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LUEET-3. SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT (B) (cont'd) If a responsible party cannot be identified, or tesponsibility is contested by the responsible party, then the clean-up should be financed by the state superfund and the legislature should. consider the creati,n of a victims compensation fund to pay for the personal injury damages suffered by individuals. LUEET-4. TRANSPORTATION (0) An efficitnt transportation system is a vital element in planning for the fiscal, accnomic and social development at state, regional, and local levels. Since the agricultural and recreational economy of the state and its cities are dependent upon highway transportation, it is necessary to determine the long-range highway needs to assure the vitality of the stated economy. Furthermore, environmental concerns and the need to conserve energy require that alternate modes of transportation be utilized in meeting the diverse needs which exist invariouu communities and regions of the state. In order to provide a more adequate state governmental structure and funding mechanism for transportation system planning and development, the League recommends that the following changes be made: 1. Turnbacks. The State Highway Study Commission has been studying the possibility of reclassifying many roadways in the state as to appropriate nee classifications and jurisdiction. The increased cost for cities to assume responsibility for general maintenance and life cycle treatment far exceeds the current finaneis •apacities of cities. For this reason, no wholesale program of highway turnba. +hould be instituted at this time. Instead, existing mechanisms for the v.Jerly turnback of rocis should be fine tuned, including increasing the level of funding in the municipal turnback account, and prohibiting unilateral revocations or turnbacks by road authorities unless a hearing in held and the road is brought up to normal standards acceptable to the receiving jurisdiction before the revocation is effertive. Other changes needed to facilitate turnbacks include: a) State aid rules should be changed to allow counties to upgrade county state aid highways using c.s.a.h. funds prior to turnback with city concurrence and without penalty as cur ant imposed by the rules; b) The League Bapoorts ub, a portion of the highway motor vehicle excise tax to provide . adequate a"rce for turnback funds, aad; c) allowing cities to determine if a turnback toad will be designated is a state aid road or local street and if the city chooses to designate the ro, as a state -aid road this designation should .at affect the mtsadard designation process so that developing cities will be able to cautious to .. igeste a pe, entaxe of new road growth as part of the state aid system. -27-