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Bill· HRH.R. 11491 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Railroad Safety Incentive Act - Title I: Findings, Purpose, and Goals - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to establish a framework for applying a systematic approach for the prevention of railroad accidents and to assure occupational health and safety by requiring railroads to develop and implement comprehensive systematic safety programs for certification under this Act. Title II: Railroad Safety Systems and Performance - Establishes an Office of Railroad Safety Systems and Performance within the Federal Railroad Administration. Stipulates that the duties of such office are to carry out the provisions of this Act and to assume the work of the present Office of Railroad Safety. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate performance and safety system standards for certification of each railroad. Requires each railroad to have a plan certified by the Secretary which complies with such standards. Stipulates that such certification shall be for a period of three years. Requires each railroad with such a certificate to file annual reports with the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration covering its activities under its safety system performance plan including an analysis of its accident data, specific steps taken in response to accident causes, and expenditures for occupational health and safety programs in the plan. Prescribes civil penalties for failure to adhere to, or violations of, a certificated plan. Grants the district courts jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief with respect to matters arising under this Act. Title III: Safety Analysis and Incentives - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration to consolidate railroad accident data compilation and evaluation in the Office of Railroad Safety Systems and Performance. Directs the Office to analyze such data for the purpose of determining primary and secondary accident causes, determining statistic significance of accident data comparisons, and devising accident prevention programs. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a program of annual Federal recognition awards for good railroad safety performance. Allows State Rail Planning Agencies to apply for Federal railroad safety incentive grants. Directs the Secretary to promulgate criteria for the receipt of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Title IV: Financial Assistance for Railroad Safety - Authorizes the Secretary to make safety grants for tracks and facilities to railroads classified by the Interstate Commerce Commission as class I or II common carriers. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of paying all or part of the interest on loans obtained by railroads for improving track or facilities safety. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1979 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2719 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1978
Amends the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to obligate for fiscal years 1979 and 1980 not less than $30,000,000 of the funds authorized to be appropriated under such Act for improving air navigation facilities for the purpose of establishing no fewer than 45 automated flight service stations. Defines "flight service stations" as air navigation facilities used to assist pilots in the safe conduct of flight.
Bill· HRH.R. 11436 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from controlling the location of utility facilities on the right-of-way of any highway on the Federal-aid system.
Bill· HRH.R. 11422 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
International Shipping Act - Amends the Shipping Act, 1916, to authorize the use of deferred rebate contract systems and to authorize the operation of closed shipping conferences and shippers councils under specified conditions.
Bill· HRH.R. 11416 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to furnish Federal financial assistance for construction projects to separate rail-highway crossings where the rail facilities have incurred a substantial increase in use as a result of coal transportation activities with the result of substantial delays in highway travel. Stipulates that the Federal share of such a project shall not exceed 90 percent of its cost. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for fiscal years 1979 through 1981 for such projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 11389 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in determining whether any right-of-way on any Federal-aid system highway should be used for accommodating a utility facility, to: (1) evaluate the environmental and economic effects of any loss of productive agricultural land or any impairment of the productivity of any agricultural land which would result from the disapproval of such a facility; and (2) consider such effects together with any interference with the use of the highway in such right-of-way if such facility were approved.
Bill· HRH.R. 11404 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Authorizes additional mileage for the Interstate Highway System for the construction of a route along Missouri Route 725 between Interstate Route 270 and Page Avenue in Saint Louis County, Missouri.
Bill· SS. 2678 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Maritime Appropriation Act - Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to the Department of Commerce for fiscal years 1979 and 1980 for: (1) vessel construction or reconditioning; (2) the payment of obligations incurred for the operating - differential subsidy; (3) research and development expenses; (4) operating expenses including reserve fleet expenses; (5) financial assistance to State marine schools; and (6) the Merchant Marine Academy.
Bill· HRH.R. 11325 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Amends part II of the Interstate Commerce Act (Motor Carriers) to exempt from the provisions of such part vehicles carrying up to 15 persons in a single day roundtrip for the purpose of commuting to and from work. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to exempt from the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions of such Act individuals participating in a voluntary ride-sharing arrangement for the transportation of up to 15 persons in a single day roundtrip for the purpose of commuting to and from work.
