PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2055, 2108, 2112 PRINTER'S NO. 2150
No. 1631 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY D. EVANS, JUNE 23, 2007
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 28, 2007
AN ACT 1 Providing for the Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and 2 Tourism Fund Capital Budget for 2007-2008; itemizing projects 3 to be assisted by the Department of Community and Economic 4 Development, together with their estimated financial costs; 5 authorizing recurring payments for certain projects; and 6 making appropriations. 7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 8 hereby enacts as follows: 9 Section 1. Short title. 10 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pennsylvania 11 Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund Capital Budget 12 Itemization Act for 2007-2008. 13 Section 2. Total authorizations from Pennsylvania Gaming 14 Economic Development and Tourism Fund. 15 The total authorization for the projects itemized in section 16 3 for grants by the Department of Community and Economic 17 Development, its successors or assigns, and to be financed from 18 the revenues of the Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and 19 Tourism Fund shall be $1,647,941,000.
1 Section 3. Itemization of Pennsylvania Gaming Economic
2 Development and Tourism Fund projects.
3 Projects for grants by the Department of Community and
4 Economic Development, its successors or assigns, to be financed
5 by the incurring of debt or FROM THE revenues of the <--
6 Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund are
7 hereby itemized, together with their respective estimated costs,
8 as follows:
9 Project
10 Project Allocation
11 (1) Adams County (Reserved)
12 (2) Allegheny County
13 (i) County projects
14 (A) Retirement of the indebtedness of an
15 urban redevelopment authority in a city
16 of the second class which is financed,
17 in part, with the utilization of funds
18 transferred to the regional asset
19 district pursuant to Article XXXI-B of
20 the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723,
21 No.230), known as the Second Class
22 County Code 65,740,000
23 (Base Project Allocation - $65,740,000)
24 (B) Retirement of indebtedness of a
25 convention center in a city of the
26 second class established pursuant to
27 the authority of the act of July 29,
28 1953 (P.L.1034, No.270), known as the
29 Public Auditorium Authorities Law 20,000,000
30 (Base Project Allocation - $20,000,000)
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1 (C) Payment of the operating deficit for 2 the operation of a convention center in 3 a city of the second class established 4 pursuant to the Public Auditorium 5 Authorities Law 20,000,000 6 (Base Project Allocation - $20,000,000) 7 (D) Payments related to the construction 8 of a facility designated for use by a 9 professional hockey franchise, 10 including $500,000 $15,000,000 to a <-- 11 nonprofit community development fund to 12 fund infrastructure, construction and 13 redevelopment projects 8,000,000 <-- 14 (Base Project Allocation - $8,000,000) 15 REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 240,000,000 <-- 16 (BASE PROJECT ALLOCATION - 17 $240,000,000) 18 (E) Debt service and development and 19 economic development projects for an 20 international airport located in a 21 county of the second class 150,000,000 22 (Base Project Allocation - 23 $150,000,000) 24 (F) Distribution to a community 25 infrastructure development fund of a 26 county of the second class to fund 27 construction, development, improvement 28 and maintenance of infrastructure 29 projects 80,000,000 30 (Base Project Allocation - $80,000,000) 20070H1631B2150 - 3 -
1 (G) Retirement of indebtedness and 2 financing of a hotel or convention 3 center in a city of the second class 4 established pursuant to the authority 5 of the Public Auditorium Authorities 6 Law 44,000,000 7 (Base Project Allocation - $44,000,000) 8 (H) Retirement of indebtedness of a county 9 of the second class development fund 10 created pursuant to the authority of 11 Article XXXI-B of the Second Class 12 County Code and the act of May 24, 1945 13 (P.L.991, No.385), known as the Urban 14 Redevelopment Law 30,000,000 15 (Base Project Allocation - $30,000,000) 16 (ii) City of McKeesport <-- 17 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 18 costs associated with the Marshall 19 Drive redevelopment project 500,000 20 (iii) City of Pittsburgh 21 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 22 related costs for the National Aviary 23 Expansion 25,000,000 24 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 25 related costs for Strip District 26 infrastructure improvements 25,000,000 27 (C) Construction, infrastructure and other 28 related costs for Strip District 29 improvements 8,000,000 30 (D) Acquisition, construction, 20070H1631B2150 - 4 -
1 infrastructure and other related costs 2 for the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG 3 Aquarium 5,000,000 4 (3) Armstrong County 5 (i) County projects (Reserved) 6 (ii) City of Parker 7 (A) Land acquisition, site development and 8 construction to support the 9 revitalization of downtown Parker 500,000 10 (iii) East Franklin Township 11 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 12 related costs for Armstrong County 13 Commons 10,000,000 14 (4) Beaver County 15 (i) County projects (Reserved) 16 (ii) Midland Borough 17 (A) Acquisition, construction, 18 infrastructure and other related costs 19 for the Beaver County Industrial 20 Museum 1,500,000 21 (5) Bedford County 22 (i) County projects (Reserved) 23 (ii) West Providence Township 24 (A) Acquisition and construction of 25 Everett Business Center 1,500,000 26 (6) Berks County 27 (i) County Projects 28 (A) Payments related to medical equipment, 29 technology equipment and/or associated 30 software 10,000,000 20070H1631B2150 - 5 -
