GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	2 

SENATE BILL 634
Transportation Committee Substitute Adopted 5/10/95

Short Title:  Loop Funds May Be Reallocated.	(Public)

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Referred to: Appropriations

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April 11, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PERMIT THE REALLOCATION OF THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND URBAN LOOP FUNDS TO OTHER TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 136-180 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136-180. Urban loops.
(a)	Funds allocated from the Trust Fund for urban loops may be used for the following urban loops; provided, however, subsection (b) of this section shall apply to the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the counties affected by the Durham Northern Loop and the Winston-Salem Northbelt.
Affected
Loop	Description	Counties

Asheville Western	Multilane facility on new	Buncombe
Loop	location from I-26 west of
	Asheville to US-19/23
	north of Asheville for the
	purpose of connecting these
	roads.  The funds may be
	used to improve existing
	corridors.
Charlotte Outer Loop	Multilane facility on	Mecklenburg
new location encircling
City of Charlotte
Durham Northern Loop	Multilane facility on new	Durham,
location from I-85 west of	Orange
Durham to US-70 east of
Durham
Greensboro Loop	Multilane facility on new	Guilford
location encircling City 
of Greensboro
Raleigh Outer Loop	Multilane facility on	Wake
new location from US-1
southwest of Cary 
northerly to US-64 in 
eastern Wake County
Wilmington Bypass	Multilane facility on new	New Hanover
location from US-17 
northeast of Wilmington
to US-17 southwest 
of Wilmington
Winston-Salem	Multilane facility on 	Forsyth
Northbelt	new location from I-40 west
	of Winston-Salem northerly
	to I-40 in eastern Forsyth
	County(b)	The Metropolitan Planning Organization established in accordance with 23 USC § 134 for each of the areas affected by the proposed urban loops may redirect funds which would otherwise have been expended from the Trust Fund for the final construction of the loop within its metropolitan area to other projects which in the opinion of the Metropolitan Planning Organization would more efficiently maximize mobility of people and goods within its area of authority and minimize transportation related fuel consumption and air pollution.
These projects may include consideration and funding of all modes of transportation, the expansion, improvement, and extension of existing roadways, the provision of public and multimodal transportation, the construction of new roadways, or any other projects eligible to be included in the Transportation Improvement Program.
The Board of Transportation shall include in the next Transportation Improvement Program, prepared in accordance with G.S. 143B-350, the projects recommended by the Metropolitan Planning Organization for construction within its metropolitan area as alternative projects for the urban loop.
Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 136-18, and Articles 2, 2A, 3, and 3A of Chapter 136, the Department of Transportation shall comply with the directions of the Metropolitan Planning Organizations on the reallocation of the urban loop funds from the Trust Fund.
When the funds are reallocated by the Department of Transportation from an urban loop to another Intrastate System project so as to accelerate the construction of that project, the landowners within one mile of the accelerated project shall be notified of the acceleration of the project by United States Post Office first-class mail.
Funds redirected and reallocated pursuant to this section shall not be subject to the allocation formula in G.S. 136-176(b)."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.