AB1007: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly BILL 1007

March 13, 1996 - Introduced by Representative Lorge. Referred to Committee on Highways and Transportation.

AB1007,1,2 An Act to create 84.013 (6g) of the statutes; relating to: the designation of a major highway project for STH 22 in Waupaca County.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law requires that any major highway project, unlike other construction projects undertaken by the department of transportation (DOT), must receive the approval of the transportation projects commission (TPC) and the legislature before the project may be constructed. A major highway project is a project having a total cost of more than $5,000,000 and involving construction of a new highway 2.5 miles or more in length; reconstruction or reconditioning of an existing highway that relo cates at least 2.5 miles of the highway or adds one or more lanes 5 miles or more in length to the highway; or improvement of an existing multilane divided highway to freeway standards. There are currently 66 major highway projects approved for con struction.

This bill adds construction of a new portion of STH 22, designated as the Wau paca bypass, in Waupaca County, to the list of projects already approved for construc tion. DOT may undertake this major highway project without approval of the project by TPC.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB1007, s. 1 Section 1. 84.013 (6g) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1007,2,6 84.013 (6g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or s. 13.489, the department may proceed with construction of a major highway project consisting of STH 22 beginning approximately 1.5 miles east of the intersection of STH 22 and Churchill Street in the city of Waupaca and proceeding southerly to USH 10 near its junction with CTH "A", designated as the Waupaca bypass, in Waupaca County. The department may construct the major highway project under this subsection without first submitting the project to the transportation projects commission for its recom mendations and report and without specific authorization under sub. (3).

AB1007,2,7 (End)