The agencies involved in a multiagency project shall designate one agency as the lead agency. The lead agency must be a city, town, county, port or the Washington state department of transportation.

When requested by the board, applications for proposed projects shall be submitted to the board by public entities seeking allocation of funds from the FMSIB. The application form will be provided by the board.

The board shall use a multicriteria analysis and scoring framework, which may be periodically refined, for evaluating and ranking eligible freight mobility and freight mitigation projects. The prioritization process shall measure the degree to which projects address important program objectives and shall generate a project score that reflects a project's priority compared to other projects. The board shall assign scoring points to each criterion that indicate the relative importance of the criterion in the overall determination of project priority.