Relates to a state transportation plan; requires such plan include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, assessing long-range needs spanning such period, including a forecast of highway pavement and bridge conditions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2677--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRETT, BRONSON, FAHY, HUNTER, JOYNER,
LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, OTIS, SANTABARBARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK,
STIRPE, ZEBROWSKI, WALLACE, DICKENS, VANEL, PHEFFER AMATO, LAVINE,
JEAN-PIERRE, KIM, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL,
WILLIAMS, CARROLL, D. ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, JONES,
WEPRIN, PEOPLES-STOKES, McMAHON, FRIEND, REYES, CRUZ, McDONOUGH,
BRABENEC, PALMESANO, RA, WALSH, JACOBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. COOK, GLICK, HEVESI, HYNDMAN, THIELE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to a state transpor-
tation plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 15 of the transportation law, subdivision 2 as
2 amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2005 and subdivision 3 as amended
3 by chapter 1064 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 15. Comprehensive statewide master plan for transportation. 1. The
5 department shall formulate [and from time to time revise] a long-range
6 comprehensive statewide master plan for the balanced development and
7 coordination of adequate, safe and efficient commuter and general trans-
8 portation facilities and services in the state at reasonable cost to the
9 people, including, but not limited to, state highways[,] and bridges
10 under the jurisdiction of the commissioner; bicycle and pedestrian
11 facilities on such state highways and bridges; rapid transit, freight
12 and passenger railroad, omnibus, marine and other mass transportation
13 facilities and services[,] but excluding rapid transit, railroad, omni-
14 bus, marine and other mass transportation facilities and services under
15 the jurisdiction of the metropolitan transportation authority or its
16 subsidiaries or of a bi-state public benefit corporation; and public use
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04679-02-3
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1 aviation and airport facilities and services[,] whether publicly or
2 privately owned, developed, operated or maintained, excluding airports
3 operated by a bi-state public benefit corporation. Such plan shall
4 include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption,
5 assess long-range needs spanning such period, include a forecast of
6 pavement and bridge conditions of state highways and bridges under the
7 jurisdiction of the commissioner, and take into consideration:
8 a. the most recent twenty-year transportation plan adopted by each
9 metropolitan planning organization within the state pursuant to subpart
10 C of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations; and
11 b. the most recent long-range statewide transportation plan and state-
12 wide transportation improvement program developed by the state pursuant
13 to subpart B of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations.
14 2. The department shall submit such plan to the governor, the tempo-
15 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to the
16 department of state on or before September first, [nineteen hundred
17 sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions of such
18 plan] two thousand twenty-four. The department shall review and update
19 such plan at least every five years to extend the forecast period to at
20 least twenty years, provided that the department may revise such plan at
21 any other time without extending such forecast period. The department
22 shall submit all such revised and updated plans to the governor, the
23 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to
24 the department of state [from time to] at the time [as] such revisions
25 are made. The department of state shall review such plan and such
26 revisions and shall submit a report thereon, together with such recom-
27 mendations as it may deem appropriate, to the governor, the temporary
28 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. Such plan and
29 such revisions shall become effective upon approval by the governor
30 [and], shall serve thereafter as a guide to the public and publicly
31 assisted development of transportation facilities and services in the
32 state, and the department shall maintain hard copies of the most recent
33 version of such plan and revisions thereto on file as a public document
34 in the office of the commissioner and at each regional office of the
35 department.
36 3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department:
37 a. shall conduct [one or more] at least one public [hearings] hearing
38 in each department region;
39 b. may consult with and cooperate with (i) officials of departments
40 and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning
41 transportation;
42 (ii) officials and representatives of public corporations as defined
43 in [article one, section three of the general corporation] section
44 sixty-five of the general construction law;
45 (iii) officials and representatives of the federal government, of
46 neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting
47 transportation in this state;
48 (iv) officials and representatives of carriers and transportation
49 facilities and systems in the state; and
50 (v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested
51 in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state;
52 c. may request and receive from any department, division, board,
53 bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdi-
54 vision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may
55 be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities
56 under this section; and
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1 d. may make use of and incorporate in the department's plan, any
2 recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report
3 developed by any public or private agency.
4 4. The department shall maintain on its public website the proposed
5 and adopted long-range comprehensive statewide master plan and all
6 proposed and adopted revisions thereto, and shall provide a means on
7 such website for the public to submit comments thereon to the depart-
8 ment.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
