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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMT Department of Commerce (4)M 0 N TANA Department of Comrner~e COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION PO. Box200523 * He~ena, Montana59520~0523 / ~, JU_ 3, 2~,06 Scott Murphy : Morrison-Maiorle ~1 Engineering Place, C ;-'~ '' "~ ~: ! ;',[ ~ ~ ;ri P.O, Box 6147 L'.. _ .:~.--: "'2c~.~ . Helena, MT 59602 Re: City of Laurel TSEP grant application Dear Mr. Murphy: Enclosed is a draft technical review report prepared by an engineer that we have contracted with to review your Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP) application and your Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) application (if applicable), which includes your preliminary engineering report (PER). The technical review report expresses the engineer's understanding of the project and professional opinion in reference to the criteria used to score TSEP statutory priorities #1 (Health and Safety Threat) and #3 (Technical Design), and the equivalent CDBG criteria #2 and #3. After taking into account comments from the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC) staff and any comments you may have, the report will be revised if necessary and then used as the basis for scoring these statutory priorities when the TSEP/CDBG technical review ranking team meets. We have sent this draft report for your engineer to review. This is your opportunity to point out something that our review engineer may have missed in the PER, or to correct something that may have been misunderstood about the project. You will also be allowed to submit a statement when you return your comments in oi'der to call attention to a health or safety issue(s) that in your opinion has not been adequately emphasized by the review engineer and could impact the scoring of priority #1. The statement is limited to no more than 150 words and will be inserted verbatim within the draft report for the other review engineers' consideration. However, you are not allowed to introduce any new information that was not previously submitted in the PER or application; new information included in the statement may be edited out at the discretion of MDOC. If you have any corrections to the draft technical review report, you must specifically reference the location in the PER or application where the information can be found. Comments on the draft engineering review report must be received by us no later than August 14th to be included in our application review process. Your engineer's unavailability to review the draft report will not be grounds for an extension of time. All of the consulting engineers, along with the TSEP/CDBG technical review ranking team, will meet as a group to score TSEP statutory priorities #1 and #3. On September 11 we will. meetto scare bridge applications. On September 12 throuqh 15, we will :: __:_ ::: :-meet to-score all othe~'tvpesof applications;-including those :that were submitted~o both:; ::::' the TSEP and CDBG programs. These scoring meetings are open to public ~b~rvatiurr. Huwuw,, ab~utut~ly ~ ,,,:-umm~nb by th~ publi~; wilt b~p~[miLt~d during '~:::~ ::~-- ::zt_h_~.?o]~e~cu~'-~:a~ id's~fl'n~p~oc~h:b-m~er~'-~fabne~ to-aCapplfcants:- ~! :-L~~ conference room 228, located ~t 301 8outh P~rk Avenue, ~t the south end of Last Oh~nce Gulch. We will probably sta~ ~round 8:00 ~.m. In addition, the TSEP ranking team will meet to score TSEP statutory priorities ~ through #7 starting on September 18 and continue through September 22, as needed. This process is also open to public observation, and again, no comments by the public will be permitted during the scoring process. The ranking team will be meeting in conference room 228. We encourage you to attend any of these scoring meetings in order to gain a better understanding of how the Department scores the TSEP applications. In particular, we encourage you, and especially your project engineer, to observe the scoring of TSEP statutory priorities #1 and #3. This is a good learning opportunity for engineers with regard to how to properly prepare a preliminary engineering report. You can e-mail your comments and the 150-word statement to me at rknatterudC, mt.gov, or mail me a computer disk with the information. If you have any questions, please call me at 841-2784. Sincerely, Richard Knatterud, TSEP Engineer Treasure State Endowment Program Enclosure: Technical Review Report cc w/out enclosure: Kenneth Olson, Mayor'