Requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to prepare and adopt by a certain date a draft road toll facilities plan covering a certain period of time; requiring the plan to ensure toll facilities consistency with regional transportation plans, coordination with other highway and transportation improvements and construction to meet certain transportation needs, specifying certain plan content requirements; specifying certain cost benefit analysis requirements of local road authorities for development agreement signing purposes; requiring the plan to require development agreements to provide significant advantages, benefits or preferences to public transit and other high occupancy vehicles (HOV) and to be approved by planning organizations in metropolitan areas slated for facility location, requiring the commissioner to submit draft plans to the organizations by a certain date, failure of the organizations to act on the draft plans by a certain later date to constitute approval; specifying certain required operational aspects of the plan; prohibiting toll facility agreements containing provisions prohibiting or restricting construction of competing transportation facilities in proximity to the new toll facility from prohibiting or restricting the development, design, construction or operation of public transit facilities; requiring inclusion of toll facilities in the statewide transportation improvement program before entering into development agreements for the facilities; requiring the commissioner to include descriptions of toll facilities developed under development agreements in the biennial budget document submitted to the legislature, specifying certain description content and summarization requirements
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