Bill· HRH.R. 11346 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Amends part II of the Interstate Commerce Act (Motor Carriers) to exempt from the provisions of such part vehicles carrying up to 15 persons in a single day roundtrip for the purpose of commuting to and from work. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to exempt from the minimum wage and maximum hours provisions of such Act individuals participating in a voluntary ride-sharing arrangement for the transportation of up to 15 persons in a single day roundtrip for the purpose of commuting to and from work.
Bill· HRH.R. 11352 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1979. Sets forth the authorized end strength level for active duty personnel and the average military training student load for the Coast Guard for such fiscal year. Amends the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971 to authorize appropriations for State boating safety programs for such fiscal year. Authorizes the Coast Guard to enter into a long term lease for the purpose of acquiring land on the Quillayute Indian Reservation in the State of Washington in order to relocate the Quillayute River Coast Guard Station. Authorizes the Coast Guard to enter into a long term lease for its Aviation Training Center at Bates Field, Mobile, Alabama, and to expend funds for specified construction projects at such training center.
Bill· HRH.R. 11312 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1978
Federal Aviation Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board in the performance of its functions to consider safety as the highest priority in air commerce and to consider the development of an air transportation industry which allows responsible new air carriers to enter the industry as being in the public interest. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on applications for certificates to engage in air transportation. Authorizes any air carrier to petition the Board to have granted to it the authority of another air carrier to provide nonstop scheduled interstate or overseas air transportation where the previous authority has not been exercised to a specified extent. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on an application by an air carrier for the removal or modification of a term attached to a certificate to engage in air transportation. Directs the Board to establish simplified procedures for the disposition of applications for certificates or permits to engage in air transportation and for applications to amend or modify such certificates. Stipulates that such procedures need not provide for oral evidentiary hearings. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act on applications to approve consolidation agreements, pooling agreements, or exemptions from air carrier economic regulation.
Bill· HRH.R. 11289 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from controlling the location of utility facilities on the right-of-way of any highway on the Federal-aid system.
Bill· HRH.R. 11288 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Authorizes the placement of signs or displays advertising seasonal recreational activities in areas adjacent to the Interstate Highway System and the primary system.
Bill· HRH.R. 11287 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to furnish Federal financial assistance for construction projects to separate rail-highway crossings where the rail facilities have incurred a substantial increase in use as a result of coal transportation activities with the result of substantial delays in highway travel. Stipulates that the Federal share of such a project shall not exceed 90 percent of its cost. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for fiscal years 1979 through 1981 for such projects.
Bill· SS. 2616 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Independent Safety Board Act Amendments - Amends the Independent Safety Board Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations to the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
Bill· HRH.R. 11207 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Union Station Improvement Act - Amends the National Visitor Center Facilities Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior, upon request, to transfer the lease and purchase option of the facilities of Union Station, Washington, D. C. to the Secretary of Transportation. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, after such assignment, to operate that portion of the premises not sublet to the Department of the Interior for operation of the National Visitor Center as a rail passenger terminal. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to acquire any property interest not held by the United States which may be necessary for the completion of Union Station. Directs the Secretary to complete the parking facility at Union Station. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the Washington Terminal Company to cease further construction of the new railroad passenger station in the area beneath and adjacent to the parking facility. Authorizes the Company, at the request of the Secretary, to transfer all of its rights and obligations concerning Union Station to the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 11184 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Amends the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 to establish in the Treasury the Fishing Vessel and Gear Damage Compensation Fund for the purpose of awarding monetary compensation to owners of United States fishing vessels for damage to, or destruction of such vessels, or fishing gear used with such vessels. Sets forth the criteria which must be met by vessel owners in order to qualify for such compensation. Establishes a procedure whereby the amount of such compensation shall be calculated. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish contributions to be paid annually to the Secretary by any vessel owner as a condition of eligibility for compensation from the Fund.
