Committee advances bill to create statewide oversight for subterranean transportation projects
A large, amended bill would create executive-branch coordination and a new Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Authority to permit and adjudicate disputes for tunnels and subsurface transit projects. Sponsors said the fiscal note changed from a cost to a revenue-positive estimate; members pressed for indemnification, insurance and remediation provisions.
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Leader Johnson presented an amended framework to govern planning, permitting and construction of subterranean transportation systems (tunnels for electric or autonomous vehicles). The amendment splits responsibilities between a governor's infrastructure coordination council and a separate Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Authority that would hear appeals from local permitting decisions, utility conflicts and failures to act within statutory timelines.
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