• ♦Manual Notice 2019-1
• ►Preface
• ►1. Planning and Programming
  • ►1. Needs Identification
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦10100: Identify project need and scope
    • ►10110: Perform site visit
  • ►2. Project Authorization
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦10200: Prepare cost estimate
    • ♦10210: Obtain approval of PLAN authority
    • ♦10215: Project File of Record
    • ♦10220: Obtain project specific Minute Order, if required
  • ►3. Compliance with Planning Requirements
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦10300: Evaluate compliance with planning documents
    • ♦10310: Identify and review related studies
    • ♦10320: Identify area/regional goals and plans
    • ♦10330: Identify corridor plan development needs
    • ♦10340: Partnership Plan Review/Coordination
    • ♦10350. Identify funding alternative or feasibility - economics, value capture, sustainability
    • ♦10360. Institutionalization of Coordination and Partnerships in Project Development
  • ►4. Study Requirements Determination
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦10400: Review scope, cost, and staff requirements of project development
    • ♦10410: Determine need for feasibility (route/corridor) study
    • ♦10420: Determine if State Implementation Plan requirements apply
    • ♦10430: Obtain traffic data
    • ♦10440: Identify multimodal and intermodal connections
    • ♦10450: Determine conformity with Congestion Management Process requirements
    • ♦10460: Evaluate inclusion of High Occupancy Vehicle/High Occupancy Toll lanes
    • ♦10470: Evaluate major project feasibility
    • ♦10480: Evaluate railroad corridor preservation
  • ►5. Design and Construction Funding Identification
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦10500: Identify potential design and construction funding
    • ♦10510: Prepare and execute project funding agreements
    • ♦10520: DEVELOP Authority
    • ♦10530: CONSTRUCT Authority
    • ♦10540: Place project in Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
    • ♦10550: Develop Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)
    • ♦10560: Place project in one-year letting schedule
• ►2. Preliminary Design
  • ►1. Preliminary Design Concept Conference
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20100: Conduct a Preliminary Design Concept Conference
    • ♦20110: Analysis of environmental impacts and mitigation
    • ♦20120: Right of way determination
  • ►2. Data Collection/Preliminary Design Preparation
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20200: Conduct early coordination with stakeholders
    • ♦20210: Prepare and execute additional agreements
    • ♦20220: Review traffic data
    • ♦20230: Obtain right of entry
    • ♦20240: Obtain related data, plans, studies and reports
    • ♦20250: Obtain information on existing utilities
    • ♦20260: Obtain traffic crash data
    • ♦20270: Obtain hydraulic studies
    • ♦20280: Obtain geospatial data
    • ♦20290: Perform other surveys
  • ►3. Public Meeting(s)
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20300: Conduct public meeting
    • ♦20310: Revise design based on public input
  • ►4. Preliminary Schematic
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦Alternative Selection
    • ♦Geometrics
    • ♦Update cost estimates
    • ♦20400: Evaluate corridor alternatives
    • ♦20410: Perform preliminary Level of Service analysis
    • ♦20420: Evaluate route alternatives
    • ♦20430: Initiate railroad coordination
    • ♦20440: Identify requirements for crossing navigable waters
    • ♦20450: Evaluate geometric alternatives
    • ♦20460: Develop typical sections
    • ♦20470: Prepare Landscape and Aesthetics Assessment
    • ♦20480: Develop bicycle and pedestrian accommodation
    • ♦20490: Update cost estimates
  • ►5. Geometric Schematic
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20500: Develop preferred geometric alignment
    • ♦20505: Perform preliminary geotechnical surveys
    • ♦20510: Prepare pavement design report
    • ♦20515: Refine typical sections
    • ♦20520: Consider impacts on historic structures
    • ♦20525: Perform detailed Level of Service analysis
    • ♦20530: Determine guide signing and operational controls
    • ♦20535: Submit requests for new or revised access points to interstate highways
    • ♦20540: Perform preliminary planning for commercial motor vehicle inspection stations
    • ♦20545: Perform preliminary planning for bridges
