PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1067 PRINTER'S NO. 1100
No. 905 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY TILGHMAN, LOEPER, LYNCH, BELL, ROMANELLI, STREET,
PECORA, FISHER, HOWARD, FUMO AND STAUFFER, JUNE 28, 1983
SENATOR TILGHMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, AS AMENDED, JULY 1, 1983
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of (P.L. , No. ), entitled "An act providing for
2 the capital budget for the fiscal year 1983-1984," itemizing
3 transportation assistance projects to be acquired or
4 constructed by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,
5 together with their estimated financial cost; authorizing the
6 incurring of debt without the approval of the electors for
7 the purpose of financing the projects to be constructed or
8 acquired by the Department of Transportation; stating the
9 estimated useful life of the projects; and making an
10 appropriation.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Total authorization.
14 The total authorization for the additional capital projects
15 in the category of Transportation Assistance Projects itemized
16 in section 2 with respect to which an interest is to be acquired
17 in or constructed by the Department of Transportation, its
18 successors or assigns, and to be financed by the incurring of
19 debt, shall be $59,752,000 $59,977,000. <--
20 Section 2. Itemization of Transportation Assistance Projects.
21 Additional capital projects in the category of Transportation
1 Assistance Projects with respect to which an interest is to be
2 acquired in or constructed by the Pennsylvania Department of
3 Transportation, its successors or assigns, and to be financed by
4 the incurring of debt, are hereby itemized, together with their
5 estimated financial costs as follows:
6 Project Base Total
7 Project Land Project
8 Allocation Allocation Allocation
9 (1) Altoona Metro
10 Transit
11 (i) Purchase of
12 Security Vehicles
13 and Equipment $43,000 $43,000
14 (2) Cambria County
15 Transit Authority
16 (i) Purchase of Buses
17 and Equipment and
18 Construction of an
19 Office and Storage
20 Building $69,000 $69,000
21 (ii) Purchase of
22 Tools and Equipment 48,000 48,000
23 (3) Carbon County
24 Transit System
25 (i) Purchase of
26 Buses $18,000 $18,000
27 (4) Centre Area
28 Transportation
29 Authority
30 (i) Purchase of
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1 Service Vehicles
2 and Bus Related
3 Equipment $23,000 $23,000
4 (II) CONSTRUCTION OF <--
5 BUS MAINTENANCE
6 FACILITY 225,000 225,000
7 (5) City of Phila-
8 delphia
9 (i) Exclusive Tran-
10 sit Lanes and
11 Signal Preemption $47,000 $47,000
12 (ii) Purchase and
13 Installation of
14 Electric Sign
15 Displays 125,000 125,000
16 (iii) Engineering -
17 Civic Center Sta-
18 tion 42,000 42,000
19 (iv) Eastwick Sta-
20 tion Project 752,000 752,000
21 This project is intended to replace the previously authorized
22 projects; Eastwick High-Speed Surface Line in Act 1970-263;
