In addition to meeting applicable standards established in other chapters of subtitle Env-Wt, the department shall not approve an application for a public highway project unless the following criteria are met, subject to the rebuttable presumption in RSA 482-A:3, I-a that for applications “proposed, sponsored, or administered by the department of transportation”, NH DOT “has exercised appropriate engineering judgment in the project’s design”:

1. (a) The project meets the design criteria specified in Env-Wt 527.04;
2. (b) The project is consistent with RSA 482-A:1, RSA 483, RSA 483-B, RSA 485-A, and RSA 212-A;
3. (c) The purpose of the project is to improve or maintain public safety, consistent with federal and state safety standards;
4. (d) The project will not cause displacement of flood storage wetlands or cause diversion of stream flow impacting abutting landowner property; and
5. (e) For a project in the 100-year floodplain, the project will not increase flood stages off-site.

Source. #12805, eff 12-15-19