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100
This is what RHP stands for.
What is Replacment Housing Payment?
100

Drainage, slope, access, utilities are all example of this kind of easement.

What is a permanent easement?

100
This is the process of taking private property for public use through the power of eminent domain.
What is condemnation?
100
This is what NEPA stands for.
What is National Environmental Policy Act?
100
Although the myths regarding this early American patriot's wooden teeth have been disproved, it is true that he began his auspicious career in the field of right of way when, shortly after leaving school, he was hired by Lord Fairfax to survey an enormous tract of land between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers in what was to become the great State of Virginia.
Who is George Washington?
200

DS&S, as defined under 49 CFR Section 24.2, stands for this term which details certain housing standards which must be present in a comparable dwelling.

What is Decent, Safe and Sanitary?

200
Unity of use, unity of ownership, physical contiguity are all tests for this.
What is the larger parcel?
200
This type of negotiation technique taught in IRWA courses has five stages - information seeking, information giving, problem census, problem solving, and closing.
What is the Funnel Technique?
200

A __________ is person who traditionally interacts and negotiates directly with landowners to acquire leases for the exploration and development of minerals or other energy sources. 

What is a landman?

200
3:1 (Horizontal Distance : Vertical Distance) is an example of this.
What is a slope ratio?
300

This is the number of days a homeowner/occupant must have owned and occupied the property before the initiation of negotiations in order to be eligible for the purchase supplement payment.

What is 90 days?

300
Compensation for this type of interest is valued like a lease.
What is a temporary easement?
300
This party has the burden of proof regarding value and damages at the valuation trial.
Who is the property owner?
300
Gas stations, dry cleaners, and plant nurseries are all good examples of this.
What is a site that may have serious contamination issues?
300
This type of view on right of way plans shows the project from the side, as though it were sliced vertically along the centerline.
What is a profile view?
400
The abbreviation ION is short for this term which generally refers to the date of delivery of the initial written offer of just compensation by the Agency to the owner or the owner's representative to purchase the real property for the project.
What is initiation of negotiations?
400

These are the 3 approaches to value.

What are:  Income, Market and Cost?

400

Under 49 CFR Section 24.102(d), "Before the initiation of negotiations, the agency shall establish an amount which it believes is ________  ________ for the real property. 

What is just compensation?

400
In oil and gas lingo, this kind of "barnyard critter" cleans your pipes.
What is a pig?
400
When these lines are close, they indicate steep slopes, and when they are far apart they indicate flat slopes.
What are contour lines?
500
Although very little in 49 CFR Part 24 is discretionary, the use of the word SHALL (or must) lets us know that whatever regulatory provision being discussed is mandatory and has the force of this.
What is law?
500
Loss of one curb cut -- leaving two; interruption of business, inconvenience, noise, good will are all examples of this type of loss in value.
What are non-compensable losses in value?
500

In its 2005 decision in the case of Kelo v. New London, the _______  _______  expanded the definition of “public use” to include private economic development.

What is the Supreme Court?

500
These types of land forms are hydrologically connected to waters of the United States and may also contain special soils and plants.
What are "wetlands"?
500
This point, know as the P.V.T., is the point where the vertical curve ends and the tangent begins.
What is the Point of Vertical Tangency?