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Suggested Citation:"X. CONCLUSION." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. The Ramifications of Post-Kelo Legislation on State Transportation Projects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/14631.
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29 partment has had discussions regarding right-of-way acquisition and that it is “looking hard at potential set- tlements as opposed to filing a condemnation action. This had been done on a project by project basis and not as training.”358 The Wyoming DOT reported that it has “had discus- sion with everyone involved in project delivery” regard- ing the changes in the law.359 X. CONCLUSION In response to the Kelo decision, 43 states enacted constitutional and legislative changes restricting in varying degrees the use of eminent domain for economic development. In many of the states having such reforms it does not appear that the constitutional or legislative changes have affected state transportation depart- ments’ use of eminent domain for highway and other transportation projects. Some states’ post-Kelo reforms specifically or effectively exempt takings for transporta- tion projects. In addition, transportation departments are unaffected by the post-Kelo laws in states that re- quire that any property acquired by eminent domain must be transferred to public ownership or that prohibit the use of eminent domain to acquire private property for transfer to another person or private entity. No state DOT responding to the survey reported that the definition of public use under its state’s post-Kelo laws has affected the use of eminent domain for a transpor- tation project. No department responding to the survey reported that a prohibition on takings for economic de- velopment or a restriction on the taking of blighted property had affected the department’s use of eminent domain. 358 Nevada DOT’s Survey Response, dated Mar. 14, 2011. 359 Wyoming DOT’s Survey Response, dated Mar. 22, 2011.

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 56: The Ramifications of Post-Kelo Legislation on State Transportation Projects explores the consequences of legislation enacted by state legislatures that limits the use of eminent domain in response to the 2005 United States Supreme Court case of Kelo v. the City of New London, where the Court held that the use of eminent domain to take nonblighted, private property for a city-approved, privately implemented economic development plan was constitutional.

The report examines how state legislation has affected the use of eminent domain for economic development, for condemning blighted and nonblighted property, and for restricting transfers of condemned property to private parties. The report also examines how states have legislatively redefined the concept of “public use.”

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