1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to highways; requiring reports by
1.3 	commissioner of transportation on major highway
1.4 	projects; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota
1.5 	Statutes, chapter 174.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [174.56] REPORT ON MAJOR HIGHWAY PROJECTS.
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Report required. The commissioner of
1.9 	transportation shall submit a report on January 15, 2006, and on
1.10 	January 15 of each year thereafter, on the status of major
1.11 	highway projects under construction or planned during the year
1.12 	of the report and for the ensuing 15 years.  For purposes of
1.13 	this section a "major highway project" is a project that has a
1.14 	total cost for all segments that is at least $5,000,000, or at
1.15 	least equals 100 percent of the total construction budget of its
1.16 	Department of Transportation construction district in the year
1.17 	in which the report is made or any of the previous five years.
1.18 		Subd. 2.Report contents. For each major highway project
1.19 	the report must include:
1.20 	(1) a description of the project with enough maps to
1.21 	specify its location;
1.22 	(2) anticipated year of project letting;
1.23 	(3) estimated cost of the project in current dollars and in
1.24 	the year scheduled for project letting, with right-of-way costs
1.25 	identified separately;
2.1 	(4) a history of the project, including previous official
2.2 	actions by the department and the appropriate area
2.3 	transportation partnership;
2.4 	(5) the project's priority listing within its construction
2.5 	district and the reasons for that listing, the criteria used in
2.6 	prioritization, and any changes in that priority listing since
2.7 	the project was first included in a department work plan and the
2.8 	reasons for those changes; and 
2.9 	(6) past and potential future obstacles to letting and
2.10 	completion of the project, other than availability of funds.