1 (B) CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE <--
2 RELATED TO UPGRADES AT THE READING
3 HOSPITAL 1,000,000
4 (II) HAMBURG BOROUGH
5 (A) CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED
6 INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE HAMBURG AREA
7 HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM PROJECT 300,000
8 (ii)(III) New Morgan Borough <--
9 (A) Redevelopment of Bethlehem Steel Grace
10 Mine site, including construction 25,000,000
11 (7) Blair County
12 (i) County projects (Reserved)
13 (ii) City of Altoona and Logan Township
14 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other
15 related costs for upgrades to the
16 Booker T. Washington Basketball Court 60,000
17 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other
18 related costs for upgrades to the
19 Memorial Pool 140,000
20 (C) Construction, infrastructure and other
21 related costs for upgrades to the
22 Fairview Basketball Court 10,000
23 (D) Construction, infrastructure and other
24 related costs for upgrades to Garden
25 Heights 63,000
26 (E) Construction, infrastructure and other
27 related costs for upgrades to Garden
28 Heights 90,000
29 (F) Construction, infrastructure and other
30 related costs for upgrades to the
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1 Juniata Community Center 90,000 2 (G) Construction, infrastructure and other 3 related costs for upgrades to the 4 Prospect Pool 20,000 5 (H) Construction, infrastructure and other 6 related costs for upgrades to Greenwood 7 Park 175,000 8 (I) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for upgrades to the 10 Kipple Run Park 20,000 11 (J) Construction, infrastructure and other 12 related costs for upgrades to Garfield 13 Park 150,000 14 (K) Construction, infrastructure and other 15 related costs for upgrades to the 16 Veteran's Field 250,000 17 (L) Construction, infrastructure and other 18 related costs for upgrades to the 19 Booker T. Washington Community Center 90,000 20 (M) Construction and other costs related 21 to the renovation of Newburg Community 22 Park 10,000 23 (N) Infrastructure costs related to the 24 replacement of a water transmission 25 line 1,300,000 26 (iii) City of Altoona 27 (A) Redevelopment of Am Tran intermodal 28 facility, including acquisition and 29 construction 5,000,000 30 (iv) Logan Township 20070H1631B2150 - 7 -
1 (A) Acquisition, construction, 2 infrastructure and other costs related 3 to the redevelopment of Kettle Creek 4 Mixed-Use Development 5,000,000 5 (8) Bradford County (Reserved) 6 (9) Bucks County 7 (i) County projects (Reserved) 8 (ii) Bensalem 9 (A) Expansion and renovation of Bensalem 10 Rescue Squad, including construction 250,000 11 (iii) Bristol Borough 12 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 13 related costs for parking lot 14 redevelopment and improvement 3,000,000 15 (B) Acquisition, construction, 16 infrastructure and other related costs 17 for a recreational development project 3,500,000 18 (C) Construction, infrastructure and other 19 related costs for flood control and 20 waterfront development 3,000,000 21 (iv) Bristol Township 22 (A) Acquisition, construction, 23 infrastructure and other related costs 24 for Elm and Chestnut Streets 25 redevelopment 2,500,000 26 (v) Chalfont Borough 27 (A) Acquisition, construction, 28 infrastructure and other costs related 29 to the expansion of The Children's 30 Hospital of Philadelphia Specialty Care 20070H1631B2150 - 8 -
1 and Ambulatory Surgery Center 500,000 2 (vi) Falls Township 3 (A) Acquisition, construction, 4 infrastructure and other related costs 5 for the YMCA Community Center at Snipes 6 Farm 4,000,000 7 (vii) Middletown Township 8 (A) Construction and other related costs 9 for the Middletown Community Center 1,500,000 10 (viii) Nockamixon 11 (A) Renovation of Central Bucks Senior 12 Center, including construction and 13 related infrastructure 60,000 14 (10) Butler County 15 (i) County projects 16 (A) Acquisition, construction, 17 infrastructure and other related costs 18 for a new inpatient facility at Butler 19 Memorial Hospital 20,000,000 20 (ii) Butler Township 21 (A) Construction of Butler Crossing 22 project, including related 23 infrastructure 6,000,000 24 (11) Cambria County 25 (i) County projects (Reserved) 26 (ii) City of Johnstown 27 (A) Acquisition, construction, 28 infrastructure and other related costs 29 for brownfield redevelopment including 30 Festival Park 5,000,000 20070H1631B2150 - 9 -
1 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 2 related costs for the Greater Johnstown 3 YMCA and community center 5,000,000 4 (C) Acquisition, construction, 5 infrastructure and other related costs 6 for downtown housing redevelopment 5,000,000 7 (iii) Richland Township 8 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for the redevelopment of 10 a vocational school into a mixed use 11 facility 8,000,000 12 (B) Acquisition, construction, 13 infrastructure and other related costs 14 for the East Hills redevelopment 15 including a recreation center 7,000,000 16 (12) Cameron County (Reserved) 17 (13) Carbon County 18 (i) County projects 19 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 20 related costs for the county office 21 renovation 1,000,000 22 (ii) Jim Thorpe Borough 23 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 24 related costs for the development of 25 the Switchback Gravity Railroad 26 Heritage Site 1,250,000 27 (B) Acquisition, construction, 28 infrastructure and other related costs 29 for a new borough building 500,000 30 (iii) Mahoning Township 20070H1631B2150 - 10 -
