• SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions Workshop Report – FHWA and AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (March 27-28, 2006), SAFETEA-LU Planning Provisions (PowerPoint 5mb)

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• Public Roads Magazine March/April 2008 Issue Features Article on FHWA Planning and Environmental Linkages Process (April 2008)
• FHWA Guidance on Fiscal Constraint and NEPA Approvals - FHWA e-mail memo, Transportation Planning Requirements and Their Relationship to NEPA, and Project Examples Regarding Fiscal Constraint and NEPA Approvals (January 2008)
• Statewide Transportation Planning; Metropolitan Transportation Planning; Final Rule (Feb. 2007) (or PDF, 395KB). Appendix A, incorporated as part of this regulatory notice, provides additional, nonbinding guidance to further explain the linkages between the transportation planning and project development/NEPA processes.
• FHWA Planning and Environment Linkages Website
  • Link to Additional Resources
• Eco-Logical Guidebook
• Integration of Context Sensitive Solutions in the Transportation Planning Process. (FHWA report, January 2007)

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• Integrated Planning, Work Group Baseline Report and Preliminary Gap Analysis, Deliberative Draft - March 15, 2005

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• National Cooperative Highway Research Program
  • NCHRP 8-36 (48): Improved Linkage Between Transportation Systems Planning and NEPA
  • NCHRP 541: Consideration of Environmental Factors in Transportation Planning

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