Bill· HRH.R. 11176 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Safe Bridge Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) inventory all bridges which are not located on any of the Federal-aid systems; (2) classify them according to serviceability, safety, and essentiality for public use; and (3) assign each bridge a priority for replacement or rehabilitation based on such classification. Authorizes Federal participation in State projects to repair or replace such bridges. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for bridge replacement or rehabilitation programs through fiscal year 1982. Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend the transfers of specified taxes collected in the general Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund through 1984. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to extend the transfers of specified nonhighway gasoline taxes from such fund to the Treasury through 1984. Postpones specified transportation related excise tax reductions under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Bill· HRH.R. 11162 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1979. Sets forth the authorized end strength for active duty personnel and the average military training student loads for the Coast Guard for such fiscal year.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 494 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Declares it to be the sense of Congress that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation should undertake the provision of basic system intercity rail passenger service by contracting with railroads filing for the discontinuance of such service notwithstanding the pendency of the route reexamination study being conducted by the Secretary of Transportation and without regard to the Criteria and Procedures adopted pursuant to the Rail Passenger Service Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 11145 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1978
Air Service Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board, in the performance of its duties, to consider reliance on competitive market forces in the airline industry and the encouragement of new air carriers as being in the public interest and in accordance with public convenience and necessity. Stipulates that the Federal government shall have preemptive powers with respect to air carriers holding valid certificates or licenses under such Act or who were granted exemptions in order to provide interstate or overseas air transportation. Stipulates that such preemption shall not take effect with respect to carriers solely engaged in intrastate air service as of August 1, 1977 and which were subsequently granted a license, certificate, or exemption to engage in additional transportation until at least 25 percent of the carrier's revenues for the preceeding year are derived from interstate air transportation. Establishes time limitations during which the Civil Aeronautics Board must dispense with applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity to engage in air transportation. Authorizes the Board to dismiss an application on its merits without a hearing within 90 days of its filing date. Deems such dismissal a final order for purposes of judicial review. Requires the Board to issue certificates to engage in regular interstate or overseas air transportation, temporary air transportation, or supplemental air transportation if certain conditions are met and the proposed service is consistent with public convenience and necessity (previously certificates for such interstate and overseas air transportation could only be granted if public convenience and necessity so required). Stipulates that if an air carrier holding round trip nonstop authority between any two points in interstate air transportation does not exercise such authority to a specified extent the Board shall issue a certificate authorizing such transportation to another carrier applying for such authority. Establishes procedures for the granting of such an application. Directs the Board to establish a program by which specified air carriers may engage in nonstop service between additional pairs of points not currently authorized by an existing certificate or license. Authorizes air carriers which hold certificates to engage in foreign air transportation, on any scheduled flight in foreign air transportation, to transport persons, property, and mail between points in the United States between which it is authorized to operate during such flight. Creates a rebuttable presumption that regular, temporary, and supplemental interstate or overseas air transportation covered by an application to engage in such transportation is consistent with the public convenience and necessity. Authorizes the Board to issue certificates to engage in air transportation on a temporary basis if the Board determines that a test period is desirable in order to evaluate the proposed new services. Establishes time limitations during which the Board must act upon an air carrier's application for removal or modification of a term, condition, or limitation attached to its certificate. Prohibits the transfer of a certificate except where necessary to carry out a consolidation or a merger approved under this Act. Allows air carriers to terminate or reduce below a specified level any air transportation required by its certificate upon 90 days' notice filed with the Board and served upon each community directly affected thereby. Authorizes the Board to temporarily suspend such proposed action in order to allow arrangements to be made for substitute air transportation. Directs the Board to establish simplified procedures for the disposition of applications for certificates or permits to engage in air transportation and for the alteration, suspension, or transfer of such certificates. Directs the Board, in determining the compensation to be paid for local air mail service, to disregard a carrier's revenues other than the revenue received from the service for which the compensation is being paid until January 1, 1983. Sets forth procedures and factors to be considered in the disposal of applications for approval of consolidation, merger, or acquisition of control agreements by the Board. Authorizes the Board to dispose of such applications without a hearing under specified circumstances. Prohibits the Board from approving such agreements or pooling agreements which would substantially lessen competition unless