23 Eastwick High-Speed - Subway-Surface Line Relocation in Act
24 1974-346; and additional funds for PT- , Eastwick High-
25 Speed Line Relocation in Act 1976-138.
26 (v) Columbia
27 Station - Phase II
28 Construction 347,000 347,000
29 (vi) 30th Street
30 Station 1,014,000 1,014,000
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1 (vii) Eastwick
2 Rail Station -
3 Final Engineering 136,000 136,000
4 (viii) Civic Center
5 Rail Station -
6 Final Engineering 68,000 68,000
7 (ix) Market Street
8 East Improvements 1,567,000 1,567,000
9 (6) City of Washington
10 (i) Purchase of
11 Buses and Related
12 Equipment $106,000 $106,000
13 (7) City of Williams-
14 port
15 (i) Transfer Center
16 and Purchase of
17 Bus Shelters $64,000 $64,000
18 (8) Erie Metropolitan
19 Transit Authority
20 (i) Garage Renova-
21 tions and Purchase
22 of Service Vehicle
23 and Bus Related
24 Equipment $40,000 $40,000
25 (9) Indiana County
26 Transit Authority
27 (i) Purchase of
28 Buses and Engi-
29 neering for a
30 Garage Facility $116,000 $116,000
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1 (10) Lackawanna
2 County Transit
3 Authority
4 (i) Purchase of
5 Vehicles and
6 Equipment $17,000 $17,000
7 (11) Luzerne
8 County Trans-
9 portation Authority
10 (i) Purchase of
11 Computer and Bus
12 Related Equipment $32,000 $32,000
13 (12) Monroe County
14 Transportation
15 Authority
16 (i) Renovation and
17 Expansion of Main-
18 tenance Facility
19 and Purchase of
20 Bus Related
21 Equipment $84,000 $84,000
22 (13) Port Authority
23 of Allegheny County
24 (i) Additional Funds
25 for Light Rail
26 Transit - Stage
27 IA (PT-19),
28 Engineering, De-
29 sign and Construc-
30 tion $22,127,000 $22,127,000
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1 (ii) Additional Funds
2 for East Busway 1,001,000 1,001,000
3 (iii) Purchase of
4 Buses and
5 Equipment 2,709,000 2,709,000
6 (iv) Rail
7 Rehabilitation 632,000 632,000
8 (14) Schuylkill County
9 (i) Purchase and
10 Rehabilitation of
11 Facility; Purchase
12 of Buses and
13 Equipment $412,000 $412,000
14 (15) Southeastern
15 Pennsylvania Trans-
16 portation Authority
17 (i) Engineering -
18 Olney Terminal $42,000 $42,000
19 (ii) Purchase of
20 Vehicles - Utility
21 Fleet Renewal
22 Phase III 334,000 334,000
23 (iii) Elevated
24 Structural Re-
25 habilitation I -
26 Subway 167,000 167,000
27 (iv) Tract and Over-
28 head Wire Improve-
29 ment - Phase III 1,858,000 1,858,000
30 (v) Substation and
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1 Electrical Modern-
2 ization - Phase II 707,000 707,000
3 (vi) Commuter Oper-
4 ating Facilities
5 Modernization 1,885,000 1,885,000
6 (vii) Commuter Rail
7 Car Moderniza-
8 tion - Phase II 1,157,000 1,157,000
9 (viii) Purchase of
10 Articulated Buses 3,024,000 3,024,000
11 (ix) Subway/Surface
12 and Market Street
13 Transit Stations -
14 Phase (II)
15 Construction 1,000,000 1,000,000
16 (x) Systemwide
17 Graphics 125,000 125,000
18 (xi) Railroad
19 Facilities
20 Improvements 2,950,000 2,950,000
21 (xii) Commuter
22 Rail Facilities
23 Coordination 3,450,000 3,450,000
24 (xiii) Frankford
25 Elevated - Rehabilita-
26 tion/Reconstruction 2,500,000 2,500,000
27 (xiv) Utility
28 Fleet Renewal IV 334,000 334,000
29 (xv) Olney Terminal
30 Engineering and
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1 Construction 417,000 417,000
2 (xvi) Commuter Car
3 Rehabilitation -
4 Phase II-C 217,000 217,000
5 (xvii) Commuter
6 Transit Division
7 Building and
8 Electrical Moderniz-
9 ation - Phase III 584,000 584,000
10 (xviii) Broad Street
11 Subway Stations -
12 Engineering 167,000 167,000
13 (xix) Commuter
14 Stations and Parking -
15 Engineering 167,000 167,000
16 (xx) Suburban Transit
17 Division Buildings
18 and Bridges -
19 Phase I 275,000 275,000
20 (xxi) Express Track -
21 Erie to Olney
22 Stations 684,000 684,000
23 (xxii) Fare Collection
24 Improvements 634,000 634,000
25 (xxiii) Maintenance
26 Facilities
27 Improvements 492,000 492,000
28 (xxiv) Bus Mainte-
29 nance Facilities 245,000 245,000
30 (xxv) Transit
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1 Track Program 1,767,000 1,767,000
