Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 213.02 - Definitions

(1) "Bridge" means a structure, including supports, erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway, or a railway, having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads, and having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between the undercoping of abutments or spring lines of arches, or extreme ends of the openings for multiple boxes. It may include multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous opening.

(2) "Coordinating agency" means the county which coordinates the submission of applications from eligible applicants within the county to the department.

(2m) "Deficient bridge" is a bridge that is "structurally deficient" or "functionally obsolete" as defined in the federal highway administration's federal-aid policy guide, part NS 23 CFR 650 D, par. 9, dated September 30, 1992, attached as appendix 1.

(3) "Eligible applicant" means county, city, village, town or combination thereof.

(4) "Entitlement" means the amount of aids a coordinating agency will be eligible to receive under this section as determined under s. 84.18(5), Stats.

(5) "Fiscal period" means the period of time for which the program is being planned, normally 3 years.

(6) "Local bridge" means a bridge which is not on the state trunk highway system or on marked routes of the state trunk highway system designated as connecting highways, and is under the jurisdiction of and maintained by an eligible applicant.

(7) "Local bridge project" means a project for the design and construction or rehabilitation of a seriously deteriorating local bridge and minimum approaches.

(8) "Seriously deteriorating local bridge" means a local bridge which is a deficient bridge.

(9) "Sufficiency rating" means a relative rating of the condition of a bridge as determined by the department from inventory and inspection data, as defined in the Recording and Coding Guide for the Structure Inventory and Appraisal of the Nation's Bridges, December 1995, Report No. FHWA-PD-96-001, prepared by the U.S. department of transportation, federal highway administration, office of engineering, bridge division, bridge management branch, Washington, D.C. 20590.

Notes

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 213.02

Cr. Register, February, 1982, No. 314, eff. 3-1-82; renum. (1) to (8) to be (2) to (4), (1) and (6) to (9) and am. (9), cr. (5), Register, July, 1992, No. 439, eff. 8-1-92; cr. (2m), am. (5), (6), (8) and (9), Register, December, 1999, No. 528, eff. 1-1-00.

This manual is on file at the offices of the Division of Transportation Infrastructure Development, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Reference Bureau.