AB150-ASA1-AA26,122,1022
78.49
(1) (a) For the purpose of determining the amount of liability to the state
23for the tax under this subchapter, except as provided in par. (b), each alternate fuels
24licensee shall, not later than the
last 20th day of each month, file a monthly report
1for the next preceding month with the department on forms furnished and prescribed
2by it. Such report shall contain a declaration by the licensee that the statements
3contained therein are accurate and are a true return of the amount of the alternate
4fuels tax due and shall be subscribed by the licensee or the licensee's duly authorized
5agent. The report shall show, with reference to each location at which an alternate
6fuel is delivered or placed by such licensee into a fuel supply tank of any motor
7vehicle, the information that the department reasonably requires for the proper
8administration and enforcement of the tax under this subchapter. The department
9shall give due consideration to the varying types of operations and transactions in
10specifying the information required.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,122,1612
78.49
(1) (b) The department may allow alternate fuels licensees whose tax
13liability is less than $500 per quarter to file on a quarterly basis. Quarterly reports
14shall be mailed on or before the
last 20th day of the next month following the end of
15each calendar quarter. The report shall contain the declaration, subscription and
16information specified in par. (a).".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,122,2419
78.75
(1m) (a) 2. A person who uses motor vehicle fuel or an alternate fuel upon
20which has been paid the tax required under this chapter for the purpose of operating
21a snowmobile, as defined under s. 340.01 (58a), an aircraft, as defined under s. 78.55
22(2), or a motorboat, as defined under s. 30.50 (6), unless the motorboat is
exempt from
23registration as a motor vehicle under s. 341.05 (20) not a recreational motorboat, may
24not be reimbursed or repaid the amount of tax paid.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,123,152
78.75
(1m) (a) 3. Claims under subd. 1 shall be made and filed upon forms
3prescribed and furnished by the department. The forms shall indicate that refunds
4are not available for motor vehicle fuel or alternate fuels used for motorboats, except
5motorboats exempt from registration as motor vehicles under s. 341.05 (20)
and
6recreational motorboats, or motor vehicle fuel or alternate fuels used for
7snowmobiles and that the estimated snowmobile motor vehicle fuel or alternate fuels
8tax payments are used for snowmobile trails and areas. The forms shall indicate that
9refunds are not available for motor vehicle fuel or alternate fuels used for all-terrain
10vehicles unless the all-terrain vehicle is registered for private use under s. 23.33 (2)
11(d) and shall indicate that estimated all-terrain vehicle motor vehicle fuel or
12alternate fuels tax payments are used for all-terrain vehicle trails and areas. The
13forms shall also indicate that refunds are not available for the tax on less than 100
14gallons. The department shall distribute forms in sufficient quantities to each
15county clerk.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,124,1020
84.02
(4) (b) No person shall mark any other highway routes or trails unless
21the route marked shall coincide exactly with the state trunk system. No such routes
22shall be marked until exact descriptions of the routes selected for marking have been
23filed with and the routes and markings approved by the department. Every route
24laid out and marked shall be made to conform to the state trunk system, and the
1person responsible for the marking of such route shall remove or erase such marks
2from every portion of such route which does not coincide with the state trunk
3highway system. The department shall report to the
secretary of state department
4of financial institutions any violations of or failure to comply with the provisions of
5this subsection, and the
secretary of state department of financial institutions shall
6thereupon revoke the privilege, license or incorporation of the offender, and the
7department shall cause the offending marks to be erased, removed or destroyed. The
8expense of such erasure, removal or destruction shall be paid out of funds
9appropriated to the department, and may be recovered in the name of the state from
10the person responsible for such unauthorized marking.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,124,1813
84.01
(30) Environmental clean-up activities. From the appropriation under
14s. 20.395 (3) (aq), the department may fund environmental clean-up activities on
15lands acquired by the department that are not eligible to receive funding for such
16activities as part of a highway improvement project. Nothing in this subsection
17relieves a person from any responsibility to reimburse the department for any costs
18incurred by the department under this subsection.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,124,2220
84.013
(2) (c) The department shall give priority to the completion of the major
21highway project authorized in sub. (3) (vL) in programming the expenditure of funds
22for major highway projects.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,125,3
184.013
(3) (kb) USH 151 extending approximately 18.2 miles between USH 151
