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								<gco:CharacterString>Web page to view and download dataset. The file download formats available include: ESRI File Geodatabase or Shapefile, GeoPackage, Comma-Seperated Values (CSV), Microsoft Excel, GeoJSON, KML, Feature Collection, and SQLite Geodatabase.</gco:CharacterString>
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								<gmd:CI_OnLineFunctionCode codeList="http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/20070417/resources/codelist/gmxCodelists.xml#CI_OnLineFunctionCode" codeListValue="download">online instructions for transferring data from one storage device or system to another</gmd:CI_OnLineFunctionCode>
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					<gmd:onLine>
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						<gco:CharacterString>Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.</gco:CharacterString>
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						<gco:CharacterString>Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.</gco:CharacterString>
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							<gmd:description>
								<gco:CharacterString>The USDOT division layer for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Federal aid was created by the Bureau and Transportation Statistics (BTS), then approved by members of FHWA. BTS had several meetings with FHWA personnel to help understand where the FHWA divisions are and which areas it should encompass, mostly adhering to divisions of the FHWA federal lands highway and the website https://highways.dot.gov/about/field-offices. Each FHWA Federal aid division is a state, and as a result the U.S. Census state 2020 TIGER/Line shapefile was used to represent division boundaries using ArcPro 3.0.2, for all 50 states, plus one for District of Columbia, and one for combined PR and VI. To populate the attributes, BTS communicated with the FHWA to understand the address and contact information for each division. Various fields were then added to the database schema using the âadd fieldâ function within AcrPro 3.0.2 and then filled out appropriately by BTS with FHWAâs guidance and ultimate approval.</gco:CharacterString>
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								</gmd:CI_Telephone>
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								<gmd:CI_Address>
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										<gco:CharacterString>1200 New Jersey Ave. SE</gco:CharacterString>
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