Section 64110 Of Division 3. California Transportation Financing Authority From California Government Code >> Division 3. >> Title 6.7.
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. (a) A project sponsor may apply to the authority for bond
issuance by the authority or project sponsor for a transportation
project that has been approved by the department and the commission
for construction.
(b) The authority shall also ensure that the following
requirements are met for a project to be financed or refinanced under
this division to the extent these criteria have not already been met
through approval of the project by the commission:
(1) The project complies with all relevant statutes applicable to
planning, programming, and construction of transportation improvement
projects, and is contained in the constrained portion of a
conforming regional transportation plan prepared pursuant to Section
65080 and identified as a project proposed to be funded under the
authority provided by this division. For purposes of this
subdivision, a regional transportation plan must be consistent with
greenhouse gas reduction targets assigned by the State Air Resources
Board, pursuant to Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 35800) of
the Health and Safety Code.
(2) For projects on the state highway system, the project sponsor
has cooperated with the department to secure its support for the
project and to ensure that the project is consistent with the needs
and requirements of the state highway system.
(3) The project is technically feasible in that it conforms to
federal standards and meets or exceeds environmental requirements.
(4) The project is financially feasible, as determined pursuant to
Section 64111.
(5) Performance measures have been developed for the project to
enable the commission to track and report on the project's
performance to the Legislature in the commission's annual report
prepared pursuant to Section 14535.
(6) The project has support in the communities adjacent to or
affected by the project. To ensure that such support can be
demonstrated, the project sponsor shall, at a minimum, make available
for public review and comment the proposed project, including any
proposed toll schedule, no less than 30 days prior to approval by the
governing body with jurisdiction over the project.
(7) In the case of highway projects, the project sponsor submits
to the commission and to the authority a plan that demonstrates how
transit service or alternative modes of transportation will be
enhanced in the corridor concurrent with the operation of a toll
facility for the purpose of ensuring that the corridor provides for
multiple modes of transport that accommodate all users. Nothing in
this section may be construed to require that toll revenues be used
to finance the enhancement of transit or alternative means of
transportation in the project corridor.
(c) The authority shall have no power to plan projects, or to
approve projects other than provided in this division. The authority
shall have no power to assume any of the planning, programming, or
allocation authority of the department or the commission.
(d) Beginning June 30, 2011, and annually thereafter, the
authority shall provide to the commission a summary of actions taken
in the previous calendar year, including the number of project
sponsors who sought financing through the authority, a description of
each project, a summary of the sources of funding used to finance or
refinance the project, and any recommendations the authority may
have to improve the financing of transportation infrastructure, to be
included in the commission's annual report to the Legislature as
required by Section 14535.