An official website of the POLICY 30: Reduce greenhouse gases
This policy states:
Evaluate and mitigate the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of transportation plans and projects.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 30A. Evaluate projects' impacts on greenhouse gas emissions. Implement the requirements from Minnesota Statute 161.178 Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact Assessment Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning Partner |
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| 30B. Maintain a greenhouse gas inventory, forecast, and GHG reduction scenario planning tools that can evaluate reduction strategies and support planning efforts. Provide support for transportation greenhouse gas reduction efforts with best practices, technical assistance, and guidance. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Local Planning |
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| 30C. Support the inclusion of low-carbon construction methods and materials into transportation projects (steel, concrete, recycle in place, or others). Continue to research best practices and provide regular training. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 30D. Develop, evaluate, and implement other transportation strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Investment Priority Local Planning Work Program |
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