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2007 SESSION
076355396Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.1-391.5 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.1-391.5. Responsibilities of Department.
The Department shall have the following responsibilities:
1. Determine present and future needs for, and economic feasibility of providing, public transportation, transportation demand management, and ridesharing facilities and services and the retention, improvement, and addition of passenger and freight rail transportation in the Commonwealth;
2. Formulate and implement plans and programs for the establishment, improvement, development and coordination of public transportation, transportation demand management, and ridesharing facilities and services, and the retention and improvement of passenger and freight rail transportation services and corridors in the Commonwealth, and coordinate transportation demand management and innovative technological transportation initiatives with the Department of Transportation;
3. Coordinate with the Department of Transportation in the conduct of research, policy analysis, and planning for the rail and public transportation modes as may be appropriate to ensure the provision of effective, safe, and efficient public transportation and passenger and freight rail services in the Commonwealth;
4. Develop uniform financial and operating data on and criteria for evaluating all public transportation activities in the Commonwealth, develop specific methodologies for the collection of such data by public transit operators, regularly and systematically verify such data by means of financial audits and periodic field reviews of operating data collection methodologies, and develop such other information as may be required to evaluate the performance and improve the economy or efficiency of public transit or passenger and freight rail operations, transportation demand management programs, and ridesharing in the Commonwealth;
5. Compile and maintain an up-to-date inventory of all abandoned railroad corridors in the Commonwealth [ abandoned after January 1, 1970 ] ;
6. Provide training and other technical support services to transportation operators and ridesharing coordinators as may be appropriate to improve public transportation, ridesharing, and passenger and freight rail services;
6. 7. Maintain liaison with state, local,
district and federal agencies or other entities, private and public, having
responsibilities for passenger and freight rail, transportation demand
management, ridesharing, and public transportation programs;
7. 8. Receive, administer and allocate all
planning, operating, capital, and any other grant programs from the Federal
Transit Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, the Federal
Highway Administration, and other agencies of the United States government for
public transportation, passenger and freight rail transportation,
transportation demand management, and ridesharing purposes with approval of the
Board and to comply with all conditions attendant thereto;
8. 9. Administer all state grants for public
transportation, rail transportation, ridesharing, and transportation demand
management purposes with approval of the Board;
9. 10. Promote the use of public transportation,
transportation demand management, ridesharing, and passenger and freight rail
services to improve the mobility of Virginia's citizens and the transportation
of goods;
10. 11. Represent the Commonwealth on local,
regional, and national agencies, industry associations, committees, task
forces, and other entities, public and private, having responsibility for
passenger and freight rail, transportation demand management, ridesharing, and
public transportation;
11. 12. Represent the Commonwealth's interests
in passenger and freight rail, transportation demand management, ridesharing,
and public transportation and coordinate with the Department of Transportation
in the planning, location, design, construction, implementation, monitoring,
evaluation, purchase, and rehabilitation of facilities and services that affect
or are used by passenger and freight rail, transportation demand management,
ridesharing, or public transportation;
12 13. Coordinate with the State Corporation
Commission on all matters dealing with rail safety inspections and rail
regulations which fall within its purview;
13. 14. Prepare and review state legislation and
Commonwealth recommendations on federal legislation and regulations as directed
by the Secretary of Transportation; and
14. 15. Promote public transportation,
ridesharing, and passenger and freight rail safety.