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Opportunities such as railroad abandonment would also be continually <br />monitored by the committee. <br />Project schedules could actually be accelerated through local PMT <br />initiatives by performing many of the initial environmental evaluations and. <br />preliminary design studies needed by the MnJDOT and Ramsey County. <br />As other corridor task forces have done, the PMT could identify areas <br />needed for future rights -of -way many years in advance of a project, and <br />then these areas could be protected by official mapping actions and <br />possibly acquisition through the Metropolitan Council's Right of Way <br />Acquisition Loan Fund (RALF). <br />This type-ofprOiactive:assistance;:an i cv ripareher s ve plaiinirig epnsistent <br />with -the guidelines of ISTEA ;and Swith=the policies,o .:Mn/DOfT ;and. <br />MetrD oL taxi gauncil ,:'TheRe . Ion0rats ``artatfo1m ravem04:-Pry ram <br />T17 "should. reco nize.tliat- r: ` t es s :come` *—i coordi fated- alanced <br />study rather°thaaa single -source requestwhichisImportantAin establishing <br />priorities foir*limited"funding <br />