176.243 Cabinet to establish LARP application procedures -- Annual submission of
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evaluated project requests -- General Assembly to make final determination
for LARP grants.
(a)The cabinet shall establish procedures by which a city or county may make
application for portions of county roads, streets, and urban roads in its
jurisdiction to be considered for grants from the LARP.
(b)A city or county may submit to the cabinet for consideration for the LARP
only those rehabilitation projects that bring the road or street back to its
original condition and shall not submit projects that increase capacity or
involve other improvements over the original design of the road.
(c)The maximum amount of funding that a city or county may receive for any
individual project under a LARP grant is five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000).
(d)Beginning on June 1 of each year, a city or county may submit projects for
consideration for LARP grants to the cabinet in advance of each regular
session of the General Assembly. In order to be considered for funding during
a regular session of the General Assembly, the submission shall be made by
October 1 of the preceding year. A project submitted in a previous year that
was not selected shall be resubmitted under a new application in order to be
considered in a future year.
(2)For each project application submitted under subsection
(1)of this section, the
cabinet shall:
(a)Review the project to ensure it meets the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of
this section; and
(b)Evaluate the project in accordance with KRS 176.245 within thirty
(30)days
of the submission of the application.
(3)Beginning on July 1 of each year, the cabinet shall submit to the General Assembly
through the Legislative Research Commission a list of all project requests
submitted under subsection
(1)of this section that have been evaluated by the
cabinet in the previous month. The list shall be divided into two
(2)sections, one
(1)section listing projects involving county roads, and one
(1)section listing
projects involving streets and urban roads. The list shall, at a minimum, include the
following information for each project:
(a)The name of the city or county responsible for maintaining the road or street;
(b)A unique project identification number;
(c)The route and highway district where the project is located;
(d)The length of the project to the nearest one-tenth (1/10) of a mile;
(e)A description of the project and the scope of rehabilitation;
(f)The score assigned by the highway district for the project;
(g)A narrative description of the reasoning for the numerical score assigned
under paragraph
(f)of this subsection;
(h)Photographs of the project area showing the scope of work, with at least one
(1)photograph of every three hundred
(300)feet of roadway; and
(i)The estimated cost to complete the project.
(4)No later than November 1 of each year, the cabinet shall submit to the General
Assembly through the Legislative Research Commission a list of all project
requests submitted under subsection
(1)of this section for the year, containing the
same information listed in subsection
(3)of this section.
(5)The General Assembly shall make the final determination of which projects are to
be awarded grants under the LARP.