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United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to designate the Skyline National Parkway in the State of California. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Highways and Related Transportation Systems Improvement Act - Sets forth findings that highway congestion, air pollution, and related safety problems are impairing the efficiency of the highway system; and declares that the level of efficiency can be improved by developing related systems, and that both highways and related systems can best be improved by giving States and local communities greater flexibility in the use of Federal highway funds. Reduces the present authorizations of $4,000,000,000 for the Interstate System of highways for fiscal year 1974, 1975, and 1976, to the sum of $3,250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1974 through 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make 1974 and 1975 Interstate System apportionments using the factors set forth in Table 5 of House Public Works Committee Print 92-29. Extends the time for completing the Interstate System by three years, from June 1976 to June 1979. Requires the Secretary to continue to report to Congress the cost of completing the Interstate System every second year, using the estimate shown therein for making apportionments for the subsequent two-year-period, upon approval of Congress. Authorizes additional mileage for the Interstate System to be used in making modifications or revisions in the Interstate System. Provides that upon joint request of the local governments, the Secretary may withdraw his approval of any route or portion thereof on the System within a State if he determines that such route is not essential to the completion of a unified and connected Interstate System. States that after the Secretary has withdrawn his approval the mileage of such route and the additional mileage authorized by this Act shall be available to the State to provide the essential connection of the Interstate System in lieu of the route or portions thereof which were withdrawn. Extends the ten percent penalty, applicable to Federal-aid highway funds appropriated to a State for failure to control outdoor advertising displays and devices which can be seen from the nearest roadway for the period after January 1, 1974. Extends the appropriations for carrying out the outdoor advertising program as follows: $20,500,000 for 1972; and $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1973, 1974 and 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated for control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the Interstate System and Federal-aid primary system highways, $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1971 and 1972; $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1973; and $7,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to apportion money from the Highway Trust Fund to assist States and local governments to operate, maintain, and improve highways and other transportation services, including public transit, if sufficient funds are not available from other Federal sources. Authorizes to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund the following amounts; $2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; and $3,250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Provides that ninety percent of these amounts are to be appropriated in accordance with a prescribed formula, and the remaining ten percent shall be available to the Secretary as a discretionary fund. States that unwarranted reductions of allocations by States to local governments for transportation purposes may result in a reduction of a like amount of Federal funds to the State concerned. Requires each State to have a comprehensive State and local transportation plan, subject to approval by the Secretary of Transportation. Provides that where a State or metropolitan plan is rejected by the Secretary, the State or local unit shall be afforded an opportunity for a hearing. Limits planning and administrative costs of State or local units to three percent of the respective allocation. Provides for recordkeeping, audits, and reports. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe rules, regulations, and standards in implementing the highway and related transportation services improvement chapter. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and Congress on the developments and effectiveness of these activities. Specifies that no Federal contribution in addition to funds herein allocated shall be provided for relocation payments and assistance for those replaced by transportation activities. Provides that nothing in this chapter shall diminish the requirements respecting the establishment by States of highway safety programs approved by the Secretary of Transportations. Requires the Secretary to take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors in the performance of construction work financed with the assistance of loans or grants under this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended. Provides that the Secretary shall not approve any such loan or grant without first obtaining adequate assurance that required labor standards will be maintained upon the construction work.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for construction of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects, including preferential bus lanes, highway traffic loading and parking facilities, construction of fixed rail facilities, and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes reduced rate transportation under the Federal Aviations Act of 1958 for individuals over the age of 65 on a space-available basis. