• ♦Manual Notice 2008-1
• ►Preface
• ►1. Planning and Programming
  • ►1. Needs Identification
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦1000: Identify project need and scope
    • ♦1010: Perform site visit
  • ►2. Project Authorization
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦1200: Prepare cost estimate
    • ♦1230: Obtain approval of PLAN authority
    • ♦1235: Obtain project specific minute order, if required
  • ►3. Compliance with Planning Requirements
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦1300: Evaluate compliance with planning documents
    • ♦1310: Identify and review related studies
    • ♦1320: Obtain input from local entities and others
    • ♦1340: Coordinate with Metropolitan Planning Organization
  • ►4. Study Requirements Determination
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦1400: Review scope, cost, and staff requirements of project development
    • ♦1410: Determine need for feasibility (route/corridor) study
    • ♦1420: Determine if Statewide Implementation Plan requirements apply
    • ♦1430: Obtain traffic data
    • ♦1440: Determine need for Major Investment Study
    • ♦1450: Identify multimodal alternatives and intermodal connections
    • ♦1460: Determine conformity with Congestion Management Process requirements
    • ♦1480: Evaluate inclusion of High Occupancy Vehicle/High Occupancy Toll lanes
    • ♦1490: Evaluate inclusion of tollways
    • ♦1500: Evaluate railroad corridor preservation
  • ►5. Construction Funding Identification
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦1600: Identify potential design/construction funding
    • ♦1610: Prepare and execute advance funding agreements
    • ♦1620: Obtain DEVELOP authority
    • ♦1630: Obtain CONSTRUCT authority
    • ♦1640: Place project in Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
    • ♦1650: Develop Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)
    • ♦1670: Place project in one-year letting schedule
• ►2. Preliminary Design
  • ►1. Design Concept Conference
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2000: Conduct Design Concept Conference
  • ►2. Data Collection/Preliminary Design Preparation
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2110: Conduct early coordination with stakeholders
    • ♦2120: Prepare and execute additional agreements
    • ♦2140: Review traffic data
    • ♦2150: Obtain right of entry
    • ♦2160: Obtain related data, plans, studies and reports
    • ♦2180: Obtain information on existing utilities
    • ♦2190: Obtain traffic crash data
    • ♦2200: Obtain hydraulic studies
    • ♦2220: Obtain aerial photography/ planimetrics/ DTMs/ digital orthophotography
    • ♦2230: Perform topographic surveys
    • ♦2240: Perform other surveys
  • ►3. Public Meeting(s)
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2260: Conduct public meeting
    • ♦2270: Revise design based on public input
  • ►4. Preliminary Schematic
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Alternative Selection
    • ♦Geometrics
    • ♦Update cost estimates
    • ♦2300: Evaluate corridor alternatives
    • ♦2310: Perform preliminary Level of Service analysis
    • ♦2320: Evaluate route alternatives
    • ♦2330: Initiate railroad coordination
    • ♦2340: Identify requirements for crossing navigable waters
    • ♦2350: Evaluate geometric alternatives
    • ♦2360: Develop typical sections
    • ♦2370: Prepare Assessment of Landscape and Aesthetic Issues
    • ♦2380: Develop bicyclist/pedestrian accommodation concept
    • ♦2460: Update cost estimates
  • ►5. Geometric Schematic
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2500: Develop preferred geometric alignment
    • ♦2505: Perform preliminary geotechnical surveys
    • ♦2510: Prepare pavement design report
    • ♦2520: Refine typical sections
    • ♦2530: Consider impacts on historic structures
    • ♦2540: Perform detailed Level of Service analysis
    • ♦2550: Determine guide signing and operational controls
    • ♦2560: Submit requests for new or revised access points to interstate highways
    • ♦2570: Perform preliminary planning for weigh stations
    • ♦2580: Perform preliminary planning for bridges
    • ♦2590: Establish preliminary retaining and/or noise wall locations
    • ♦2610: Perform hydrologic study
