BILL NUMBER: SCR 35	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Alejo)

                        APRIL 15, 2013

   Relative to the Pinnacles National Park Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 35, as introduced, Cannella. State Route 25: Pinnacles
National Park Highway.
   This bill would designate a specified portion of State Route 25 as
the Pinnacles National Park Highway. The measure would request the
Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate
signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Pinnacles National Park is a protected mountainous region
comprising 26,000 acres of the Gabilan Range in San Benito and
Monterey counties, located about 40 miles inland from the Pacific
Ocean, 5 miles east of Soledad, and about 80 miles southeast of San
Jose; and
   WHEREAS, Pinnacles National Park is named for the jagged rock
spires and caves that were formed by an ancient volcano and that
typify the park; and
   WHEREAS, Pinnacles National Park is home to many species of flora
and fauna unique to the region, including the California Buckeye,
California Quail, Prairie Falcon, and the California Condor; and
   WHEREAS, Pinnacles National Park draws approximately 400,000
visitors each year, generating $8.4 million of annual economic
benefit for the surrounding area; and
   WHEREAS, Many of these visitors access the park via State Route
25, which is located between Interstate 101 near Gilroy and State
Route 198; and
   WHEREAS, Pinnacles Forest Reserve was designated in 1906, and two
years later President Theodore Roosevelt established Pinnacles
National Monument; and
   WHEREAS, On January 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed into
law House Bill No. 3641 that created Pinnacles National Park from the
former Pinnacles National Monument; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates that
portion of State Route 25 that lies solely within the exterior
boundaries of the County of San Benito as the Pinnacles National Park
Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.