1 (A) Acquisition, construction, 2 infrastructure and other related costs 3 for the Pakertown Yard Industrial Park 1,000,000 4 (iv) Nesquehoning Borough 5 (A) Acquisition, construction, 6 infrastructure and other related costs 7 for the Broad Mountain Resort 7,500,000 8 (B) Acquisition, construction, 9 infrastructure and other related costs 10 for the Green Acres Industrial Park 1,000,000 11 (v) Palmerton Borough 12 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 13 related costs to redevelopment of the 14 former Horsehead Laboratory building 1,500,000 15 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 16 related costs for the regional Wall 17 Street West Initiative 25,000,000 18 (vi) Summit Hill Borough 19 (A) Construction and other related costs 20 for a new municipal office and fire 21 company building 1,250,000 22 (vii) Weatherly Borough 23 (A) Acquisition, construction, 24 infrastructure and other related costs 25 for the railroad/steel revitalization 26 project 1,500,000 27 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 28 related costs for the Weatherly Casting 29 and Machine Manufacturing Facility 500,000 30 (14) Centre County 20070H1631B2150 - 11 -
1 (i) County projects 2 (A) Acquisition, construction, 3 infrastructure and other related costs 4 for Centre County PAWS 350,000 5 (ii) Bellefonte Borough 6 (A) Acquisition, construction, 7 infrastructure and other related costs 8 for the Bellefonte Borough Water 9 System 1,000,000 10 (15) Chester County 11 (i) County projects (Reserved) 12 (ii) Borough of Downingtown 13 (A) Redevelopment, infrastructure 14 improvements and construction to 15 downtown Downingtown 4,000,000 16 (B) Redevelopment of Kardon Park, 17 including construction, infrastructure 18 and abatement of hazardous materials 5,000,000 19 (C) Construction of parking structure in 20 Central Business District 4,000,000 21 (D) Redevelopment of former Sonoco Paper 22 Mill site, including construction, 23 infrastructure and abatement of 24 hazardous materials 1,750,000 25 (E) Construction of pedestrian tunnel, 26 including infrastructure 3,250,000 27 (F) Acquisition, construction, 28 infrastructure and other related costs 29 for River Station Downingtown 30 Redevelopment 9,500,000 20070H1631B2150 - 12 -
1 (iii) West Whiteland Township
2 (A) Acquisition, construction,
3 infrastructure and other related costs
4 for the West Whiteland Township
5 Emergency Generator 200,000
6 (16) Clarion County
7 (i) County projects (Reserved)
8 (ii) Borough of Foxburg
9 (A) Site development and construction of
10 Municipal Center Building to support
11 downtown revitalization 3,000,000
12 (17) Clearfield County (Reserved) <--
13 (17) CLEARFIELD COUNTY <--
14 (I) COUNTY PROJECTS
15 (A) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER COSTS
16 ASSOCIATED WITH BUILDING A NEW INDOOR
17 ATHLETIC FACILITY AT LOCK HAVEN
18 UNIVERSITY 10,000,000
19 (B) COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH FURNITURE AND
20 EQUIPMENT FOR A NEW INDOOR ATHLETIC
21 FACILITY AT LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY 1,000,000
22 (C) CONSTRUCTION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER
23 COSTS RELATED TO COAL GASIFICATION
24 PROJECT 20,000,000
25 (D) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER COSTS
26 ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIOMASS CONVERSION
27 CENTER OF EXCELLENCE 2,750,000
28 (E) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER RELATED COSTS
29 FOR THE WOOD PELLET MILL PROJECT 1,000,000
30 (II) CURWENSVILLE BOROUGH
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1 (A) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER RELATED COSTS 2 FOR STREAM CHANNEL CLEARING AND 3 RESTORATION 5,000,000 4 (B) INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER COSTS RELATED 5 TO BUILDING THE SUNNYSIDE ETHANOL 6 MANUFACTURING PLANT 5,000,000 7 (III) KARTHOUS TOWNSHIP 8 (A) CONSTRUCTION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER 9 COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIVER HILL 10 POWER WASTE COAL FIRED POWER PLANT 15,000,000 11 (IV) LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP 12 (A) CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER RELATED COSTS 13 FOR A BIOENERGY ETHANOL PLANT 5,000,000 14 (18) Clinton County 15 (i) County projects 16 (A) Construction and other related costs 17 for the SR 120 retaining walls 1,200,000 18 (B) Acquisition, construction, 19 infrastructure and other related costs 20 for the Susquehanna River Corridor 4,000,000 21 (ii) Bald Eagle Township 22 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 23 related costs for Bald Eagle Stadium 3,250,000 24 (iii) City of Lock Haven 25 (A) Construction, acquisition, 26 infrastructure and other costs related 27 to building a pedestrian mall 5,750,000 28 (B) Construction, acquisition, 29 infrastructure and other costs 30 associated with the Lock Haven 20070H1631B2150 - 14 -
1 University Alumni Center 4,000,000 2 (iv) Mill Hall Borough 3 (A) Acquisition and redevelopment of the 4 Millbrook Playhouse 1,000,000 5 (19) Columbia County (Reserved) 6 (20) Crawford County (Reserved) 7 (21) Cumberland County 8 (i) County projects (Reserved) 9 (ii) Silver Spring Township 10 (A) Construction, site preparation and 11 other related costs for a mixed-use 12 development 5,000,000 13 (22) Dauphin County 14 (i) County projects (Reserved) 15 (ii) Derry Township 16 (A) Acquisition, construction, 17 infrastructure and other related costs 18 for the Hershey Area Master Plan 25,000,000 19 (iii) Lower Paxton Township 20 (A) Construction of Heroes Grove, 21 including related infrastructure 1,000,000 22 (B) Construction and development of the 23 Thomas B. George Park 1,000,000 24 (iv) Lower Swatara 25 (A) Acquisition, construction, 26 infrastructure and other related costs 27 for the redevelopment of Meade Heights 5,000,000 28 (v) Swatara Township 29 (A) Construction and infrastructure 30 related to the development of Swatara 20070H1631B2150 - 15 -
