SENATE AMENDED ������������� HOUSE AMENDED <�� PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1067, 1100, 2286, PRINTER'S NO. 2485 2403
No. 905 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY TILGHMAN, LOEPER, LYNCH, BELL, ROMANELLI, STREET, PECORA, FISHER, HOWARD, FUMO AND STAUFFER, JUNE 28, 1983
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE AMENDMENTS, NOVEMBER 27, 1984
A SUPPLEMENT 1 To the act of July 3, 1984 (P.L.583, No.117), entitled "An act 2 providing for the capital budget for the fiscal year 1984- 3 1985," itemizing transportation assistance projects to be 4 acquired or constructed by the Pennsylvania Department of 5 Transportation, together with their estimated financial cost; 6 authorizing the incurring of debt without the approval of the 7 electors for the purpose of financing the projects to be 8 constructed or acquired by the Department of Transportation; 9 stating the estimated useful life of the projects; and making 10 an appropriation. 11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 12 hereby enacts as follows: 13 Section 1. Short title. 14 This act shall be known and may be cited as the 15 Transportation Assistance Capital Budget Act for 1984-1985. 16 Section 2. Total authorization. 17 The total authorization for the additional capital projects 18 in the category of transportation assistance projects itemized 19 in section 3 with respect to which an interest is to be acquired 20 in or constructed by the Department of Transportation, its
1 successors or assigns, and to be financed by the incurring of
2 debt, shall be $85,284,000 $85,724,000. <--
3 Section 3. Itemization of transportation assistance projects.
4 (a) Mass transit projects.--Additional capital projects in
5 the category of transportation assistance projects with respect
6 to which an interest is to be acquired in or constructed by the
7 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, its successors or
8 assigns, and to be financed by the incurring of debt, are hereby
9 itemized, together with their estimated financial costs, as
10 follows:
11 (1) Beaver County Transit Authority
12 (i) Replacement of buses and parts and
13 purchase of paratransit vehicles 430,000
14 (Base Project Cost - 387,000)
15 (Design Cost - 43,000)
16 (2) Berks Area Reading Transportation Authority
17 (i) Purchase of equipment, service vehicles,
18 shelters and facilities renovations 92,000
19 (Base Project Cost - 83,000)
20 (Design Cost - 9,000)
21 (3) Cambria County Transit Authority
22 (i) Transit capital program including purchase
23 of six buses and related equipment, bus
24 storage/maintenance building, two service
25 vehicles, office equipment and furniture 169,000
26 (Base Project Cost - 152,000)
27 (Design Cost - 17,000)
28 (ii) Purchase of wrecker, equipment and
29 building construction 92,000
30 (Base Project Cost - 81,000)
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1 (Design Cost - 11,000) 2 (4) Centre Area Transportation Authority 3 (i) Section 9 Block Grant Program including 4 purchase of fareboxes, radios, bus shelters 5 and signs, paratransit vehicle and office 6 equipment 60,000 7 (Base Project Cost - 54,000) 8 (Design Cost - 6,000) 9 (5) City of Philadelphia 10 (i) Center City commuter connection 1,180,000 11 (Base Project Cost - 1,062,000) 12 (Design Cost - 118,000) 13 (ii) Exclusive transit lanes Phase II 105,000 14 (Base Project Cost - 95,000) 15 (Design Cost - 10,000) 16 (iii) 15th Street Courtyard Entrance 17 improvements 225,000 18 (Base Project Cost - 203,000) 19 (Design Cost - 22,000) 20 (6) County of Lackawanna Transit System 21 (i) Section 9 Block Grant Program including 22 purchase of bus stop signs, bus shelters, 23 and replacement of terminal building floor 6,000 24 (Base Project Cost - 5,000) 25 (Design Cost - 1,000) 26 (7) County of Lebanon Transit 27 (i) Purchase of maintenance garage and 28 administrative offices 98,000 29 (Base Project Cost - 89,000) 30 (Design Cost - 9,000) 19830S0905B2485 - 3 -
