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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Seek Funding To Complete a Design and Engineering Assessment for the Extension of Passenger Rail Service from Portland North on the State-owned St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway Corridor’
Amend the resolve in section 1 in the 2nd line (page 1, line 2 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "fund, or seek funding," and inserting the following: 'seek funding'
Amend the resolve in section 2 in the 3rd line (page 1, line 12 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "fund, or seek funding," and inserting the following: 'seek funding'
Amend the resolve in section 2 in the last line (page 1, line 18 in L.D) by striking out the following: "sidings; and be it further" and inserting the following: 'sidings.'
Amend the resolve by striking out all of section 3.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report, strikes the requirement that the Department of Transportation fund the engineering and design work necessary to qualify the state-owned St. Lawrence and Atlantic railway corridor, from Portland to the Auburn city line, for federal capital investment funding consistent with the passenger rail service investments evaluated and proposed in the Department of Transportation's 2011 "Portland North Alternative Modes Transportation Project" study. The amendment also strikes the requirement that the department report to the Legislature with information regarding funding on or before December 15, 2013.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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