SB 5560 - DIGEST

     Directs the department of transportation, in consultation with local officials and residents of the area, to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of creating a new north-south corridor as an alternative to state route 5 and state route 405, which would run from approximately the Canadian Border in the northern portion of the state to approximately Lewis county in the southern portion of the state.  The study will be known as the middle Washington corridor study, and the department shall report to the legislature, no later than December 31, 2002, on the feasibility of financing and constructing such a corridor.

     Appropriates the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the biennium ending June 30, 2003, from the motor vehicle fund to the department of transportation for the middle Washington corridor study.