Federal-aid Highway Financing: Hearings, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on the President's Proposals for Financing the Federal-aid Highway Program. March 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, and 21, 1961Considers President's recommendations for financing Federal-Aid Highway Program. Focuses on retention of gasoline, tread rubber, and truck weight taxes. |
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AASHO road test additional ALGER American Trucking Associations Association automobiles axle benefits BOGGS BRAY BUFORD ELLINGTON Bureau of Public CHAIRMAN committee Common Carriers completion Congress construction CURTIS defense diesel fuel Dollars economy estimate excise taxes Excluding Federal-Aid Expenditures on State-Administered Federal highway Federal-aid highway financing fiscal freight gasoline tax going Highway Act HIGHWAY COSTS highway departments highway program highway system highway taxes highway trust fund highway user taxes HIGHWAY-USER TAXES incremental Intercity Interstate Commerce Commission interstate highway Interstate System June 30 March 14 miles million Miscellaneous Receipts Motor Motor Carrier Taxes Motor Fuel Taxes Municipal operating passenger car Percent Truck pounds President President's Public Roads Receipts Motor Fuel Registration Fees Miscellaneous Registrations Registration Fees retread revenues schedule State-Administered Highways statement Taxes of Total Thank tion tires toll roads ton-mile Total User Taxes traffic transportation tread rubber TRUCK TAXES trucking industry Turnpike WHITTON
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Page 9 - ... decent, safe and sanitary dwellings. The housing, so far as practicable, shall be in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities, public and commercial facilities...
Page 380 - Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cattle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson.
Page 416 - Since it is unfair and unjust to tax motor-vehicle transportation unless the proceeds of such taxation are applied to the construction, improvement, or maintenance of highways, after June 30, 1935, Federal aid for highway construction shall be extended only to those States that use at least the amounts now provided by law for such purposes in each State from State motor vehicle registration fees, licenses, gasoline taxes, and other special taxes on motor-vehicle owners and operators of all kinds...
Page 458 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...
Page 587 - Nothing is more dramatically apparent than the inadequacy of transportation in our larger urban areas. The solution cannot be found only in the construction of additional urban highways — vital as that job is. Other means for mass transportation which use less space and equipment must be improved and expanded. Perhaps even more important, planning for transportation and land use must go hand in hand as two Inseparable aspects of the same process.
Page 8 - 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) , costs of rights-of-way, and elimination of hazards of railway grade crossings. The term "county...
Page 691 - ... 1 cent for each gallon of gasoline so used, on which tax was paid at the rate of 3 cents a gallon and 2 cents for each gallon of gasoline so used on which tax was paid at the rate of 4 cents a gallon...
Page 7 - Act of 1956, as amended, is amended to read as follows : "(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. — For the purpose of expediting the construction, reconstruction, or improvement, inclusive of necessary bridges and tunnels, of the Interstate System, including extensions thereof through urban areas, designated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 103 of title 23, United States Code, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the additional sum of $1,000,000,000 for the...
Page 9 - July 1, 1956, are held — (A) by a dealer for sale, (B) for sale on, or In connection with, other articles held by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of such other...
Page 691 - The percentage which the ultimate purchaser's commuter fare revenue derived from such scheduled service during such quarter was of his total passenger fare revenue derived from such scheduled service during such quarter. (2) Limitation. Paragraph (1) shall apply in respect of gasoline used during any calendar quarter only if at least 60 percent of the total passenger fare revenue derived during such quarter from scheduled service described in paragraph (1) by the person filing the claim was attributable...