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APPENDIX A: Study Survey
Pages 23-24

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... NCHRP is preparing a report that will summarize state transportation agencies' experience with "practical design" and "context sensitive design" and provide legal counsel for those agencies with a framework for devising successful strategies to defend policy decisions made by engineering staff. Some questions in this survey are most likely appropriate for the Division Director of Design (or your state's equivalent)
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... For instance, California has a law that provides an affirmative defense of compliance with standards or evidence of documented approval of a design exception based on sound engineering in a tort lawsuit. If so, please provide the citation.
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