Reauthorization of TEA-21: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, on Review of Proposals to Reauthorize Public Law 105-178, the Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - Federal aid to transportation |
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Page 188 - Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. All policy resolutions are posted on the WGA Web site (www.westgov.org) or you may request a copy by writing or calling:
Page 180 - to find solutions for improved mobility and safety to and within Federal and Tribal lands. Mr. Chairman, I again thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I will be pleased to answer any
Page 235 - the Department has awarded a total of $729 million in State and community formula highway safety grants to encourage proper use of occupant protection devices; reduce alcohol and drug-impaired driving; reduce crashes between motorcycles and other vehicles; reduce school bus crashes; improve police traffic services; improve emergency medical services and trauma care systems; increase pedestrian and bicyclist safety; improve traffic record systems; and improve roadway safety.
Page 233 - transportation has on our quality of life and on the shape and character of America's communities. TEA-21 built upon the programmatic initiatives of ISTEA and, through its financial provisions, provided State and local governments and other transportation providers with greater certainty and
Page 233 - States and communities to tailor their transportation choices to meet their unique needs and has enabled State and local decisionmakers to consider all transportation options and their impacts on traffic congestion, air pollution, land use patterns, economic development, and quality of life.
Page 233 - flexibility in the use of funds; a commitment to strengthening the intermodal connections of the nation's transportation system; expanded investment in, and deployment of, new information technologies for transportation services; and a heightened sensitivity to the impacts
Page 261 - (A) the constructed and natural environment of the area; (B) the environmental, scenic, aesthetic, historic, community, and preservation impacts of the activity; and (C) access for other modes of transportation.
Page 236 - Working together in partnerships, combining a full range of Federal, State, and local officials and interest groups, will lead to reasonable ways to meet the Nation's transportation needs, while being good stewards of the environment.
Page 179 - undertake a comprehensive study of alternative transportation needs in national parks and related public lands managed by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Page 261 - A design for new construction, reconstruction, resurfacing . . . restoration or rehabilitation of a highway on the National Highway System (other than a highway also on the Interstate System) may take into account