Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 730 - Department of Transportation › Chapter 10 - Department Programs › Subchapter 1 - Construction Program › Section 730:10-1-14 - Selection of industrial access projects

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) The purpose of the Industrial Access Road
				Program is to encourage and assist local efforts toward industrial development
				by providing funds for the construction or improvement of direct access
				facilities to specific industrial operations or to officially designated
				industrial areas wherein industrial operations are underway or have been
				committed on a specific time schedule.
(b) The definition of direct access is based
				on generally accepted functional classification criteria defining the limits of
				responsibility of the various governmental jurisdictions for the provision of
				road systems adequate to respond to their constituents' needs.
(c) The responsibility of the state highway
				system is to provide for the interstate and intrastate traffic movement between
				population centers and other major traffic generators throughout the state. The
				local road system has the responsibility for the movement of traffic between
				the state highway system and localized areas of attraction. This local
				responsibility includes providing adequate roads to serve workers living in the
				area where the industry is located.
(d) The "Industrial Access Road Program" is
				designed to provide assistance to local industrial development efforts by
				funding, within practical limitations, access facilities connecting a specific
				industry or industrial area directly to the state highway system or local road
				system. Existing general purpose roads serving areas where industry is located
				do not qualify as industrial access roads.
(e) In general, an industrial access road is
				one where the only justification for its construction or improvement is the
				existence of a viable industrial operation at either of its termini. Criteria
				to be considered are as follows:
(1) The
				project provides primary, immediate access between the local or state road
				systems and existing or committed industrial operations and/or areas.
(2) The project will provide circulation
				within an existing or committed industrial area or park, connecting several
				specific features or operations within the boundaries of the industrial area or
				industrial park.
(3) State
				participation requested in relation to other available funding sources (federal
				programs, other state agencies, local sources, etc.).
(4) Magnitude of the industrial operation,
				present and potential.
(5) Existing
				access serving the industrial area.
(6) Availability of local participation to
				match state highway funds (either money or services).
(7) The project must be exclusively on public
				right-of-way.
(8) Right-of-way and
				utility relocations to be furnished at no cost to Department (including
				necessary utility adjustments).
(9)
				The project will not be used to enhance speculative development
				opportunities.
(10) Project is to
				be sponsored by trust, foundation or other public or corporate entity having
				legal authority to enter into a satisfactory agreement with the Department on
				such items as cost sharing, design of the proposed project, and to accept
				responsibility for satisfactory maintenance of the facility upon
				completion.
(11) If facility is not
				adequately maintained, no future industrial projects will be approved for the
				county, city or authority.
(12) The
				project will not be designated as a part of the state highway system.
(13) Minimum cost single project to maximize
				geographic distribution.
(14)
				Projects to be programmed on a statewide basis.
(15) Formal minimum design standards to be
				approved by Commission setting forth minimum right-of-way widths and other
				relevant geometric features.
(16)
				No project will be approved for any county or city that is in arrears in their
				payments to the Department for right-of-way or other underwriter responsibility
				unless satisfactory arrangements have been made for the discharge of the
				delinquency.
(17) Previously
				approved projects can be removed from construction program by approval of the
				Transportation Commission for reasons including county, city or authority
				having failed to execute a formal agreement to provide right-of-way and utility
				relocations, failure to maintain previous projects, or failure to provide
				agreed local assistance.