    • ♦2620: Perform preliminary hydraulic analysis/design
    • ♦2630: Determine right of way and access needs
    • ♦2640: Identify existing utilities on geometric schematic
    • ♦2650: Identify potential utility conflicts
    • ♦2660: Establish preliminary illumination locations
    • ♦2670: Conduct constructability review
    • ♦2690: Update project scope
  • ►6. Value Engineering
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2700: Conduct Value Engineering (VE) study
    • ♦2710: Revise design based on Value Engineering Study findings
  • ►7. Geometric Schematic Approval
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦2850: Circulate geometric schematic for district review
    • ♦2860: Review geometric schematic with stakeholders
    • ♦2870: Submit design exceptions/waivers for approval
    • ♦2880: Obtain approval of geometric schematic before public hearing
    • ♦2890: Revise geometric schematic based on input from public hearing
    • ♦2920: Obtain approval of final geometric schematic
• ►3. Environmental
  • ►1. Preliminary Environmental Issues
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦3010: Determine public involvement needs
    • ♦3015: Develop and implement scoping process
    • ♦3020: Conduct meeting with affected property owners
    • ♦3030: Collect environmental data
    • ♦3050: Identify potential Section 4(f) & Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) Chapter 26 properties
    • ♦3080: Evaluate impacts on waterways and floodplains
  • ►2. Interagency Coordination/Permits
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦3100: Perform early coordination with review/resource agencies
    • ♦3110: Determine environmental permit requirements
  • ►3. Environmental Documentation
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦3210: Determine type of environmental document to prepare
    • ♦3240: Prepare “Purpose and Need” statement
    • ♦3250: Conduct natural resources study
    • ♦3260: Conduct cultural resources study
    • ♦3270: Prepare Section 4(f) evaluation
    • ♦3280: Perform hazardous materials assessment and investigation
    • ♦3300: Prepare socioeconomic/environmental justice analysis
    • ♦3310: Determine right of way relocation impacts
    • ♦3315: Analyze existing environment
    • ♦3330: Conduct noise analysis
    • ♦3340: Conduct air quality analysis
    • ♦3345: Determine project’s environmental consequences
    • ♦3350: Prepare landscape recommendations
    • ♦3360: Prepare description of project alternatives
    • ♦3370: Prepare exhibits for environmental documentation
    • ♦3375: Stake areas of potential impact
    • ♦3390: Prepare environmental mitigation plans
    • ♦3420: Process draft environmental document
  • ►4. Public Hearing
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦3500: Conduct public hearing
    • ♦3520: Respond to public hearing comments
  • ►5. Environmental Clearance
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦3600: Obtain environmental clearance
• ►4. Right of Way Utilities
  • ►1. Right of Way and Utility Data Collection
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦4000: Perform preliminary right of way research
    • ♦4200: Locate existing utilities
    • ♦Information on Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
  • ►2. Right of Way Map and Property Descriptions
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦4300: Prepare right of way map and property descriptions
  • ►3. Right of Way Appraisals and Acquisition
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦4400: Obtain contractual agreements with local public agencies
    • ♦4410: Perform advance acquisition for qualified parcels
    • ♦4415: Obtain authority for right of way project release
    • ♦4420: Identify impediments to parcel acquisition
    • ♦4425: Prepare and execute joint-use/multiple-use agreements
    • ♦4430: Appraise parcels
    • ♦4470: Implement right of way acquisition process
    • ♦4480: Implement relocation assistance program
    • ♦4490: Dispose of improvements
    • ♦4500: Prepare right of way and encroachment certifications
  • ►4. Utility Adjustments
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦4610: Coordinate utility adjustment plans
    • ♦4620: Prepare and execute utility adjustment agreements
    • ♦4630: Utility owners adjust facilities
