GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1000

Short Title:  Hearings on TIP Changes.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Kinnaird; Blust, Foxx, Horton, Jenkins, Lucas, and Miller.

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Referred to:  Transportation.

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE AND FOLLOW OTHER PROCEDURES ON ALL MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS BEFORE THEY ARE ADDED TO, REMOVED FROM, OR MODIFIED ON THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 143B-350(f)(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	To approve a schedule of all major transportation improvement projects and their anticipated cost for a period of seven years into the future. This schedule is designated the Transportation Improvement Program; it shall be published and copies shall be available for distribution. The document that contains the Transportation Improvement Program, or a separate document that is published at the same time as the Transportation Improvement Program, shall include the anticipated funding sources for the improvement projects included in the Program, a list of any changes made from the previous year's Program, and the reasons for the changes.
	Once an annual Transportation Improvement Program is published, the Department of Transportation shall give 45 days written notice to the affected local government and an opportunity for public review and comment before adopting any change to that Transportation Improvement Program involving a project with an estimated cost of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) or more.  The Department shall state the reason for the change and the source of funds to pay for the project in the notice.  Upon a request from the local government, the Department of Transportation shall hold a public hearing on the proposed change."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.