BILL NUMBER: SCR 66	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  51
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 18, 2006
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 11, 2006
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cox

                        JANUARY 4, 2006

   Relative to Historic Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 66, Cox  Historic Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40.
   This measure would designate historic segments of former Alternate
U.S. Highway Route 40 as Historic Alternate U.S.  Highway Route 40
and request the Department of Transportation to post appropriate
signs, as specified.




   WHEREAS, Former Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 played an
important part in the development of the transportation routes into
California over what is now known as the Davis "Y;" and
   WHEREAS, What historically was Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 is
currently State Highway Route 113 from Davis to Woodland and Yuba
City, and State Highway Route 70 through Marysville, Oroville, and
the Feather River Canyon to Hallelujah Junction on U.S. Highway Route
395, a route that today serves 27 towns and the six Counties of
Yolo, Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Plumas, and Lassen; and
   WHEREAS, The Feather River Scenic Byway is a 130-mile segment of
State Highway Route 70, which was part of Alternate U.S. Highway
Route 40; and
   WHEREAS, Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 served as part of the
Atlantic City to San Francisco transcontinental federal highway
system in 1927; and
   WHEREAS, The historic Alternate U. S. Highway Route 40 was
parallel to and part of former U.S. Highway Route 40; and
   WHEREAS, Recognition of this historic highway will educate the
public concerning California's development and foster the economic
health of small communities and businesses located along the highway;
and
   WHEREAS, The Historic U.S. 40 Association has worked to identify
the historic U. S. Highway Route 40 and the Alternate U.S. Highway
Route 40 routes and acts as the host organization to promote the
highways, working with state, county, and city transportation
departments; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate to designate historic sections of
former Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 as an historic route; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the remaining sections of former Alternate
U.S. Highway Route 40 are hereby recognized for their historic
importance to the development of California's highway system; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested, upon
application by an appropriate local governmental agency, to identify
any section of former Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40 that is still
a publicly maintained highway and that is of interest to the
applicant, and to designate that segment of highway as "Historic
Alternate U.S. Highway Route 40;" and be it further
   Resolved, That the department is requested to determine the cost
of appropriate highway markers or signs for Historic Alternate U.S.
Highway Route 40 consistent with historic signing requirements for
the state highway system showing the special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover that
cost, to erect those signs on the portions of former Alternate U.S.
Highway Route 40 that are currently part of the state highway system;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation.