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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session
appropriation; Queen Creek Road interchange
Purpose
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2021 to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to alter the U.S. Interstate 10 and Queen Creek Road Interchange.
Background
ADOT
is responsible for the design and construction of state public transportation
systems and the maintenance and operation of state highways in Arizona (A.R.S.
§ 28-332). ADOT is permitted to contract and do all things necessary to
secure the full benefits available to Arizona for transportation purposes under
federal law and, in doing so, ADOT is permitted to cooperate with: 1) federal,
state and local government agencies; 2) Indian tribes; 3) private and public
organizations; and 4) private individuals. ADOT is also permitted to exchange
federal monies with local governments in order to receive local monies and is
allowed to include additional federal monies in the exchange to offset the matching
costs required of local governments (A.R.S.
§ 28-334).
The Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) is a council of governments that serves as the regional planning and policy agency for the metropolitan Phoenix area. MAG is the designated metropolitan planning organization for transportation planning in the greater Phoenix metropolitan region, including the Phoenix urbanized area and the contiguous urbanized area in Pinal County (MAG). Monies collected from voter-approved county transportation excise taxes are deposited into MAG's Regional Area Road Fund to be used by MAG for maintenance and capital expenses of freeways and the state highway system (A.R.S. § 42-6105).
The U.S. Interstate 10 and Queen Creek Road Interchange is located south of the City of Chandler in the Gila River Indian Reservation.
S.B. 1154 appropriates $15,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2021 to ADOT.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $15,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2021 to ADOT for Arizona's share of the cost to alter the U.S. Interstate 10 and Queen Creek Road to a diverging diamond interchange.
2. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 17, 2020
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