PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: To amend the Transportation Improvement Board's rules for providing increases on roadway projects.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: Chapter 47.26 RCW, Development in urban areas -- Urban arterials.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Increases in project costs place a substantial financial burden on the urban arterial trust account and the transportation improvement account. Rule changes are required to provide strategic increases necessary for the development of projects that do not jeopardize the financial viability of the funding accounts.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Stevan Gorcester, Executive Director, Transportation Improvement Board, P.O. Box 40901, Olympia, WA 98504-0901, phone (360) 705-7301, fax (360) 705-6830, e-mail steveg@tib.wa.gov. Comments must be received by July 25, 2001.
May 1, 2001
Stevan Gorcester
Executive Director