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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6154
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
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
17 aviation and airport facilities and services[,] whether publicly or
18 privately owned, developed, operated or maintained, excluding airports
19 operated by a bi-state public benefit corporation. Such plan shall
20 include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption,
21 assess long-range needs spanning such period, include a forecast of
22 pavement and bridge conditions of state highways and bridges under the
23 jurisdiction of the commissioner, and take into consideration:
24 a. the most recent twenty-year transportation plan adopted by each
25 metropolitan planning organization within the state pursuant to subpart
26 C of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 b. the most recent long-range statewide transportation plan and state-
2 wide transportation improvement program developed by the state pursuant
3 to subpart B of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations.
4 2. The department shall submit such plan to the governor, the tempo-
5 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to the
6 department of state on or before September first, [nineteen hundred
7 sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions of such
8 plan] two thousand twenty-four. The department shall review and update
9 such plan at least every five years to extend the forecast period to at
10 least twenty years, provided that the department may revise such plan at
11 any other time without extending such forecast period. The department
12 shall submit all such revised and updated plans to the governor, the
13 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to
14 the department of state [from time to] at the time [as] such revisions
15 are made. The department of state shall review such plan and such
16 revisions and shall submit a report thereon, together with such recom-
17 mendations as it may deem appropriate, to the governor, the temporary
18 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. Such plan and
19 such revisions shall become effective upon approval by the governor
20 [and], shall serve thereafter as a guide to the public and publicly
21 assisted development of transportation facilities and services in the
22 state, and the department shall maintain hard copies of the most recent
23 version of such plan and revisions thereto on file as a public document
24 in the office of the commissioner and at each regional office of the
25 department.
26 3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department:
27 a. shall conduct [one or more] at least one public [hearings] hearing
28 in each department region;
29 b. may consult with and cooperate with (i) officials of departments
30 and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning
31 transportation;
32 (ii) officials and representatives of public corporations as defined
33 in [article one, section three of the general corporation] section
34 sixty-five of the general construction law;
35 (iii) officials and representatives of the federal government, of
36 neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting
37 transportation in this state;
38 (iv) officials and representatives of carriers and transportation
39 facilities and systems in the state; and
40 (v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested
41 in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state;
42 c. may request and receive from any department, division, board,
43 bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdi-
44 vision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may
45 be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities
46 under this section; and
47 d. may make use of and incorporate in the department's plan, any
48 recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report
49 developed by any public or private agency.
50 4. The department shall maintain on its public website the proposed
51 and adopted long-range comprehensive statewide master plan and all
52 proposed and adopted revisions thereto, and shall provide a means on
53 such website for the public to submit comments thereon to the depart-
54 ment.
55 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
