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Transportation Interim Committee










                 NOTICE OF MEETING




TO:        Transportation Interim Committee

FROM:    Benjamin N. Christensen, Research Analyst

DATE:    April 10, 1998

SUBJECT:    April 22 Meeting

Sen. John P. Holmgren and Rep. Marda Dillree have scheduled a meeting of the Transportation Interim Committee as follows:

             DATE:     Wednesday, April 22, 1998

            
TIME:     9:00 a.m.
            
PLACE:     Room 403 State Capitol


If you are unable to attend, please call me or Junie Anderson at 538-1032.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS


Sen. John P. Holmgren, Senate Chair

Rep. Marda Dillree, House Chair


Sen. L. Alma "Al"Mansell Sen. Eddie "Ed" P. Mayne Sen. David H. Steele
Sen. Nathan C. Tanner
Rep. Gerry A. Adair
Rep. Brian R. Allen


Rep. Trisha S. Beck
Rep. Ralph Becker
Rep. Ron Bigelow
Rep. DeMar "Bud" Bowman
Rep. Don E. Bush
Rep. Gene Davis


Rep. Brad King
Rep. Peter C. Knudson
Rep. Joseph G. Murray
Rep. Lowell A. Nelson
    Rep. Richard M. Siddoway
    Rep. David Ure
                Rep. David L. Zolman Sr.


Transportation Interim Committee Agenda

Wednesday April
22, 1998 - 9:00 a.m. - Room 403 State Capitol
(Approximate

Time Frame) .

9:00 a.m.     1.     Committee Business
             (Considerati on of minutes of the November 19, 1997 Transportati on Interim Committee meeting.)

9:05 a.m.     2.    Report of Transport ation Bills Passed During the 1998 General Session
             
(Five bills were recommended by the Transportation Interim Committee for the 1998 General Session and all of them passed. Several other bills related to transportation also passed. This item is for the information of the committee.)

9:15 a.m.     3.     Discussion of Priority Study Items for the 1998 Interim
              (The committee has the responsibility to study the most important transportation issues facing the state. This item is to discuss and identify the issues committee members believe should be studied this interim.)

9:30 a.m.      4.    I-15 Reconstruction/Centenni al Highway Fund Update - Federal Funding Status
               (The funding package passed by the Legislature during the 1997 General Session for the I-15 Reconstruction and the Centennial Highway Fund included a projection of $450 million in new federal funds through fiscal year 2007. Both the U.S. Senate and the House have passed their own versions of a new six-year transportation funding bill. Both versions provide substantial increases in funding for Utah transportation projects. The two bills will go to a conference committee. How much money will go to the state in each version? How does this compare with prior years and with the projection in the Legislature's 1997 funding package?)

            *     Thomas R. Warne, Utah Department of Transportation     

9:50 a.m.      5.    Highway Jurisdiction and Funding
            
(Sub. S.B. 176, "Highway Jurisdiction and Funding Study," which passed during the 1998 General Session requires the committee to review and make recommendations during the 1998 interim on the allocation of highways, the distribution of funding between state and local jurisdictions, and other related issues. The bill requires the committee to recommend creating a new state highway system based on its modifications to a proposed list of state highways described in the bill.)

            *      Thomas R. Warne, Utah Department of Transportation
            *      Brent Gardner, Utah Association of Counties
            *      Lee King, Midvale City, Utah League of Cities and Towns
            *      Wilbur R. Jefferies, Wasatch Front Regional Council

        
11:45 a.m.      6.     Other Committee Business

         7.     Adjourn


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