All recommended projects that meet both the eligibility requirements and project recommendations <br />requirements of the program will be scored. MnDOT will develop project descriptions and cost <br />estimates from the information provided by the submitters to a sufficient enough level, so that they can <br />be scored in each of the eight point scoring criteria. The projects will then be scored and ranked <br />together on a single list from the highest scoring project to the lowest. <br /> <br />MnDOT will award funding to the projects starting with the top scoring project and continuing down the <br />list until all the funding is expended. The Regional Balance Criteria may result in some projects being <br />skipped over in lieu of lower scoring projects from another region or area of the State, in order to <br />ensure the funding is “regionally balanced”. MnDOT intends to work with the Legislature during the <br />2023 session to help get more direction and/or definition to what they mean by Regional Balance. <br />Should MnDOT not get any additional direction from the Legislature, MnDOT will look at its past usage <br />of a soft 50-50 split and discuss other approaches publicly in the Spring of 2023 before making any final <br />decisions on splits. <br /> <br />V. Additional Program Guidance <br /> <br />The following is some additional program guidance and clarifications: <br /> <br />1. MnDOT’s cost participation policy applies to all the selected corridors of commerce projects. <br />For purposes of that policy, all projects selected for award in the program will be treated as <br />“MnDOT Initiated” projects. <br />