1 Commons 10,000,000 2 (23) Delaware County 3 (i) County projects 4 (A) Acquisition and other costs related to 5 Tri Borough Fire Company Consolidation 500,000 6 (ii) Brookhaven Borough 7 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 8 costs related to the Brookhaven Solar 9 Energy Project 250,000 10 (iii) Glenolden 11 (A) Redevelopment and construction related 12 to the revitalization of various 13 borough buildings 500,000 14 (iv) Middletown Township 15 (A) Redevelopment of the Franklin Mint 16 site, including site development, 17 infrastructure improvements and 18 construction 15,000,000 19 (v) Norwood Borough 20 (A) Construction of firehouse and police 21 station, including facility demolition 22 and site preparation 3,000,000 23 (vi) Ridley Park Borough 24 (A) Redevelopment and construction related 25 to the revitalization of various 26 borough buildings 1,000,000 27 (B) Infrastructure improvements and 28 construction to Taylor Hospital 2,000,000 29 (vii) Ridley Township 30 (A) Construction and other costs related 20070H1631B2150 - 16 -
1 to Sapovitz Park improvements 80,000 2 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 3 related costs to Black Rock Park 4 improvements 75,000 5 (C) Construction, infrastructure and other 6 related costs for the Ridley Township 7 Community Center 2,000,000 8 (viii) Swarthmore Borough 9 (A) Construction, acquisition, 10 infrastructure and other costs related 11 to the Swarthmore Town Center 12 Development 2,000,000 13 (ix) Upper Darby 14 (A) Construction and abatement of 15 hazardous materials related to 16 demolition of 501 Bywood 2,500,000 17 (B) Construction of public safety 18 building, including land acquisition 19 and related costs 7,000,000 20 (C) Construction, infrastructure and other 21 costs related to rehabilitation of St. 22 Charles Cemetery 1,000,000 23 (24) Elk County (Reserved) 24 (25) Erie County (Reserved) 25 (26) Fayette County (Reserved) 26 (27) Forest County (Reserved) 27 (28) Franklin County (Reserved) 28 (29) Fulton County (Reserved) 29 (30) Greene County 30 (i) County projects 20070H1631B2150 - 17 -
1 (A) Acquisition, construction, 2 infrastructure and other related costs 3 for a tire depolymerization plant 12,000,000 4 (ii) Franklin Township 5 (A) Construction and other related costs 6 for the Community Aquatic Center 2,000,000 7 (iii) Perry Township 8 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for the Meadow Ridge 10 Business Park 6,000,000 11 (iv) Waynesburg Borough 12 (A) Construction, acquisition, 13 infrastructure, redevelopment and other 14 costs associated with Downtown 15 Waynesburg Streetscape improvements 1,000,000 16 (B) Acquisition, construction, 17 infrastructure and other related costs 18 for Waynesburg redevelopment project 4,000,000 19 (C) Acquisition, construction, 20 infrastructure and other related costs 21 for the Greene County ARC project 2,000,000 22 (31) Huntingdon County (Reserved) 23 (32) Indiana County 24 (i) County projects 25 (A) Renovation of historical covered 26 bridges, including acquisition, 27 construction and other related costs 1,000,000 28 (ii) Burrell Township 29 (A) Land acquisition, site preparation and 30 construction related to development of 20070H1631B2150 - 18 -
1 ambulatory care center at Indiana 2 Regional Medical Center 5,000,000 3 (B) Redevelopment of Corporate Campus 4 business park, including acquisition, 5 construction, infrastructure and other 6 related costs 3,000,000 7 (C) Expansion of the Interchange Center 8 multi-tenant building, including 9 construction, land acquisition and 10 other related costs 2,000,000 11 (iii) Indiana Borough 12 (A) Redevelopment, construction and 13 infrastructure improvements along 14 Philadelphia Street and 7th Street 5,000,000 15 (iv) White Township 16 (A) Expansion of the Indiana Regional 17 Medical Center, including construction 18 and related infrastructure 1,000,000 19 (B) Acquisition, related infrastructure 20 and construction of an access road and 21 hangars at the Jimmy Stewart Airport 2,000,000 22 (C) Redevelopment, construction and 23 infrastructure improvements along Wayne 24 Avenue and 13th Street 4,000,000 25 (D) Renovation of the Mack Park recreation 26 complex, including construction, 27 infrastructure and other related costs 3,000,000 28 (E) Acquisition, construction and related 29 infrastructure for the development of 30 the Windy Ridge Business Park 4,000,000 20070H1631B2150 - 19 -
1 (F) Construction of a medical-model
2 wellness center at Indiana Regional
3 Medical Center, including acquisition,
4 infrastructure and other related costs 2,000,000
5 (G) Construction of an agricultural multi-
6 tenant building, including land
7 acquisition, site preparation and other
8 related costs 3,000,000
9 (33) Jefferson County
10 (i) County projects
11 (A) Acquisition of land and development of
12 infrastructure amenities and related
13 improvements to use in development of
14 industrial/business park along
15 Interstate 80 in Jefferson County 5,000,000
16 (34) Juniata County (Reserved)
17 (35) Lackawanna County (Reserved) <--
18 (35) LACKAWANNA COUNTY <--
19 (I) COUNTY PROJECTS
20 (A) ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
21 ARCHBALD REGIONAL PARK 1,425,000
22 (36) Lancaster County
23 (i) County projects (Reserved)
24 (ii) Ephrata Borough
25 (A) Redevelopment of Mountain Springs
26 Hotel property, including related
27 infrastructure 500,000
28 (iii) New Holland Borough
29 (A) Redevelopment of historic building on
30 Main Street, including related
