FORTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2009

February 24, 2009

Mr. Speaker:

    Your TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

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has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

    1. On page 2, line 11, after "study", insert "in partnership with appropriate local government entities and interested private persons".

     2. On page 2, between lines 13 and 14, insert:

     "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the study will not commence until sufficient funds have been allocated from local public and private sources to pay for the study, such that the department of transportation will provide technical and administrative support for the study, but that the department's financial contribution, if any, will be negligible; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any study funds not expended or encumbered by December 31, 2012 be returned to the source or sources of the study funds as appropriate; and".

     3. On page 2, line 25, strike "by November 2010" and insert in lieu thereof "no later than 2012".