1 (8) Crawford Area Transportation Authority 2 (i) Purchase of four buses and bus shelters 76,000 3 (Base Project Cost - 69,000) 4 (Design Cost - 7,000) 5 (9) Erie Metropolitan Transportation Authority 6 (i) Purchase of radios and related bus 7 equipment 100,000 8 (Base Project Cost - 90,000) 9 (Design Cost - 10,000) 10 (10) Lehigh and Northampton Transportation 11 Authority 12 (i) Purchase of ten buses 333,000 13 (Base Project Cost - 300,000) 14 (Design Cost - 33,000) 15 (ii) Purchase of six vans/mini-buses with 16 lifts 28,000 17 (Base Project Cost - 25,000) 18 (Design Cost - 3,000) 19 (11) Luzerne County Transportation Authority 20 (i) Purchase of buses, service vehicles and 21 related equipment 442,000 22 (Base Project Cost - 398,000) 23 (Design Cost - 44,000) 24 (12) New Castle Area Transportation Authority 25 (i) Purchase of bus-related equipment, roof 26 repair and garage feasibility study 21,000 27 (Base Project Cost - 19,000) 28 (Design Cost - 2,000) 29 (13) Port Authority of Allegheny County 30 (i) South Hills light rail transit 15,292,000 19830S0905B2485 - 4 -
1 (Base Project Cost - 13,763,000) 2 (Design Cost - 1,529,000) 3 (ii) Section 9 Block Grant Program including 4 trolley rehabilitation, garage 5 rehabilitation, bus window retrofit and 6 support vehicles and equipment 3,487,000 7 (Base Project Cost - 3,138,000) 8 (Design Cost - 349,000) 9 (iii) South Hills light rail cost escalation 13,167,000 10 (Base Project Cost - 11,850,000) 11 (Design Cost - 1,317,000) 12 (14) Shenango Valley Shuttle Service 13 (i) Purchase of computer system 8,000 14 (Base Project Cost - 7,000) 15 (Design Cost - 1,000) 16 (15) Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation 17 Authority 18 (i) Frankford El reconstruction (FY 83 19 requirement) 3,679,000 20 (Base Project Cost - 3,311,000) 21 (Design Cost - 368,000) 22 (ii) Frankford El reconstruction (FY 84 23 requirement) 6,667,000 24 (Base Project Cost - 6,000,000) 25 (Design Cost - 667,000) 26 (iii) Railroad facilities improvements 3,333,000 <-- 27 3,773,000 <-- 28 (Base Project Cost - 3,000,000 3,400,000) <-- 29 (Design Cost - 333,000 373,000) <-- 30 (iv) Wayne Junction substation modernization 2,033,000 19830S0905B2485 - 5 -
1 (Base Project Cost - 1,830,000) 2 (Design Cost - 203,000) 3 (v) Purchase of 120 buses 3,867,000 4 (Base Project Cost - 3,480,000) 5 (Design Cost - 387,000) 6 (vi) Ninth Street branch signal improvements 1,535,000 7 (Base Project Cost - 1,381,000) 8 (Design Cost - 154,000) 9 (vii) FRA/EPA mandated car modifications - 10 Phase III 767,000 11 (Base Project Cost - 690,000) 12 (Design Cost - 77,000) 13 (viii) Commuter car rehabilitation - Phase 14 III 840,000 15 (Base Project Cost - 756,000) 16 (Design Cost - 84,000) 17 (ix) Track program - Phase V 2,100,000 18 (Base Project Cost - 1,890,000) 19 (Design Cost - 210,000) 20 (x) Allegheny garage construction 2,500,000 21 (Base Project Cost - 2,250,000) 22 (Design Cost - 250,000) 23 (xi) Market-Frankford GOH - Phase IIC 1,348,000 24 (Base Project Cost - 1,213,000) 25 (Design Cost - 135,000) 26 (xii) North Philadelphia maintenance facility 27 and streetcar engineering 500,000 28 (Base Project Cost - 450,000) 29 (Design Cost - 50,000) 30 (xiii) Fern Rock Shop Modifications 1,144,000 19830S0905B2485 - 6 -
1 (Base Project Cost - 1,030,000) 2 (Design Cost - 114,000) 3 (xiv) CTD buildings and electrical 4 modernization - Phase IV 2,167,000 5 (Base Project Cost - 1,950,000) 6 (Design Cost - 217,000) 7 (xv) Chestnut Hill West Branch Connection 367,000 8 (Base Project Cost - 330,000) 9 (Design Cost - 37,000) 10 (xvi) Norristown High Speed Line Car Purchase 11 and Maintenance Facility 184,000 12 (Base Project Cost - 166,000) 13 (Design Cost - 18,000) 14 (xvii) RHSL Car Purchase and Maintenance 15 Facility (Engr.) 404,000 16 (Base Project Cost - 364,000) 17 (Design Cost - 40,000) 18 (xviii) Ninth Street branch electrification 19 improvements 133,000 20 (Base Project Cost - 120,000) 21 (Design Cost - 13,000) 22 (xix) PCC car rehabilitation - Phase IID 286,000 23 (Base Project Cost - 257,000) 24 (Design Cost - 29,000) 25 (xx) Utility fleet renewal - Phase V 333,000 26 (Base Project Cost - 300,000) 27 (Design Cost - 33,000) 28 (xxi) Printing equipment improvements 67,000 29 (Base Project Cost - 60,000) 30 (Design Cost - 7,000) 19830S0905B2485 - 7 -
