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2011 SESSION
11100336DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 1 of Chapter 6 of the Acts of Assembly of 2008 Special Session II, as amended by Chapter 130 of the Acts of Assembly of 2010, is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 1. The General Assembly determines that expansion of the Norfolk Light Rail system, including extension from its
current construction of a
public transportation project extending from the terminus of the Norfolk Light Rail starter line at
Newtown Road in the City of Norfolk to the Oceanfront oceanfront area
in the City of Virginia Beach, along the Interstate 264 corridor on the right-of-way
of the Norfolk Southern Railway, is in the public interest and qualifies for
public funding, to the extent that any may be required, from the Transportation
Partnership Opportunity Fund, established by § 33.1-221.1:8 of the Code of
Virginia, or other funding available to the Commonwealth. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision of law, the funds provided to the City of Virginia Beach
under the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund to purchase railroad
right-of-way from the Norfolk Southern Railroad Railway shall be expended and
used subject to such requirements as the Federal Transit Administration shall
determine to be most effective for the construction of the public
transportation project. Nothing herein
shall be interpreted to preselect the public transportation project to be
constructed on the right-of-way to be acquired, and any public transportation project selected pursuant to the federally
required environmental process currently underway will be deemed to satisfy the
requirements of this Act.