HF 667

1st Engrossment - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to transportation; requiring commissioner of transportation to file annual
report on major highway projects; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
Statutes, chapter 174.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

new text begin [174.56] REPORT ON MAJOR HIGHWAY PROJECTS.
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new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Report required. new text end

new text begin The commissioner of transportation shall submit a
report on January 15, 2008, and on January 15 of each year thereafter, on the status of
major highway projects under construction or planned during the year of the report and for
the ensuing 15 years. For purposes of this section, a "major highway project" is a highway
project that has a total cost for all segments that the commissioner estimates at the time of
the report to be at least (1) $25,000,000 in the metropolitan highway construction district,
or (2) $10,000,000 in any nonmetropolitan highway construction district.
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new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Report contents. new text end

new text begin For each major highway project the report must include:
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new text begin (1) a description of the project sufficient to specify its scope and location;
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new text begin (2) a history of the project, including, but not limited to, previous official actions
by the department or the appropriate area transportation partnership, or both, the date
on which the project was first included in the state transportation improvement plan,
the cost of the project at that time, the dates of environmental approval, the dates of
municipal approval, the date of final geometric layout, and the date of establishment of
any construction limits;
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new text begin (3) the project's priority listing or rank within its construction district, if any, as
well as the reasons for that listing or rank, the criteria used in prioritization or rank, any
changes in that prioritization or rank since the project was first included in a department
work plan, and the reasons for those changes; and
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new text begin (4) past and potential future reasons for delay in letting or completing the project.
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