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Award winners from USDOT environmental competition

Exemplary Human Environment Initiatives (10):
 
Education and Training Programs
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  • Michigan: Guidelines for Stakeholder Engagement. For developing a useful resource to educate people about Context Sensitive Solutions.
  • Nevada: Historic Stewart Indian Cemetery Outreach and Education Partnership.  For engaging the community to clean up and document an important historic site.
  • Tennessee: StopLitter™ – Tennessee’s Had Enough. For developing an innovative, multi-faceted campaign to reduce roadside litter.

Enhancing the Environment for Human Activities:

  • Arkansas: Tanner Street Bridge Replacement. For employing a collaborative, context sensitive approach to replace a historic bridge.
  • Louisiana: Front Street in Natchitoches. For a collaborative approach to improve transportation facilities while maintaining the historic character of downtown.
  • Texas: The Roma Visitors Center and Plaza Project. For using a collaborative approach to rehabilitate a historic town center and improve facilities for pedestrians of all abilities.

Encouraging Non-motorized Transportation:

  • Minnesota: Stillwater Lift Bridge Management Plan and Repair Project Stakeholder Involvement Process. For employing an innovative approach that emphasized Universal Design to foster access for pedestrians of all ability levels.
  • New Jersey: Route 71 Pedestrian Tunnel. For using a Context Sensitive Solutions approach to improve facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists.
  • Oregon: “Walk There! 50 treks in and around Portland and Vancouver” Guidebook Project. For developing a unique collaboration between transportation and health organizations to promote walking.

Process Improvements:

  • Utah: Mountain View Corridor Environmental Impact Statement "Growth Choices" Process. For using a process that helped citizens and elected officials understand how sustainable, context sensitive approaches can be used to plan for future growth.

Exemplary Ecosystem Initiatives (6):

  • California: Elkhorn Slough Early Mitigation Partnership. For development of a collaborative process to develop mitigation sites for sensitive resources and funding strategies that provide for advanced, regional-scale mitigation for multiple transportation projects in the watershed.
  • Maryland: US 310 Waldorf Area Transportation Improvements Project. For implementing an environmental stewardship approach to the planning and development of the U.S. 301 Waldorf Area Transportation Improvements Project which seeks to maximize the enhancement, protection, and improvement of natural, community and cultural resources.
  • Maryland: Asquith Creek Reef Project. For a unique partnership for sustainable transportation and environmental protection through the creation of the Asquith Creek Oyster Reef.  The project brought together concrete from infrastructure preservation and three-million juvenile oysters in a Chesapeake Bay tributary.
  • Missouri: Low-Water Crossing Modification as Stream Mitigation Technique. For development of an innovative stream mitigation bank which underscores the importance and environmental benefits of using a watershed approach when selecting compensatory mitigation sites.
  • Oregon: Oregon Wildlife Movement Strategy. For a broad-scale, statewide effort which identifies priorities for animal movement and provide tools and partners, to provide for animals’ movement needs through a variety of voluntary approaches (e.g., transportation project scoping; project implementation; conservation; or restoration).
  • Oklahoma: American Burying Beetle Conservation and Transportation Improvement Initiative. For collaborative development of a programmatic agreement to evaluate the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) activities which are likely to affect the endangered American burying beetle (ABB) over a 5-year period, and to develop a landscape conservation approach to avoid, minimize and offset those impacts.

Published 8-21-09