188.6
. (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that on August
16, 2004, the department reported to the Legislature that the funds
identified in Section 188.5 are insufficient to complete the state
toll bridge seismic retrofit program, including the replacement of
the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, due to cost
overruns for the program now estimated at three billion six hundred
million dollars ($3,600,000,000).
(2) By enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature
to identify additional funds from various sources, as described in
subdivision (b), in order to fund this shortfall and so that the toll
bridge seismic retrofit and replacement program, as described in
Section 188.5, as that section read on January 1, 2005, may proceed
to completion without further costly delay.
(b) The following amounts from the following funds shall be
allocated until expended in order to eliminate the shortfall
identified in subdivision (a) and to complete the seismic retrofit or
replacement of state-owned toll bridges as expeditiously as
possible:
(1) Not less than two billion one hundred fifty million dollars
($2,150,000,000) from the Bay Area Toll Account, derived from an
additional one dollar ($1) surcharge on the state-owned toll bridges
within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission to be effective no sooner than January 1, 2007.
(2) Not less than eight hundred twenty million dollars
($820,000,000) for the seismic retrofit or replacement of the
state-owned toll bridges in the geographic jurisdiction of the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission made available through the
consolidation of all toll revenues under the management of the Bay
Area Toll Authority and from the authorization for the authority to
refinance debt secured by toll revenues.
(3) The amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) to
fund the cost of demolition of the existing east span of the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from funding sources supporting the
state highway operations and protection program, from available state
resources from transportation project savings, or from the federal
Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program.
(4) The amount of three hundred thirty million dollars
($330,000,000) from the following accounts:
(A) One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000) from the
State Highway Account from accumulated savings by the department
achieved from better efficiency, operational savings, and lower
costs.
(B) One hundred twenty-five million dollars ($125,000,000) of any
excess funds that would otherwise have been transferred in the
2006-07 fiscal year pursuant to subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of
subdivision (a) of Section 7102 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, as
amended by Chapter 76 of the Statutes of 2005, shall instead be
transferred to the Bay Area Toll Account and are hereby appropriated
to the department for the purposes of this section. If sufficient
funds are not available from this source for this purpose during the
2006-07 fiscal year, the funding required under this paragraph shall
be made available from additional accumulated savings by the
department achieved from better efficiency, operational savings, or
lower costs pursuant to subparagraph (A), or from the federal Highway
Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program or the State Highway
Account, as determined by the department in consultation with, and
with approval of, the California Transportation Commission.
(C) Seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) from the fund
reserve in the Motor Vehicle Account for the 2005-06 fiscal year,
which is hereby appropriated.
(c) If the amount of the overruns estimated by the department, as
described in subdivision (a), is less than three billion six hundred
million dollars ($3,600,000,000), the savings shall be shared between
the state and the authority in the same proportion as their
proportional contribution to the estimated cost overruns, as provided
in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of subdivision (b).
(d) If the actual amount of the overruns exceeds the amount
estimated by the department, as described in subdivision (a), the
authority shall utilize funds generated under the powers granted to
it in Sections 30886, 30950.2, 30954, 30961, and 31011 to provide
additional financial resources to complete the state toll bridge
seismic retrofit program.
(e) Funds made available under this section and Section 188.5 for
the replacement of the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Bridge shall only be expended for the structure described in
paragraph (9) of subdivision (b) of Section 188.5 as that section
read on January 1, 2005.