2west of Belmont and STH 23 south of Dodgeville, designated as the Belmont to
3Dodgeville project, in Lafayette and Iowa counties.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,125,74
(kg) STH 16 and STH 16/67 extending approximately 7.4 miles from the
5junction of STH 16 with the Rock River to the STH 16/67 interchange east of
6Oconomowoc, designated as the Oconomowoc bypass, in Jefferson and Waukesha
7counties.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,125,118
(km) USH 53 extending approximately 7.5 miles between USH 53 south of the
9USH 53/STH 93 interchange in Eau Claire and the USH 53/STH 124 interchange
10south of Chippewa Falls, designated as the Eau Claire freeway, in Eau Claire and
11Chippewa counties.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,125,1413
84.013
(3) (ye) USH 10 between Appleton and Marshfield, in
Winnebago, 14Outagamie, Waupaca, Portage and Wood counties.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,125,2016
84.06
(1) (title)
Definitions, plans. "Improvement" In this section,
17"improvement" or "highway improvement"
as used in this section includes
18construction, reconstruction and the activities, operations and processes incidental
19to building, fabricating or bettering a highway, public mass transportation system
20or street, but not maintenance.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,126,2
21(1m) (title)
Plans. The department may prepare plans, estimates and
22specifications and undertake and perform all surveys, investigations and
23engineering work for any highway improvement within its jurisdiction. When
24provision has been made for the necessary funds for any such highway improvement
25and, if federal aid is to be utilized, when the project has been approved by the proper
1federal authorities, the department may proceed as provided in this section, with due
2regard to any applicable federal requirement or regulation.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,126,65
84.076
(5) Sunset. This section does not apply after
June 30, 1995 September
630, 1997.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,126,119
84.078
(1) (am) "High-volume industrial waste" means fly ash, bottom ash,
10paper mill sludge or foundry process waste, or any other waste with similar
11characteristics specified by the department of natural resources by rule.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,126,1313
84.078
(1) (ar) "Highway improvement" has the meaning given in s. 84.06 (1).
AB150-ASA1-AA26,126,2316
84.078
(2) The department shall use or encourage the use of the maximum
17possible amount of recovered material, including
ash from industrial or utility
18boilers, foundry sand, glass,
paper mill sludge, wastepaper, pavement and
rubber
19recovered from waste tires high-volume industrial waste as surfacing material,
20structural material, landscaping material and fill for all highway improvements,
as
21defined under s. 84.06 (1), consistent with standard engineering practices. The
22department shall specify the proportion of recovered material that may be used in
23various types of highway improvements.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,127,4
184.078
(3) (a) Notwithstanding chs. 144, 147 and 160, no person is required to
2take or pay for any remedial or corrective action as a result of environmental
3pollution resulting from the use of high-volume industrial waste in a highway
4improvement project if all of the following apply:
AB150-ASA1-AA26,127,85
1. The high-volume industrial waste is incorporated into the highway
6improvement in accordance with the policies, guidelines and rules applicable to the
7highway improvement at the time of the design of the improvement and at the time
8of certification under subd. 2.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,127,149
2. The department of natural resources certifies to the department of
10transportation, before the time that the department of transportation advertises for
11bids for the improvement, that the high-volume industrial waste intended to be used
12and the design for the use of the high-volume industrial waste comply with all
13applicable state requirements or standards administered by the department of
14natural resources.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,127,2015
(b) The exemption under par. (a) extends to the transportation of high-volume
16industrial waste to or from the site of a highway improvement and to the storage of
17high-volume industrial waste at the site of a highway improvement. The exemption
18provided under par. (a) continues to apply after the date of certification by the
19department of natural resources under par. (a) 2., notwithstanding the occurrence
20of any of the following:
AB150-ASA1-AA26,127,2221
1. Statutes or rules are amended that would impose greater responsibilities on
22the department of transportation.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,128,223
2. Alterations due to construction, maintenance, utility installation or other
24activities by the department of transportation or approved by the department of
1transportation after the completion of the highway improvement affect the
2high-volume industrial waste at the site of the highway improvement.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,128,93
(c) The department of transportation and the department of natural resources
