71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
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LC 2514
 
                         House Bill 3889
 
Sponsored by Representative NELSON; Representatives BROWN, STARR,
  ZAUNER
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Establishes procedures to be followed when Department of
Transportation designates portion of highway as safety corridor.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to highway safety corridors.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + The Department of Transportation shall
establish a safety corridor program under which a portion of
highway may be designated a safety corridor. Once a safety
corridor has been designated, the department shall use the
following procedures for evaluating the safety corridor:
  (1) The department shall conduct an annual review of each
safety corridor, compiling crash data for the safety corridor and
making a recommendation as to whether the safety corridor should
retain the designation.
  (2) The recommendations shall be forwarded to staff in the
Department of Transportation region that contains the safety
corridor. If regional staff disagree with the recommendations,
the regional and other department staff shall work to arrive at
consensus.
  (3) After consensus has been reached about the department's
recommendations for a safety corridor, the regional staff shall
arrange a meeting with stakeholders for the safety corridor. As
used in this section, 'stakeholders' includes, but is not limited
to, individuals, groups and agencies that have expressed an
interest in the safety corridor and any other person that
regional staff wants to include.
  (4) The stakeholders and regional staff shall develop an annual
plan for the safety corridor. In addition to the requirements
included in subsection (5) of this section, the plan shall
include at least the following elements:
  (a) A list of agencies involved in the development of the plan,
with names and contact information.
  (b) An identification of kinds of data to be collected.
  (c) A list of activities planned for the year.
  (d) Names of persons responsible for specific actions and an
indication of the time lines for the actions.
  (e) A list of funding sources and amounts of moneys that will
be contributed, if any.
 
  (5) The plan developed under subsection (4) of this section
shall require:
  (a) A minimum of 50 hours per month of enforcement time by law
enforcement agencies. The 50 hours does not include any overtime
hours planned for the safety corridor.
  (b) A minimum of four public information efforts in each
quarter of the year. Public information may be disseminated in
any combination of print media, radio, television, cable and
billboards or in any other way reasonably calculated to educate
people about the safety corridor.
  (c) An annual review of traffic control devices in the safety
corridor for compliance with current standards for the devices.
Traffic control devices that are not in compliance with current
standards shall be brought into compliance. The department shall
pay 50 percent of the actual cost of bringing the devices into
compliance with current standards. If costs exceed currently
available funds, improvements to the traffic control devices may
be made over a period that exceeds one year.
  (6) The regional staff shall submit semiannual reports to the
department on implementation of the annual plan developed under
subsection (4) of this section. The department shall adopt rules
specifying the contents of the report under this subsection.
  (7) The department may not retain the safety corridor
designation for a portion of a highway unless there is meaningful
investment of local resources in the parts of the plan described
in subsection (5) of this section. The department shall adopt
rules specifying what constitutes a meaningful investment of
local resources.
  (8) If the average crash and fatality rates in a safety
corridor are within 10 percent of the state average for a period
of three years, the corridor may no longer be designated a safety
corridor unless the stakeholders agree to continue the
designation and to pay all expenses connected with the
designation. Signs designating the safety corridor may remain as
long as the stakeholders continue to develop and adhere to annual
plans described in subsections (4) and (5) of this section. + }
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