BILL REQ. #:  H-0162.1 

Read first time 01/22/13.   Referred to Committee on Transportation.

     AN ACT Relating to the construction of a state boundary bridge; and amending RCW 47.56.042.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 47.56.042 and 1984 c 7 s 249 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The department is authorized to enter into agreements with any county of this state and/or with an adjoining state or county thereof for the purpose of implementing an investigation of the feasibility of any toll bridge project for the bridging of a river forming a portion of the boundary of this state, and the adjoining state. The department may use funds available to it to carry out the purposes of this ((section)) subsection. These agreements may provide that if any such project is determined to be feasible and is adopted, any advancement of funds by any state or county may be reimbursed out of any proceeds derived from the sale of bonds or out of tolls and revenues to be derived from the project.
     (2)(a) If state, local, or department funds are appropriated for the purpose of constructing a state boundary bridge, the department must assign steel fabrication inspector travel costs to the project contractor when elements of the project are fabricated outside of three hundred miles from Olympia, Washington.
     (b) If it is impracticable and difficult to ascertain and determine the actual increase in expenses to the department for steel fabrication inspections:
     (i) Payment to a contractor for furnishing elements of the project from a fabrication site located more than three hundred miles from Olympia, Washington must be reduced by five thousand dollars or an amount computed at five cents per pound of structural steel fabricated, whichever is greater; or
     (ii) Payment to a contractor for furnishing elements of the project from a fabrication site located more than three thousand miles from Olympia, Washington must be reduced by eight thousand dollars or an amount computed at seven cents per pound of structural steel fabricated, whichever is greater.