Resolve, Directing the DepaJiment of TranspOliation To Request Federal Funding for the Extension and Completion of Interstate 95
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0736
Committee Amendment CA_A-HA_C_H576 (House)

HOUSE AMENDMENT "e" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 283, 
L.D. 736, "Resolve, Directing the DepaJiment of TranspOliation To Request Federal 
Funding for the Extension and Completion of Interstate 95" 
Amend the amendment by strildng out the substitute title and replacing it with the 
following:· 
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'Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Secure Funding To 
Complete TranspOliation Projects' 
Amend the amendment by strildng out all of the emergency preamble (page 1, lines 
to 34 and page 2, lines 1 to 4 in amendment) and inserting the following: 
'Preamble. Whereas, the Caribou and Presque Isle segments of the Aroostook 
North-South Highway have available and ready for use in constmction over $40,000,000 
in federal funding through the provision of high priority project funding by the United 
States Congress since 2001; and 
Whereas, the Governor executed an order in March 2009 directing the Department 
of Transportation to make the completion of these segments a prioJity, with construction 
of the Caribou segn1ent to begin in 2010 and the Presque Isle segment to begin as soon as 
the approval of the An11Y Corps of Engineers is given; and 
Whereas, the cities of CaJibou and Presque Isle have unanimously resolved through 
their respective city councils to proceed with the construction of these segments; and 
Whereas, through An Act To Secure Maine's Transportation Future, Public Law 
2007, chapter 470, which took effect June 30, 2008, the Legislature listed the Aroostook 
North-South Highway as an extraordinary comdor, which now has a scope, priority and 
schedule for community consensus within the meaning of that Act; and 
Whereas, the cunent available funding to complete the construction of both of these 
segments is insufficient; now, therefore, be it' 
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Amend the amendment in section 1 in the first line (page 2, line 5 in amendment) by 
stJildng out the following: "Full project" and inserting the following: 'Project' 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 'C "to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "An to S.P. 283, L.D. 736 
Amend the amendment in section 1 in the 2nd line (page 2, line 6 in amendment) by 
strildng out the following: 
"full" and inserting the following: 
'to the fullest extent 
possible' 
Amend the amendment in section 1 in the 3rd line (page 2, line 7 in amendment) by 
strildng out the following: "all" 
Amend the amendment in section 1 in the last line (page 2, line 11 in amendment) by 
striking out the following: 
"partnerships," and inserting the following: 
'partnerships. 
The department shall secure to the fullest extent possible funding for all projects listed in 
Public Law 2007, chapter 470, Part B, section 2 as significant new capacity projects of all 
modes and extraordinary bridge replacement, removal or rehabilitation projects.' 
Amend the amendment by strildng out all of the emergency clause (page 2,. lines 12 
and 13 in amendment) 
SUMMARY 
TIllS amendment removes the emergency preamble and emergency clause from the 
committee amendment. The; amendment also requires the Department of Transportation 
to secure to the fullest extent possible funding to complete the Aroostook North-South 
Highway project and to secure to the fullest extent possible funding for the projects listed' 
as "significant new capac~rojects of all modes and extraordinary bridge replacement, 
removal or rehabilitatiOl)!projl?cts" in Public ra, 2007, chapter 470. 
SPONSORED BY: L~'\. 0-"'" 
(Representative DILL) 
TOWN: Cape Eliza' 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
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