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4C h a p t e r 2 tCapp pilot project: Washington State DOt Project Summary The Washington State DOT's I-5/SR-509 Corridor Completion and Freight Improvement Project is a capacity expansion project that includes three lanes in two directions [two generalpurpose lanes and one high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane]
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5Figure 2.1. TCAPP Decision Guide elements tested by the Washington State DOT (COR-4 through COR-9)
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6committee concerns. The result was a considerably easier and more effective transition from the technical project analyses to communications needed at decision-maker levels -- in this case, the legislature.
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7and justify their participation within their agency. Everyone interviewed for this evaluation commented that the IEF/ Eco-Logical concept helped bring the environmental staff into the process.
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8vision of their city. The project team was confident that an innovative application of the TCAPP planning process would ultimately result in an agreed-upon plan.
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9• How might credit markets be employed to achieve conservation objectives? • How do travelers within project areas perceive natural resource values, credit markets, mitigation opportunities, and ecosystem services?
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10 IEF Step 6: Develop Crediting Strategies To develop a crediting strategy for conservation targets and address Framework Step 6, CSU first conducted an ecosystem services assessment to answer descriptively the following three questions: 1. Which ecosystem services of interest are most likely to be impacted, positively or negatively, by transportation projects?
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11 different platform and map projections, making it impossible to create a "big picture of the area." To guide the work, the project team established four objectives: 1. Gather and integrate all extant ecological and archeological data and create a data library available to all; 2.
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12 • It is best to keep things simple. The original concern that the tool would not be sophisticated enough was alleviated because it is especially useful and a wide audience can understand it.
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13 of community, transportation, environmental, and economic systems. The project team noted that the IEF as established is limited in the topics that can be considered.
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14 and culverts. The associated water resources are an integral part of the state's ecology and need to be considered appropriately in route selection.
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15 The following is a list of lessons learned related to these findings: • In many instances, it is critical to work within existing channels and to leverage that knowledge and processing. This approach can be more effective and can lead to a higher probability of acceptance and success than trying to bring a new process and achieve multiagency buy-in (even if the process is an improvement)
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