    • ♦20550: Establish preliminary retaining or noise wall locations
    • ♦20555: Perform hydrologic study
    • ♦20560: Perform preliminary hydraulic analysis/design
    • ♦20565: Determine right of way and access needs
    • ♦20570: Identify existing utilities on geometric schematic
    • ♦20575: Identify potential utility conflicts
    • ♦20580: Establish preliminary illumination locations
    • ♦20585: Evaluate Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) needs
    • ♦20590: Conduct constructability review
    • ♦20595: Update project scope
  • ►6. Value Engineering
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20600: Conduct Value Engineering (VE) study
    • ♦20610: Revise design based on Value Engineering Study findings
  • ►7. Geometric Schematic Approval
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦20700: Circulate geometric schematic for district review
    • ♦20710: Review geometric schematic with stakeholders
    • ♦20720: Design exceptions or waivers
    • ♦20730: Revise geometric schematic based on public input
    • ♦20740: Obtain approval of final geometric schematic
• ►3. Environmental
  • ►1. Preliminary Environmental Issues
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦30100: Public involvement
    • ♦30110: Develop and implement scoping process
    • ♦30120: Conduct meeting with affected property owners
    • ♦30130: Collect environmental data
    • ♦30140: Identify potential Section 4(f) property
    • ♦30150: Evaluate impacts on waterways and floodplains
  • ►2. Interagency Coordination/Permits
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦30200: Perform early coordination with review/resource agencies
    • ♦30210: Determine environmental permit requirements
  • ►3. Environmental Documentation
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦30300: Determine type of environmental document to prepare
    • ♦30310: Prepare “Purpose and Need” statement
    • ♦30315: Direct and Indirect Effects and Cumulative Impacts
    • ♦30320: Conduct natural resources study
    • ♦30325: Conduct cultural resources study
    • ♦30330: Prepare Section 4(f) Evaluation
    • ♦30335: Perform hazardous materials assessment and investigation
    • ♦30340: Prepare socioeconomic and environmental justice analyses
    • ♦30345: Determine right of way relocation impacts
    • ♦30350: Analyze existing environment
    • ♦30355: Conduct noise analysis
    • ♦30360: Conduct air quality analysis
    • ♦30365: Determine project’s environmental consequences
    • ♦30370: Prepare landscape recommendations
    • ♦30375: Prepare description of project alternatives
    • ♦30380: Prepare exhibits for environmental documentation
    • ♦30385: Stake areas of potential impact
    • ♦30390: Prepare environmental mitigation plans
    • ♦30395: Notice of Availability
  • ►4. Public Hearing
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦30400: Opportunity for public hearing
    • ♦30410: Public hearing
    • ♦30420: Respond to public hearing comments
  • ►5. Environmental Clearance
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦30500: Obtain environmental clearance
• ►4. Right of Way and Utilities
  • ►1. Right of Way and Utility Data Collection
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦40100: Perform preliminary right of way research
    • ♦40110: Locate existing utilities
    • ♦Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
  • ►2. Right of Way Map and Property Descriptions
    • ♦Overview
    • ►40200: Prepare right of way map and property descriptions
  • ►3. Right of Way Appraisals and Acquisition
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦40300: Obtain contractual agreements with local public agencies
    • ♦40310: Perform advance acquisition for qualified parcels
    • ♦40320: Obtain authority for right of way project release
    • ♦40330: Identify impediments to parcel acquisition
    • ♦40340: Prepare and execute joint-use/multiple-use agreements
    • ♦40350: Appraise parcels
    • ♦40360: Implement right of way acquisition process
    • ♦40370: Implement relocation assistance program
    • ♦40380: Dispose of improvements
    • ♦40390: Prepare right of way and encroachment certifications
  • ►4. Utility Adjustments
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦40400: Coordinate utility adjustment plans
    • ♦40410: Prepare and execute utility adjustment agreements
    • ♦40420: Utility owners adjust facilities
    • ♦40430: Prepare utility clearance certifications
    • ♦40440: Reimburse utility owners for eligible adjustment costs
