Bill Text: GA SR822 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Transportation, Dept. of; urged to seek waiver from Federal Highway Administration to allow retail developments along interstate highway

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2010-05-07 - Senate Sent to Governor [SR822 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-SR822-Comm_Sub.html

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10 LC 34 2490S

The Senate Transportation Committee offered the following substitute to SR 822:

A RESOLUTION

Urging the Georgia Department of Transportation to seek a waiver from the Federal Highway Administration in order to allow retail developments in rest areas along the interstate highway system; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, the earliest form of rest areas for weary travelers appeared in the 1920's; and

WHEREAS, the rest areas travelers are familiar with today came into being after the 1956 creation of the Interstate Highway System; and

WHEREAS, states have the responsibility for creating and maintaining rest areas; and

WHEREAS, the Federal Highway Administration, in 23 C.F.R. Section 752.5, prevents the Georgia Department of Transportation from allowing the operation of commercial retail operations within rest areas along the interstate highway system; and

WHEREAS, the State of Georgia, in general, and the Georgia Department of Transportation, in particular, are experiencing an unprecedented downturn in the amount of funds available to maintain and operate rest stops along the interstate highway system; and

WHEREAS, one way to alleviate the cost to the state of maintaining and operating the rest stops would be to allow certain commercial retail operations, excluding retail operations that store or dispense motor fuel, to operate within the rest areas and to assume the cost for the operation and maintenance of such rest areas.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA that the members of this body urge the Georgia Department of Transportation to seek a waiver from the Federal Highway Administration in order to allow commercial retail operations in rest areas along the interstate highway system in this state.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, and the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.