KRS 176.243: Cabinet to establish LARP application procedures -- Annual submission of

evaluated project requests -- General Assembly to make final determination

for LARP grants.

(1) (a) The cabinet shall establish procedures by which a city or county may make

application for portions of county roads, streets, and urban roads in its

jurisdiction to be considered for grants from the LARP.

(b) A city or county may submit to the cabinet for consideration for the LARP

only those rehabilitation projects that bri ng the road or street back to its

original condition and shall not submit projects that increase capacity or

involve other improvements over the original design of the road.

(c) The maximum amount of funding that a city or county may receive for any

individual project under a LARP grant is five hundred thousand dollars

($500,000).

(d) Beginning on June 1 of each year, a city or county may submit projects for

consideration for LARP grants to the cabinet in advance of each regular

session of the General Assembly. In order to be considered for funding during

a regular session of the General Assembly, the submission shall be made by

October 1 of the preceding year. A project submitted in a previous year that

was not selected shall be resubmitted under a new appl ication in order to be

considered in a future year.

(2) For each project application submitted under subsection (1) of this section, the

cabinet shall:

(a) Review the project to ensure it meets the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of

this section; and

(b) Evaluate the project in accordance with KRS 176.245 within thirty (30) days

of the submission of the application.

(3) Beginning on July 1 of each year, the cabinet shall submit to the General Assembly

through the Legislative Research Commission a list of all project requests

submitted under subsection (1) of this section that have been evaluated by the

cabinet in the previous month. The list shall be divided into two (2) sections, one

(1) section listing projects involving county roads, and one (1) section listing

projects involving streets and urban roads. The list shall, at a minimum, include the

following information for each project:

(a) The name of the city or county responsible for maintaining the road or street;

(b) A unique project identification number;

(c) The route and highway district where the project is located;

(d) The length of the project to the nearest one-tenth (1/10) of a mile;

(e) A description of the project and the scope of rehabilitation;

(f) The score assigned by the highway district for the project;

(g) A narrative description of the reasoning for the numerical score assigned

under paragraph (f) of this subsection;

(h) Photographs of the project area showing the scope of work, with at least one

(1) photograph of every three hundred (300) feet of roadway; and

(i) The estimated cost to complete the project.

(4) No later than November 1 of each year, the cabinet shall subm it to the General

Assembly through the Legislative Research Commission a list of all project

requests submitted under subsection (1) of this section for the year, containing the

same information listed in subsection (3) of this section.

(5) The General Ass embly shall make the final determination of which projects are to

be awarded grants under the LARP.