PRINTER'S NO. 2232
No. 1563 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN AND STOUT, OCTOBER 6, 1998
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 6, 1998
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of May 7, 1998 (P.L.343, No.52), entitled "An act
2 providing for the capital budget for the fiscal year 1998-
3 1999," itemizing transportation assistance projects to be
4 constructed or acquired or assisted by the Department of
5 Transportation, together with their estimated financial
6 costs; authorizing the incurring of debt without the approval
7 of the electors for the purpose of financing the projects to
8 be constructed or acquired or assisted by the Department of
9 Transportation; stating the estimated useful life of the
10 projects; and making 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 Capital
15 Budget Transportation Assistance Project Itemization Act for
16 1998-1999.
17 Section 2. Total authorization.
18 The total authorization for the capital projects in the
19 category of transportation assistance projects itemized in
20 section 3 with respect to which an interest is to be acquired in
21 or constructed by the Department of Transportation, its
1 successors or assigns, and to be financed by the incurring of
2 debt, shall be $57,901,000.
3 Section 3. Itemization of transportation assistance projects.
4 Additional capital projects in the category of transportation
5 assistance projects for rural and intercity rail service
6 projects in which an interest is to be acquired or constructed
7 by the Department of Transportation, its successors or assigns,
8 and to be financed by the incurring of debt, are hereby
9 itemized, together with their estimated financial costs, as
10 follows:
11 Total
12 Project
13 Project Allocation
14 (1) Clearfield County
15 (i) R. J. Corman Railroad Company
16 (A) Rehabilitation of Cherry Tree Branch
17 Line from Milepost 36 through Milepost
18 54, inclusive 1,893,000
19 (2) Northampton County
20 (i) Beth Intermodal, Inc. and Philadelphia,
21 Bethlehem and New England Railroad Co.
22 (PBNE)
23 (A) Construction of Intermodal facility in
24 Bethlehem, including Phase I
25 construction of railroad tracks,
26 storage, paving, drainage, lighting,
27 office facilities, placement of
28 utilities, internal road system to
29 connect to PA 412 and Interstate 78 6,600,000
30 (3) Allegheny & Eastern Railroad, Inc.
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1 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
2 crossings, including tracks, ties,
3 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
4 or manual protection and any other related
5 work 462,000
6 (ii) Complete rail rehabilitation from Warren
7 to Erie, including, but not limited to,
8 rail, ties, bridge deck repairs and road
9 crossing improvements 8,015,000
10 (Base Project Allocation - $7,287,000)
11 (Design and Contingencies - $728,000)
12 (iii) Complete rail rehabilitation from Warren
13 to Johnsonburg, including, but not limited
14 to, replacement of cross and switch ties;
15 rebuild and replacement of rail and rail
16 infrastructure and road crossing
17 improvements 3,978,000
18 (Base Project Allocation - $3,616,000)
19 (Design and Contingencies - $362,000)
20 (iv) Construction of New Switch Yards along
21 Allegheny & Eastern, weed spraying and rail
22 testing over entire line 1,455,000
23 (Base Project Allocation - $1,323,000)
24 (Design and Contingencies - $132,000)
25 (4) Allegheny Valley Railroad
26 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
27 crossings, including tracks, ties,
28 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
29 or manual protection and any other related
30 work 207,000
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1 (ii) Complete rail rehabilitation between New
2 Kensington and Pittsburgh, including, but
3 not limited to, rail infrastructure, ties,
4 tracks, safety improvements, surfaces,
5 subsurfaces, signals and related work 4,000,000
6 (5) Bradford Industrial Railroad, Inc.
7 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
8 crossings, including tracks, ties,
9 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
10 or manual protection and any other related
11 work 45,000
12 (6) Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc.
13 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
14 crossings, including tracks, ties,
15 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
16 or manual protection and any other related
17 work 508,000
18 (ii) Construction of connector for Buffalo and
19 Pittsburgh Railroad and Western Allegheny
20 Branch south of Karn City 2,750,000
21 (Base Project Allocation - $2,500,000)
22 (Design and Contingencies - $250,000)
23 (iii) Rehabilitation of selected areas of
24 Western Allegheny Branch 440,000
25 (Base Project Allocation - $400,000)
26 (Design and Contingencies - $40,000)
27 (iv) Rehabilitation of rail line to Petrolia 3,300,000
28 (Base Project Allocation - $3,000,000)
29 (Design and Contingencies - $300,000)
30 (7) Delaware and Hudson Railway Co.
