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Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Floor Approved)

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Return of TPOF Funding (language only)

Item 453 #1h

Item 453 #1h

Transportation
Department of Transportation

Language

Page 440, line 29, after "G." insert "1."

Page 440, line 29, strike "2008" and insert "2007".

Page 440, after line 43, insert:

"2. Pursuant to the provisions of Item 449.10, 1., Chapter 847 of the 2008 Acts of Assembly, $20,000,000 was deposited to the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (TPOF) for the purpose of purchasing right of way owned by Norfolk Southern Corporation and located between Newtown Road and the Oceanfront.  The subsequent contract for the TPOF award signed between the Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia Beach, specified that if such funds were not utilized to extend light rail along the corridor to Virginia Beach, the funds were to be repaid to the Department of Transportation and redeposited into the TPOF for allocations for other eligible transportation projects.  Based on the failure of the project to move forward, as evidenced by the failure of the voter referendum on the Virginia Beach ballot in the November 2016 election, the City of Virginia Beach is required to repay to the Department of Transportation the full amount in four annual payments of $5,000,000 each year for the next four years  beginning in fiscal year 2018.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that these sums are hereby made available to the department to reallocate to eligible TPOF projects as they become available."



Explanation

(This amendment reflects the agreement between VDOT and the City of Virginia Beach regarding the repayment of a TPOF grant and expresses the intent of the General Assembly that such funds be used on a competitive statewide basis to support other TPOF-eligible projects.)