Air Quality Improvement
- Reduces emissions of air pollutants and/or greenhouse gases from mobile sources
- Integrates environmental concerns into regional planning and project development
- Builds interagency partnerships and creates proactive public involvement
- Meets environmental challenges creatively
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Livable Communities
- Promotes community cohesion by incorporating innovative mitigation and enhancement measures with public involvement
- Benefits all segments of society (Environmental Justice)
- Uses flexible (context sensitive) design concepts
- Demonstrates effective assessment of community impacts
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Cultural and Historical Resources
- Enhances our understanding of heritage
- Provides economic opportunities and supports tourism development
- Displays innovative opportunities with planning and project development
- Displays sensitivity to historic, cultural, and community values
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Nonmotorized Transportation
- Increases the amount of pedestrian and/or bicycle use
- Promotes access for people with disabilities
- Promotes livable communities and builds partnerships
- Integrates environmental concerns into overall transportation planning
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Ecosystems, Habitat, and Wildlife
- Promotes emerging techniques that restore and preserve ecosystem integrity and function
- Integrates ecosystem and habitat concerns into planning and project development
- Demonstrates design with nature concepts
- Forms partnerships to inventory, monitors and manages resources
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Recycling
- Creates innovative use of recycled or by-product materials
- Reduces institutional barriers to the use of recycled or by-productmaterials
- Demonstrates cost effective and beneficial use of recycled or by-product materials
- Provides potential for a large use of recycled and/or by-product materials
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Environmental Leadership
- Is a person, group, or organization
- Demonstrates a commitment to integrating environmental
considerations into their organization's structure and function
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Seeks clear commitment of staff, budget, and personnel
- Creates initiatives that enhance the environment
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Roadside Resource Management and Maintenance
- Promotes integrated management and maintenance methods that result in high quality, sustainable roadside environments
- Promotes native natural vegetation and habitats
- Demonstrates environmental protection aspects of maintenance activities
- Economically efficient
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Environmental Streamlining
- Reduces project and process delays
- Increases amount and range of public involvement
- Protects and enhances the environment
- Integrates and enhances interagency coordination
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Scenic Byways
- Protects or enhances one or more byway intrinsic qualities: scenic, historic, natural, cultural, recreational, archaeological
- Provides a unique travel experience through the interpretation of a byway's intrinsic qualities
- Balances the preservation, protection and promotion of a byway's intrinsic qualities
- Demonstrates "best practices" that the national byway community can implement
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Environmental Research
- Advances state-of-the-art knowledge of transportation and its effects on the natural environment, neighborhoods, and communities
- Is recognized by social science, planning, and the social community
- Benefits society and saves money
- Educates the public in a creative understandable manner
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Wetlands and Water Quality
- Promotes innovative and emerging techniques for stormwater management
- Promotes protection, enhancement and ecologically based maintenance of wetlands
- Provides water quality improvements
- Fits harmoniously into surrounding environment
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