Alaska Administrative Code › Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities › Chapter 05 - Administration › 17 AAC 05.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this chapter, unless the context
			 requires otherwise,
(1) "commissioner" means
			 the commissioner of transportation and public facilities;
(2) "department" means the Department of
			 Transportation and Public Facilities;
(3) "emergency requirements" means
			 requirements to address circumstances that cause or threaten damage or
			 destruction of a highway facility or a loss of life or property;
(4) "environmental approval readiness" means
			 the extent to which a project has already received a required environmental
			 approval under 42 U.S.C.
			 4332 (National Environmental Policy Act) or
			 to which the department considers the project ready to receive that approval in
			 an expeditious fashion;
(5)
			 "functional classification" means the grouping of streets and highways into
			 classes or systems according to the character of service they are intended to
			 provide in relation to the total public road system;
(6) "highway rest stop or pullout" means an
			 area alongside a roadway that allows a person to drive the person's vehicle off
			 the roadway and park it a safe distance from the traveled portion of the
			 roadway;
(7) "intelligent
			 transportation system" or "ITS" means an integration of advanced sensor,
			 computer, electronics, and communications technologies and management
			 strategies to provide traveler information, or to increase the safety or
			 efficiency of the surface transportation system;
(8) "interested person" means
(A) a person that has expressed an interest
			 in or that the department believes is interested in transportation
			 issues;
(B) a municipal government
			 and its elected officials;
(C) a
			 federally recognized tribe;
(D) a
			 member of a board of an association that receives money under AS
			 29.60.140;
(E) the Trails and
			 Recreational Access for Alaska Citizen's Advisory Board established for
			 purposes of compliance with 23 U.S.C.
			 206(c)(2);
(F) a regional or village corporation
			 organized under 43 U.S.C.
			 1601 -
			 1628 (Alaska Native Claims
			 Settlement Act);
(G) a federal or
			 state land management agency;
(H) a
			 federal or state environmental agency; and
(I) public or private provider of
			 transportation services;
(9) "metropolitan planning area" means an
			 area for which a metropolitan area plan has been developed under
			 23 U.S.C.
			 134 and
			 49 U.S.C.
			 5303-
			 5306;
(10) "metropolitan planning organization" or
			 "MPO" means an organization formed to meet the requirements of
			 23 U.S.C.
			 134 and
			 49 U.S.C.
			 5303-
			 5306;
(11) "modes of transportation" means
			 transportation accomplished by motorized vehicles, airplanes, rail, boats,
			 ferries, bicycles, snow machines, and foot;
(12) "National Highway System" means the
			 system of highways established under
			 23 U.S.C.
			 103;
(13) "non-restricted federal apportionment"
			 means federal money allocated to the state under federal law that is not
			 earmarked for any specific project or category of project;
(14) "PEB" means a project evaluation board
			 appointed under
			 17 AAC 05.175(h);
(15) "project needs list" means a
			 continuously updated, database-generated list of projects nominated for
			 inclusion in the next STIP;
(16)
			 "public meeting" means an open house, a facilitated meeting, a workshop, a
			 public hearing, a department-hosted radio or television call-in show, or
			 another meeting format that the department considers most likely to encourage
			 comments from members of the public who attend;
(17) "STIP" means the statewide
			 transportation improvement program;
(18) "surface transportation," "surface
			 transportation facilities," or "surface transportation system"
(A) means all systems used to move the
			 traveling public and freight; and
(B) includes motorized vehicles, airplanes,
			 boats, rail, bicycles, snow machines, and trails;
(19) "TIP" means an MPO's transportation
			 improvement program;
(20) "transit"
			 means a system for the movement of persons by motorized vehicle, rail, or
			 ferry;
(21) "written notice" means
			 notice that is delivered by FAX, mail, or electronic mail;
(22) "working day" means a calendar day,
			 except Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.