Florida Senate - 2007                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1928
                        Barcode 952768
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11  The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
12  Appropriations (Webster) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 61, line 1,
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18         Section 22.  Section 339.285, Florida Statutes, is
19  created to read:
20         339.285  Enhanced Bridge Program for Sustainable
21  Transportation.--
22         (1)  There is created within the Department of
23  Transportation the Enhanced Bridge Program for Sustainable
24  Transportation for the purpose of providing funds to improve
25  the sufficiency rating of local bridges and to improve
26  congested roads on the State Highway System or local corridors
27  on which high-cost bridges are located in order to improve a
28  corridor or provide an alternative corridor.
29         (2)  Matching funds provided from the program may fund
30  up to 50 percent of project costs.
31         (3)  The department shall allocate a minimum of 25
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Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1928 Barcode 952768 1 percent of funding available for the program for local bridge 2 projects to replace, rehabilitate, paint, or install scour 3 countermeasures to highway bridges located on public roads, 4 other than those on the State Highway System. A project to be 5 funded must, at a minimum: 6 (a) Be classified as a structurally deficient bridge 7 having a poor condition rating for the deck, superstructure, 8 substructure component, or culvert; 9 (b) Have a sufficiency rating of 35 or below; and 10 (c) Have average daily traffic of at least 500 11 vehicles. 12 (4) Special consideration shall be given to bridges 13 that are closed to all traffic or that have a load restriction 14 of less than 10 tons. 15 (5) The department shall allocate remaining funding 16 available for the program to improve highly congested roads on 17 the State Highway System or local corridors on which high-cost 18 bridges are located in order to improve the corridor or 19 provide an alternative corridor. A project to be funded must, 20 at a minimum: 21 (a) Be on or provide direct relief to an existing 22 corridor that is backlogged or constrained; and 23 (b) Be a major bridge having an estimated cost greater 24 than $25 million. 25 (6) Preference shall be given to bridge projects 26 located on corridors that connect to the Strategic Intermodal 27 System, created under s. 339.64, and that have been identified 28 as regionally significant in accordance with s. 29 339.155(5)(c),(d), and (e). 30 31 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 2 10:15 AM 04/22/07 s1928.ta09.00b
Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1928 Barcode 952768 1 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 2 And the title is amended as follows: 3 On page 5, line 24, after the first semicolon, 4 5 insert: 6 creating s. 339.285, F.S.; creating the 7 Enhanced Bridge Program for Sustainable 8 Transportation within the Department of 9 Transportation; providing for the use of funds 10 in the program; providing project guidelines 11 for program funding; 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3 10:15 AM 04/22/07 s1928.ta09.00b