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. (a) The Legislature finds and declares, consistent with
Section 65088, that it is in the interest of the State of California
to have an integrated state and regional transportation planning
process. It further finds that federal law mandates the development
of a state and regional long-range transportation plan as a
prerequisite for receipt of federal transportation funds. It is the
intent of the Legislature that the preparation of these plans shall
be a cooperative process involving local and regional government,
transit operators, congestion management agencies, and the goods
movement industry and that the process be a continuation of
activities performed by each entity and be performed without any
additional cost.
(b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the last
attempt to prepare a California Transportation Plan occurred between
1973 and 1977 and resulted in the expenditure of over eighty million
dollars ($80,000,000) in public funds and did not produce a usable
document. As a consequence of that, the Legislature delegated
responsibility for long-range transportation planning to the regional
planning agencies and adopted a seven-year programming cycle instead
of a longer range planning process for the state.
(c) The Legislature further finds and declares that the
Transportation Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century (Chapters 105
and 106 of the Statutes of 1989) is a long-range state transportation
plan that includes a financial plan and a continuing planning
process through the preparation of congestion management plans and
regional transportation plans, and identifies major interregional
road networks and passenger rail corridors for the state.