Draft Action Plan: the Minnesota Highway Planning and Development Process

The Minnesota Highway Department's Action Plan, prepared in response to the 197D Federal-Aid Highway Act to ensure the consideration of social, economic and environmental effects in highway decisions, will serve as a guide for citizen and agency participation in highway proposals from the beginning of planning up to construction.

The four principles which form the basis far the Action Plan are:
- Identification of potential social, economic and environmental effects of proposed projects
- Interdisciplinary approach to ensure the integrated use of natural, physical and social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and development of highways
- Involvement of the public and Federal, State and local agencies in the decision making process
- Alternative considerations including alternate modes of transportation, varying degrees of highway improvements and no improvement.