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. The powers and duties of the department include, but are not
limited to, all of the following activities:
(a) Supporting the commission in coordinating and developing, in
cooperation with local and regional entities, comprehensive balanced
transportation planning and policy for the movement of people and
goods within the state.
(b) Coordinating and assisting, upon request of, the various
public and private transportation entities in strengthening their
development and operation of balanced integrated mass transportation,
highway, aviation, maritime, railroad, and other transportation
facilities and services in support of statewide and regional goals.
(c) Developing, in cooperation with local and regional
transportation entities, the full potential of all resources and
opportunities that are now, and may become, available to the state
and to regional and local agencies for meeting California's
transportation needs, as provided by statutes and, in particular,
maximizing the amount of federal funds that may be available to the
state and increasing the efficiency by which those funds are
utilized.
(d) Planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining
those transportation systems that the Legislature has made, or may
make, the responsibility of the department; provided that the
department is not authorized to assume the functions of project
planning, designing, constructing, operating, or maintaining maritime
or aviation facilities without express prior approval of the
Legislature with the exception of those aviation functions that have
been designated for the department in the Public Utilities Code.
(e) Coordinating and developing transportation research projects
of statewide interest.
(f) Exercising other functions, powers, and duties as are or may
be provided for by law.
(g) With the Department of Housing and Community Development,
investigating and reporting to the Secretary of Transportation and
the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing upon the
consistency between state, local, and federal housing plans and
programs and state, local, and federal transportation plans and
programs.