Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 84, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, page 428, after line 32, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:
/ (DOT: Encroachment Permits) Subject to the terms of this proviso, the Department of Transportation shall not use any authorized funds to provide encroachment permits to a utility when relocation of lines in the state right of way by that utility is delaying a transportation project. The Department of Transportation shall give written notice to a utility when it is delaying a project due to relocation of that utility's lines, and the utility shall have sixty days after written notice to bring the utility relocation back within the project schedule. If, after the sixty day period, the project is still delayed as a result of the utility relocation, the Department of Transportation has the option to refuse other encroachment permits to the utility for work within state right of way that is unrelated to the relocation of the lines delaying the project, except for relocations necessitated by a transportation project or emergency repairs./
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