Bill Text: IL SR0220 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Encourages furthering the effort to create a comprehensive pavement preservation and maintenance plan in Illinois. Commends the Illinois Department of Transportation for initiating Illinois' first pavement preservation program in 2004. Recommends that IDOT further develop a full-scale pavement preservation program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-25 - Resolution Adopted [SR0220 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-SR0220-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Proper pavement preservation and maintenance has | ||||||
3 | gained national attention throughout the past decade as a | ||||||
4 | critical part of any comprehensive plan to maintain highway | ||||||
5 | systems; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The National Center for Pavement Preservation was | ||||||
7 | opened in October of 2003, with the mission of promoting | ||||||
8 | sensible pavement preservation strategies nationwide; and
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9 | WHEREAS, On October 8, 2004, the Federal Highway | ||||||
10 | Administration put out a policy memorandum titled "Preventive | ||||||
11 | Maintenance Eligibility" that stated the following: | ||||||
12 | "Experience has shown that when properly applied, preventive | ||||||
13 | maintenance is a cost effective way of extending the service | ||||||
14 | life of highway assets and therefore is eligible for | ||||||
15 | Federal-Aid funding. By using lower-cost system preservation | ||||||
16 | methods, states can improve system conditions, minimize road | ||||||
17 | construction impacts on traveling public, and better manage | ||||||
18 | their resources. Preventive maintenance offers State DOT's a | ||||||
19 | way of increasing the return on their infrastructure | ||||||
20 | investment"; and
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21 | WHEREAS, The Federal Highway Administration supports the | ||||||
22 | development and conduct of efficient pavement preservation |
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1 | programs which address pavements in good condition before the | ||||||
2 | onset of serious damage and allow states to reduce costly, | ||||||
3 | time-consuming rehabilitation and reconstruction projects with | ||||||
4 | improved safety and mobility, reduced congestion, and | ||||||
5 | smoother, longer lasting pavements; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The treatments and activities commonly defined as | ||||||
7 | preventive maintenance include: joint repairs, crack seals, | ||||||
8 | pavement patching, and thin surface treatments such as | ||||||
9 | chip-seals, ultra-thin hot-mix, and micro-surfacing; and
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10 | WHEREAS, The Indiana Department of Transportation's own | ||||||
11 | study reveals that every dollar spent on preventive maintenance | ||||||
12 | saves the user agency ten dollars down the line in | ||||||
13 | rehabilitation and reconstruction costs; and
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14 | WHEREAS, The Foundation for Pavement Preservation, a | ||||||
15 | non-profit consortium of industry and government groups, | ||||||
16 | confirmed the results of a Michigan Department of | ||||||
17 | Transportation study of its pavement preservation program, | ||||||
18 | which was implemented in 1992 and evaluated in 1996; had the | ||||||
19 | Department of Transportation not implemented its preventative | ||||||
20 | maintenance strategy, the Department of Transportation would | ||||||
21 | have to spend $700 million on rehabilitation and construction | ||||||
22 | to bring pavements to their current conditions, a cost more | ||||||
23 | than 8 times as much as was spent on preventative maintenance |
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1 | treatment; and
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2 | WHEREAS, Benefits and attributes of implementing a | ||||||
3 | pavement preservation program include no extra increase in | ||||||
4 | budget, an increase in pavement network condition, increased | ||||||
5 | user satisfaction, improvements in system safety, reduced cost | ||||||
6 | per mile expenditures, a lowered life-cycle cost, no decrease | ||||||
7 | in hot-mix or concrete volumes, no decrease in the number of | ||||||
8 | industry jobs, and freeing up additional cost resources for | ||||||
9 | other rehabilitation and construction; therefore, be it
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10 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | ||||||
11 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we encourage furthering | ||||||
12 | the effort to create a comprehensive pavement preservation and | ||||||
13 | maintenance plan in Illinois; and be it further
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14 | RESOLVED, That we commend the Illinois Department of | ||||||
15 | Transportation for initiating Illinois' first pavement | ||||||
16 | preservation program in 2004, and we recommend that the | ||||||
17 | Illinois Department of Transportation further develop a full | ||||||
18 | scale pavement preservation program; and be it further
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19 | RESOLVED, That we recommend that the Illinois State Toll | ||||||
20 | Highway Authority adopt a similar pavement preservation | ||||||
21 | program; and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
2 | delivered to the Secretary of the Illinois Department of | ||||||
3 | Transportation and the Chairman of the Illinois State Toll | ||||||
4 | Highway Authority.
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