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make an investigation and study with respect to the feasibility of establishing a national system of scenic highways, to be completed by January 1, 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated $250,000 from the Highway Trust Fund to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for construction of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects, including preferential bus lanes, highway traffic loading and parking facilities, construction of fixed rail facilities, and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide assistance to the States and to Federal departments and agencies having jurisdiction over Federal lands open to the public in order to develop highways throughout the Nation to satisfy the science and recreational needs of the people, and to prove the national feasibility of such a system throughdirect Federal participation in the improvement and construction of the Great River Road and attendant facilities and to further provide for Federal participation in the celebration of the tricentennial of the discovery of the Mississippi River. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish criteria for the location and construction or reconstruction of the Great River Road by the ten States bordering the Mississippi River. Stipulates that highways constructed or reconstructed pursuant to this Act shall be maintained by the appropraite State or local jurisdiction insofar as is consistent with this Act. Provides that the Federal share of the cost of any construction or reconstruction project shall be 80 percent. Authorizes to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund not to exceed $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for allocation to the States pursuant to the Act and not to exceed $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 in order to enter into appropriate arrangements for necessary construction on Federal lands open to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for construction of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects, including preferential bus lanes, highway traffic loading and parking facilities, construction of fixed rail facilities, and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Provides for the suspension of air transportation between the United States and foreign countries in cases of international aircraft hijacking where the President determines that such foreign country has willfully failed to return the hijacker to the country of origin, or has failed to take steps to assure the safety of the aircraft and its passengers and crew. States that such supension shall continue until the resumption of air transportation will not result in danger to the safety of any aircraft operating in interstate and foreign air transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for construction of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects, including preferential bus lanes, highway traffic loading and parking facilities, construction of fixed rail facilities, and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President should take such steps as may be necessary to call for an immediate international conference on air piracy for the purpose of establishing new and improved international policies and procedures designed to facilitate the apprehension and punishment of individuals guilty of international aircraft hijacking and to assure the prompt and safe return of the aircraft, together with its passengers and crew. Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President should take such steps as may be necessary to assure that the international conference referred to in the first section of this concurrent resolution will consider specific measures directed against international aircraft hijacking, which measures should include, but not be limited to: (1) a requirement that any individual guilty of international aircraft hijacking must be returned to the country in which the hijacking originated within thirty days; (2) requirements that each country must take adequate steps to assure the safety of the hijacked aircraft, together with its passengers and crew, and provide for their safe return to the country from which the flight originated within five days; and (3) appropriate provisions requiring that all funds or other valuable items extorted by the hijacker must be returned together with the hijacked aircraft, its passengers and crew.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Army to remove the sunken steamer Glen from Manistee Harbor, Michigan. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Terminates the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board in docket 9977. (Adds 49 U.S.C. 1382(c))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Removes the percentage limitations on the amount of urban mass transportation grant assistance which may be available in any one State under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. (Repeals 49 U.S.C. 1611)
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
National Transportation Act - Title I: National Transportation Policy and Plan - Provides that the Secretary of Transportation shall develop a national transportation master plan, which shall set forth national transportation goals and means for their implementation for the next 50 years, with specific provisions for each 5 year period. Directs the Secretary, in developing such a plan, to utilize population growth projections and studies of current and projected transportation problems. Provides that the plan shall include research and development involving both existing and new modes of transportation, and studies to establish new cities and relieve the overcrowding of urban centers. Requires the Secretary to transmit such plan to Congress with two years of the enactment of this Act. Title II: State Transportation Plans and Projects - Provides for State transportation boards which shall establish a State transportation master plan setting forth such State's needs, goals, and priorities, and means for implementation of such plan for the next 50 years. Requires such board, in developing a State plan, to consider existing State transportation systems, present and projected population patterns, commercial development patterns, and land use patterns, and the need for new systems of transportation. Provides for the review of such plans by the Secretary and proportional federal funding of State transportation projects. Title III: National Transportation Policy Council and Data Bank - Establishes the National Transportation Policy Council to assist the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall develop and maintain a national transportation and development data bank, containing information on present and future transportation modes. