6665-S AMS JOHS MCH 002

6665-S AMS JOHS MCH 002

SSB 6665 - S AMD 538

By Senators Johnson, Keiser, Eide and Kastama

ADOPTED 02/18/02

Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. I. The legislature finds that the expansion and realignment of state route 167, which has been designated as a highway of statewide significance, is of vital interest to the state's economy. To ensure the free movement of people and goods along this corridor is a transportation priority, and the department of transportation shall plan and design an improved and expanded corridor from its intersection with state route 405 in the north to a new terminus at the Port of Tacoma via proposed state route 509 in the south. At a minimum, the planning must include:

(1) Environmental permit processes must be conducted in accordance with the criteria, standards, timelines, and other processes developed by the transportation permit efficiency and accountability committee established under chapter 47.06C RCW, and may include watershed based mitigation;

(2) Planning must be undertaken in preparation for the ultimate project to be designed and constructed using the design-build processes established under RCW 47.20.780 and 47.20.785. The cost-benefit analysis process and demand modeling tools provided in sections 401 through 406, chapter 5, Laws of 2002 may be used in this planning.

(3) Nothing in this section delays, restricts, or limits design, right-of-way purchase, planning, construction, or other work associated with state route 167 improvement projects which has already been completed or is on-going. The design and plan process called for in this section shall be conducted in such a way as to integrate previous or on-going work on projects associated with improving state route 167 to avoid delay to any such project.

NEW SECTION. Sec. II. This act is null and void if new transportation revenues do not become law in 2002."

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