The Commission's Rail Crossings Engineering Section administers three funding programs for reducing hazards at highway-rail crossings:
Section 130
The Section 130 Grade Crossing Improvement Program provides funds to local governments (cities and counties) and railroads to eliminate hazards at existing at-grade public highway-rail crossings.
For more information, contact Bree Arnett, assigned staff at 916-928-2516 or bree.arnett@cpuc.ca.gov
Maintenance Fund
The Warning Device Maintenance Fund Program provides funds to railroads to pay for the local government's share of the costs of maintaining highway-rail crossing automatic warning devices.
For more information, contact Maria E. Cardenas, assigned staff at 916-928-3807 or maria.cardenas@cpuc.ca.gov
Section 190 Grade Separation Program
Call for projects for Fiscal Years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014
The Section 190 Grade Separation Fund Program provides funds to public agencies to grade-separate existing at-grade crossings, or to improve existing grade-separated crossings. The current priority list for fiscal year 2011-2012 was adopted in the CPUC’s interim Decision 11-06-021, dated June 23, 2011.
On July 28, 2011, the CPUC issued an Order Instituting Investigation (OII) for establishing the highway-rail Grade Separation Priority List (Priority List) for fiscal year 2012-2013 and 2013-2014. The California Transportation Commission and the California Department of Transportation use the Priority List to allocate funds made available to the program to assist local governments in financing existing crossings at grade of city streets, county roads, or state highways in need of separation, or existing separations in need of alterations or reconstruction, in accordance with Section 2452 of the California Streets and Highways Code. The list, which is usually created every two years, establishes the relative priorities for funding qualified projects to grade separate railroad crossings or improve existing grade-separated crossings.
All applications/nominations are due Friday, October 21, 2011. The assigned Administrative Law Judge will issue a Scheduling Ruling for the proceeding early next year.
If you are interested in nominating a crossing or following the proceeding and receiving documents and rulings pertaining to it, please subscribe to the proceeding documents at this link:
http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/I1107022.htm
For more information, contact Rosa Muñoz at (213)576-7078 or rosa.munoz@cpuc.ca.gov