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for an annual progress report by the Secretary, and authorizes appropriations for this Act. Permits interstate compacts for cooperative effort in developing State transportation projects. Defines the terms used for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, in the case of any crime involving the seizure or exercise of control, by force or violence or threat of force or violence and with wrongful intent, of an aircraft in flight, the power of the Congress to declare punishment therefor shall include the power to provide, by law, for the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to fix the per annum rates of basic pay of positions on the police force of Washington National Airport and the police force of Dulles International Airport in accordance with the rates of basic compensation, including longevity increases, provided in the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act for officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force in corresponding or similar classes or subclasses.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Extends the life of the Commission on Highway Beautification established under the Federal-Aid Highway Act to December 31, 1973. Authorizes to be appropriated sums not to exceed $450,000 to enable the Commission to carry out the provisions of this Act. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 131 nt.)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes the apportionment of funds for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, based on the factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Makes it unlawful to operate a supersonic aircraft, manufactured in the United States or in a foreign nation, for a commercial flight at supersonic speeds in the navigable airspace of the United States until: (1) the Congress, by law, approves findings by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that the operation of such supersonic aircraft in the navigable airspace of the United States will not have detrimental physiological and psychological effects on persons on the ground and will not have detrimental effects on the environment; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation shall have made affirmative findings, and submitted a written report thereon to the Congress, that the operation of supersonic aircraft in the navigable airspace of the United States meets all noise and safety standards prescribed by the Secretary with respect to the operation of aircraft capable of operating at supersonic speeds.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes the apportionment of funds for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, based on the factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Bicycle Transportation Act - Makes funds authorized for Federal-aid highways available to finance the Federal share of the cost of projects for the construction of exclusive or preferential bicycle lanes or paths, bicycle traffic control devices, and shelters and parking facilities to serve bicycles and persons using bicycles. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 145)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Urban Mass Transit Act - Sets forth Congressional findings relating to rapid urbanization. Title I: Urban Mass Transit Revenue Act - Creates in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the urban mass transit fund to consist of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to the trust fund. Authorizes to be transferred to the fund an amount equivalent to the tax received from the excise tax on automobiles. Gives the management of the fund to the Secretary of the Treasury. Authorizes investment of the fund and requires reports. Provides that the amounts in the trust fund shall be available as provided by appropriation acts for making expenditures to meet obligations of the United States under the Urban Mass Transportation Act. Provides for repayment of advances with interest. Title II: Urban Mass Transportation Amendments - Revises the procedures relating to the programs provided under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Authorizes the following appropriations to finance grants and loans and administrative cost under this Act: (1) $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974; (2) $2,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; (3) $3,000,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1976; and (4) $4,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977. Provides that the Secretary shall not make any grant or loan under this Act for any project which will cause the displacement of any person, business, or farm operation unless he receives satisfactory assurances from the State or local public body or agency that: (1) fair and reasonable relocation and other payments shall be afforded to displaced person; (2) relocation assistance programs offering specified services shall be afforded to displaced persons; and (3) within a reasonable period of time prior to displacement there will be available, to the extent that can reasonable accomplished, in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, decent , safe, and sanitary dwellings, as defined by the Secretary. Provides that, in order to prevent unnecessary expenses and duplication of functions, a State or local public body or agency thereof will make relocation payments or provide relocation assistance or otherwise carry out the functions required under this chapter by utilizing the facilities, personnel, and services of any other Federal, State, or local governmemtal agency having an established organization for conducting relocation assistance programs. Provides that any agreement for a grant or loan made for a project before the date of enactment of this chapter with respect to property which has not been acquired as of the date of enactment of this chapter under any such program shall be amended to include the cost of providing the payments and services with respect to such property. Permits a moving expense allownace not to exceed $200 and a dislocation allowance of $100 for private dwellings.