14525.5. (a) The department shall submit a project delivery report to the Governor and the Legislature not later than November 15 of each year. The report shall include all state highway projects that are included in the adopted state transportation improvement program costing one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more and for which the department is the responsible agency for project development work.
(b) For each of these projects, the report shall identify the milestone dates by month and year.
(c) For each fiscal year corresponding with the fiscal year used in programming the state transportation improvement program, the report shall identify the number of these projects which met one or more of the milestone dates. The report shall also identify each project where the department failed to meet one or more milestones. For each of those projects, the report shall identify the specific circumstances resulting in the delay, and present a plan to resolve any problems and a new schedule for delivery.
(d) For purposes of this section, each of the following is a “milestone date”:
(1) Commencement of the environmental process.
(2) Commencement of the circulation of the draft environmental documents.
(3) Final approval of the environmental documents.
(4) Commencement of work on the plans, specifications, and estimates.
(5) Project ready to advertise.
(6) Project delivery.
(e) “Project delivery” is the date on which the project is advertised.
(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 106, Sec. 2. Effective July 10, 1989.)