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Bureau of Design and Environment Manual
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Bureau of Design and Environment Manual

The Bureau of Design and Environment Manual (BDE Manual) has been prepared to provide uniform policies and procedures for the Department and consultant personnel preparing Phase I studies and reports and contract plans for Department.   The BDE Manual presents most of the information normally required for location, design and environmental evaluation of highway construction projects on the state highway system.  The BDE Manual is available on CD-ROM and IDOT's Doing Business/Manuals-Memorandums/Bureau of Design and Environment Manual & Memorandums page at: http://www.dot.il.gov/desenv/bdemanual.html

BDE Procedure Memorandums

The BDE Procedure Memorandums are used as a means to implement changes in procedures, policies, directives, and/or criteria in the interim between issuance of updates to the BDE Manual. The designer should refer to these when using the BDE Manual until such time as they are superseded or incorporated into an updated edition of the BDE Manual.  BDE Procedure Memorandums are available on IDOT's Doing Business/Manuals-Memorandums/Bureau of Design and Environment Manual & Memorandums page at: http://www.dot.il.gov/desenv/bdemems.html

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