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1 infrastructure 500,000 2 (37) Lawrence County 3 (i) County projects (Reserved) 4 (ii) New Wilmington Borough 5 (A) Acquisition, construction, 6 infrastructure and other costs related 7 to the rehabilitation of downtown New 8 Wilmington 1,500,000 9 (38) Lebanon County 10 (i) County projects (Reserved) 11 (ii) South Lebanon Township 12 (A) Redevelopment of police department 13 facilities, including construction and 14 related infrastructure 565,000 15 (39) Lehigh County 16 (i) County projects (Reserved) 17 (ii) City of Bethlehem 18 (A) Construction and other related costs 19 for the renovation and expansion of the 20 Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg 5,000,000 21 (iii) Salisbury Township 22 (A) Acquisition, construction, 23 infrastructure and other related costs 24 for the Emergency Department and 25 Imaging Department expansion at Lehigh 26 Valley Hospital and Health Network 5,300,000 27 (iv) Slatington Borough 28 (A) Acquisition, construction, 29 infrastructure and other related costs 30 for a Main Street Park 285,000 20070H1631B2150 - 21 -
1 (B) Construction and other costs related 2 to the rehabilitation of the sanitary 3 sewer system and treatment facility 400,000 4 (C) Construction and other costs related 5 to the replacement of the potable water 6 main 400,000 7 (40) Luzerne County 8 (i) County projects 9 (A) Payments related to the construction 10 and development of a cargo airport, 11 including acquisition, infrastructure 12 and other related costs 16,500,000 <-- 13 (Base Project Allocation - $16,500,000) 14 AND OTHER RELATED COSTS 495,000,000 <-- 15 (BASE PROJECT ALLOCATION - 16 $495,000,000) 17 (B) Acquisition, construction, 18 infrastructure and other related costs 19 for the South Valley Parkway 50,000,000 20 (ii) City of Nanticoke 21 (A) Acquisition, construction, 22 infrastructure and other related costs 23 for mixed-use development on East Main 24 Street 1,000,000 25 (B) Acquisition, construction, 26 infrastructure and other related costs 27 for the Luzerne County Community 28 College Culinary Arts Building with 29 parking 3,000,000 30 (C) Construction and other related costs 20070H1631B2150 - 22 -
1 for downtown parking expansion 2,000,000 2 (iii) City of Wilkes-Barre 3 (A) Acquisition, infrastructure, 4 redevelopment, abatement of hazardous 5 materials and other costs related to 6 building the Irem Temple Mosque 10,000,000 7 (B) Construction, acquisition, 8 infrastructure, redevelopment, 9 abatement of hazardous materials and 10 other costs related to Hanover 11 Industrial Estates 1,000,000 12 (C) Construction, infrastructure, 13 acquisition, abatement of hazardous 14 materials, redevelopment and other 15 costs related to downtown Wilkes-Barre 16 Revitalization Phase II 15,000,000 17 (D) Construction, infrastructure, 18 abatement of hazardous materials and 19 other costs for parking facilities 20 related to Impact Wilkes-Barre 5,000,000 21 (E) Construction, infrastructure, 22 abatement of hazardous materials, 23 redevelopment and other costs related 24 to Impact Wilkes-Barre 3,000,000 25 (iv) Ashley Borough 26 (A) Acquisition, construction and other 27 related costs for the Mill Street Mill 28 project 500,000 29 (v) Hanover Township 30 (A) Construction, acquisition, 20070H1631B2150 - 23 -
1 infrastructure, redevelopment and other 2 costs related to Hanover Crossings 3 Phase III and IV 4,000,000 4 (B) Acquisition, construction, 5 infrastructure and other related costs 6 for Hanover Crossings Phase III and IV 4,000,000 7 (vi) Plains Township 8 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for East Mountain Drive 10 improvements 600,000 11 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 12 related costs for Carey Street 13 improvements 200,000 14 (vii) Wright Township 15 (A) Acquisition, construction, 16 infrastructure and other related costs 17 for Crestwood Industrial Park 1,500,000 18 (B) Construction, infrastructure, 19 abatement of hazardous materials, 20 redevelopment and other related costs 21 related to Crestwood Industrial Park 2,500,000 22 (41) Lycoming County 23 (i) County projects (Reserved) 24 (ii) City of Williamsport 25 (A) Redevelopment and expansion of 26 Susquehanna Health Hospital, including 27 acquisition 10,000,000 28 (B) Acquisition, construction, 29 infrastructure and other related costs 30 for the revitalization of Textrom 20070H1631B2150 - 24 -
1 Lycoming facilities 10,000,000 2 (C) Design and construction of a new 3 intermodal facility, including related 4 infrastructure for the Church Street 5 Transportation Center 4,000,000 6 (D) Construction, infrastructure and other 7 related costs for modifications to the 8 Williamsport sewer systems 20,000,000 9 (E) Construction, infrastructure and other 10 related costs for modifications to the 11 public water distribution system 1,000,000 12 (iii) Clinton Township 13 (A) Acquisition, construction, 14 infrastructure and other related costs 15 for the White Deer Recreation Complex 1,000,000 16 (iv) Duboistown Borough 17 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 18 related costs for modifications to the 19 Duboistown sewer system 1,000,000 20 (v) Fairfield Township 21 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 22 related costs for modifications to the 23 LCWSA Sewer Plant 8,500,000 24 (vi) Hughesville Borough, Wolf Township 25 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 26 related costs for modifications to the 27 Hughesville/Wolf sewer plant 100,000 28 (vii) Jersey Shore 29 (A) Redevelopment of the Jersey Shore 30 YMCA, including construction and 20070H1631B2150 - 25 -
