SECTIONS 65070-65074 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 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 ($80,000,000) 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.

65071. The department shall update the California Transportation
Plan consistent with this chapter. The first update shall be
completed by December 31, 2015. The plan shall be updated every five
years thereafter.

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, 14000.6, and 65088.
(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.

65072.1. The California Transportation Plan shall consider all of
the following subject areas for the movement of people and freight:
(a) Mobility and accessibility.
(b) Integration and connectivity.
(c) Efficient system management and operation.
(d) Existing system preservation.
(e) Safety and security.
(f) Economic development, including productivity and efficiency.
(g) Environmental protection and quality of life.

65072.2. In developing the California Transportation Plan pursuant
to Sections 65072 and 65072.1, the department shall address how the
state will achieve maximum feasible emissions reductions in order to
attain a statewide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 1990
levels by 2020 as required by the California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the
Health and Safety Code), and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050,
taking into consideration the use of alternative fuels, new vehicle
technology, tailpipe emissions reductions, and expansion of public
transit, commuter rail, intercity rail, bicycling, and walking. The
plan shall identify the statewide integrated multimodal
transportation system needed to achieve these results. The department
shall complete an interim report by December 31, 2012, which shall
include a list and provide an overview of all sustainable communities
strategies and alternative planning strategies prepared pursuant to
paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 65080, and shall assess
how implementation of the sustainable communities strategies and
alternative planning strategies will influence the configuration of
the statewide integrated multimodal transportation system. The
department shall submit the interim report to the California
Transportation Commission and to the Chairs of the Senate Committee
on Transportation and Housing, the Senate Committee on Environmental
Quality, the Senate Committee on Local Government, the Assembly
Committee on Transportation, the Assembly Committee on Natural
Resources, and the Assembly Committee on Local Government.

65073. The department shall consult with, coordinate its activities
with, and make a draft of its proposed plan, and each update,
available to the California Transportation Commission, the Strategic
Growth Council, the State Air Resources Board, the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the air quality
management districts, public transit operators, and the regional
transportation planning agencies for review and comment. The
department shall also provide an opportunity for input by the general
public. Prior to adopting the plan or update, the department shall
make a final draft available to the Legislature and Governor for
review and comment. The commission may present the results of its
review and comment to the Legislature and the Governor. 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.