certain findings are made. Authorizes the Board to exempt persons from the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 under specified conditions. Exempts air carriers which provide passenger service solely with aircraft which have a maximum passenger capacity of fewer than 56 passengers or cargo service with aircraft having a maximum payload capacity of fewer than 18,000 pounds from the requirement that such a carrier hold a certificate of public convenience and necessity and such other requirements as the Board may promulgate by regulation. Authorizes the Board to increase such passenger or cargo capacity when the public interest so requires. Authorizes the Board to establish rates of compensation to be paid to commuter air carriers when no adequate service would otherwise be provided between two points. Sets forth factors which the Board is to consider in determining the amount of such compensation. Directs the Board by January 1, 1980 to conduct a review of all points which have been deleted from a certificate or to which service has been suspended without a condition that substitute service be provided to determine whether Federal financial assistance should be provided to commuter air carriers to provide essential air transportation. Restricts the President's powers to disapprove actions of the Board with respect to certificates or permits to engage in foreign air transportation. Stipulates that the President may only disapprove such actions solely on the basis of foreign relations or national defense considerations and not upon the basis of economic or carrier selection considerations. Establishes restrictions with respect to the authority of the Board to prescribe minimum or maximum fares in air transportation. Increases the maximum time limits during which an aircraft purchase loan may be repaid and increases the value of loans which may be outstanding in order to be eligible for Federal guarantees of such loans. Establishes sunset provisions with respect to the Board to become effective on Demember 31, 1985. Directs the Board, by January 1, 1983, to submit to Congress a comprehensive review of its implementation of the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.
Bill· SS. 2574 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to establish an alternative operating subsidy for urban mass transit programs for fiscal years 1979 through 1982. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, under such new subsidy program, to make operating subsidy grants of up to the lesser of 50 percent of the project's net eligible operating expenses or a matching share of those expenses which will be paid from non-Federal sources. Establishes a ceiling level for such grants.
Bill· SS. 2557 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 11089 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Rail Passenger Service Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in cooperation with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, to immediately undertake a comprehensive reexamination of the Corporation's route structure from a zero base and to prepare preliminary recommendations for a Corporation route structure which will provide an optional intercity railroad passenger system based upon current and future market and population requirements. Requires the Secretary to publish such preliminary recommendations by May 1, 1978. Requires the Secretary to complete a final report designating the Corporation's basic system within 90 days after the close of a 90 day public comment period. Stipulates that such final report shall be deemed approved by Congress at the end of 60 calendar days of continuous session after the date of the transmittal of such report unless disapproved by a concurrent resolution. Restructures the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to remove the requirement that the Corporation operate on a profit seeking basis. Stipulates that the terms of the present members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall expire on the date of approval of the Secretary's basic rail passenger system. Stipulates that after such date the Board shall consist of the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Treasury, and one member annually elected by the Corporation's common stockholders. Requires that the Corporation's budgetary and accounting standards and systems be submitted to the Comptroller General for approval. Establishes an "operations account" within the Treasury which shall receive and be accountable for all revenues collected in connection with the Corporation's activities and which shall be used exclusively to pay all necessary operating expenses in connection with the provision of rail services by the Corporation. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1979 and 1980 to the Corporation for operating expenses, capital acquisitions and improvements, and general and administrative expenses. Requires the Corporation to annually submit a financial report to Congress. Requires the Corporation to submit a statement of estimated revenues, capital expenditures, and proposed budget authority for the five ensuing fiscal years.
Law· SS. 2553 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Maritime Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to the Department of Commerce for fiscal year 1979 for: (1) vessel construction or reconditioning; (2) the payment of obligations incurred for the operating - differential subsidy; (3) research and development expenses; (4) operating expenses including reserve fleet expenses; (5) financial assistance to State marine schools; and (6) the Merchant Marine Academy.
Bill· SS. 2552 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Authorizes appropriations for specified programs to promote the tourist trade within the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 11016 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Emergency Highway and Transportation Repair Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10979 (95th)failed
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Emergency Highway and Transportation Repair Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10985 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to reimburse the Federal share of the cost of construction of a new toll bridge across the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia, in accordance with a specified formula. Designates such bridge to be a part of the Federal-aid primary system.
