ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2202: appropriation; Navajo nation; bridge replacement

Sponsor:  Representative Teller, LD 7

Committee on Transportation

Overview

Provides funding to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to distribute to the Navajo Nation for bridge replacement projects.

History

Laws 1973, Chapter 146 established ADOT to provide for an integrated and balanced state transportation system with a director responsible for the department's administration (A.R.S. § 28-331). ADOT has exclusive control and jurisdiction over state highways, state routes, state owned airports and all state-owned transportation systems or modes are vested in ADOT.

The duties of ADOT are as follows: 1) register motor vehicles and aircraft, license drivers, collect revenues, enforce motor vehicle and aviation statutes and perform related functions; 2) do multimodal state transportation planning, cooperate and coordinate transportation planning with local governments and establish an annually updated priority program of capital improvements for all transportation modes; 3) design and construct transportation facilities in accordance with a priority plan and maintain and operate state highways, state owned airports and state public transportation systems; 4) investigate new transportation systems and cooperate with and advise local governments concerning the development and operation of public transit systems; and 5) have administrative jurisdiction of transportation safety programs and implement them in accordance with applicable law (A.R.S. § 28-332).

Provisions

1.    ☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteAppropriates the following amounts from the General Fund in FY 2021 to ADOT to distribute to the Navajo Nation:

a)    $5,500,000 for the Lupton Chapter bridge replacement project;

b)    $3,000,000 for the Steamboat Chapter bridge replacement project;

c)    $2,500,000 for the Nazlini Chapter bridge replacement project; and

d)    $5,000,000 for the Chinle Chapter bridge replacement project.

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