1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to transportation; highways; establishing requirements governing marked 
1.3 	Interstate Highway 494 rehabilitation work.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 494 REHABILITATION PROJECT.
 1.6 		Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "I-494 rehabilitation 
1.7 	project" means the trunk highway project programmed on the effective date of this section 
1.8 	to reconstruct marked Interstate Highway 494, maintain associated bridges from the 
1.9 	interchange with marked Interstate Highway 394 to the interchange with marked Interstate 
1.10 	Highways 94 and 694, and establish dynamic shoulder lanes along the segment of marked 
1.11 	Interstate Highway 494 from the interchange with marked Trunk Highway 55 to the 
1.12 	overpass at East Fish Lake Road.
1.13 		Subd. 2.Project requirements. The commissioner of transportation shall continue 
1.14 	the I-494 rehabilitation project, but shall modify the project by replacing the planned 
1.15 	dynamic shoulder lanes with an additional general purpose lane in each direction of travel. 
1.16 	The additional general purpose lanes shall be constructed for the entire segment over 
1.17 	which dynamic shoulder lanes had been planned.

1.18 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.