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Makes appropriations of $63,054,000 for the construction of protions of the Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, for which rights-of-way have been acquired by the National Park Service prior to the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Transportation shall not approve any State highway safety program which does not provide with respect to all informational, regulatory, and warning signs, curb and pavement or other markings, and traffic signals within such State that all roadway markings and the face of all speed zone signs shall be painted with luminous paints of the following colors: (a) red for a highway on which the maximum speed is twenty-five miles per hour or less; (b) green when the maximum speed limit is between twenty-six and thrity-five miles per hour, inclusive; (c) yellow when the maximum speed limit is between thirty-six and forty-five miles per hour; (d) blue when the maximum speed limit is between forty-six and sixty miles per hour; and (e) white when the maximum speed limit is between sixty-one and seventy-five miles per hour. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 402)
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Provides that expenses incurred in the construction of the Twelfth Street Bay Area Rapid Transit Station Oakland, California, shall be eligible as local grants-in-aid for purposes of title I of the Housing Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Title I: Railway Labor Act - Provides, under the Railway Labor Act, that when a dispute is not adjusted under the provisions of this Act, employees may selectively strike any of the carriers or carrier systems to whom their proposal was directed. Provides that whenever a selective strike or a strike of any combination of carriers occurs, such carriers and representatives of the employees on strike shall provide service and transportation for such persons and commodities as may be directed by the President, on a finding by the President, that such services or transportation cannot in any way be provided by alternate rail, truck, water, or air transportation, and that the termination of such services or transportation would immediately imperil the national health or safety. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any carrier to lock out any craft or class of its employees, or any segment of any such class or craft, unless such carrier is caused to diminish such service by a strike of all or some portion of its employees. Provides that any agreements affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions between employees and any carrier so selectively struck shall be immediately offered jointly, without change, to all carriers who have been jointly or concurrently involved in the previous handling of the dispute under this Act. Provides, under a new title III of the Railway Labor Act, that in the event a dispute is not settled under this Act, any changes in rate, pay, or working conditions made unilaterally subsequent to this Act shall be rescinded and the original conditions reinstated, and any selective strike in progress under the provisions of this Act shall be terminated immediately, and for sixty days thereafter, and no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the parties to the controversy in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. Provides that the National Mediation Board shall recommend to the President specific actions which it deems most appropriate to the settlement of the dispute and the protection of the public interest. Provides that, during such sixty day period, the President may create a board to investigate and make, for transmittal to the parties in the dispute, a report respecting such dispute. Provides that if no resolution is reached at the end of such sixty days, and if the President finds that the dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services, the President may: (1) order an additional sixty-day "cooling-off period" during which the parties shall continue collective bargaining under the National Mediation Board; or (2) permit the continuance of the selective strike under the limitations he deems necessary to protect the health or safety of the Nation or any region thereof; and (3) order the parties to submit final offers to the Secretary of Labor and submit such offers to a three-member panel for final settlement. Provides that such panel shall accept one of the final offers without compromise or alteration, except in the case of a settlement being reached by the parties through continued negotiation before such panel makes a final determination. Provides that the final offer selected by such panel shall be deemed to represent the contract between the parties and shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary and capricious. Title II: Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 - Broadens the powers of the President in labor disputes to cover situations which may imperil the health or safety of a substantial part of the Nation's population or territory (presently a threat to the national health or safety is required) and to cover situations which may deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services. Provides that the report of a Board of Inquiry appointed by the President shall contain the Board's recommendations for settlement. Provides that, upon receiving the report and until a final agreement to the labor dispute is reached, the President may issue an order for a specified period not to exceed thrity days that work shall resume or continue with no change in conditions, or he may issue an order for partial operation specifying the extent and condition of of such operation. Requires the President to direct each party to submit a sealed final offer to the Secretary of Labor within five days. Permits each party to submit one alternative final offer. Deems the last offer of a party during previous negotiations to be the final offer if such party refuses to submit a final offer. Permits the parties within ten days to select a three-member panel composed of disinterested persons to act as a final offer selector. Provides that the President shall select the panel if the parties cannot agree. Provides that the Secretary shall transmit the final offers to the panel thirty days after its selection and requires the panel to select the most reasonable offer within five days thereafter. Sets forth factors which the panel may take into account in making its selection. Provides that the panel shall not alter the content of the offer selected. Directs the parties to undertake collective bargaining under the auspices of the Board of Inquiry throughout the period and provides that any complete agreement reached before the selection of a final offer shall be final and binding. Makes the final offer selected by the panel conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious. Provides that members of the Board or panel shall receive compensation at the daily rate prescribed for the GS-18 level. Makes the provisions of this title enforceable upon suit by the Attorney General brought before a three-judge district court.