Bill· HRH.R. 10980 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Emergency Highway and Transportation Repair Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10954 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1978
Emergency Highway and Transportation Repair Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 10917 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Establishes a uniform, exclusive body of law governing liability for damages arising from the takeoff, flight, or landing of aircraft, such law to supersede State, territorial, District of Columbia, admiralty, maritime, or other law. Details the substantive provisions of aviation liability law. Holds common carriers to the highest degree of care. Sets forth a rule of comparative fault and a right of contribution among joint tortfeasors. Permits both wrongful death actions and survival of personal injury actions. Disallows recovery for pain, suffering, or disfigurement in survival actions. Bars a personal injury or death action which is inconsistent with applicable workmen's compensation law, but permits a party who is or would be liable in a civil action under this Act to claim for contribution, indemnity or other similar remedy against a person or party by whom or on whose behalf workmen's compensation has been paid. Sets forth separate, exclusive Federal court jurisdiction guidelines for aviation accidents. Grants United States district courts, concurrently with State courts, original jurisdiction over any civil action arising out of aviation activity and involving: (1) large aircraft, high-performance aircraft, public aircraft, or common carrier aircraft; (2) the death of five or more persons; (3) a claim the liability for which is indemnified in whole or in part by the United States; or (4) a negligent or wrongful act of a Federal employee committed within the scope of duty and under circumstances where, if the act had been committed by a private person, the private employer would be liable. Specifies venue, statute of limitations, service of process, consolidation, and other guidelines for aviation actions brought in Federal court. Makes statute of limitations guidelines equally applicable in State courts. Promulgates rules for the removal of State aviation actions to Federal court.
Bill· HRH.R. 10924 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Emergency Highway and Transportation Repair Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract with each State for payment of 100 percent of the costs of repairing highways and surface rails of urban mass transportation systems (other than railroads) which were damaged as a result of the winter weather of 1977-1978. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2541 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
Highway Safety Act - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Transportation to assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase highway safety. Requires each State to have a highway safety program to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. Requires each State to achieve conformity in laws and practices which affect interstate motorists. Sets forth an apportionment formula for Federal funding of State highway safety programs. Directs each State to authorize its political subdivisions to develop and carry out local highway safety programs. Requires that at least 40 percent of a State's apportionment for highway safety programs be available for expenditures by the State's political subdivisions to carry out local highway safety programs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement where there is an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify such an expenditure. Requires each State highway safety agency to annually submit its proposed highway safety program for the ensuing fiscal year to the Secretary for approval. Stipulates that the Federal share of a highway safety project shall not exceed 80 percent of its cost. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to those States which develop the most innovative approaches to highway safety programs. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for highway safety research and development projects. Establishes within the Department of Transportation a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on matters relating to the activities and functions of the Department in the field of highway safety. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to carry out various highway safety programs. Requires each State to annually certify to the Secretary that it is enforcing the national maximum speed limit. Directs the Secretary to reduce a State's apportionment for Federal-aid highway funds if the percentage of motor vehicles exceeding 55 miles per hour exceeds a specified percentage.
Bill· SS. 2530 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
Continuing Interstate and Primary Highway Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, beginning with funds apportioned for fiscal year 1980, to approve State projects for resurfacing, restoring, and rehabilitating lanes on the Interstate Highway System. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to insure that each State commits adequate resources to reconstruction, rehabilitation, and resurfacing of Interstate routes in order to insure that the condition of these routes is maintained at the level required for the purposes for which they were designated.
Law· HRH.R. 10898 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Amends the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the United States Railway Association for fiscal year 1979.
Law· HRH.R. 10878 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Amends the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 to extend for three years the program furnishing insurance for losses incurred through the seizure of fishing vessels by foreign governments.
Bill· HRH.R. 10877 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978
Authorizes air carriers holding a certificate to engage in foreign air transportation to carry domestic traffic between points in the United States on flights operated in foreign air transportation. Stipulates that such authority shall be limited to one round trip flight per day in each city-pair market unless otherwise authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Bill· HRH.R. 10843 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Authorizes the use of Federal-aid highway funds for the construction or reconstruction of interstate or intrastate access spurs crossing the Mississippi River to scenic, historical, recreational, or archeological features on the other side of the river from the Great River Road. Stipulates that such access spurs shall be the most direct feasible route and shall not include the construction of bridges across the Mississippi River.
