Section Env-Wt 527.02 - Approval Criteria for Public Highway Projects In addition to meeting applicable standards established in other chapters of subtitle Env-Wt, the department shall not approve an application for a public highway project unless the following criteria are met, subject to the rebuttable presumption in RSA 482-A:3, I-a that for applications "proposed, sponsored, or administered by the department of transportation", NH DOT "has exercised appropriate engineering judgment in the project's design":
(a) The project meets the design criteria specified in Env-Wt 527.04;(b) The project is consistent with RSA 482-A:1, RSA 483, RSA 483-B, RSA 485-A, and RSA 212-A;(c) The purpose of the project is to improve or maintain public safety, consistent with federal and state safety standards; (d) The project will not cause displacement of flood storage wetlands or cause diversion of stream flow impacting abutting landowner property; and(e) For a project in the 100-year floodplain, the project will not increase flood stages off-site.N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Wt 527.02
Derived from Volume XXXIX Number 28, Filed July 11, 2019, Proposed by #12805, Effective 12/15/2019, Expires 12/15/2029.