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that the President should immediately undertake: (1) to seek international arrangements and agreements with other nations desiring to foster international air service (including the use of an international tribunal with appropriate jurisdiction) for the purpose of finding ways and means to prohibit and punish effectively armed attacks on aircraft and passengers engaged in international commerce; (2) to seek international arrangements and agreements for the imposition of sanctions (including but not limited to suspension or repeal of air landing rights) against any nation which approves or condones such attacks by sheltering or protecting individuals or organizations responsible for perpetrating such attacks; and (3) to report to the Congress within six months from the day of enactment of this resolution on the results of the efforts undertaken in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) above.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Permits high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which connect to the Interstate System to be selected by each State highway department for priority of improvement as supplementary routes to extend and supplement the service provided by the Interstate system by furnishing needed adequate traffic collector and distributor facilities as well as extensions. Provides that such priority primary routes selected shall be improved to geometric and construction standards for the Interstate system, or to such other standards as may be developed cooperatively by the Secretary and the State highway departments in the same manner as are standards developed for the Interstate system. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund of $300,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1974-1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 145)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Senior Citizens Transportation Act - Prohibits common carriers in interstate commerce from charging elderly people more than half fare for their transportation during nonpeak periods of travel. Provides for grants to such carriers to cover such reductions on a showing by the carrier that it suffered an economic loss solely because of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to States and local public bodies and agencies which adopt specially reduced rates during nonrush hours for elderly persons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that no tax shall be imposed on the use of any aircraft by a person who holds a certificate as an agricultural aircraft operator if such aircraft is equipped for agricultural operation and if such person uses it primarily for such agricultural operation. Provides that, for purposes of the refund of the tax on gasoline used for farming purposes and the refund of tax on fuels not used for a taxable purpose, if the use of any liquid as a fuel on a farm for farming purposes is in an aircraft and by an aerial applicator who was the actual ultimate purchaser thereof, and the owner, tenant, or operator of the farm has waived in writing his right to any payment, credit, or refund with respect to such liquid, then such aerial applicator shall be treated as the operator of the farm with respect to such liquid.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Designates specified segments of the Interstate System as the "Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway."
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Senior Citizens Transportation Act - Prohibits common carriers in interstate commerce from charging elderly people more than half fare for their transportation during nonpeak periods of travel. Provides for grants to such carriers to cover such reductions on a showing by the carrier that it suffered an economic loss solely because of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to States and local public bodies and agencies which adopt specially reduced rates during nonrush hours for elderly persons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Urban Transportation Emergency Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to states, local governments and public agencies in an amount equal to all or a part of the total cost incurred after January 1, 1973 of the regular maintenance and repair of the right-of-way of a rapid transit or commuter railroad facility serving a city or metropolitan area surrounding a city. Provides that a state or local public agency shall be considered to have incurred these costs if it is charged by law or contract with the responsibility to operate or provide at least 80 percent of any annual deficit arising from the operation of a rapid transit or commuter railroad facility. Authorizes appropriations of $200,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1973-1976.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that where a veterans death occurs in a State home, the Administrator shall pay the actual cost (not to exceed $250) of the burial and funeral, and transport the body to the place of burial in the same or any other State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 903)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to delegate to any common carrier by railroad, or any employee thereof, any function relating to the detection and apprehension of any person committing an offense against the United States under specified Federal laws affecting railroads and property moving by railroad in interstate or foreign commerce. Limits such authority to offenses committed on the common carrier's property or against property moving in interstate or foreign commerce in the possession of such common carrier.