2 (xxvi) Subway/
3 Elevated Structural
4 Rehabilitation 167,000 167,000
5 (16) Shenango Valley
6 Transit
7 (i) Purchase of
8 Service Vehicle
9 and Equipment $17,000 $17,000
10 (17) York Area
11 Transportation
12 Authority
13 (i) Construction
14 of a New Mainte-
15 nance Facility $177,000 $177,000
16 (18) Adams County
17 (i) Acquisition of
18 Gettysburg Branch
19 Rail Line - USRA
20 No. 912 $715,000 $715,000
21 (19) Chester County
22 (i) Acquisition of
23 Wilmington and
24 Northern Branch
25 Rail Line - USRA
26 No. 907 $414,000 $414,000
27 (20) Lehigh County
28 (i) Tunnel Repair,
29 Perkiomen Branch -
30 USRA No. 906 $193,000 $193,000
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1 (21) Northumberland,
2 Montour and Columbia
3 Counties
4 (i) Rail Replace-
5 ment, Delaware
6 and Hudson Main
7 Line $1,158,000 $1,158,000
8 (22) Schuylkill
9 County
10 (i) Bridge Reha-
11 bilitation,
12 Auburn Branch -
13 USRA No. 196 $90,000 $90,000
14 Section 3. Debt authorization.
15 The Governor, Auditor General and State Treasurer are hereby
16 authorized and directed to borrow, from time to time, in
17 addition to any authorization heretofore or hereafter enacted,
18 on the credit of the Commonwealth, subject to the limitations
19 provided in the current capital budget, money not exceeding in
20 the aggregate the sum of $59,000,000 $59,225,000 as may be found <--
21 necessary to carry out the acquisition and construction of the
22 transportation assistance projects specifically itemized in a
23 capital budget.
24 Section 4. Source of additional funds.
25 The sum of $752,000 in funding required by this act for the
26 transportation assistance project for the Eastwick Station
27 project, City of Philadelphia, included in section 2, shall be
28 provided from funds for the following previously authorized
29 projects:
30 (1) Eastwick High-Speed Surface Line as authorized in
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1 Act 1970-263.
2 (2) Eastwick High-Speed - Subway-Surface Line Relocation
3 as authorized in Act 1974-346.
4 (3) Additional funds for PT- , Eastwick High-Speed
5 Line Relocation as authorized in Act 1976-138.
6 Section 5. Issue of bonds.
7 The indebtedness herein authorized shall be incurred from
8 time to time and shall be evidenced by one or more series of
9 general obligation bonds of the Commonwealth in such aggregate
10 principal amount for each series as the Governor, Auditor
11 General and State Treasurer shall determine, but the latest
12 stated maturity date shall not exceed the estimated useful life
13 of the projects being financed as stated in section 6.
14 Section 6. Estimated useful life of projects.
15 The General Assembly states that the estimated useful life of
16 the transportation assistance projects heretofore itemized is as
17 follows:
18 (1) Rolling stock, 15 years.
19 (2) Passenger buses, 12 years.
20 (3) Furniture and equipment, 10 years.
21 (4) All other projects, 30 years.
22 The maximum term of the debt authorized to be incurred hereunder
23 is 30 years.
24 Section 7. Appropriation.
25 The net proceeds of the sale of the obligations herein
26 authorized are hereby appropriated from the Capital Facilities
27 Fund to the Department of Transportation in the maximum amount
28 of $59,000,000 $59,225,000 to be used by it exclusively to <--
29 defray the financial costs of the transportation assistance
30 projects specifically itemized in a capital budget. After
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1 reserving or paying the expenses of the sale of the obligation,
2 the State Treasurer shall pay to the Department of
3 Transportation the moneys as required and certified by it to be
4 legally due and payable.
5 Section 8. Federal funds.
6 In addition to those funds appropriated in section 7, all
7 moneys received from the Federal Government for the projects
8 specifically itemized herein are also hereby appropriated for
9 those projects.
10 Section 9. Allocation of funds.
11 Whenever as determined by the Department of Transportation
12 that the full estimated financial costs of the transportation
13 assistance projects itemized in section 2 are not necessary for
14 the proper design, acquisition or construction of such projects,
15 the excess funds no longer required may be allocated to increase
16 the estimated costs of any one or more of the transportation
17 assistance projects specifically itemized in a capital budget.
18 Section 10. Effective date.
19 This act shall take effect immediately.
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