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1 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
2 crossings, including tracks, ties,
3 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
4 or manual protection and any other related
5 work 172,000
6 (ii) Construction of terminal for truck on
7 train service between Philadelphia-
8 Harrisburg-Allentown markets and Canada,
9 including access track infrastructure,
10 terminal track infrastructure, paving,
11 lighting and other associated improvements
12 related to such a facility 7,700,000
13 (Base Project Allocation - $7,000,000)
14 (Design and Contingencies - $700,000)
15 (iii) Improvements to rail infrastructure,
16 including, but not limited to, ties, rail,
17 bridge improvements, safety improvements
18 needed to improve that portion of mainline
19 in this Commonwealth to accommodate train
20 service from and to Canada 5,500,000
21 (Base Project Allocation - $5,000,000)
22 (Design and Contingencies - $500,000)
23 (iv) Upgrade and rehabilitate rail track
24 infrastructure at Philadelphia Naval
25 Business Center to improve access to
26 Building 603 Complex including the
27 rebuilding of switches and track 275,000
28 (Base Project Allocation - $250,000)
29 (Design and Contingencies - $25,000)
30 (v) Rehabilitate rail siding on main line of
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1 Delaware & Hudson Railroad near Nescopeck,
2 PA, including replacement of turnouts and
3 replacement of signal facilities with solid
4 state interlockings and associated cabling,
5 track side signals and electronics 660,000
6 (Base Project Allocation - $600,000)
7 (Design and Contingencies - $60,000)
8 (vi) Rehabilitate crossing at SR 339 with new
9 state-of-the-art automatic highway warning
10 devices and new crossing surface including
11 track and rail interface materials 259,000
12 (Base Project Allocation - $235,000)
13 (Design and Contingencies - $24,000)
14 (vii) Rehabilitation of existing track and
15 construction of new track to service bulk
16 handling facility module in Lackawanna
17 County including new switching timbers,
18 turnouts, track upgrade, including, but not
19 limited to, track infrastructure materials,
20 grading, filing, drainage, lighting,
21 fencing and other associated improvements 495,000
22 (Base Project Allocation - $450,000)
23 (Design and Contingencies - $45,000)
24 (8) Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company
25 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
26 crossings including tracks, ties, surfaces,
27 subsurfaces, signals, automatic or manual
28 protection and any other related work 630,000
29 (9) Emons Transportation Group, Inc.
30 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
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1 crossings, including tracks, ties,
2 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
3 or manual protection and any other related
4 work
5 (A) Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 570,000
6 (B) Penn Eastern Rail Lines, Inc.,
7 Lancaster Line 789,000
8 (C) Perkiomen Line 405,000
9 (D) Yorkrail, Inc. 640,000
10 (10) Everett Railroad
11 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
12 crossings, including tracks, ties,
13 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
14 or manual protection and any other related
15 work 270,000
16 (11) Gettysburg Railroad Company, Inc.
17 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
18 crossings, including tracks, ties,
19 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
20 or manual protection and any other related
21 work 460,000
22 (12) Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad
23 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
24 crossings, including tracks, ties,
25 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
26 or manual protection and any other related
27 work 400,000
28 (13) Juniata Valley Railroad
29 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
30 crossings, including tracks, ties,
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1 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
2 or manual protection and any other related
3 work 133,000
4 (14) Lycoming Valley Railroad
5 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
6 crossings, including tracks, ties,
7 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
8 or manual protection and any other related
9 work 116,000
10 (15) Morrison's Cove Railroad
11 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
12 crossings, including tracks, ties,
13 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
14 or manual protection and any other related
15 work 120,000
16 (16) Nittany Bald Eagle Railroad
17 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
18 crossings, including tracks, ties,
19 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
20 or manual protection and any other related
21 work 287,000
22 (17) North Shore Railroad
23 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
24 crossings, including tracks, ties,
25 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
26 or manual protection and any other related
27 work 62,000
28 (18) Pittsburgh & Shawmut Railroad, Inc.