    • ♦4640: Prepare utility clearance certifications
    • ♦4650: Reimburse utility owners for eligible adjustment costs
• ►5. PS&E Development
  • ►1. Design Conference
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5010: Obtain additional or updated data
    • ♦5020: Conduct Design Conference
  • ►2. Begin Detailed Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5040: Plan sequence of construction
    • ♦5050: Develop conceptual detour/road closure plan
    • ♦5080: Obtain miscellaneous permits
    • ♦5100: Design environmental mitigation details
    • ♦5110: Develop Environmental Permits, Issues and Commitments (EPIC) sheet
    • ♦5120: Review data collection needs
    • ♦5140: Refine hydrologic study
    • ♦5150: Prepare stream crossing hydraulics
    • ♦5160: Prepare hydraulic report
  • ►3. Final Alignments/Profiles
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5200: Design final vertical and horizontal alignments
  • ►4. Roadway Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5240: Prepare cross sections and compute earthwork
    • ♦5250: Review right of way requirements
    • ♦5280: Design landscape/aesthetic plans
    • ♦5290: Develop plan and profile sheets
    • ♦5300: Design bicyclist and pedestrian facilities
    • ♦5330: Design miscellaneous details
    • ♦5335. Review project for design exceptions/waivers
    • ♦5340: Prepare hazardous material remediation plan
    • ♦5360: Develop Exhibit A for railroad agreement
  • ►5. Operational Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5380: Design illumination
    • ♦5400: Design Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
    • ♦5420: Design signalization plan
    • ♦5440: Design signing and pavement markings
  • ►6. Bridge Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5460: Perform final geotechnical surveys
    • ♦5480: Prepare preliminary bridge layouts
    • ♦5500: Prepare bridge details
    • ♦5510: District reviews bridge plans
    • ♦5515: Submit Exhibit B to railroad company
  • ►7. Drainage Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5540: Perform hydraulic design for culverts and storm drains
    • ♦5560: Perform hydraulic design for pump station(s)
    • ♦5570: Prepare culvert and storm drain details
    • ♦5590: Prepare pump station details
    • ♦5600: Design Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan
  • ►8. Retaining/Noise Walls & Miscellaneous Structures
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5640: Prepare retaining and/or noise wall layouts
    • ♦5680: Prepare retaining and/or noise wall plans and details
    • ♦5700: Prepare plans for miscellaneous structures
  • ►9. Traffic Control Plan
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5720: Finalize sequence of construction
    • ♦5730: Design detour roadways
    • ♦5740: Obtain approval of road closure/detour plans
    • ♦5760: Prepare details for temporary signing, striping, and pavement marking
    • ♦5780: Develop contract requirements
    • ♦5790: Review traffic control plan
  • ►10. PS&E Assembly/Design Review
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦5810: Conduct environmental re-evaluation
    • ♦5830: Prepare PS&E package
    • ♦5840: Conduct district PS&E review
    • ♦5850: Assemble project plans
    • ♦5855: District conducts final agreement/permit review
    • ♦5860: Collect outside, additional funding based on advance funding agreements
    • ♦5900: District performs final review of PS&E
    • ♦5910: Submit PS&E to Design Division
    • ♦5915: Obtain approval for program overruns
• ►6. Letting
  • ►1. Final Processing and Letting
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦6000: Perform financial clearance analysis
    • ♦6010: Prepare and review draft proposal
    • ♦6030: Obtain funding and approval of PS&E
    • ♦6100: Release final proposal
    • ♦6130: Advertise request for bids
    • ♦6133: Provide earthwork construction cross section data to contractors (if requested)
    • ♦6135: Amend issued proposal document
    • ♦6140: Conduct pre-bid conference
    • ♦6150: Conduct bid opening
    • ♦6200: Tabulate and review bids
    • ♦6210: Award contract
    • ♦6230: Notify the public in advance of construction
    • ♦6240: Store and retain project records

Project Development Process Manual

May 2008

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