2007 California Government Code Chapter 2.3. Long-range Transportation Planning

CA Codes (gov:65070-65074)

65070.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares, consistent with
Section 65088, that it is in the interest of the State of California
to have an integrated state and regional transportation planning
process.  It further finds that federal law mandates the development
of a state and regional long-range transportation plan as a
prerequisite for receipt of federal transportation funds.  It is the
intent of the Legislature that the preparation of these plans shall
be a cooperative process involving local and regional government,
transit operators, congestion management agencies, and the goods
movement industry and that the process be a continuation of
activities performed by each entity and be performed without any
additional cost.
   (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the last
attempt to prepare a California Transportation Plan occurred between
1973 and 1977 and resulted in the expenditure of over eighty million
dollars (,000,000) in public funds and did not produce a usable
document.  As a consequence of that, the Legislature delegated
responsibility for long-range transportation planning to the regional
planning agencies and adopted a seven-year programming cycle instead
of a longer range planning process for the state.
   (c) The Legislature further finds and declares that the
Transportation Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century (Chapters 105
and 106 of the Statutes of 1989) is a long-range state transportation
plan that includes a financial plan and a continuing planning
process through the preparation of congestion management plans and
regional transportation plans, and identifies major interregional
road networks and passenger rail corridors for the state.



65072.  The California Transportation Plan shall include all of the
following:
   (a) A policy element that describes the state's transportation
policies and system performance objectives.  These policies and
objectives shall be consistent with legislative intent described in
Sections 14000, 14000.5, and 65088.  For the plan to be submitted in
December 1993, the policy element shall address any opportunities for
changes or additions to state legislative policy direction or
statute.
   (b) A strategies element that shall incorporate the broad system
concepts and strategies synthesized from the adopted regional
transportation plans prepared pursuant to Section 65080.  The
California Transportation Plan shall not be project specific.
   (c) A recommendations element that includes economic forecasts and
recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor to achieve the
plan's broad system concepts, strategies, and performance objectives.



65073.  The department shall submit the California Transportation
Plan to the Governor by December 1, 1993.  The department shall make
a draft of its proposed plan available to the Legislature, the
commission, and the regional transportation planning agencies for
review and comment.  The commission may present the results of its
review and comment to the Legislature and the Governor.  The
Legislature intends to hold public hearings and submit its comments
to the department and the Governor by conducting joint hearings of
the Transportation Committees of the Senate and Assembly.  The
Governor shall adopt the plan and submit the plan to the Legislature
and the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.




65074.  The Department of Transportation shall prepare, in
cooperation with the metropolitan planning agencies, a federal
transportation improvement program in accordance with subsection (f)
of Section 135 of Title 23 of the United States Code.  The federal
transportation improvement program shall be submitted by the
department to the United States Secretary of Transportation, by
October 1 of each even-numbered year.