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Federal-Aid Highway Act - Provides authorizations for the Interstate highway program through fiscal year 1980 in the amounts of $3,250,000,000 for each fiscal year from 1974 through 1979 and $257,000,000 for fiscal year 1980. Extends the time for completion of the Interstate System until June 30, 1980. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to submit to Congress a revised Interstate System cost estimate in January of 1974, January of 1976 and January of 1978 for apportionment of Interstate funds for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, 1978 and 1979, and 1980, respectively. Authorizes annual appropriations for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 of: (1) $650,000,000 for the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas, and $350,000,000 for the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas; (2) $650,000,000 for the Federal-aid urban system, and $350,000,000 for the extension of the Federal-aid primary and secondary systems in urban areas; (3) $33,000,000 for forest highways; (4) $16,000,000 for public lands highways; (5) $75,000,000 for forest development roads and trails; (6) $10,000,000 for public lands development roads and trails; (7) $30,000,000 for park roads and trails; (8) $75,000,000 for Indian reservation roads and bridges; (9) $15,000,000 for landscaping and scenic enhancement; (10) $1,500,000 for specified administrative expenses; (11) $5,000,000 for highway development programs for the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa. Authorizes appropriations of $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for parkways. Declares it to be in the national interest and the intent of Congress that the Secretary should administer the Federal-aid highway program in such a manner as to give the highest priority in all instances to highway safety and to the saving of human lives. Provides that, upon the joint request of a State Governor and the local governments concerned, the Secretary may withdraw his approval of any route or portion thereof on the Interstate System within that State if he determines that such route or portion thereof is not essential to completion of a unified and connected Interstate System (including urban routes necessary for metropolitan transportation). States that after the Secretary has withdrawn his approval of any such route or portion thereof the mileage of such route or portion thereof and the additional mileage authorized by the first sentence of this paragraph shall be available for the designation of such interstate route or portions thereof within that State necessary to provide the essential connection of the Interstate System in such State in lieu of the route or portions thereof which were withdrawn. Requires the States to notify the Secretary by July 1, 1973, of their intent to build any remaining Interstate segments. Provides, otherwise, that such segments shall be removed from Interstate designation and by July 1, 1974, States shall be required to submit a schedule for completing the system to maintain its designation as part of the Interstate System. Provides for a reduction by ten percent in the funds apportioned under such Act to a State until such time as the State shall provide for effective control of outdoor advertising signs, displays and devices along the Interstate System. States that just compensation shall be paid upon the removal under any law of any outdoor advertising sign, display or device lawfully erected under State law prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $50,000,000 from the Highway Trust Fund for each of the 1974 and 1975 fiscal years for purposes of outdoor advertising control. Provides that urban system funds shall be allocated to any urbanized area within the State on the basis of population, and shall be available for expenditure in another urbanized area within such State only where the responsible public officials in both such urbanized areas agree to such a transfer. Provides that where the units of general purpose local government in any urbanized area shall combine together under State law to create a metropolitan transportation agency, or where the State shall create a metropolitan transportation agency with sufficient authority to develop and implement a plan for expenditure of funds allocated to such urbanized area, funds allocated for such purpose shall be available to such metropolitan transportation agency for projects on the urban system. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for the purpose of the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to Federal-aid highways. States that to encourage the development, improvement, and use of public mass transportation systems operating vehicles on highways, other than on rails, for the transportation of passengers within urban areas sums apportioned under this Act shall be available to finance the Federal share of the costs of projects within urban areas for the construction of exclusive or preferential bus lanes, highway traffic control devices, passenger loading areas and facilities, including shelters, fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities to serve bus and other public mass transportation passengers, and for the purchase of passenger equipment other than rolling stock for fixed rail. Provides that sums apportioned for the Federal-aid highway systems may be made available for the development and improvement of bicycle transportation, equestrian trails and pedestrain walkways located on or in conjunction with highway rights-of-way. