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. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Board" means the board of directors of SANDAG.
(b) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, variable rate and variable
maturity securities, and any other evidence of indebtedness issued
pursuant to this chapter.
(c) "Corridor" means State Route 11 in the County of San Diego, as
defined in Section 311.
(d) "Costs" includes the cost of construction or acquisition; the
cost of the acquisition of all land, rights-of-way, property, rights,
easements, and interests acquired by SANDAG for the construction;
the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on
land acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which
buildings or structures may be moved; the cost of all machinery and
equipment, financing charges, interest before and during construction
and, if considered advisable by SANDAG, costs of accounting,
consulting, printing, advertising and travel, cost of traffic
estimates and of engineering and legal services, plans,
specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, and other
expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or
practicability of constructing, repairing, or improving a project;
administrative expenses; and such other expenses as may be necessary
or incident to the construction, repair, or improvement of a project,
the financing of the project, the placing and maintaining of a
project in operation, and any payments to an entity to cover all or a
portion of the costs described in this chapter. Any money paid or
advanced to SANDAG with its approval for traffic surveys, borings,
preparation of plans and specifications, and other engineering
services in connection with the construction, repair, or improvement
of a project shall be regarded as a part of the cost of a project and
may be reimbursed out of the proceeds of the revenue bonds issued
for a project as authorized in this chapter. Cost includes the cost
to operate, maintain, repair, or improve a project.
(e) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
(f) "Design-build" means a procurement process in which both the
design and construction of a project are procured in a single phase.
(g) "Design sequencing" means a procurement process that enables
the sequencing of design activities to permit each construction phase
to commence when design for that phase is complete, instead of
requiring the design for the entire project to be completed before
commencing construction.
(h) "Entity" means the United States or any agency or department
of the United States, any State of California agency, department or
political subdivision of the state, or any public or private
corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, foundation, trust,
estate, individual, or other legal business organization.
(i) "Federal agency" means any agency or department of the United
States.
(j) "Project" or "projects" means any property and related
facilities, whether or not now in existence, acquired to facilitate
the movement of goods and people along the corridor or at the Otay
Mesa East Port of Entry, including property suitable for any of the
following purposes:
(1) International ports of entry.
(2) International border crossing facilities.
(3) Transportation facilities, including highway and roadway,
public transit, and nonmotorized facilities, and other projects
supporting any transportation facility designed, constructed,
maintained, or operated with toll revenues.
(4) A bridge or tunnel, overpasses, underpasses, entrance plazas,
toll houses, administration, storage and other buildings and
facilities, and all equipment therefor, and may include terminal
facilities, customs and immigration facilities, and such approaches
and approach highways as may be determined by SANDAG to be necessary
to facilitate the flow of traffic or to connect a project with the
existing highway systems, together with all property, rights,
easements, and interests acquired by SANDAG for the construction or
operation of a project, including, but not limited to, energy and
communication lines.
(k) "Property" means land, improvements to land, buildings,
improvements to buildings, machinery and equipment of any kind,
operating capital, and any other real or personal property necessary
for a project.
(l) "SANDAG" means the San Diego Association of Governments, as
referenced in the San Diego Regional Transportation Consolidation
Act, Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 132350) of Division 12.7 of
the Public Utilities Code.
(m) "Trustee" means any financial institution or trust company
actually doing business in this state.