Bill· SS. 2508 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Amends the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the United States Railway Association for fiscal year 1979.
Bill· SS. 2506 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Amends the Intercoastal Shipping Act, 1933, to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to require annual, periodic, or special financial reports from common carriers by water in interstate commerce. Requires that such reports be preserved as public records.
Law· SS. 2493 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Air Transportation Regulatory Reform Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board in the performance of its duties with respect to interstate and overseas air transportation to consider competition in the provision of air transportation and the maintenance of a system to provide airline service to small communities as being consistent with the public convenience and necessity. Expresses the Congressional intent that the provisions of this Act shall not have a deleterious effect on the standards of safety currently attained in the air transportation industry. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a continuous review of the effects of this Act on the standard of safety in air transportation, and, based on such study, to take such steps as may be necessary to insure that such safety standards are maintained. Revises the standard which the Board is to apply in issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity for scheduled overseas or interstate air transportation. Directs the Board to issue such a certificate upon a finding that the air transportation applied for is consistent with the public convenience and necessity (under the present standard such service would have to be required by the public convenience and necessity). Requires air carriers which propose to terminate, suspend, or reduce air transportation to give at least 90 days notice to the Board, the Community affected, and the agency of the State in which such community is located. Directs the Board to make every reasonable effort to secure another air carrier to provide the essential air transportation being terminated, reduced, or suspended. Authorizes the Board to permit an air carrier to suspend air services being provided by it, without notice, if such action is in the public interest and so long as essential air transportation is maintained. Prohibits the Board from authorizing a suspension for more than 30 days without a hearing if requested by the community affected. Authorizes any air carrier to petition the Board to have granted to it the authority of another air carrier to provide nonstop scheduled interstate or overseas air transportation between two points. Requires the Board to grant such authority upon a determination that the authority sought has not been exercised by the present carrier up to a specified amount. Requires the Board to act upon such petitions within a specified period of time. Prohibits the Board from including a closed-door restriction in any certificate issued on or after January 1, 1978. Stipulates that on such date any present closed-door restriction on an existing certificate shall be null and void. Exempts from such prohibition closed-door restrictions between points within the State of Hawaii and those restrictions which resulted from the sale, transfer, or exchange by one air carrier of its authority to provide air transportation in any market to another air carrier. Establishes an automatic market entry program under which specified air carriers may enter into new routes automatically and without review by the Board. Stipulates that during 1979 and 1980 such carriers may select one segment for scheduled nonstop air service and two segments per year thereafter for automatic market entry so long as cumulative statute miles in any one year does not exceed 3,000 miles. Establishes limitations on the routes which may be chosen for such automatic entry for a five year period. Requires the Board beginning on March 1, 1980, to submit annual reports to Congress regarding the automatic market entry program. Requires the Board to submit a comprehensive evaluation report on the operation of such program by March 1, 1983. Authorizes the Board, on an emergency basis, to modify the automatic market entry program in order to avert substantial public harm to the national air transportation system. Authorizes air carriers holding certificates for scheduled air transportation to engage in charter air transportation. Stipulates that: a carrier with more than 200,000,000 scheduled aircraft miles may operate no more than two percent of its total system scheduled miles in off-route charter trips; a carrier with less than 200,000,000 but more than 60,000,000 such miles may operate no more than five percent of such miles in off-route charter trips; and a charter with less than 60,000,000 such miles may operate no more than ten percent of such miles in off-route charter trips. Directs the Board, in determining the compensation to be paid for local air mail service, to disregard a carrier's revenues other than the revenue received from the service for which the compensation is being paid until January 1, 1983. Stipulates that such subsidy payments may be made only to carriers entitled to receive compensation for the performance of service during the 12 months ending June 30, 1977. Terminates all such payments after January 1, 1986. Requires the Board to notify the Secretary of Transportation and the Attorney General of any application for approval of air carrier mergers or the acquisition of control transactions. Prohibits the Board from approving transactions which would result in, or be in furtherance of, a conspiracy or combination to monopolize the business of air transportation in the United States. Prohibits the Board from approving such a transaction which would have the effect of substantially lessening competition in any region of the United