Pennsylvania Statutes Title 32 P.S. Forests, Waters and State Parks § 5619. Coordination with Department of Transportation

(a) Method of coordination.--The Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Resources  1 shall coordinate their evaluations of potential acquisitions and acquisition priorities with respect to available railroad rights-of-way in order to avoid competing for the same corridors. The Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Resources shall enter into a memorandum of understanding which shall contain a method by which the coordination of evaluations and acquisition priorities is to be accomplished.

(b) Interim lease of rights-of-way.--Should the Department of Transportation acquire or lease available rights-of-way for future transportation purposes, it shall lease or sublease such rights-of-way to a public agency or private organization for interim public recreational trail use if:

(c) Transportation use and trail use.--If the Department of Transportation determines that an available railroad right-of-way leased for interim recreational trail use is needed for transportation purposes, the Department of Transportation shall work with the leasing agency to accommodate, when feasible as determined by the department, the existing trail use in conjunction with the transportation use.

(d) Future disposal.--If the Department of Transportation determines that an available railroad right-of-way it owns is no longer needed by the Department of Transportation for present or future transportation uses, nothing in this act shall prevent the Department of Transportation from disposing of that property in accordance with its own procedures or applicable Commonwealth laws. Prior to disposing of the property, the Department of Transportation shall first notify the department.