FHWA's Office of Project Development and Environmental Review (HEPE) and the Gallup Organization will be conducting the second installment of a national environmental streamlining performance measurement survey (¿Measuring the Performance of Stakeholders in the Transportation Development Process¿) over the next several months. This survey is designed to collect the input of approximately 2,000 respondents from transportation and resource agencies at the Federal, State, and local levels. The Gallup Organization conducted the initial version of the survey between October 2002 and May 2003.

The objectives for the upcoming national survey have been somewhat modified from the previous version. For this iteration, five separate State Departments of Transportation have agreed to participate with FHWA and provide Gallup¿s survey developers with both slates of questions that are of interest to their organizations and additional candidates eligible to participate in the survey. The benefit to the five State DOTs (California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas) of this ¿individualized¿ survey sub-set is that the greater number of respondents in both the transportation and resource-management agencies, as well the customized sets of questions, will permit the Gallup analysts to prepare specific, State-level reports for each of the co-sponsoring DOTs.

The Gallup Organization will be conducting the surveys. The instruments for collecting information--i.e., the ¿Questionnaires¿ - have been prepared by Gallup and used questions supplied by each of the States. Gallup will implement the surveys for the five individual States during the course of the national survey. The results of the surveys for the individual States will illustrate the status of relationships, communication, and timeliness between the stakeholders in the transportation development process. The Gallup Organization will prepare executive summaries and briefings for the five States as well as provide them with reports analyzing the results of the responses gathered from contacts in both transportation and resource agencies.

This survey at both the national and individual State levels has been identified as a core data-collection tool for measuring the effect of environmental streamlining on the transportation project development process.