---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 64.8"
title: "36"
number: "64.8"
heading: "Project selection criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/64.8"
---

# §64.8. Project selection criteria.


Those projects which best meet the following criteria will be selected to receive assistance:

- (a) Projects which have cleared abandonment procedures and for which sufficient control and tenure of land can be assured, in order that the project can be accomplished shortly after project approval.
- (b) **Projects which are located or originate in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas.**
- (c) The degree to which the project results in a facility which demonstrates maximum beneficial public use of the property acquired. (For example, the diversity of recreation/conservation opportunities provided.)
- (d) **The ease of accessibility to large numbers of potential users.**
- (e) The effectiveness of the project in enhancing existing Federal, State, or local recreation/conservation resources. (For example, the ability of the project to tie together existing recreation/conservation resources.)
- (f) Whether use of the right-of-way for recreation/conservation purposes has been identified in existing State, Federal, or local plans.
- (g) The degree to which the project advances new ideas in recreation/conservation use and promotes nonmotorized forms of transportation such as commuting by bicycle.
- (h) **The recreation/conservation potential of the environment traversed by the right-of-way.**
- (i) **The energy conservation potential of using the right-of-way for recreation and/or commuting.**
- (j) The urgency of the acquisition as reflected by the plans of the owner of record to sell the property to persons other than the project sponsor.
- (k) The degree to which Federal, State or local land use controls will protect the recreation and conservation values of the right-of-way from encroachment by conflicting uses of surrounding land.
- (l) State and local projects involving the development of abandoned railroad rights-of-way which do not include the acquisition of the rights-of-way will be given lower funding priority than projects involving both acquisition and development.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 809(B)(2) and (3), 90 Stat. 145, Pub. L. 94-210; Sec. 2 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 (34 Stat. 1262).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 54806, Oct. 11, 1977, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 45 FR 780, Jan. 3, 1980, and further redesignated at 46 FR 34329, July 1, 1981.