4may enter into agreements establishing standard lists of high-volume industrial
5waste that may be used in highway improvements and designs for the use of
6high-volume industrial waste in highway improvements that comply with rules of
7the department of natural resources applicable at the time of the design of the
8highway improvement in order to simplify certification under par. (a) 2. to the
9greatest extent possible.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,128,1310
(d) 1. No state agency may commence an action or proceeding under federal or
11state law to require remedial action or to recover the costs of remedying
12environmental pollution related to the use of high-volume industrial waste in a
13highway improvement certified under par. (a) 2.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,128,1714
2. No person may commence an action under state law to require remedial
15action or to recover the costs of remedying environmental pollution related to the use
16of high-volume industrial waste in a highway improvement certified under par. (a)
172.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,129,522
84.59
(6) Revenue obligations may be contracted by the building commission
23when it reasonably appears to the building commission that all obligations incurred
24under this section can be fully paid from moneys received or anticipated and pledged
1to be received on a timely basis. Revenue obligations issued under this section shall
2not exceed
$950,834,000 $1,089,701,500 in principal amount, excluding obligations
3issued to refund outstanding revenue obligations. Not more than
$841,634,000 4$1,046,821,300 of the
$950,834,000
$1,089,701,500 may be used for transportation
5facilities under s. 84.01 (28) and major highway projects under ss. 84.06 and 84.09.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,129,12
785.012 Plans and programs exempt from consideration of
8environmental impacts. A plan or program under the jurisdiction of the
9department is not a major action significantly affecting the quality of the human
10environment under s. 1.11 (2). For purposes of this section, a plan or program of the
11department does not include a transportation project under the jurisdiction of the
12department.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,129,1916
85.022
(2) (a) The department shall allocate $250,000 in each fiscal year of the
171995-97 biennium from the appropriation under s. 20.395 (2) (hq) for a study of
18high-speed rail service in the southern transportation corridor between this state
19and the state of Minnesota.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,129,2120
(b) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., funds may be expended under par. (a) only
21to match funds, at the ratio of one-to-one from the state of Minnesota for the study.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,129,2422
2. No funds may be expended under par. (a) unless the federal government
23contributes funds for a study under par. (a) in an amount equal to the total amount
24of funds from this state and the state of Minnesota for the study.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,130,4
285.026 Urban rail transit system studies. Notwithstanding any other
3provision of this chapter, the department may not expend any moneys for the study
4of an urban rail transit system, including any light rail transit system.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,130,196
85.061
(3) Program. The department shall administer a rail passenger route
7development program. From the appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (up), the
8department may fund capital costs related to Amtrak service extension routes
or
9other rail service routes between the cities of Milwaukee and Madison and between
10the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay.
The extension of the Any route between the
11cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay
funded under the program shall provide service
12to population centers along the route in a manner that makes the route most
13economically feasible. The department may not use any proceeds from the bond issue
14authorized under s. 20.866 (2) (up) for
the extension of a route under this subsection
15unless the department submits evidence to the joint committee on finance that
16Amtrak
or the applicable railroad has agreed to provide rail passenger service on
17that
extension route and the joint committee on finance approves the use of the
18proceeds. The department may contract with Amtrak, railroads or other persons to
19perform the activities under this subsection.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,131,421
85.08
(4m) (e) 1. Upon the request of an eligible applicant, the department may
22negotiate and enter into a loan agreement with the eligible applicant for purposes
23of rehabilitating a rail line or to finance an economic development and transportation
24efficiency project, including a project designed to promote safety or the viability of
25a statewide system of freight rail service, to assist intermodal freight movement or
1to provide industry access to a rail line. A loan made under this paragraph shall
2finance a project that confers a public benefit or enhances economic development in
3this state. Loans made under this paragraph shall be paid from the appropriation
4under s. 20.395 (2)
(bt), (bu), (bw) or (bx).