1 related infrastructure 1,500,000 2 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 3 related costs for modifications to the 4 Jersey Shore sewer plant 3,000,000 5 (viii) Loyalsock Township 6 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 7 related costs for modifications to the 8 Loyalsock Township sewer system 4,000,000 9 (ix) Montgomery Borough 10 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 11 related costs for modifications to the 12 Montgomery sewer plant 3,000,000 13 (x) Montgomery, Brady and Clinton Townships 14 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 15 related costs for the Montgomery-Brady- 16 Clinton sanitary sewer 2,100,000 17 (xi) Muncy Borough 18 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 19 related costs for modifications to the 20 Muncy sewer plant 5,500,000 21 (xii) Muncy Township 22 (A) Infrastructure within Phase IV of the 23 Muncy Industrial Park 1,000,000 24 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 25 related costs for the Muncy Industrial 26 Park Phase IV Water and Sewer 1,000,000 27 (xiii) Old Lycoming Township 28 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 29 related costs for new water line for 30 Grimesville Road neighborhood 500,000 20070H1631B2150 - 26 -
1 (xiv) South Williamsport 2 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 3 related costs for new water storage 4 tank to support commercial and 5 residential construction in growth 6 areas 1,000,000 7 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 8 related costs for modifications to the 9 South Williamsport sewer system 3,500,000 10 (xv) Williamsport and Old Lycoming Townships 11 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 12 related costs for new water line and 13 associated pump station 8,000,000 14 (42) McKean County (Reserved) 15 (43) Mercer County 16 (i) County projects (Reserved) 17 (ii) Greenville Borough 18 (A) Construction costs related to the 19 expansion of the Greenville Borough 20 building 625,000 21 (iii) City of Sharon 22 (A) Acquisition, construction, 23 infrastructure and other related costs 24 for the downtown Sharon revitalization 6,000,000 25 (44) Mifflin County (Reserved) 26 (45) Monroe County 27 (i) County projects 28 (A) Acquisition, construction, 29 infrastructure and other related costs 30 for the Pocono Mountain Economic 20070H1631B2150 - 27 -
1 Development Corporation West End 2 development sites 10,000,000 3 (B) Construction, infrastructure and other 4 related costs to develop 5 telecommunications infrastructure 4,000,000 6 (C) Acquisition, construction, 7 infrastructure and other related costs 8 for the East Stroudsburg School 9 District Memorial Stadium 1,870,000 10 (ii) Barrett Township 11 (A) Acquisition, construction and 12 renovation costs related to the 13 expansion of a senior citizen/community 14 center 138,000 15 (iii) Coolbaugh Township 16 (A) Acquisition, construction, 17 infrastructure and other related costs 18 for the Pocono Mountain Public Library 19 Building 1,000,000 20 (B) Runway expansion at the Pocono 21 Mountain Municipal Airport 1,000,000 22 (C) Acquisition, construction, 23 infrastructure and other related costs 24 for the Commerce Court Extension 2,500,000 25 (D) Acquisition, construction, 26 infrastructure and other related costs 27 for the Pocono Mountain Economic 28 Development Rail Served Business Park 4,000,000 29 (iv) East Stroudsburg Borough 30 (A) Construction and other costs related 20070H1631B2150 - 28 -
1 to the East Stroudsburg University 2 Conference Center 2,000,000 3 (B) Construction, acquisition, 4 infrastructure, redevelopment and other 5 costs related to the Pocono Mountains 6 Regional Convention Center 37,500,000 7 (C) Construction and other costs related 8 to the Pocono Mountains Regional 9 Convention Center 75,000,000 10 (D) Acquisition, construction, 11 infrastructure and other related costs 12 for a parking garage adjacent to Pocono 13 Medical Center 14,000,000 14 (E) Construction of Computer Security 15 Research Center at East Stroudsburg 16 University Research and Technology 17 Park 2,000,000 18 (v) Borough of Mt. Pocono 19 (A) Acquisition, construction, 20 infrastructure and other related costs 21 for Mount Pocono Municipal Authority 22 Waste Water Chiller 2,500,000 23 (B) CONSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION RELATED <-- 24 TO NEW SEWERAGE HOOKUPS AND DISPERSAL 25 OF TREATED AFFLUENT 4,000,000 26 (vi) Pocono Township 27 (A) Northampton Community College, Monroe 28 Campus - construction of new campus to 29 increase the availability of academic 30 square footage 44,000,000 20070H1631B2150 - 29 -
1 (vii) Stroudsburg Borough 2 (A) Acquisition, construction and other 3 related costs for the Sherman Theater 4 Performing Arts Center 3,000,000 5 (B) Acquisition, restoration and expansion 6 of the Sherman Theater 1,500,000 7 (viii) Tobyhanna Township 8 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for the Tobyhanna 10 Township Sewage Authority projects 3,500,000 11 (ix) Multiple Municipalities 12 (A) Acquisition, construction, 13 infrastructure and other related costs 14 for rehabilitation of East Stroudsburg 15 to Delaware Water Gap Rail Line in East 16 Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg Boroughs 17 and Middle Smithfield Township 1,250,000 18 (B) Construction of bathrooms for persons 19 with disabilities, field improvements 20 and related infrastructure for 21 Challenger Program in Pocono, Paradise 22 and Jackson Townships 100,000 23 (46) Montgomery County 24 (i) County projects 25 (A) Acquisition, construction, 26 infrastructure and other related costs 27 for the Montgomery County Expo Center 19,000,000 28 (ii) Lower Salford Township 29 (A) Construction of restroom facilities at 30 Harleysville Baseball Park 95,000 20070H1631B2150 - 30 -
