(a) Establishment.-- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall establish procedures to authorize third parties to prequalify competent and responsible bidders for high performance and conventional steel painting for highway and bridge projects. (b) Certification.-- Bidders eligible for prequalification under subsection (a) shall have obtained a QP1 certification or QP2 certification, as appropriate, as developed by the Society for Protective Coatings, formerly known as the Steel Structures Painting Council, or other certification that is substantially equivalent to a QP1 or QP2 certification, as determined by the secretary. (c) Effectiveness.-- The secretary's designation of a third party to prequalify bidders under this section shall be effective for a period not exceeding one year from the date of the designation. (d) Suspension or debarment.-- Nothing under this section shall prevent the department from suspending or debarring a contractor, under the terms and conditions set forth in 67 Pa. Code §§ 457.13 (relating to suspension or debarment) and 457.14 (relating to debarment appeals procedure), that has been prequalified by a third party under this section. APPENDIX TO TITLE 74 TRANSPORTATION ------- Supplementary Provisions of Amendatory Statutes ------- 1994, FEBRUARY 10, P.L.20, NO.3 Preamble The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (a) Findings.-- (1) There exists in the urban and suburban communities in metropolitan areas, traffic congestion and serious mass transportation problems because of underdeveloped mass transportation facilities resulting in inadequate or overcrowded high-cost conditions on Commonwealth highways and existing mass transportation facilities. (2) Such conditions or a combination of some or all of them have made and will continue to result in making such communities economic and social liabilities harmful to the social and economic well-being of the entire area, depreciating values therein, reducing the tax revenues, making the metropolitan areas and their constituent communities less desirable areas in which to live and work and thereby depreciating further the general community-wide values. (3) The foregoing conditions cannot be effectively dealt with by private enterprise under existing law without the additional aids granted in this act and are beyond remedy or control by governmental regulatory processes. (4) The sound planning and development of metropolitan mass transportation facilities in accordance with sound and approved plans for their promotion, development and growth will promote the public health, safety, convenience and welfare, and the public acquisition of existing mass transportation facilities in accordance with the sound plans for their redevelopment and promotion will promote the public health, safety, convenience and welfare. (5) The well-being and economic health of the counties and other communities in the metropolitan areas require integrated systems of mass passenger transportation. (6) It is desirable that the public transportation systems in the metropolitan areas be improved, extended and supplemented by the creation of authorities as provided in this act. (7) The establishment of metropolitan transportation authorities as authorities of the Commonwealth and the continuance of the existing metropolitan transportation authorities will promote the public safety, convenience and welfare. (8) It is intended that metropolitan transportation authorities cooperate with or acquire existing transportation operators or facilities so that private enterprise and government may mutually provide adequate transit facilities for the convenience of the public. (9) It is intended that any authority created or continued under this act will cooperate with all municipalities and other public bodies in whose territories it operates so that the transportation system may best serve the interests of the residents thereof. (10) It is intended that the operation of a transportation system will enhance the quality of the environment of the metropolitan area by relieving highway congestion and providing for multipassenger traveling patterns. (11) It is intended that residents of the metropolitan area may be provided with access to transportation facilities and the ability to travel within the metropolitan area regardless of disability or handicap. (b) Declaration.-- Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Commonwealth to promote the safety and welfare of its inhabitants by authorizing the creation or continuation of a body corporate and politic for each metropolitan area, to be known as the transportation authority of such area, which shall exist and operate for the purposes contained in this chapter as an authority of the Commonwealth. These purposes are hereby declared to be public uses for which public money may be spent and private property may be acquired by the exercise of the power of eminent domain. 2004, NOVEMBER 30, P.L.1618, NO.207
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