AB150-ASA1-AA26,131,107
85.085
(1b) In this section, "rehabilitated" means a significant rebuilding of
8railroad track that restores severely deteriorated track to a minimum service
9standard or, for track that is at or above a minimum service standard, that increases
10the service standard of the track.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,131,1712
85.085
(3) The department shall not make any payment under this section
13unless the applicable private road crossing permit provides that the rail transit
14commission shall, at the user's sole cost and expense, maintain, repair and renew the
15private road crossing.
"Maintain, repair and renew" does not include any rebuilding
16of a private road crossing that is required because the applicable tracks have been
17rehabilitated.".
AB150-ASA1-AA26,132,2
2285.145 Television and video services. The department shall use other
23publicly owned television or video production facilities to the maximum extent
1possible before contracting with any private entity to provide any television or video
2services to the department.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,132,114
85.19
(1) Standards. The department, in consultation with the department of
5natural resources, shall, by rule, establish standards for the control of soil erosion
6related to highway and bridge construction that is funded in whole or in part with
7state or federal funds.
At a minimum, the standards shall require the use of best
8management practices No standard established under this section applicable to the
9construction, rehabilitation or improvement of any highway may be more stringent
10than the standards required under federal law. In this subsection, "highway" has the
11meaning given in s. 340.01 (22).
AB150-ASA1-AA26, s. 3526ft
12Section 3526ft. 85.20 (4m) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 85.20 (4m) (a)
13(intro.) and amended to read:
AB150-ASA1-AA26,132,2014
85.20
(4m) (a) (intro.)
From the amounts appropriated under s. 20.395 (1) (bq),
15an amount equal to 42% of the projected operating expenses of each eligible
16applicant's urban mass transit system An amount shall be allocated to each eligible
17applicant
. to ensure that the sum of state and federal aids for the projected operating
18expenses of each eligible applicant's urban mass transit system is equal to a uniform
19percentage, established by the department, of the projected operating expenses of
20the mass transit system. The department shall make allocations as follows:
AB150-ASA1-AA26,132,2422
85.20
(4m) (a) 1. From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (bq), the uniform
23percentage for an urban mass transit system operating within an urban area having
24a population as shown in the 1990 federal decennial census of less than 50,000.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,133,5
12. From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (bs), the uniform percentage for
2an urban mass transit system operating within an urban area having a population
3as shown in the 1990 federal decennial census of at least 50,000 but not more than
4200,000 and meeting the federal definition of urbanized area for the purpose of
5federal mass transit aid.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,133,96
3. From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (bu), the uniform percentage for
7an urban mass transit system operating within an urban area having a population
8as shown in the 1990 federal decennial census of more than 200,000 and meeting the
9federal definition of urbanized area for the purpose of federal mass transit aid.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,133,1513
85.20
(4m) (em) 1. An amount equal to
42% the same percentage of the audited
14operating expenses for the project year of the applicant's urban mass transit system
15that is specified for allocations to the applicant under par. (a) 1. to 3.
AB150-ASA1-AA26,133,2117
85.20
(4s) Payment of aids under the contract. The contracts executed
18between the department and eligible applicants under this section shall provide that
19the payment of the state aid allocation under sub. (4m) (a) for the last quarter of the
20state's fiscal year shall be provided from the following fiscal year's appropriation
21under s. 20.395 (1) (bq)
, (bs) or (bu).