| 1 | Representative(s) Zapata offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 3465 and 3466, insert: |
| 5 | Section 52. Department of Transportation study of |
| 6 | transportation facilities providing access to Indian |
| 7 | reservations; report and recommendations authorized.-- |
| 8 | (1) The Department of Transportation is directed to |
| 9 | conduct a study of the impacts that legalized gambling and other |
| 10 | activities on Indian reservation lands are having on public |
| 11 | roads and other transportation facilities, regarding traffic |
| 12 | congestion and other mobility issues, facility maintenance and |
| 13 | repair costs, emergency evacuation readiness, costs of potential |
| 14 | future widening or other improvements, and other impacts on the |
| 15 | motoring, nongaming public. |
| 16 | (2) The study shall include, but is not limited to, the |
| 17 | following information: |
| 18 | (a) A listing, description, and functional classification |
| 19 | of the access roads to and from each Indian reservation in the |
| 20 | state. |
| 21 | (b) An identification of these access roads that either |
| 22 | are scheduled for improvements within the department's 5-year |
| 23 | Work Program, or are listed on the department's or a |
| 24 | metropolitan planning organization's 20-year, long-range |
| 25 | transportation plan. |
| 26 | (c) The most recent traffic counts on the access roads and |
| 27 | projected future usage, as well as any projections of impacts on |
| 28 | secondary, feeder, or connector roads, interstate highway exit |
| 29 | and entrance ramps, or other area transportation facilities. |
| 30 | (d) The safety and maintenance ratings of each access road |
| 31 | and a detailed review of impacts on local and state emergency |
| 32 | management agencies to provide emergency or evacuation services. |
| 33 | (e) The estimated infrastructure costs to maintain, |
| 34 | improve, or widen these access roads based on future projected |
| 35 | needs. |
| 36 | (f) The feasibility of implementing tolls on these access |
| 37 | roads or, if already tolled, raising the toll to offset and |
| 38 | mitigate the impacts of traffic generated by Indian reservation |
| 39 | gaming activities on nontribal communities in the state and to |
| 40 | finance projected future improvements to the access roads. |
| 41 | (3) The department shall present its findings and |
| 42 | recommendations in a report to be submitted to the Governor, the |
| 43 | President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of |
| 44 | Representatives by January 15, 2008. The report may include |
| 45 | department recommendations for proposed legislation. |
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| 48 | ======= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ======= |
| 49 | Remove line 266 and insert: |
| 50 | purposes; directing the Department of Transportation to conduct |
| 51 | a study on the access roads to pari-mutuel facilities and Indian |
| 52 | reservation lands where gaming activities occur; providing for |
| 53 | the content of the study; requiring a report to the Governor and |
| 54 | the Legislature; providing an effective date. |