# Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement *A Minnesota Department of Transportation review document, named in one at-issue record entry on the Rondo land bridge.* The **Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement** is the document into which the [[Minnesota]] Department of Transportation (MnDOT) carried four options in the freeway process that a [[Rondo land bridge]] would remediate. The at-issue record names it in one entry, which states that none of those four options is a dedicated Rondo land bridge alternative.[^1] The entry, AI-Ramsey-043 in the record's Ramsey package, also states that the land bridge assessment is formally separate from the freeway process it exists to remediate. Its stated anchor is a March 2025 White House presidential action on information silos. The entry gives its reason for that pairing as "the remedy and the harm are being studied in separate files."[^1] The record in the pack does not establish why MnDOT selected the four options it carried forward. The entry lists two underlying sources, one news and one record, from the domains startribune.com and talk.dot.state.mn.us. Neither is among the pack's citable sources, so the entry's statement about the options rests here on the at-issue row and its anchor.[^1] ## What According to the at-issue entry, MnDOT's Tier 1 statement carries four options for the freeway process. A land bridge for [[Rondo]] is not among them as a dedicated alternative.[^1] The entry treats the land bridge as a separate assessment that runs apart from the freeway review, even though the land bridge's purpose is remediation of that freeway process.[^1] ## In the at-issue record - **Entry:** AI-Ramsey-043, Ramsey package, rank 43, in the section *Tier III — Rondo: The Apology and the Ledger (Pairs 37–52)*.[^1] - **Statement:** No dedicated Rondo land bridge alternative appears among the four options MnDOT carried into its Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement. The land bridge assessment is formally separate from the freeway process.[^1] - **Anchor:** the March 2025 White House presidential action on eliminating information silos. The entry's stated rationale is "the remedy and the harm are being studied in separate files."[^1] - **Sources listed by the entry:** two (news; record), from startribune.com and talk.dot.state.mn.us.[^1] ## In the Minnesota record ### What - MnDOT carried four options into the Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement, and none is a dedicated Rondo land bridge alternative, per entry AI-Ramsey-043.[^1] - The land bridge assessment is formally separate from the freeway process, per the same entry.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). This is the presidential action that at-issue entry AI-Ramsey-043 cites as its anchor for the separated-processes point. It is cited for that pairing, not as a MnDOT record of the Tier 1 options. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/