Effectiveness and Impacts of FHWA's Implementation of the 49 CFR 24.102(c)(2) Appraisal Waiver

Publication No: FHWA-HEP-07-018

February 2007

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Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
  
  
  1. Project Background
  2. Project Objectives and Approach
  3. Key Findings
  4. Recommendations
  
  
• I. Introduction and Project Overview
  
  
  1. Overview of Appraisal Waiver Concept
  2. Research Problem
  3. Project Scope and Objectives
     
     
• II. Investigative Questions
  
  
  1. Effectiveness of the Appraisal Waiver
  2. Organizational Impacts of the Appraisal Waiver
     
     
• III. Research Approach and Methodology
  
  
  1. Stakeholder Review of Survey and Interview Questionnaires
  2. Web-based Survey of the State Right-of-Way Managers
  3. Follow-up Telephone Interviews
  4. Collection and Study of State Statutes, Procedures, and Forms
  5. Analysis and Synthesis of Survey Responses
     
     
• IV. Summary of Key Findings
  
  
  1. Extent of State Use of teh Appraisal Waiver
  2. Implementation Practices
  3. Effectiveness of teh Appraisal Waiver
  4. Organizational Impact of the Appraisal Waiver
     
     
• V. Recommendations
  
  
  1. State-Level Recommendations
  2. National Recommendations

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