States or which would tend to create a monopoly unless the Board finds that the anticompetitive effects of such a transaction are outweighed by the public interest. Sets forth time limits during which the Board must act on such applications for approval. Authorizes the Board to act on applications not involving an air carrier directly engaged in the operation of aircraft without a hearing under specified circumstances. Allows air carriers to file agreements or requests for authority to discuss agreements or cooperative working arrangements with the Board. Establishes procedures which the Board is to follow in acting upon such agreements or requests. Enumerates factors and conditions which the Board is to take into account in approving or disapproving such agreements or requests. Immunizes individuals from the operation of the antitrust laws insofar as is necessary to enable such a person to engage in air transportation activities specifically approved by the Board. Authorizes the Board to exempt any person or class of persons from air carrier economic regulation if such an exemption is consistent with the public interest. States that air carriers which engage in interstate or overseas air transportation exclusively with aircraft with a seating capacity of 36 or less and a maximum certificated gross takeoff weight of 40,000 pounds or less shall not be required to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Board to exempt foreign air carriers not directly engaged in the operation of aircraft in foreign air transportation from the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 if such exemption is in the public interest. Authorizes the Board to determine fair and reasonable amounts of compensation for, and to make payments of such compensation to, eligible air carriers which provides or will provide essential air transportation to eligible points. Establishes criteria for the Board to consider in determining the points eligible for such subsidies. Authorizes air carriers to compete for such subsidized service to eligible points. Directs the Board to insure that essential air transportation is provided to eligible points until January 18, 1979. Establishes procedures the Board is to follow to insure such service when an air carrier serving such a point notifies the Board that its service is to be suspended, terminated, or reduced below the level determined by the Board to be essential. Authorizes the Board to issue a new type of certificate for local air transportation. Stipulates that, in order to be eligible for such certification, the air carrier must provide such service with aircraft having a seating capacity of 36 passengers or less and a maximum certificated gross takeoff weight of 40,000 pounds or less. Precludes the Board from designating the geographic area or the terminal or intermediate points within or between which local air transportation is to be provided. Exempts such carriers from specified provisions of such Act. Authorizes the Board to issue certificates to engage in interstate or overseas charter air transportation. Establishes eligibility requirements for such certification. Prohibits the Board from authorizing charter air transportation between points within the State of Alaska unless the Board determines that such transportation is required by public convenience and necessity. Prohibits direct air carriers or foreign air carriers from entering into interlocking relationships with persons who sell or organize charters in interstate or overseas air transportation or in U.S. originating foreign air transportation. Requires all certificated air carriers with such regulations or orders issued by the Board governing the filing and approval of policies of insurance or plans for self- insurance. Prohibits carriers from carrying charter and scheduled passengers on the same flight in interstate or overseas air transportation. Stipulates that Board regulations shall not restrict the marketability, flexibility, accessibility, or variety of charter trips except to the extent required by the public interest and shall in no event be more restrictive than those charter regulations in effect on July 1, 1977. Prohibits any State from regulating air carriers certificated by the Board. Removes the Board's present power to specify the fares to be charged by a carrier and stipulates that the Board may only set forth the lawful maximum or minimum fare to be charged if it determines that the existing or proposed fare is unreasonable. Establishes a zone of fares which the Board may not find as unreasonable based on fares in effect on July 1, 1977. Establishes time limits during which the Board is to act on applications, complaints, or petitions regarding interstate or overseas air transportation. Authorizes the Board to make such determinations without a hearing under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make monthly payments to eligible airline employees who have been deprived of employment or who have been adversely affected with respect to compensation as a result of the changes in the air transportation regulatory structure encompassed in this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines to determine the amount of such assistance. Requires air carriers, in hiring employees, to give preference to the terminated or furloughed employees of another carrier. Establishes the Airline Employees Protective Account within the Treasury of the United States in order to make such assistance payments. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make loan guarantees to lenders who make loans to air carriers holding a certificate to engage in local air transportation and to carriers holding certificates of public convenience and necessity for local or regional air service. Increases the total face value of eligible loans from $30,000,000 to $100,000,000
Bill· SS. 2478 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