1 (xxii) STD buildings and bridges - Phase II 284,000 2 (Base Project Cost - 256,000) 3 (Design Cost - 28,000) 4 (xxiii) Subway surface and Market Street 5 transit stations - Phase III 1,333,000 6 (Base Project Cost - 1,200,000) 7 (Design Cost - 133,000) 8 (xxiv) Olney Terminal - Phase II 892,000 9 (Base Project Cost - 803,000) 10 (Design Cost - 89,000) 11 (xxv) Norristown transportation center 12 construction 1,000,000 13 (Base Project Cost - 900,000) 14 (Design Cost - 100,000) 15 (xxvi) RHSL interlocking signal control 333,000 16 (Base Project Cost - 300,000) 17 (Design Cost - 33,000) 18 (xvii) Commuter car rehabilitation - Phase 19 III 83,000 20 (Base Project Cost - 75,000) 21 (Design Cost - 8,000) 22 (xviii) Commuter stations and parking - Phase 23 II 333,000 24 (Base Project Cost - 300,000) 25 (Design Cost - 33,000) 26 (xxix) Frontier garage - additional 27 renovations 283,000 28 (Base Project Cost - 255,000) 29 (Design Cost - 28,000) 30 (xxx) Substation modernization 833,000 19830S0905B2485 - 8 -
1 (Base Project Cost - 750,000) 2 (Design Cost - 83,000) 3 (xxxi) Wyoming garage - major modifications 417,000 4 (Base Project Cost - 375,000) 5 (Design Cost - 42,000) 6 (xxxii) Subway-elevated structural 7 rehabilitation 167,000 8 (Base Project Cost - 150,000) 9 (Design Cost - 17,000) 10 (xxxiii) Transit fare collection improvements 53,000 11 (Base Project Cost - 48,000) 12 (Design Cost - 5,000) 13 (xxxiv) Systemwide graphics 125,000 14 (Base Project Cost - 113,000) 15 (Design Cost - 12,000) 16 (xxxv) Broad Street subway stations - Phase II 17 construction 1,458,000 18 (Base Project Cost - 1,312,000) 19 (Design Cost - 146,000) 20 (16) Westmoreland County Transit Authority 21 (i) Storage facility and transit equipment 22 (bus stop signs, shelters and radio 23 equipment) 42,000 24 (Base Project Cost - 38,000) 25 (Design Cost - 4,000) 26 (17) Williamsport Bureau of Transportation 27 (i) Garage and office expansion - Phase IIB & 28 III 89,000 29 (Base Project Cost - 80,000) 30 (Design Cost - 9,000) 19830S0905B2485 - 9 -
1 (ii) Office equipment and MIS system 8,000 2 (Base Project Cost - 7,000) 3 (Design Cost - 1,000) 4 (iii) Purchase of service vehicles 4,000 5 (Base Project Cost - 3,000) 6 (Design Cost - 1,000) 7 (iv) Purchase of spare components 8,000 8 (Base Project Cost - 7,000) 9 (Design Cost - 1,000) 10 (v) Ship equipment purchase 6,000 11 (Base Project Cost - 5,000) 12 (Design Cost - 1,000) 13 (b) Rural and intercity rail projects.--Additional capital 14 projects in the category of transportation assistance projects 15 for rural and intercity rail service projects to be constructed 16 or with respect to which an interest is to be acquired by the 17 Department of Transportation, its successors or assigns, and to 18 be financed by the incurring of debt, are hereby itemized, 19 together with their respective estimated financial costs, as 20 follows: 21 (1) Department of Transportation 22 (i) Berks and Montgomery Counties 23 (A) Bridge Rehabilitation - Colebrookdale 24 Industrial Branch, No. 3.74 and No. 25 4.21 80,000 26 (Base Project Cost - 80,000) 27 (ii) Clinton County 28 (A) Bald Eagle and Castanea Twps., Capital 29 acquisition and rehabilitation costs 30 for the Mill Hall Branch Milepost 11.1 19830S0905B2485 - 10 -
1 to Milepost 13.0 by the Industrial 2 Development Corporation of Clinton 3 County 518,000 4 (Base Project Cost - 331,000) (Land 5 Acquisition - 127,000) (Design Cost - 6 69,000) 7 (iii) Lackawanna County 8 (A) Rail Rehabilitation - Delaware and 9 Hudson Railway Mainline, Length 45 10 Miles 3,000,000 11 (Base Project Cost - 80,000) 12 (iv) Lehigh County 13 (A) Tunnel Rehabilitation - Perkiomen 14 Branch, U.S.R.A. No. 906, Length 0.32 15 Mile 320,000 16 (Base Project Cost - 80,000) 17 (v) Monroe County 18 (A) Rail Rehabilitation - East Stroudsburg 19 to Scranton, Length 60 Miles 2,200,000 20 (vi) Northumberland County 21 (A) Rail Rehabilitation - Delaware and 22 Hudson, Sunbury Mainline, Length 28 23 Miles 1,750,000 24 (VII) SCHUYLKILL COUNTY <-- 25 (A) FOR ACQUISITION, REHABILITATION AND 26 CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING ADJOINING 27 LINES: SHIMER RUNNING TRACK, MILEPOST 28 148.3 TO MILEPOST 158.4; CATAWISSA 29 BRANCH LINE, MILEPOST 103.5 TO MILEPOST 30 109.0; AND TAMAQUA, HAZLETON AND 19830S0905B2485 - 11 -
