AB 1549, as amended, Wood. Department of Transportation: state highway rights-of-way: fiber optic cables.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of state highways and associated property. Existing law provides for the department to issue encroachment permits with respect to structures and activities in, under, or over any portion of the right-of-way of a state highway.
This bill would require the department to maintain an inventory on a centralized database of all broadband conduits that house fiber optic communication cables and are owned by the department, located on state highway rights-of-way, and installed on or after January 1, 2017, and to make that informationbegin delete availableend deletebegin insert available,end insert uponbegin delete request ofend deletebegin insert
request, toend insert companies or organizations working on broadband deployment. The bill would require the department to notify those companies and organizations on its Internet Web site of specified department-led highway construction projects and would authorize those companiesbegin delete orend deletebegin insert andend insert organizations to collaborate with the department to install a broadband conduit as part of each project. The bill would require the department, as part of each project, to install broadband conduit capable of supporting fiber optic communication cables if no company or organization working on broadband deployment collaborates with the department and no broadband conduit previously exists in a project area.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 14051 is added to the Government Code,
2to read:
(a) For purposes of this section, “companies or
4organizations working on broadband deployment” includes, but
5is not limited to, local governments, nonprofit organizations,begin insert cable
6television corporations, as defined in Section 216.4 of the Public
7Utilities Code,end insert and telephone corporations, as defined in Section
8234 of the Public Utilities Code.
9(b) The department shall maintain an inventory on a centralized
10database of all broadband conduits that house fiber optic
11communication cables and are owned by the department, located
12on state highway rights-of-way, and installed on or
after January
131, 2017. The department shall make the informationbegin delete availableend delete
14begin insert available,end insert uponbegin delete request ofend deletebegin insert request, toend insert companies or organizations
15working on broadband deployment.
16(c) (1) During the design phase of a department-led highway
17construction project that is parallel to the highway, spans at least
18two overpasses, and involves construction methods that are suitable
19for installing broadband conduit, the department shall notify
20companies and organizations working on broadband deployment
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of the project on its Internet Web site to encourage collaborative
22broadband installations.
23(2) For the purpose of supporting fiber optic communication
24cables, after receiving notification from the department, a company
P3 1or organization working on broadband deployment may collaborate
2with the department to install a broadband conduit as part of the
3project.
4(3) If no company or organization working on broadband
5deployment collaborates with the department and no broadband
6conduit previously exists in the project area, the department, as
7part of the project, shall install a broadband conduit capable of
8supporting fiber optic communication cables.
9(4) Nothing in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, requires the
10department
to report on cables owned by other entities.
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