2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 306D - SCENIC ROUTES
306D.2 - STATEWIDE SCENIC HIGHWAYS PROGRAM -- OBJECTIVES AND AGENCY DUTIES.

        306D.2  STATEWIDE SCENIC HIGHWAYS PROGRAM --
      OBJECTIVES AND AGENCY DUTIES.
         1.  The state department of transportation shall prepare a
      statewide, long-range plan for the protection, enhancement, and
      identification of highways and secondary roads which pass through
      unusually scenic areas of the state as identified in section 306D.1.
      The department of natural resources, department of economic
      development, and department of cultural affairs, private
      organizations, county conservation boards, city park and recreation
      departments, and the federal agencies having jurisdiction over land
      in the state shall be encouraged to assist in preparing the plan.
      The plan shall be coordinated with the state's open space plan if a
      state open space plan has been approved by the general assembly.  The
      plan shall include, but is not limited to, the following elements:
         a.  Preparation of a statewide inventory of scenic routes and
      ranking of relative uniqueness for each route.  The degree to which
      these routes suffer from negative visual intrusions shall be
      documented.
         b.  Recommended techniques for preserving and enhancing the
      scenic qualities associated with each route.
         c.  Forecasts of significant changes in traffic volumes and
      environmental, social, and economic impacts if scenic routes are
      publicly identified and promoted as tourism attractions.
         d.  Recommended techniques for incorporating scenic highway
      routes in state and local tourism development and marketing programs.

         e.  Landscape management needs including maintenance,
      rehabilitation, and improvements to scenic areas.
         f.  Funding levels needed to accomplish the statewide scenic
      highway program.
         g.  Recommendations of how federal and state transportation
      programs can be modified or developed to assist the state's scenic
      highway program.
         2.  The preparation of the plan is subject to an appropriation by
      the general assembly for that purpose.  The plan shall be submitted
      to the general assembly by January 15, 1988.  Prior to submission of
      the plan to the general assembly, the department shall request
      comments on the proposed plan from state agencies, federal agencies,
      and private organizations with interests in scenic highways.  The
      comments shall be submitted to the general assembly.  

         87 Acts, ch 175, §2