    • ♦40450: Non-reimbursable utility cost
• ►5. PS&E Development
  • ►1. Design Conference
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50100: Obtain additional or updated data
    • ♦50110: Conduct Design Concept Conference
  • ►2. Begin Detailed Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50200: Plan sequence of construction
    • ♦50210: Develop conceptual detour/road closure plan
    • ♦50220: Obtain miscellaneous permits
    • ♦50230: Design environmental mitigation details
    • ♦50240: Develop Environmental Permits, Issues and Commitments (EPIC) sheet
    • ♦50250: Review data collection needs
    • ♦50260: Refine hydrologic study
    • ♦50270: Prepare stream crossing hydraulics
    • ♦50280: Prepare hydraulic report
  • ►3. Final Alignments/Profiles
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50300: Design final controlling conditions
  • ►4. Roadway Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50400: Prepare cross sections and compute earthwork
    • ♦50410: Review right of way requirements
    • ♦50420: Design landscape/aesthetic plans
    • ♦50430: Develop plan and profile sheets
    • ♦50440: Design pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities
    • ♦50450: Design miscellaneous details
    • ♦50460. Review project for design exceptions/waivers
    • ♦50470: Prepare hazardous material remediation plan
    • ♦50480: Develop Exhibit A for railroad agreements
  • ►5. Operational Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50500: Design illumination
    • ♦50510: Design Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
    • ♦50520: Design signalization plan
    • ♦50530: Design signing and pavement markings
  • ►6. Bridge Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50600: Perform final geotechnical surveys
    • ♦50610: Prepare preliminary bridge layouts
    • ♦50620: Prepare bridge details
    • ♦50630: District reviews bridge plans
    • ♦50640: Submit Exhibit B to railroad company
  • ►7. Drainage Design
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50700: Perform hydraulic design for culverts and storm drains
    • ♦50710: Perform hydraulic design for pump station(s)
    • ♦50720: Prepare culvert and storm drain details
    • ♦50730: Prepare pump station details
    • ♦50740: Design Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan
  • ►8. Retaining/Noise Walls & Miscellaneous Structures
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50800: Prepare retaining and/or noise wall layouts
    • ♦50810: Prepare retaining and/or noise wall plans and details
    • ♦50820: Prepare plans for miscellaneous structures
  • ►9. Traffic Control Plan
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦50900: Finalize sequence of construction
    • ♦50910: Design detour roadways
    • ♦50920: Obtain approval of road closure/detour plans
    • ♦50930: Prepare details for temporary signing, striping, and pavement marking
    • ♦50940: Develop contract requirements
    • ♦50950: Review traffic control plan
  • ►10. PS&E Assembly/Design Review
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦51000: Conduct environmental reevaluation
    • ♦51010: Prepare PS&E package
    • ♦51020: Conduct district PS&E review
    • ♦51030: Assemble project plans
    • ♦50140: District conducts final agreement/permit and public interest statement reviews
    • ♦51050: Collect outside, additional funding based on Advance Funding Agreements
    • ♦51060: District performs final review of PS&E
    • ♦51070: Submit PS&E to Design Division
    • ♦51080: Obtain approval for program overruns
• ►6. Letting
  • ►1. Final Processing and Letting
    • ♦Overview
    • ♦60100: Perform financial clearance analysis
    • ♦60110: Prepare and review proposal
    • ♦60120: Funding and approval of PS&E
    • ♦60130: Release final proposal
    • ♦60132: Advertise request for bids
    • ♦60134: Provide earthwork construction cross section data to contractors (if requested)
    • ♦60136: Amend issued proposal document or plans
    • ♦60140: Conduct prebid conference
    • ♦60150: Conduct bid opening
    • ♦60152: Tabulate and review bids
    • ♦60154: Award contract
    • ♦60156: Conduct preconstruction conference
    • ♦60160: Notify the public in advance of construction
    • ♦60170: Store and retain project records
• ♦A. Glossary
• ►B. Financing and Construction of Transportation Projects
  • ♦1. Participation Chart
  • ♦2. Definitions

Project Development Process Manual

July 2019

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