2020 Roster

• 2020 MRPC_Transp Comm Roster (8.11.2020)

All-American Road Nomination

At the National Scenic Byway Coordinators Meeting on 7/29/2020, it was reported that FHWA received 64 Scenic Byway Nominations. All in all, 30 different states were represented by these nominations. There were 38 National Scenic Byway Nominations and 24 All-American Road nominations.

The Nominations Review Team held a Virtual Review Meeting on July 21-22. They will be contacting State Coordinators with any follow-up questions in the near future. Designations are expected to be announced in the Fall of 2020 with the official posting of all new designations on the NSB website by the end of 2020.

*The deadline for the FHWA FY2020 Nominations to America’s Byways® has been extended to June 15, 2020. All nomination applications must be completed online and submitted electronically through the Byway Nomination Form. *

	National Scenic Byway			All American Road		GIS Shapefiles (.zip file req’d – kmz also if possible)
State	App	Attachment(s)	CMP	APP	Attachments	GRR – Route	GRR – Signage	MRT Route
Arkansas					AR Attachments
Illinois								IL_MRT.zip IL_MRT.kmz
Iowa						IA_GRR.zip IA_GRR.kmz
Kentucky			2020	KY	KY Attachments
Louisiana	2008	hyperlinks in app/PDF do not work	2018	LA
Minnesota	2000	no attachments included (just list of attachments)		MN	MN Attachments	MN_GRR.zip MN_GRR.kmz		MN_MRT.zip MN_MRT.kmz
Mississippi			2009					MS_MRT.zip MS_MRT.kmz
Missouri
Tennessee			Env 2009 CMP 2008	TN
Wisconsin	2000	all attachments included in application	2019	WI	WI Attachments	WI_GRR.zip – WI_GRR.kmz	WI_GRR.zip WI_GRR.xlsx WI_GRR.kmz	WI_MRT.zip – WI_MRT.kmz
MRPC (10-State)			2018

Nomination Application

• Form Template (doc) (3.27.20)
• Help Document (doc) (5.5.20)
• Help Document (pdf) (4.8.20)
• Contacts_Commissions-StateDOTs_Deadlines (doc) (4.29.20)
• FHWA Nominations Website (link)

Mapping Examples

• Louisiana – Great River Road Maps (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Tennessee – route map with land management agencies (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Tennessee- final map (pdf) (4.27.20)
• Wisconsin – supplement map (pdf) (3.27.20)

Letters of Support

• National/Regional Agency/Group Listing (excel) (3.27.20)
• MRPC AAR one-pager_House-SenateLinks (doc) (2.11.20)
• Germany-Austria-Switzerland (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Louisiana – letters  (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Tourism MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• Tourism WI (doc) (3.27.20)
• Tribal MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• City/Village/Town – MN (doc) (4.1.20)
• DNR MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• DOT MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• National Forest MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• Convention Visitors Bureau MN (doc) (3.27.20)
• MRC Letter of Support (pdf) (4.14.20)
• National Park Service – Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (pdf) (4.15.20)
• Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge (pdf) (4.29.20)
• Connect Worldwide Japan (pdf) (5.5.20)
• GRR China Aviareps (pdf) (5.5.20)
• Great Lakes USA (pdf) (5.12.20)
• United Kingdom (pdf) (5.12.20)

Corridor Management Plans

• 2018 Ten-State Great River Road Corridor Management Plan (pdf) (2.11.20)
• Louisiana Corridor Management Plan (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Wisconsin Strategic Management Plan (pdf) (4.1.20)
• Tennessee Environmental Systems Enhancement Plan (pdf) (4.1.20)
• Tennessee Corridor Management Plan (pdf) (4.1.20)
• Mississippi Corridor Management Plan (pdf) (4.15.20)
• Minnesota Corridor Management Plan (pdf) (7.2.20)

NSB Application

• Minnesota NSB (pdf) (2.12.2020)
• Minnesota AAR (pdf) (5.27.2020)
• Wisconsin (pdf) (3.27.20)
• Louisiana (pdf) (3.27.20)