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HOUSE BILL NO. 1580 Offered January 20, 2006 A BILL to require the Virginia Department of Transportation to halt all negotiations with STAR Solutions for construction of improvements to Interstate Route 81 in Virginia. ---------- Patron-- Cline ---------- Referred to Committee on Transportation ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Virginia Department of Transportation forthwith shall halt all negotiation with STAR Solutions under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 for the construction of improvements to Interstate Route 81 in Virginia. The Virginia Department of Transportation shall identify those areas along the Interstate Route 81 Corridor that have higher traffic volumes and congestion levels, including but not limited to the Exit 245 interchange at Harrisonburg, the Exit 143 interchange at Roanoke, as well as areas with congestion due to steep grades such as the James River Crossing in Botetourt County and the Buffalo Creek and Maury River crossings in Rockbridge County. The Virginia Department of Transportation shall solicit proposals from private entities to plan for and construct additional northbound and southbound lanes on Interstate Route 81 in those identified areas with higher traffic volumes and congestion levels and direct federal highway construction aid available to Virginia under the recently passed SAFETEA-LU Act and other federal legislation to the construction of these improvements.