1 (iii) Norristown 2 (A) Acquisition, construction, 3 infrastructure and other related costs 4 for the Cultural Arts Center 3,000,000 5 (B) Acquisition and other costs related to 6 the construction of a wastewater 7 treatment plant in Norristown 25,000,000 8 (iv) Upper Merion Township 9 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 10 related costs for the Village at Valley 11 Forge 100,000,000 12 (47) Montour County (Reserved) 13 (48) Northampton County 14 (i) County projects 15 (A) Acquisition, construction, 16 infrastructure and other related costs 17 for the SteelStax Community Project 12,000,000 18 (ii) Bethlehem Township 19 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 20 related costs for the Summit Valley 21,500,000 21 (B) DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE SLATE <-- 22 BELT COMMUNITY CENTER AND REGIONAL 23 RECREATION FACILITY 7,000,000 24 (C) ACQUISITION, INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER 25 COSTS RELATED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF 26 ST. LUKE'S RIVERSIDE HEALTH CAMPUS 15,000,000 27 (iii) North Catasauqua 28 (A) Renovation of Borough Hall to be used 29 for a senior center and multi-use 30 facility 650,000 20070H1631B2150 - 31 -
1 (49) Northumberland County 2 (i) County projects (Reserved) 3 (ii) Sunbury 4 (A) Restoration and rehabilitation of the 5 clock tower in the historic 6 Northumberland County Court House 200,000 7 (B) Acquisition, construction, 8 infrastructure and other related costs 9 for the expansion of the East Sunbury 10 Fire Station to include a parking lot 130,000 11 (50) Perry County (Reserved) 12 (51) Philadelphia County 13 (i) County projects 14 (A) Reimbursement to the Commonwealth, any 15 other body corporate and politic 16 created by law or a city of the first 17 class to the extent that the 18 Commonwealth, any other body corporate 19 and politic created by law or a city of 20 the first class has made debt service 21 payments for the Pennsylvania 22 Convention Center or has made payments 23 for the operation expenses of the <-- 24 Pennsylvania Convention Center during 25 the prior fiscal year 64,000,000 26 (Base Project Allocation - $64,000,000) 27 (ii) City of Philadelphia 28 (A) Construction, redevelopment and other 29 costs associated with the Academy of 30 Natural Science Exhibit 500,000 20070H1631B2150 - 32 -
1 (B) Acquisition, construction and other 2 related costs for the Philadelphia 3 Polytechnic Charter High School 10,000,000 4 (C) Acquisition, construction and other 5 related costs for the redevelopment of 6 the Historic John Grass Company 7 Building 700,000 8 (D) Construction, infrastructure and other 9 related costs for the Betsy Ross House 500,000 10 (E) Construction and other related costs 11 for the Washington Square 12 redevelopment 1,000,000 13 (F) Acquisition, construction, 14 infrastructure and other costs related 15 to the expansion of the Fox Chase 16 Recreational Center 1,200,000 17 FOR THE OPERATING EXPENSES OF THE <-- 18 PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION CENTER 880,000,000 19 (BASE PROJECT ALLOCATION - 20 $880,000,000) 21 (52) Pike County 22 (i) County projects (Reserved) 23 (ii) Palmyra Township 24 (A) Construction and other related costs 25 to the Lake Wallenpaupack Visitors 26 Center Project 2,000,000 27 (53) Potter County (Reserved) 28 (54) Schuylkill County 29 (i) County projects 30 (A) Acquisition, infrastructure and other 20070H1631B2150 - 33 -
1 costs related to the construction of a 2 regional industrial park 1,000,000 3 (ii) West Penn Township 4 (A) Acquisition, infrastructure and other 5 costs related to the construction of a 6 regional industrial park 1,000,000 7 (55) Snyder County 8 (i) County projects (Reserved) 9 (ii) Selinsgrove Borough 10 (A) Renovation of science hall at 11 Susquehanna University, including 12 related infrastructure 6,000,000 13 (B) Construction of Susquehanna University 14 science facility 15,000,000 15 (56) Somerset County 16 (i) County projects 17 (A) Construction and renovation for 18 expansion of Somerset Hospital 3,000,000 19 (ii) Jefferson Township 20 (A) Site development, construction and 21 infrastructure improvements to property 22 located along Route 31 10,000,000 23 (iii) Somerset Township 24 (A) Redevelopment, construction and 25 related infrastructure costs for Laurel 26 Highlands Business Park 5,000,000 27 (57) Sullivan County 28 (i) County projects 29 (A) Renovations to buildings and grounds 30 of Sullivan County Fairgrounds 2,000,000 20070H1631B2150 - 34 -
1 (58) Susquehanna County (Reserved) 2 (59) Tioga County 3 (i) County projects (Reserved) 4 (ii) Shippen Township 5 (A) Expansion and construction of Nature 6 Quest Geotourism Lodge, including 7 acquisition and infrastructure 12,500,000 8 (iii) Wellsboro Borough 9 (A) Acquisition, construction and 10 infrastructure improvements of a 11 Community Performing Arts Center 7,500,000 12 (60) Union County (Reserved) 13 (61) Venango County 14 (i) County projects (Reserved) 15 (ii) Borough of Emlenton 16 (A) Acquisition, site development and 17 construction to support revitalization 18 in the Borough of Emlenton 500,000 19 (62) Warren County (Reserved) 20 (63) Washington County 21 (i) County projects (Reserved) 22 (ii) Allenport Borough 23 (A) Acquisition, construction, 24 infrastructure and other related costs 25 to restore the Barge Shipping facility 2,500,000 26 (iii) California Borough 27 (A) Acquisition, construction, 28 infrastructure and other related costs 29 for the California Technology Park film 30 industry project 2,500,000 20070H1631B2150 - 35 -
1 (iv) Carroll Township 2 (A) Construction and other related costs 3 for Monongahela Valley Hospital upgrade 4 project 6,100,000 5 (v) Hanover Township 6 (A) Construction, infrastructure and other 7 related costs to redevelop the 8 Starvaggi property 2,500,000 9 (64) Wayne County (Reserved) 10 (65) Westmoreland County 11 (i) County projects (Reserved) 12 (ii) Cook Township 13 (A) Acquisition, construction, 14 infrastructure and other related costs 15 for a marsh wastewater treatment 16 system 400,000 17 (iii) Unity Township 18 (A) Expansion of equine facilities at the 19 Westmoreland Fairgrounds, including 20 construction and related costs 300,000 21 (iv) Upper Burrell Township 22 (A) Acquisition, construction, 23 infrastructure and other related costs 24 of a manufacturing campus 5,000,000 25 (66) Wyoming County (Reserved) 26 (67) York County (Reserved) 27 (68) Multiple counties 28 (i) Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne 29 (A) Infrastructure and other costs related 30 to the Pocono Mountains Wayfinding 20070H1631B2150 - 36 -
