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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6665

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State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Johnson and Keiser)

READ FIRST TIME 02/07/2002.

Establishing cost-benefit criteria for SR 167. 

    AN ACT Relating to state route 167; and creating new sections.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  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 ongoing.  The design and plan process called for in this section shall be conducted in such a way as to integrate previous or ongoing work on projects associated with improving state route 167 to avoid delay to any such project.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is null and void if new transportation revenues do not become law in 2002.

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