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processing of this section at its cost to the employer. If the employer adds a supplemental questionnaire to the official state supplied survey, the employer will be responsible for processing the supplemental data. Everett and Snohomish County may provide PC-based analysis software, in DOS-compatible formats to employers that want to analyze their own surveys. If an employer does data entry and analysis, it shall provide the raw survey data file to the City for verification purposes. Everett shall provide verification to employers that the raw data file was received. Reporting Survey Results Employers that do data entry and analysis are responsible for reporting their results to the City. All affected employers, including those that send their surveys to the City for processing, are still accountable for the results of their surveys. The Task Force believes that survey processing should be centralized and that the State should seek funding to support this activity throughout the CTR program. Federal Congestion Management and Relief and Surface Transportation Program funds have been received for survey processing in the base year (1992-93) only. Transportation Management Organizations Transportation management organizations (TMOs), or other business partnerships, may submit a single program description that describes the common program elements. The program should also describe specific program elements at individual employers' worksites. The TMO, as an agent for its members, should provide individual performance data for each company as well as combined measurements to the City. Each employer shall remain accountable for the success of the program. Adjustment of a program that does not meet the goals would be specific to that employer; it would not apply to other employer members. TMOs that straddle jurisdictional boundaries would submit the employer members' CTR programs to the appropriate jurisdictions. Evaluation of the CTR Program The Task Force is responsible for evaluating the CTR Law. It must make recommendations to the Legislature by December 1, 1995 and December 1, 1999, on whether the program should be continued, modified, or terminated. RCW 70.94.537[4]. Specifically, the Task Force must: 1) review progress toward the law's implementation; 2) evaluate the costs and benefits of the law; 3) consider the costs of not having implemented the law; and 4) examine other TDM programs nationally and incorporate its findings into its recommendations to the Legislature, as required by the CTR Law. The Task Force and Legislature will base major decisions on the evaluation results, so it is important that the information be of good quality. Employers will be interested in the evaluation results as 17