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse States, after thay have received their final apportionment on the Interstate System, for the Federal share of the actual construction cost for new toll roads and improvements to existing toll roads. Authorizes $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for the construction of special highways connected to the Interstate System in portions of urbanized areas with high traffic density. Provides that the Federal share for any project under this section shall not exceed ninety percent of the cost of construction. Provides that any State may submit to the Secretary for his approval and certification a comprehensive procedure for the construction of Federal-aid highway projects, setting forth the process by which such State proposes to carry out its Federal-aid highway construction responsibilities. Requires the State procedure to set forth the process by which goals, objectives, and priorities for carrying out its Federal-aid program shall be established and shall take into account and be in accord with the requirements of this title and other provisions of Federal law. Provides that the Secretary shall approve the request of any State for certification unless he finds that State laws, guidelines, regulations, and directives will not result in the accomplishment of the social, environmental, and economic objectives of all applicable Federal laws and requirements. Authorizes construction projects and funds for: (1) Highland Scenic Highway, West Virginia; (2) Alaska Highway; and (3) specified bridges or Federal dams. Authorizes feasibility studies for proposed highways to be included in the Interstate System, and terminates the Federal-aid relationship to the San Antonio North Expressway in Bexar County, Texas. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make payments, not to exceed $65,000,000, to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in order to make the Metro subway and system accessible to the handicapped. Provides for a study of toll bridges over the navigable waters of the United States to determine what action is necessary to assure just and reasonable tolls. Authorizes a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a national system of scenic highways to link together recreational, historical, and scientific areas of scenic interest and importance. Authorizes appropriations of $30,000,000 for demonstration projects for public mass transportation on highways in rural areas in order to enhance access of rural populations to employment, health care, retail centers, education and public services.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make the apportionment for the fiscal year 1974 of the sums authorized to be apportioned for such year for expenditure on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, using the apportionment factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, under the Urban Mass Transportation Act, to make grants or loans to assist States and local public bodies and agencies thereof in the payment of operating expenses incurred in connection with the provision of mass transportation service in urban areas. Requires a State or public body or agency to submit a comprehensive mass transportation service improvement plan to qualify for such assistance. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $400,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Increases to 80 percent the Federal share of projects other than projects for the paying of operating expenses. Increases to $6,100,000,000 the obligations the Secretary may incur to finance urban mass transportation projects under the Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans under the Act to private nonprofit corporations and associations for the specific purpose of assisting them in providing transportation services meeting the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons for whom mass transportation services, planned, designed, and carried out under the Act are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. Provides that no financial assistance shall be provided under the Act to any State or local public body or agency thereof which engages directly or indirectly in the transporting of schoolchildren and school personnel to and from school and school-authorized functions, or proposes to expand present routes, schedules, service, or facilities for the purpose of providing transportation for schoolchildren and school personnel to and from school and school-authorized functions, in competition with or supplementary to the service currently provided by a private transportation company, or other person, engaged in so transporting such schoolchildren and school personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides that, if the plaintiff shall finally prevail in any action for recovery of damages sustained in the transportation of property pursuant to the Interstate Commerce Act, he shall be allowed a reasonable attorney's fee, to be taxed and collected as part of the suit. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 20)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Authorizes the reinstatement and extension of the authorization for the beach erosion control project for Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania. Authorizes an appropriation not to exceed $3,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides that all transportation of merchandise by barge between ports in the United States and furnished as a service substituted in lieu of a direct vessel call by a common carrier by water in foreign commerce shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Maritime Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides, under the Interstate Commerce Act, that rail passenger cars and locomotives or similar vehicles designed to receive, retain, and treat or discharge human body wastes shall be required to have installed thereon sanitation devices to prevent the discharge of inadequately treated wastes upon the land and navigable waterways of the United States. Provides for inspection of such devices by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Provides a penalty of $500 per day for failure to comply with any regulation or order designed to carry out the provisions of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 26)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal Aviation Act, for reduced rate transportation on a space available basis for youth (between 12 and 22), elderly people (aged 65 and older), and military personnel who are members of the United States armed services traveling at their own expense, in uniform and while on official leave, furlough, or pass. