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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1807
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRETT, BRONSON, HUNTER, LUPARDO, MAGNAR-
ELLI, OTIS, SANTABARBARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE, VANEL,
PHEFFER AMATO, LAVINE, KIM, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, COLTON, ROSEN-
THAL, WILLIAMS, R. CARROLL, EPSTEIN, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, JONES, WEPRIN,
PEOPLES-STOKES, McMAHON, FRIEND, REYES, CRUZ, McDONOUGH, BRABENEC,
PALMESANO, RA, WALSH, JACOBSON, SHIMSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. COOK, GLICK, HEVESI, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption,
2 assess long-range needs spanning such period, include a forecast of
3 pavement and bridge conditions of state highways and bridges under the
4 jurisdiction of the commissioner, and take into consideration:
5 a. the most recent twenty-year transportation plan adopted by each
6 metropolitan planning organization within the state pursuant to subpart
7 C of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations; and
8 b. the most recent long-range statewide transportation plan and state-
9 wide transportation improvement program developed by the state pursuant
10 to subpart B of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations.
11 2. The department shall submit such plan to the governor, the tempo-
12 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to the
13 department of state on or before September first, [nineteen hundred
14 sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions of such
15 plan] two thousand twenty-six. The department shall review and update
16 such plan at least every five years to extend the forecast period to at
17 least twenty years, provided that the department may revise such plan at
18 any other time without extending such forecast period. The department
19 shall submit all such revised and updated plans to the governor, the
20 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to
21 the department of state [from time to] at the time [as] such revisions
22 are made. The department of state shall review such plan and such
23 revisions and shall submit a report thereon, together with such recom-
24 mendations as it may deem appropriate, to the governor, the temporary
25 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. Such plan and
26 such revisions shall become effective upon approval by the governor
27 [and], shall serve thereafter as a guide to the public and publicly
28 assisted development of transportation facilities and services in the
29 state, and the department shall maintain hard copies of the most recent
30 version of such plan and revisions thereto on file as a public document
31 in the office of the commissioner and at each regional office of the
32 department.
33 3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department:
34 a. shall conduct [one or more] at least one public [hearings] hearing
35 in each department region;
36 b. may consult with and cooperate with (i) officials of departments
37 and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning
38 transportation;
39 (ii) officials and representatives of public corporations as defined
40 in [article one, section three of the general corporation] section
41 sixty-five of the general construction law;
42 (iii) officials and representatives of the federal government, of
43 neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting
44 transportation in this state;
45 (iv) officials and representatives of carriers and transportation
46 facilities and systems in the state; and
47 (v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested
48 in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state;
49 c. may request and receive from any department, division, board,
50 bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdi-
51 vision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may
52 be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities
53 under this section; and
54 d. may make use of and incorporate in the department's plan, any
55 recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report
56 developed by any public or private agency.
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1 4. The department shall maintain on its public website the proposed
2 and adopted long-range comprehensive statewide master plan and all
3 proposed and adopted revisions thereto, and shall provide a means on
4 such website for the public to submit comments thereon to the depart-
5 ment.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