National Rail Passenger Corporation Authorization Act - Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for fiscal year 1979. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in cooperation with the Corporation, to develop a preliminary recommendation for a route system for the Corporation which will provide an optimal intercity railroad passenger system based on current and future market and population requirements. Specifies considerations which the Secretary is to consider in formulating such recommendations and specifies provisions to be included in such report. Directs the Office of Rail Public Counsel to conduct public hearings on the Secretary's recommendations and to submit its findings to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to thoroughly consider such material in developing a final recommended route system for the Corporation. Directs the Secretary to submit such final recommendations to both Houses, of Congress and to specified committees. Stipulates that such recommendations shall be deemed approved within 60 days unless either the House of Representatives or the Senate adopts a resolution disapproving such recommendations. Directs the Corporation after such approval to complete the implementation of such basic route system within 12 months. Exempts such implementation from specified provisions of such Act. Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to establish maximum travel times between points in the Northeast Corridor. Directs the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to develop economical and reliable rolling stock and related equipment designed to be compatible with the track, and operating and marketing characteristics of the Northeast Corridor. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission in determining the compensation to be paid by the Corporation to other railroads or public transportation agencies for track or facility usage to limit such compensation to the avoidable costs of permitting the Corporation to use the railroad's or agency's tracks and facilities. Amends the Animal Welfare Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to exempt from the requirements of such Act the transportation of cats and dogs in passenger rail service upon a determination that such an exemption would result in an increase in reliable humane transport service for cats and dogs. Directs the Postal Service to utilize the services of the Corporation in the surface transportation of mail so long as it would not result in a significant deterioration of mail services or increase in costs to the Federal Government.
Bill· HRH.R. 10729 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Maritime Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to the Department of Commerce for fiscal year 1979 for: (1) vessel construction or reconditioning; (2) the payment of obligations incurred for the operating - differential subsidy; (3) research and development expenses; (4) operating expenses including reserve fleet expenses; (5) financial assistance to State marine schools; and (6) the Merchant Marine Academy.
Bill· SS. 2469 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the issuance of all-cargo air service certificates for air service between points in Hawaii.
Bill· HRH.R. 10673 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Authorizes additional mileage to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for construction of a highway between Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary out of the Highway Trust Fund to construct such highway.
Bill· HRH.R. 10656 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Highway Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to carry out various highway safety programs. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Transportation to assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase highway safety. Requires each State to have a highway safety program to reduce traffic deaths and injuries. Requires each State to achieve conformity in laws and practices which affect interstate motorists. Sets forth an apportionment formula for Federal funding of State highway safety programs. Directs each State to authorize its political subdivisions to develop and carry out local highway safety programs. Requires that at least 40 percent of a State's apportionment for highway safety programs be available for expenditures by the State's political subdivisions to carry out local highway safety programs. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirement where there is an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify such an expenditure. Requires each State highway safety agency to annually submit its proposed highway safety program for the ensuing fiscal year to the Secretary for approval. Stipulates that the Federal share of a highway safety project shall not exceed 80 percent of its cost. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to those States which develop the most innovative approaches to highway safety programs. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for highway safety research and development projects. Establishes within the Department of Transportation a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on matters relating to the activities and functions of the Department in the field of highway safety. Requires each State to annually certify to the Secretary that it is enforcing the national maximum speed limit. Directs the Secretary to reduce a State's apportionment for Federal-aid highway funds if the percentage of motor vehicles exceeding 55 miles per hour exceeds a specified percentage.
Bill· HRH.R. 10658 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
International Shipping Act - Amends the Shipping Act, 1916, to authorize the use of deferred rebate or dual rate contract systems and to authorize the operation of closed shipping conferences and shippers councils under specified conditions.
Bill· HRH.R. 10654 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Directs the Chief of Engineers to remove a specified road barricade at Philpott Lake, Virginia.