1 Signing Program 500,000 2 (B) Construction and other costs related 3 to the Pocono Mountains Wayfinding 4 Signing Program 1,000,000 5 (ii) Wayne and Pike Counties 6 (A) Acquisition, construction, 7 infrastructure and other related costs 8 for Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed 9 Management 60,000 10 Section 4. Duration of payments. 11 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the following 12 shall apply to the projects authorized in section 3: 13 (1) The amount allocated to the project described in 14 section 3(2)(i)(A) shall be made through 2014-2015 in annual 15 amounts, not to exceed $7,782,000 each, pursuant to an 16 agreement with the Commonwealth specifying the amounts to be 17 paid each year. The payment for 2014-2015 shall not exceed 18 $11,736,000. 19 (2) The amount allocated to the project described in 20 section 3(2)(i)(C) shall be made in annual amounts, not to 21 exceed $2,000,000, for ten years. However, the amount paid 22 shall not exceed the operating deficit of the David L. 23 Lawrence Convention Center. 24 (3) The amount allocated to the project described in <-- 25 section 3(2)(i)(D) and (40)(i)(A) shall be made in annual 26 amounts, in the amount allocated, for 30 years or the 27 retirement of the debt issued for the project described in 28 section 3(2)(i)(D) and (40)(i)(A), whichever is less. 29 (3) THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED TO THE PROJECTS DESCRIBED IN <-- 30 SECTION 3(2)(I)(D) SHALL BE MADE IN ANNUAL AMOUNTS, NOT TO 20070H1631B2150 - 37 -
1 EXCEED $8,000,000, INCLUDING $500,000 TO A NONPROFIT
2 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE,
3 CONSTRUCTION AND REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, FOR 30 YEARS OR THE
4 RETIREMENT OF THE DEBT ISSUED FOR THE PROJECTS DESCRIBED IN
5 SECTION 3(2)(I)(D), WHICHEVER IS LESS.
6 (3.1) THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED TO THE PROJECT DESCRIBED IN
7 SECTION 3(40)(I)(A) SHALL BE MADE IN ANNUAL AMOUNTS, NOT TO
8 EXCEED $16,500,000, FOR 30 YEARS OR THE RETIREMENT OF THE
9 DEBT ISSUED FOR THE PROJECT DESCRIBED IN SECTION 3(40)(I)(A),
10 WHICHEVER IS LESS.
11 (4) The amount allocated to the projects described in
12 section 3(2)(i)(E) shall be made in annual amounts, not to
13 exceed $15,000,000, for ten years.
14 (5) The amount allocated to the project described in
15 section 3(51)(i)(A) and shall be made in annual amounts, not
16 to exceed the amount allocated $64,000,000, for 30 years or <--
17 the retirement of the debt issued for the project described
18 in section 3(51)(i)(A), whichever is less. However, the
19 amount paid may not exceed the actual amounts of debt service
20 and $6,000,000 FOR operating expenses in any year. Payments <--
21 made pursuant to section 3(51)(i)(A) which are reimbursements
22 to the General Fund shall be deposited into the Capital Debt
23 Fund for repayment of the debt issued.
24 Section 5. Appropriation.
25 The sums necessary for the annual amounts itemized in
26 sections 3 and 4 are hereby appropriated from the Pennsylvania
27 Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund to the Department
28 of Community and Economic Development, upon approval of the
29 Governor, for the projects itemized in this act.
30 Section 6. Special provisions.
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1 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 4 Pa.C.S. § 1407(d) 2 (relating to Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development Tourism 3 Fund), the projects authorized in section 3(2) and (51) <-- 4 3(2)(I)(D) shall be eligible for funding from the Pennsylvania <-- 5 Gaming and Economic Development and Tourism Fund. in the ten- <-- 6 year period beginning with the first fiscal year during which 7 deposits are made into the fund. 8 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of 4 Pa.C.S. § 1407(d), 9 the project authorized in section 3(51)(i)(A) shall be eligible 10 for funding from the Pennsylvania Gaming and Economic 11 Development and Tourism Fund in the ten-year period beginning 12 with the first fiscal year during which deposits are made into 13 the fund and may include repayment of bonds issued to replace 14 bonds issued for the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 15 reimbursement of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority 16 for bonds issued for the construction of the Pennsylvania 17 Convention Center, or operating expenses of the Pennsylvania 18 Convention Center. 19 (c) (B) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the <-- 20 requirements of section 318 of the act of February 9, 1999 21 (P.L.1, No.1), known as the Capital Facilities Debt Enabling 22 Act, shall provide the sole and exclusive requirements for 23 bidding for the acquisition, development construction of the 24 project in section 3(2)(i)(D). 25 SECTION 7. EDITORIAL CHANGES. <-- 26 IN EDITING AND PREPARING THIS ACT FOR PRINTING FOLLOWING THE 27 FINAL ENACTMENT, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU SHALL INSERT 28 OR REVISE LETTERS OR NUMBERS FOR PROJECTS WHERE THE LETTERS OR 29 NUMBERS ARE MISSING OR REQUIRE REVISION. THE BUREAU SHALL ALSO 30 REVISE THE TOTAL MONETARY AMOUNTS FOR THE TOTAL AUTHORIZATION, 20070H1631B2150 - 39 -
1 DEBT AUTHORIZATION, APPROPRIATIONS AND DEPARTMENTAL TOTALS AS
2 NECESSARY TO AGREE WITH THE TOTAL MONETARY AMOUNTS OF THE
3 PROJECTS.
4 Section 7 8. Effective date. <--
5 This act shall take effect immediately.
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