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16 Attachment 4 BACKGROUND Draft STIP and 10-Year Work Program for Orange County (include web address) The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) released the Draft STIP, included as years 2012-2018, of its 2011-2020 Work Program to the Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Rural Planning Organizations, local officials and other interested parties for their comment. The ten-year Work Program is financially constrained, and defines clearly what the department will do with anticipated resources. The NCDOT Work Program resulted from transportation reform efforts to make transportation planning and project selection a more transparent process. The 10-Year Work Program contains: • A 5-Year Work Program programmed in the first 5-years of the current 2009- 2015 STIP; • The draft 2012-2018 funding program (Draft STIP), and • Remaining 2-years of projects ready to move into the construction phase as anticipated funds become available in the 10-year time frame. Orange County, in December 2008, submitted/requested its priority list of projects for the 2012-2018 STIP through the DCHC MPO and the Triangle Area Regional Planning Organization. NCDOT, in developing the Draft 2012-2018 STIP, used adata-driven approach (the new Strategic Prioritization Process) to rank projects for highways in priority order based on the NC Department of Transportation's goals. Each MPO and RPO established its own criteria for ranking bicycle and pedestrian projects and submitted its top 5 highest ranked bicycle and 5 highest ranked pedestrian projects for NCDOT prioritization. Projects that were shown in previous versions of the STIP as "unfunded" and were not funded in this DRAFT STIP have been removed from the DRAFT STIP document. These projects are scheduled for reprioritization in 2012. Orange County priority projects scheduled for reprioritization in 2012 are noted in Attachment 6. Other projects of interest to Orange County scheduled for reprioritization include: 1 TIP Project R-2716, convert grade separation at Mattress Factory Road and I-85/ I-40 to an interchange; and 2 TIP Project I-03058, widen I-85 to six lanes and reconstruct interchanges east of Lawrence Road to the Durham County Line. (TIP Project 1-305A, widen I-85 to six lanes and reconstruct interchanges from I-40 to Lawrence Road, is scheduled in the Draft STIP for right-of-way acquisition in 2017-2019, with construction to 2020.)