What are the future activities of the Road User Fee Task Force?
House Bill 3946 (2001) requires the Road Use Fee Task Force to propose to the 72nd Legislative Assembly options for the design of a revenue collection system for Oregon’s roads and highways that would replace the current system for revenue collection. At this point, the broad replacement mechanism appears to be the mileage fee. On Nov. 15, 2002, the task force adopted a scenario for the mileage fee that will enable pilot testing. HB 3946 requires the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to begin to implement pilot programs by July 2003 to test alternatives for feasibility and acceptability to the public. The pilot is shaping up as a two step process for testing a mileage fee. The first step will test the technical operation of the technology to support a mileage fee. The second step will field test the new mileage fee across a broad section of the motoring public.
