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99602
. For purposes of this part, the following terms have the
following meanings, unless expressly stated otherwise:
(a) "CalTrain" means the commuter rail service operated along the
San Francisco Peninsula commute corridor.
(b) "Commission" means the California Transportation Commission.
(c) "Commuter rail service" and its derivative terms have the same
meaning as the term "commuter service" and its derivative terms, as
defined in paragraph (9) of subsection (a) of Section 502 of Title 45
of the United States Code.
(d) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
(e) "Exclusive public mass transit guideway" means a transit
capital improvement included in the definition of this term as
applied and used in 70 Op. Atty. Gen. 119 or a transit capital
improvement for which motor vehicle fuel tax funds from the State
Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund were actually
allocated by the commission on or before January 1, 1989.
(f) "Fund" means the Clean Air and Transportation Improvement Fund
created by Section 99610.
(g) "Grade separations" means grade separations for either
passenger or freight rail services.
(h) "Intercity rail" and its derivative terms means passenger rail
service between urban areas of the state.
(i) "Local agency" means a county, city, city and county, county
transportation commission, county transportation authority, transit
development board, transit district, or any joint powers agency
specified in this part.
(j) "Rail project" means a commuter passenger rail service
project, an intercity passenger rail project, or a rail transit
project, and includes exclusive public mass transit guideway projects
and the project described in Section 99624.
(k) "Rail transit" means a rail mass transportation operation
usually within an urban area, generally characterized by more
frequent service over shorter distances than normally provided by
commuter rail service or intercity rail service, and operating on a
rail line without any or with very limited rail freight service.
(l) "Right-of-way" means right-of-way for rail purposes, including
separate right-of-way alignments adjacent to existing freight lines.