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