§ 10-d. Statewide preventive maintenance plan for highways and\nbridges. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, unless the\ncontext or subject matter otherwise requires:\n (a) "Preventive maintenance" shall mean planned activities undertaken\nby the commissioner to reduce or arrest the rate of deterioration of\nstate highways and bridges, or to maintain such highways and bridges in\na state of good repair. These activities may correct minor defects as a\nsecondary benefit.\n (b) "Pavement management system" shall mean a system to assist in\ndetermining the optimum strategy to preserve state pavements in a safe\nand serviceable condition at the lowest feasible total capital and\nmaintenance cost over the useful life of such pavement. Such system\nshall conform with or exceed federal requirements and shall include an\nannual survey of state highway pavement conditions.\n (c) "Bridge management system" shall mean a system to assist in\ndetermining the optimum strategy to preserve state bridges in a safe and\nserviceable condition at the lowest feasible total capital and\nmaintenance cost over the useful life of such bridges. Such system shall\nconform with or exceed federal requirements and shall include an\ninspection of state bridges in accordance with section two hundred\nthirty-two of this chapter.\n 2. Statewide preventive maintenance plan. Every year the commissioner\nshall develop a five-year plan for the preventive maintenance of state\nhighways and bridges. The plan shall be submitted to the governor and\nthe chairs of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and\nmeans committee at the time the department submits its annual budget\nrequest, but no later than December thirty-first of each year. The plan\nshall:\n (a) describe the current condition of state highways, by setting forth\nthe number of lane miles in each highway condition level in each\ndepartment of transportation residency and region based on an annual\npavement condition survey conducted pursuant to the department's\npavement management system;\n (b) describe the current condition of state bridges, by setting forth\nthe number of bridges in each bridge condition level in each department\nof transportation region based on an inspection of each bridge conducted\npursuant to the department's bridge management system and in accordance\nwith section two hundred thirty-two of this chapter;\n (c) establish goals for the condition of the state's highways and\nbridges for each of the next five fiscal years which can be achieved\nthrough an integrated program of capital investment and preventive\nmaintenance, set forth for each highway and bridge condition level in\neach department of transportation region;\n (d) describe the preventive maintenance activities and levels of\nfunding projected to be necessary to achieve the goals for the condition\nof the state's highways and bridges for each of the next five fiscal\nyears, set forth for each highway and bridge condition level in each\ndepartment of transportation region. Such description shall be developed\nutilizing the department's pavement management and bridge management\nsystems;\n (e) demonstrate the cost effectiveness of these preventive maintenance\nactivities and levels of funding through an analysis of the cost of\nalternative preventive maintenance techniques over the life cycle of\nstate highways and bridges consistent with the highway law life cycle\nrequirements;\n (f) summarize the preventive maintenance work which could occur if the\namounts requested for the next fiscal year pursuant to section\nfourteen-b of the state finance law are appropriated, set forth for each\nstate highway pavement condition level by department of transportation\nresidency, and for each state bridge condition level by department of\ntransportation region; and\n (g) commencing with the statewide preventive maintenance plan due no\nlater than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five,
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