1. (a) Work plan. The department will develop a business work plan for tracking the delivery of each transportation project, including grouped rehabilitation and preventive maintenance projects, that are being developed or under construction and identified in the unified transportation program (UTP) described in §16.105 of this chapter (relating to Unified Transportation Program (UTP)).

   1. (1) Each district will develop a consistently formatted work plan based on the UTP that contains all transportation projects that the district intends to implement during the next fiscal year and the following three consecutive fiscal years.

   2. (2) For each project the work plan must contain:

      1. (A) an identification of each phase of project development, including planning, route, and environmental impact studies, design, right of way acquisition, utility adjustment, and construction;
      2. (B) the estimated cost of each phase of project development;
      3. (C) a project schedule with timelines for completing each phase of the project;
      4. (D) a summary of progress on the project that identifies whether the project is being completed on-time and on-budget; and
      5. (E) a list of department employees responsible for the project and contact information for each person listed.

   3. (3) The department will use the work plan in:

      1. (A) preparing a budget for the district and the department;
      2. (B) monitoring the performance of the district; and
      3. (C) evaluating the performance of district employees.
   4. (4) The department will consolidate the districts' work plans into a statewide work plan and publish it on the department's website.
   5. (5) The department will update the information contained in the project and performance reporting system for delivery of individual transportation projects under this section at least monthly.
2. (b) Annual Report. As a component of the project and performance reporting system for delivery of individual transportation projects required by this section, the department will conduct an annual review of the benchmarks and timelines of all transportation projects funded under program funding Categories 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 12 as described in §16.153 of this chapter (relating to Funding Categories) to determine the completion rates of the projects and whether the projects were completed on-time and on-budget. The review will be used to create an annual report on the level of achievement statewide and by district based on the benchmarks and timelines described in subsection (a)(2) of this section for each transportation project listed in the work plan and included in the program funding categories described in this subsection.
3. (c) Legislative districts. The department will make available to each member of the legislature a copy of the annual report required by subsection (b) of this section for each department district located within the boundaries of a legislative district, and at the request of a legislator, a senior management employee of the department will meet with the legislator to explain the report.
4. (d) Legislature. The department will provide a copy of the annual report required by subsection (b) of this section to the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the chair of the standing committee of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over transportation issues.

Source Note:The provisions of this §16.202 adopted to be effective January 1, 2011, 35 TexReg 8388.