29 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
30 crossings, including tracks, ties,
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1 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
2 or manual protection and any other related
3 work 343,000
4 (19) Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad
5 Company
6 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
7 crossings, including tracks, ties,
8 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
9 or manual protection and any other related
10 work 805,000
11 (ii) CNS Bridge 950,000
12 (20) SEDA-COG Joint Rail Authority
13 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
14 crossings, including tracks, ties,
15 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
16 or manual protection and any other related
17 work
18 (A) Juniata Valley Railroad 50,000
19 (B) Lycoming Valley Railroad 167,000
20 (C) Nittany & Bald Eagle 260,000
21 (D) North Shore Railroad 200,000
22 (E) Shamokin Valley Railroad 127,000
23 (21) Shamokin Valley Railroad
24 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
25 crossings, including tracks, ties,
26 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
27 or manual protection and any other related
28 work 672,000
29 (22) Wellsboro and Corning Rail Line
30 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
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1 crossings, including tracks, ties,
2 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
3 or manual protection and any other related
4 work 86,000
5 (23) Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company
6 (i) Repair and/or rehabilitation of grade
7 crossings, including tracks, ties,
8 surfaces, subsurfaces, signals, automatic
9 or manual protection and any other related
10 work 645,000
11 Section 4. Debt authorization.
12 The Governor, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer are
13 hereby authorized and directed to borrow, from time to time, in
14 addition to any authorization heretofore or hereafter enacted,
15 on the credit of the Commonwealth, subject to the limitations
16 provided in the current capital budget, money not exceeding in
17 the aggregate the sum of $57,901,000 as may be found necessary
18 to carry out the acquisition and construction of the
19 transportation assistance projects specifically itemized in a
20 capital budget.
21 Section 5. Issue of bonds.
22 The indebtedness authorized in this act shall be incurred,
23 from time to time, and shall be evidenced by one or more series
24 of general obligation bonds of the Commonwealth in such
25 aggregate principal amount for each series as the Governor, the
26 Auditor General and the State Treasurer shall determine, but the
27 latest stated maturity date shall not exceed the estimated
28 useful life of the projects being financed as stated in section
29 6.
30 Section 6. Estimated useful life and term of debt.
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1 (a) Estimated useful life.--The General Assembly states that
2 the estimated useful life of the transportation assistance
3 projects itemized in this act is as follows:
4 (1) Transportation assistance projects:
5 (i) Rolling stock, 15 years.
6 (ii) Passenger buses, 12 years.
7 (iii) Furniture and equipment, 10 years.
8 (iv) All others, 30 years.
9 (b) Term of debt.--The maximum term of the debt authorized
10 to be incurred under this act is 30 years.
11 Section 7. Appropriations.
12 The net proceeds of the sale of the obligations authorized in
13 this act are hereby appropriated from the Capital Facilities
14 Fund to the Department of Transportation in the maximum amount
15 of $57,901,000 to be used by it exclusively to defray the
16 financial cost of the transportation assistance projects
17 specifically itemized in a capital budget. After reserving or
18 paying the expense of the sale of the obligation, the State
19 Treasurer shall pay to the Department of Transportation the
20 moneys as required and certified by it to be legally due and
21 payable.
22 Section 8. Federal funds.
23 In addition to those funds appropriated in section 7, all
24 moneys received from the Federal Government for the projects
25 specifically itemized in this act are also hereby appropriated
26 for those projects.
27 Section 9. Editorial changes.
28 In editing and preparing this act for printing following the
29 final enactment, the Legislative Reference Bureau shall insert
30 or revise letters or numbers for projects where the letters or
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1 numbers are missing or require revision. The bureau shall also
2 revise the total monetary amounts for the total authorization,
3 debt authorization, appropriations and departmental totals as
4 necessary to agree with the total monetary amounts of the
5 projects.
6 Section 10. Effective date.
7 This act shall take effect immediately.
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