WAC 136-720-020

The county local road program cycle consists of the following basic steps:

(1) The county road administration board establishes a funding period if it determines that sufficient future LRP funds are available to provide for new LRP projects. This determination can take place during any of CRAB's regularly scheduled meetings.

(a) Should the board determine there are adequate LRP funds available to be allocated to LRP projects and, under advisement from the counties, the board's action shall include the determination of:

(i) Project type and the amount to be allocated to each project type listed in WAC 136-710-020;

(ii) Timeline in which eligible counties are to submit projects;

(iii) Funding limits per project;

(iv) Limits on the number of projects per county;

(v) Matching requirements for the funding period.

(b) The board's LRP funding allocation may include all or any subset of the project types described under WAC 136-710-020, as well as federally classified urban or rural areas, and this decision may be unique and may vary between funding periods.

(2) Each eligible county prepares and submits a prospectus to the county road administration board;

(3) County road administration board staff conducts a field review of each prospectus and provides to each submitting county an evaluation and scoring of all priority elements which are based on a visual examination, using the priority rating process;

(4) For each prospectus submitted, county road administration board staff computes the total priority rating score and assembles all projects into rank-ordered arrays by project type; and

(5) The county road administration board reviews the rank-ordered arrays in each project type and, based upon the LRP funds projected to be allocated for the next project program period, selects and approves specific projects for LRP funding.