Senator Dennis E. Stowell
proposes the following amendments:
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account funds;
and
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. provides that the State Park Highways Access Improvement Program may be
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funded from funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation; and
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72-3-207, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 126
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Section 2.
Section
72-3-207
is amended to read:
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72-3-207. State Park Access Highways Improvement Program -- Distribution --
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Rulemaking.
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(1) There is created the State Park Access Highways Improvement Program within the
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department.
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(2) (a) The program shall be funded from the following revenue sources:
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[(a)] (i) any voluntary contributions received for improvements to state park access
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highways; and
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[(b)] (ii) appropriations made to the program by the Legislature.
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(b) The program may be funded from appropriations made to the department by the
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Legislature.
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(3) The department may use the program monies as matching grants to a county or
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municipality for the improvement of class B or class C roads specified as state park access
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highways under this part subject to:
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(a) monies available in the program;
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(b) prioritization of the program monies by the commission;
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(c) a county or municipality providing at least 50% of the cost of each improvement
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project in matching funds; and
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(d) rules made under Subsection (4).
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(4) The department shall make rules in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah
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Administrative Rulemaking Act, necessary to administer the program and to establish the
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procedures for a county or municipality to apply for a grant of program monies.
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(5) All appropriations made to the program by the Legislature are nonlapsing.
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(6) The department shall commit funds for state park access highway projects for the
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amount of funding currently programmed in a funded year in the 2007 Statewide
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Transportation Improvement Program.
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Section