Section 32-2-79. Reporting on congestion mitigation; letting of projects

   (a) The staff of the department shall jointly identify and report to the board by July 31 of each odd-numbered year those projects on the state-wide transportation improvement program or otherwise identified that afford the greatest gains in congestion mitigation or promotion of economic development.

(b) Any project identified pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section that will not be initiated within two years of the reporting date or that does not have specific available and complete funding may be let and constructed utilizing the procedures of this Code section and Code Section 32-2-80. All personnel of the department shall cooperate in all respects in the letting, construction, maintenance, and operation of such projects, including without limitation providing such access and control of portions of the state highway system as may be requested or required from time to time for such purposes.

(c) Projects wholly or partly in a metropolitan planning area shall be included in a fiscally constrained transportation improvement program.

Code 1981, § 32-2-79, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 976, § 10/SB 200.