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3 is now being added again for consideration. One additional project (Buckhorn Road widening) was submitted to the BGMPO, but strategically placed on the TARPO priority list to potentially secure additional local input points as the project is partially located within the TARPO planning area. The last additional project is currently programmed in the 2012-2018 STIP, but is subject to re-scoring and re-prioritization because it is programmed for construction after FY 2015. These six (6) projects were added to the top of the list because of a need to rely somewhat on the assignment of local input points and because, relative to the previously submitted projects, the projects are likely to score higher against the State's scoring criteria, thereby giving them a greater chance of being funded and included in the 2016-2022 STIP. Two of these projects are also OCCTP-recom mended projects. The other four (4) projects were shifted down to priorities 7-10 because they are not likely to score well against the State's bike/pedestrian scoring factors as a result of their rural context and require the County to commit a 20% local match. Attachment 4 is a map depicting the locations of the draft project priorities for those projects within TARPO's planning area. DCHC MPO Priority List For the DCHC MPO project priority list (Attachment 6), all except one of the projects submitted in 2011 were carried forward to this priority list. Nine (9) projects that were not submitted in 2011 were added to the list. Three (3) of these new projects are transit projects intended to implement the OCBRIP. Three (3) of the new projects are Safe Routes to School projects recommended in the Orange County Safe Routes to School Action Plan. Two (2) of the new projects are the I-40 widening from the I-40/1-85 interchange to the Durham County line and I-85 widening from the 1-40/1-85 interchange to the Durham County line. One (1) is a new bike/pedestrian project along Mt. Carmel Church Road. The 1-40 and 1-85 widening projects were not included in previous County priority lists, but are projects that have already been included in the STIP and are of statewide significance that will be scored regardless of Orange County's submission. Their inclusion in the priority list is meant to be a guide for those projects' levels of priority relative to others for the assignment of local input points. These two widening projects are likely to score higher than many of the other projects recommended for submission. The general grouping order of staff-suggested and OUTBoard-recom mended project ranking in the DCHC MPO priority list is- 1) Readily implementable transit and Safe Routes to School projects of local significance; 2) Added capacity/mobility projects of local significance; 3) Transit/rail projects of local significance submitted by other transit agencies; 4) Highway modernization projects of local significance; 5) Added capacity/mobility projects of statewide/regional significance; and 6) Safe Routes to School and bike/pedestrian projects that come at a cost to the County and that do not have an obligated local funding commitment. This ranking strategy developed by staff intends to optimize scoring output and corresponding funding probability for the subject projects in the face of the contributing factors to such output of State scoring, funding tier eligibility, and projects' necessity for reliance on local input points to be funded. Attachment 7 is a map depicting the locations of the draft project priorities for those projects within the DCHC MPO planning area.