Federal Aid Highway Legislation. Hearing....on S. 821...March 4, 1943. (78-1)

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Page 1 - An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes...
Page 11 - ... shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional contribution thereto.
Page 1 - Not to exceed $5,000,000 of any money heretofore or hereafter appropriated for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented...
Page 2 - WHITE, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF IOWA Mr. WHITE. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: First of all we want to thank you very kindly for this hearing. We have two matters which we wish to present. The first matter is a bill which would amend the present Federal road law so as to retain for the State the approximate amount of $175,000,000 of Federal-aid funds, railroad-crossing funds, and secondary-road funds which have heretofore been allowed to the States under former...
Page 5 - January 1, 1942, for expenditure on the system of Federal-aid highways, on secondary or feeder roads, and for the elimination of hazards to life at railroad grade crossings in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, which...
Page 1 - Federal-aid highways, on secondary or feeder roads, and for the elimination of hazards to life at railroad grade crossings in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, which were not on that date obligated by the States and which shall not be so obligated on or before June 30, 1943, shall not be reapportioned among the States in accordance with the provisions of said Act, as amended and supplemented, but shall remain available for obligation by the States...
Page 5 - Act of 1944 is hereby amended to read as follows : ["The term 'construction' means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and all expenses incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway, including locating, surveying, and mapping (including the establishment of temporary and permanent geodetic markers in accordance with specifications of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Department of Commerce...
Page 6 - States and outside of municipalities have been fairly well improved, but the extension of those highways within the municipalities have not kept pace with the traffic needs, and when you attempt to improve the extension of a highway within a municipality the right-of-way cost runs into very substantial figures. Senator HAYDEN. That is particularly true of the States north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi where there is demand for four- and six-lane highways which cannot be built without...
Page 15 - We consider it a conservative estimate to say that $10,000,000,000 could be economically invested — not merely expended — on the rehabilitation, improvement and expansion of the Nation's highway transportation system and that such an investment would render a return to the people of our country in actual dollars and cents. This is an automotive age and we live in the world's greatest automotive country.
Page 16 - The success, however,, of such a proposed program in the 3-year period immediately following the war, must wholly depend on having sufficient and entirely complete plans ready when hostilities end and this would, in turn, depend upon action by the Congress, now, making consummation of the program an absolute certainty.

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