Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of all state highways and associated property. Existing law creates the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund, and requires all money appropriated, contributed, or made available from any source for expenditure on work within the powers and duties of the department, including sources other than state appropriations, to be transferred to or deposited in the account.
This bill would authorize the department to establish a special subaccount of the State Highway Account to accommodate deposits and expenditures of moneys fee schedule and to charge a fee
relative to routine programmatic testing and inspection transportation project delivery services requested by a local agency or other entity that are not directly related to a particular project, entity, as specified, including, but not limited to, aggregate qualifications, job
mix formula verifications, material quality plant program inspections, and laboratory certifications. The bill would authorize the department to assign a nondistributive project identification number for those services, and charge a fee to the requesting party for services performed by the department in order to reimburse the department for its associated costs, which costs shall be payable from the subaccount. accreditations. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to, among other things,
specify the terms and conditions for providing these services and would require that the department’s total estimated revenue from the fee schedule not exceed the department’s estimated total cost for providing these services. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require that the moneys in the subaccount collected and deposited in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund pursuant to these provisions be allocated to the department for these purposes.