1 NORTHERN BRANCH LINE, MILEPOST 109.0 TO
2 MILEPOST 109.5 BY THE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY
3 RAIL TRANSPORT AUTHORITY 2,500,000
4 Section 4. Debt authorization.
5 The Governor, Auditor General and State Treasurer are hereby
6 authorized and directed to borrow, from time to time, in
7 addition to any authorization heretofore or hereafter enacted,
8 on the credit of the Commonwealth, subject to the limitations
9 provided in the current capital budget, money not exceeding in
10 the aggregate the sum of $85,284,000 $85,724,000 as may be found <--
11 necessary to carry out the acquisition and construction of the
12 transportation assistance projects specifically itemized in a
13 capital budget.
14 Section 5. Issue of bonds.
15 The indebtedness herein authorized shall be incurred from
16 time to time and shall be evidenced by one or more series of
17 general obligation bonds of the Commonwealth in such aggregate
18 principal amount for each series as the Governor, Auditor
19 General and State Treasurer shall determine, but the latest
20 stated maturity date shall not exceed the estimated useful life
21 of the projects being financed as stated in section 6.
22 Section 6. Estimated useful life of projects.
23 The General Assembly states that the estimated useful life of
24 the transportation assistance projects heretofore itemized is as
25 follows:
26 (1) Rolling stock, 15 years.
27 (2) Passenger buses, 12 years.
28 (3) Furniture and equipment, 10 years.
29 (4) All other projects, 30 years.
30 The maximum term of the debt authorized to be incurred hereunder
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1 is 30 years. 2 Section 7. Appropriation. 3 The net proceeds of the sale of the obligations herein 4 authorized are hereby appropriated from the Capital Facilities 5 Fund to the Department of Transportation in the maximum amount 6 of $85,284,000 $85,724,000 to be used by it exclusively to <-- 7 defray the financial costs of the transportation assistance 8 projects specifically itemized in a capital budget. After 9 reserving or paying the expenses of the sale of the obligation, 10 the State Treasurer shall pay to the Department of 11 Transportation the moneys as required and certified by it to be 12 legally due and payable. 13 Section 8. Federal funds. 14 In addition to those funds appropriated in section 7, all 15 moneys received from the Federal Government for the projects 16 specifically itemized herein are also hereby appropriated for 17 those projects. 18 Section 9. Allocation of funds. 19 Whenever as determined by the Department of Transportation 20 that the full estimated financial costs of the transportation 21 assistance projects itemized in section 3 are not necessary for 22 the proper design, acquisition or construction of such projects, 23 the excess funds no longer required may be allocated to increase 24 the estimated costs of any one or more of the transportation 25 assistance projects specifically itemized in a capital budget. 26 Section 10. Repeal REPEALS. <-- 27 Section 5(a)(1)(iii)(B) SECTIONS 5(A)(1)(III)(B) AND <-- 28 5(A)(1)(V)(A) of the act of May 18, 1984 (P.L.263, No.62), 29 entitled "A supplement to the act of (P.L. , No. ), 30 entitled 'An act providing for the capital budget for the fiscal 19830S0905B2485 - 13 -
1 year 1983-1984,' itemizing public improvement projects,
2 furniture and equipment projects, redevelopment assistance
3 projects and transportation assistance projects to be
4 constructed or acquired or assisted by the Department of General
5 Services, the Department of Transportation, the Department of
6 Community Affairs or the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, together
7 with their estimated financial cost; authorizing the incurring
8 of debt without the approval of the electors for the purpose of
9 financing the projects to be constructed or acquired or assisted
10 by the Department of General Services, the Department of
11 Transportation or the Department of Community Affairs; stating
12 the estimated useful life of the projects; authorizing issuing
13 officials to undertake limited temporary borrowing through
14 negotiated settlements; and making an appropriation," is ARE <--
15 repealed.
16 Section 11. Effective date.
17 This act shall take effect immediately.
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