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two or more land use and transportation scenarios before January 2012. These scenarios are to achieve GHG emission reductions from Light Vehicles while accommodating planned population and employment growth. DCLD and ODOT are required to report to the House and Senate interim committees related to transportation in February 2012 and again in February 2014 on the progress of scenario planning to reduce GHG emissions. State Planning Activities ODOT and DLCD will undertake several state level activities to support MPO scenario planning to reduce transportation GHG emissions. These activities will be coordinated with work that will be done to carry out the requirements of HB 2001 and the experience and results will benefit other MPOs. These activities will be carried out collaboratively with the MPOs and in consultation with other agencies, stakeholders and the general public. Figure 4 illustrates the activities, the relationships between them, and connections to tasks established by HB 2001, and includes: ODOT, in consultation with other agencies and stakeholders, will prepare and OTC will adopt a preliminary and final state strategy for reducing GHG emissions from the transportation sector to meet the targets in ORS 468A.205. The strategy will make recommendations as necessary for changes to the Oregon Transportation Plan to reduce GHG emissions. The strategy will establish planning assumptions about state and federal programs, policies, and incentives expected to be in place to reduce transportation related GHG emissions. Because the state strategy will address all travel, it will address the intercity travel issues identified by the Task Force as being important, but outside the jurisdiction of the MPOs. Examples of these issues include commuting to and from metropolitan areas and surrounding areas, the roles of tolling and pricing, and the roles of intercity public transportation including high-speed rail. The strategy and accompanying analysis will provide the information called for in HB 2001 to be provided to LCDC to support target-setting rulemaking. ODOT will develop and assist with the deployment of modeling tools to support the MPOs scenario planning and the analysis of the effects of prospective actions for reducing GHG emissions from metropolitan area Light Vehicle travel. This will build on work by Metro and ODOT under HB 2001 to provide land use modeling technical assistance to other MPOs. ODOT and the DLCD will develop a GHG reduction toolkit, which catalogs actions and programs for reducing GHG emissions from the transportation sector that can be implemented at the local and regional level. The toolkit will be updated continuously to incorporate new information. Early versions of the toolkit will be used by MPOs for their first phase work described below. ODOT and DLCD will prepare guidelines and best management practices for the preparation and evaluation of alternative land use and transportation scenarios for reducing GHG emissions from metropolitan area Light Vehicle travel. These guidelines will assist the MPOs with their second phase work described below. ODOT and DLCD will prepare guidelines, methodologies and tools for preparing metropolitan area transportation sector GHG inventories. Page 15