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TRAIL DEVELOPMENT PRELIMINARY APPLICATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978 ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Eligible applicants are; counties, cities, towns, school districts, and public post secondary education institutions along with special park districts or elected park and recreation boards in cities of the first class. GRANT FUNDING FOR 1978: The 1977 session of the Minnesota Legislature at the request of Governor Perpich enacted an Outdoor Recreation Grant Program to be financed with proceeds from the sale of bonds. Included is a new program which provides 40% of the development cost only of trails within public owned land. Projects that rank high will also be programmed for a 50% LAWCON grant. Highest ranking projects will be programmed for a 40% state grant and a 50% LAWCON grant and the local share will be 10 %. After all LAWCON funds are assigned, the next highest ranking projects will be programmed for a 40% state grant and a 60% local share. Amount available for fiscal year 1978: Metropolitan Area Local Governments Local Governments in the remainder of the State 50% LAWCON Grants $200,000 $200,000 40% State Grants $300,000 $300,000 Submission deadline: The attached preliminary applications (blue form) must be received by 5 p.m. September 16, 1977. Applications received after September 16, 1977 deadline or incomplete applications will be returned. Submit application to: Parks and Recreation Grants Sections State Planning Agency Room 101, Capitol Square Building St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 If you have any questions concerning these applications, please call the Parks and Recreation Grants Section at (612) 296 -4703. A copy of the completed development commission, for review, at the same (see attachment I). We Metropolitan Council to ELIGIBLE FACILITIES: application should also be sent to the appropriate regional metropolitan clearinghouse, or the Metropolitan Council time it is sent to the Office of Local and Urban Affairs will ask each regional development commission, and the help rank applications from their respective regions. Preliminary applications must be complete or they will be returned. Eligible facilities include development of trail systems for hiking, bicycling and corss- country skiing in parks owned and operated by eligible applicants. OLUA will field inspect the an inspection report of the each RDC to rank projects. OLUA will evaluate and rank EVALUATION CRITERIA: project to assess the quality site. OLUA will evaluate and In the Metropolitan area, the applications. of the site and prepare rank projects and ask Metropolitan Council and Project qualifications. Preliminary applications shall meet the LAWCON evaluation criteria listed below to be eligible: TRAIL DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES. APPLICATIONS SHALL ALSO BE EVALUATED AND RANKED BY OLUA BY GIVING EQUAL CONSIDERATION TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: (1) Priority shall be given to trail projects located so at to minimize interference with incompatible activities and features. (2) Priority shall be given to trail projects that provide access to areas of outstanding natural resources or man -made features.