(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that on August 16, 2004, the department reported to the Legislature that the funds identified in Section 188.5 are insufficient to complete the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, including the replacement of the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, due to cost overruns for the program now estimated at three billion six hundred million dollars ($3,600,000,000).

(2) By enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to identify additional funds from various sources, as described in subdivision (b), in order to fund this shortfall and so that the toll bridge seismic retrofit and replacement program, as described in Section 188.5, as that section read on January 1, 2005, may proceed to completion without further costly delay.

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(b) The following amounts from the following funds shall be allocated until expended in order to eliminate the shortfall identified in subdivision (a) and to complete the seismic retrofit or replacement of state-owned toll bridges as expeditiously as possible:

(1) Not less than two billion one hundred fifty million dollars ($2,150,000,000) from the Bay Area Toll Account, derived from an additional one dollar ($1) surcharge on the state-owned toll bridges within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to be effective no sooner than January 1, 2007.

(2) Not less than eight hundred twenty million dollars ($820,000,000) for the seismic retrofit or replacement of the state-owned toll bridges in the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission made available through the consolidation of all toll revenues under the management of the Bay Area Toll Authority and from the authorization for the authority to refinance debt secured by toll revenues.

(3) The amount of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) to fund the cost of demolition of the existing east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge from funding sources supporting the state highway operations and protection program, from available state resources from transportation project savings, or from the federal Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program.

(4) The amount of three hundred thirty million dollars ($330,000,000) from the following accounts:

(A) One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000) from the State Highway Account from accumulated savings by the department achieved from better efficiency, operational savings, and lower costs.

(B) One hundred twenty-five million dollars ($125,000,000) of any excess funds that would otherwise have been transferred in the 2006-07 fiscal year pursuant to subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of § 7102 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended by Chapter 76 of the Statutes of 2005, shall instead be transferred to the Bay Area Toll Account and are hereby appropriated to the department for the purposes of this section. If sufficient funds are not available from this source for this purpose during the 2006-07 fiscal year, the funding required under this paragraph shall be made available from additional accumulated savings by the department achieved from better efficiency, operational savings, or lower costs pursuant to subparagraph (A), or from the federal Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program or the State Highway Account, as determined by the department in consultation with, and with approval of, the California Transportation Commission.

(C) Seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) from the fund reserve in the Motor Vehicle Account for the 2005-06 fiscal year, which is hereby appropriated.

(c) If the amount of the overruns estimated by the department, as described in subdivision (a), is less than three billion six hundred million dollars ($3,600,000,000), the savings shall be shared between the state and the authority in the same proportion as their proportional contribution to the estimated cost overruns, as provided in paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of subdivision (b).

(d) If the actual amount of the overruns exceeds the amount estimated by the department, as described in subdivision (a), the authority shall utilize funds generated under the powers granted to it in Sections 30886, 30950.2, 30954, 30961, and 31011 to provide additional financial resources to complete the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program.

(e) Funds made available under this section and Section 188.5 for the replacement of the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shall only be expended for the structure described in paragraph (9) of subdivision (b) of Section 188.5 as that section read on January 1, 2005.

(Amended (as added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 375) by Stats. 2006, Ch. 538, Sec. 639. Effective January 1, 2007.)