Texas Administrative Code › Title 43 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 15 - FINANCING AND CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS › Subchapter K - ROAD UTILITY DISTRICTS › Section 15.132 - General Filing Requirements

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Place of
				  filing. Documents to be filed with the commission or the department must be
				  filed with the director of the department's Transportation Planning and
				  Programming Division. Applicants must submit all required data at one time in
				  one package. An application will be returned if it does not satisfy all legal
				  requirements.
(b) Licensed
				  professional engineer. All plans shall be prepared, dated, signed, and sealed
				  by a licensed professional engineer authorized to practice in Texas.
(c) Preliminary plans. Preliminary plans to
				  be submitted and filed with the governmental entity and the commission shall
				  contain at least the following items.
(1) The
				  applicant must submit an engineering report that includes:
(A) average daily traffic volumes on existing
				  roads and streets located within the RUD;
(B) five-year and twenty-year forecasts of
				  average daily traffic volumes on existing and proposed roads and streets within
				  or affected by the facility;
(C) an
				  assessment of the facility's effect on the safety and quality of flow on state
				  highways, municipal streets, and county roads that are intersected,
				  interchanged, relocated, or widened as a result of construction;
(D) a description of the proposed facility,
				  including typical sections of the proposed road and a typical section of the
				  existing road;
(E) scale maps
				  showing the boundaries of the RUD, its topography, the location of the
				  facility, and anticipated land use and population density;
(F) scale maps of existing drainage areas
				  that are partially or wholly within the RUD;
(G) hydraulic design frequencies for drainage
				  structures, including specifications for the basis of design and the design
				  coefficients, rainfall intensities, drainage area sizes, and calculated flow
				  quantities for each drainage structure and, when applicable, for each inlet and
				  storm sewer;
(H) an explanation of
				  the anticipated handling of existing traffic during construction;
(I) an assessment of environmental impacts,
				  including an in-depth analysis when environmentally sensitive areas are
				  adversely affected;
(J) when
				  bridges of 20 feet or more are proposed, an indication of structural capacity
				  in terms of design loading;
(K) a
				  preliminary estimate of construction costs subdivided into drainage structures
				  and storm sewers, bridges, roadway, and miscellaneous features;
(L) a tabulation of basic geometric design
				  values including design speed, maximum horizontal curvature, maximum gradient,
				  minimum stopping sight distance, maximum superelevation rates, and other
				  pertinent geometric design data;
(M) proposed landscaping and scenic
				  easements;
(N) proposed temporary
				  and permanent measures for controlling erosion; and
(O) identification of the sources or
				  reference publications, such as a municipality or county, the department or the
				  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, that serve
				  as a basis for the selected design values and standards or will serve as the
				  standards, guidelines, criteria, or specifications in the subsequent
				  development of other design documents, including construction plans.