Federal-aid Road Act: Summary of Hearings Held Before the Committee on Roads, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2426, a Bill to Amend and Supplement the Federal-aid Road Act, Approved July 11, 1916, as Amended |
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20 percent additional funds amended American Association American Automobile Association American Farm Bureau American Road Builders American Trucking Associations apportioned apportionment of funds available for obligation bill billion dollars Brotherhood of Locomotive cities Commissioner MacDonald Commissioner of Public COMMITTEE ON ROADS construction of off-street Council of Private Farm Bureau Federation farm-to-market Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government Federal share Federal Works Administrator Federal Works Agency FEDERAL-AID ROAD ACT Federal-aid system feeder roads geographic region highway department Highway Officials interest in lands Interregional Highway System interregional system lands or interest legislation Massachusetts matching members of Congress million dollars annually National Grange National Park Service National Safety Council needs off-street parking facilities political subdivision population post-road mileage Private Motor Truck Public Roads Administration recommended representative rights-of-way Road Builders Association road construction Roads Committee rural secondary and feeder Spokesmen testified tion transportation United urban areas witnesses York Park
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Page 13 - Secretary is authorized to acquire, enter upon, take possession thereof and expend funds for projects thereon, prior to approval of title by the Attorney General, in the name of the United States, such rights-of-way, lands or interest in lands as may be required in such State for such projects by purchase, donation, condemnation or otherwise in accordance with the laws of the United States (including the Act of February 26, 1931, 46 Stat. 1421).
Page 3 - To supplement the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations during the national emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, for the immediate construction of roads urgently needed for the national defense, and for other purposes.
Page 13 - ... title, advertising, and any fees incidental to such acquisition; and shall be payable out of the funds available for paying the cost or the Federal share of the cost of the project for which such rights-of-way, lands, or interests in lands are acquired. The...
Page 8 - The Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The American Farm Bureau Federation. The Western Union Telegraph Co.
Page 3 - AN ACT To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916 as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for the post-war construction of highways and bridges, to eliminate hazards at railroad-grade crossings, to provide for the immediate preparation of plans, and for other purposes. Be it enacted "by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, when used in this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—...
Page 8 - ... plus a percentage of the remaining 10 per centum of such cost in any State containing unappropriated and unreserved public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, individual and tribal, exceeding 5 per centum of the total area of all lands therein, equal to the percentage that the area of such lands in such State is of its total area...
Page 14 - American Farm Bureau Federation American Federation of Labor American Road Builders' Association American Transit Association American Trucking Associations, Inc. Associated General Contractors Association of American Railroads Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Connecticut Public Expenditure Council Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations Michigan Public Expenditures Survey National Council of Private Motor Truck Owners, Inc. National Grange National Safety Council New Jersey Taxpayers...
Page 4 - States and communities make full progress in their postwar road construction programs. 3 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the L'nited States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That, when used in this Act, unless the context indicates 4 otherwise — 5 The term "construction...