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Permits any air carrier to grant reduced-rate transportation under conditions prescribed by the Civil Aeronautics Board to: (1) family members, handicapped persons (including attendants accompaning them), and young people; and (2) ministers of religion and elderly people on a space-available basis. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Increases to 90 percent the Federal share of funds to assist States and local public agencies in financing the acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use in mass transportation service in urban areas. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants or loans to any State or local public body to enable it to assist any mass transportation system which maintains mass transportation service in an urban area to pay operating expenses incurred as a result of providing such service. Specifies conditions for such grants or loans. Provides that, in order to finance such grants and loans, the Secretary is authorized to incur obligations on behalf of the United States in the form of grant agreements or otherwise in amounts aggregating not to exceed $800,000,000. Increases to $6,l00,000,000 the authorization for obligations to finance other specified mass transportation programs. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1602, 1603)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Airport Development Acceleration Act - Expands the definition of "airport development" under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to include security equipment required by the Secretary of Transportation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport. Increases the total obligational authority of the Secretary to make grants for airport development to $1,400,000,000. States that such obligations shall not be liquidated in an aggregate amount exceeding $1,120,000,000 prior to June 30, 1974, and an aggregate amount exceeding $1,400,000,000 prior to June 30, 1975. Provides that the Federal share of allowable project costs incurred under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 shall be: (1) fifty percent for sponsors whose airports enplane not less than 1 percent of the total annual passengers enplaned by air carriers certificated by the Board; and (2) seventy-five percent for sponsors whose airports enplane less than 1 percent of such passengers. Provides that to the extent that the project cost of an approved project for airport development represents the cost of safety equipment required under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 the United States share shall be 82 percent of the allowable cost thereof with respect to airport development project grant agreements entered into after May 10, 1971. States that, to the extent that the project cost of an approved project for airport development represents the cost of security equipment required by the Secretary by rule or regulation, the United States share shall be 82 percent of the allowable cost thereof with respect to airport development project grant agreements entered into after September 28, 1971. Extends until May 21, 1973, the due date for the Secretary's national airport system plan. Provides that no State shall levy or collect a tax, fee, head charge, or other charge, directly or indirectly, on persons traveling in air transportation or on the carriage of persons in air transportation, or on the gross receipts derived therefrom.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake a program for flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife, water quality, waste water management, and environmental quality, for Buffalo Harbor in Lake Erie, the immediate tributaries and Niagara River.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
National Transportation Act - Declares the Congressional finding that the development and implementation of a balanced national transportation system embracing all modes of transportation which will contribute to the provision of rapid, safe, efficient, and convenient movement of persons and goods is essential to the general welfare, the economic growth, and the stability and security of the Nation. Title I: National_Transportation - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop a comprehensive plan for the effective implementation of national transportation policies. Provides that such plan shall include recommendations as to: the most effective utilization of money; the reorganization of governmental functions relating to transportation; and proposed legislation. Directs the Secretary to consult with regional, state, and local transportation agencies in developing the comprehensive plan. Provides that until Congress approves the utilization provisions for the Transportation Fund, transitional authority is granted to make allocations for the Trust Fund to highways, aviation and urban mass transportation programs. Title II: Transportation Trust Fund Revenue Act - Creates a Transportation Trust Fund which will be available for expenditures in accordance with the comprehensive national transportation plan to be approved by the Congress. Authorizes the sale and manner of sale of obligations which the Trust Fund may acquire and requires the interest earned by the Trust Fund to be added to form a part of such Fund. Authorizes the Treasury to make advances to the Trust Fund to be repaid when receipts catch up with expenditures. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund, and (after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation) to report to the Congress not later than the first day of March of each year on the financial conditions and the results of the operations of the Trust Fund during the current and next ensuing fiscal year, up to and including the fiscal year l982. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Trust Fund to the Treasury amounts equivalent to credits allowed under the Internal Revenue Code relating to gasoline and lubricating oil and to the land and water conservation fund amounts equivalent to taxes received on or after January 1, 1965 with respect to special motor fuels and gasoline used in motorboats.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Authorizes necessary appropriations to be used for the elimination of hazardous rail-highway grade crossings in the State of Illinois.