Pennsylvania Code › Title 67 - TRANSPORTATION › Part I - Department of Transportation › Subpart B - Nonvehicle Code Provisions › Article III - Highways › Chapter 459 - OCCUPANCY OF HIGHWAYS BY UTILITIES › Section 459.10a - Bridge occupancy

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
License required.
No person may attach a utility facility to a
					 State bridge or modify an existing facility until the owner of the utility
					 facility has obtained a license (Form M-906L) from the Department under this
					 chapter.
(b)
Application
					 procedure.
(1)
General
. A separate bridge license application (Form M-906A)
					 shall be completed and signed by the facility owner and submitted to the
					 district office bridge engineer for each utility facility and for each bridge.
					 An application from a facility owner not in the business of providing utility
					 service shall identify how the public will benefit from the occupancy and shall
					 furnish other information as may be required by §
												459.3(b)(2)
					 (relating to permit application procedure). License applications shall be
					 submitted at least 60 days prior to the anticipated start of work.
(2)
Plans
. Plan requirements
					 are as follows:
(i)
Bridge license
					 application
. Three sets of plans shall accompany the bridge license
					 application. A fourth set of plans is required when a part of the work involves
					 Interstate highway right-of-way. The plans shall have a horizontal scale of 1
					 inch equal to no more than 20 feet, and shall clearly illustrate the location
					 and pertinent dimensions of both the proposed installation and related highway
					 and bridge features. The plans shall also show the installation in plan and
					 elevation, unless excused, with a cross section and enlarged details of the
					 installation showing appurtenances, such as brackets, inserts, supports,
					 couplings, encasements, hangers, sleeves, insulators, fabricated structural
					 steel-if required, crossarms and poles. The details shall be complete
					 throughout the entirety of the structure including treatment at the diaphragms
					 and abutments.
(ii)
Traffic
					 control plans.
(A) Three sets of
					 traffic control plans shall be submitted in the following situations:
(I) For work on limited access
					 highways.
(II) Whenever it will be
					 necessary to close a portion of a travel lane during hours of darkness without
					 work in active progress.
(III)
					 Whenever it will be necessary to completely close a highway to perform the
					 permitted work.
(B) The
					 district office may require an applicant to submit a traffic control plan under
					 other special circumstances.
(C)
					 Traffic control plans shall comply with
					 75 Pa.C.S. §
															6123
					 (relating to erection of traffic-control devices while working) and the
					 applicable provisions of Chapter 203 (relating to work zone traffic
					 control).
(D) Traffic control plans
					 shall clearly indicate how the work area and vehicular and pedestrian traffic
					 will be protected, maintained and controlled.
(3)
License fees.
A check or
					 money order, payable to the Department, shall accompany a bridge license
					 application in the appropriate amount under this paragraph.
(i) Issuance fee-$80.
(ii) Inspection fee-$20.
(iii) Accommodation fee (each 1,000 pounds or
					 fraction thereof)-$50.
(iv) Annual
					 rental fee (each 1,000 pounds or fraction thereof)-$10.
(v) Accommodation and annual rental fee
					 weights shall be calculated to include the ultimate weight of the utility
					 facility and contents-running full-as well as appurtenances, including the
					 weight of 1/2 inch of ice or sleet on listed items exposed to the elements on
					 any part of the bridge or structure.
(vi) License fees will not be assessed
					 against the following entities:
(A) The
					 Federal government.
(B) The
					 Commonwealth.
(C) Political
					 subdivisions of this Commonwealth.
(D) Utilities ordered by the Pennsylvania
					 Public Utility Commission to occupy a bridge over which the Pennsylvania Public
					 Utility Commission has taken jurisdiction.
(E) Governmental authorities, except that
					 annual rental fees specified in subparagraph (iv) shall be assessed.
(vii) The annual rental fee is
					 payable upon receipt of an invoice from the Department.