Transport

Kritik des Sachverständigen Wolfram Bläsius an den Vorschriften für den Transport gefährlicher Güter (G-SIG: 10055722)

Germany · German Bundestag · 1 January 1983

Bericht der Bundesregierung über die Entwicklung der Kostenunterdeckung im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr (Folgenkostenbericht 1986) (G-SIG: 10005045)

Germany · German Bundestag · 1 January 1983

Weiterer Anstieg der finanziellen Lasten im Vergleich mit den Folgekostenberichten 1976 (Drs 7/4556) und 1982 (Drs 9/1658), Kostenabbau durch neue Technologien (Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, Erprobung von H- und M-Bahn), Ziele und Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung zum ÖPNV

Linienführung für den Intercity-Verkehr im Raum Frankfurt/Main nach 1991 (G-SIG: 10055741)

Germany · German Bundestag · 1 January 1983

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3600/82 of 30 December 1982 on the granting of limited support in the field of transport infrastructure

European Union · EUR-Lex · 30 December 1982

Transport französischer Agrarexporte in die UdSSR ausschließlich mit französischen und sowjetischen Schiffen (G-SIG: 09051326)

Germany · German Bundestag · 17 December 1982

Sicherheitsvorschriften für den Transport von Raketenwaffen (G-SIG: 09050024)

Germany · German Bundestag · 10 December 1982

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary concerned to transport to the place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.

United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1982

Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.

PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH NON-RESIDENT CARRIERS MAY OPERATE CERTAIN NATIONAL TRANSPORT SERVICES WITHIN A MEMBER STATE

European Union · European Commission · 8 December 1982

Report from the Commission to the Council The Community Interest of Transport Infrastructure Investments: practical experience with the evaluation methodology

European Union · European Commission · 7 December 1982

Infrastructure Revitalization Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982

Infrastructure Revitalization Act of 1982 - Title I: Capital Investment Budget - Federal Capital Investment Budget Act of 1982 - Requires the President to include with each budget on or after January 1, 1984, a special analysis of Federal capital investments. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to promulgate regulations providing for the consistent classification of Federal capital investment spending. Title II: Dedicated Revenue Incentives - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order for either the House or the Senate to consider any budget legislation which includes or assumes budget process enforcement devices restricting or impeding any legislation in which the spending authority or budget authority is derived from any trust fund where the amount of anticipated receipts (dedicated revenues) or the budget authority estimated to result exceeds the estimated amount of total new obligational authority. Title III: National Commission on the Rebuilding of America - Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to study and report on the state of the Nation's infrastructure. Directs the Commission to submit its final report to the Congress and the President within one year of its first meeting. Terminates the Commission six months after the submission of such report. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.

Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982

Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 - Title I: Highway Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 through 1990 for the Interstate Highway System. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion, for FY 1984, the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982 to conform to provisions of this Act. Sets forth limitations on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1983 through 1986. Excludes from such limitations obligations for emergency relief and certain accelerated bridge projects. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to conform to provisions of this title. Prohibits the Secretary from distributing amounts for administrative expenses and forest highways. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas; (3) the Federal-aid urban system; (4) forest highways; and (5) public lands highways. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) Indian reservation roads and bridges; (2) the territorial highway program in the Virgin Islands; and (3) the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Repeals provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 which authorizes certain demonstration projects between the States of New Mexico and Texas. Requires States which receive funds for FY 1983 and 1984 in excess of FY 82 funds to give priority consideration to specified primary routes and railroad-highway crossing demonstration projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to increase the authorized funding for FY 1984 for interstate resurfacing and authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Makes funds available from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1986 for substitute highway projects. Authorizes sums as may be necessary from the general fund of the Treasury for substitute public mass transit projects. Authorizes the Secretary to distribute 25 percent of both substitute project funds, and requires congressional approval of cost estimates for the remaining percentages before apportionment. Requires reapportionment of unobligated funds which remain available for the fiscal year for which apportioned. Makes any route statutorily designated after March 7, 1978, ineligible for substitute highway funding. Allows the Secretary to extend the approval deadline (September 30, 1983) for substitute projects and withdrawals for any route which on May 12, 1982, is under a judicial injunction prohibiting its construction. Extends the advance construction procedures and bond retirement provisions applicable to the Interstate System to substitute highway projects. Changes apportionment formulas for the Federal-aid primary system and interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing. Requires, for purposes of primary apportionment, that the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa be considered as one State. Makes the mileage limitations for the Federal-aid systems applicable to such territories. Increases the Federal share for interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing for highways that the Secretary determines are energy-impacted roads. Requires a value engineering or other cost reduction analysis on Federal-aid system projects with construction costs in excess of a specified amount. Requires the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the safety cost-effectiveness of geometric design criteria of current standards for construction and reconstruction of certain highways. Requires the Academy to propose standards to preserve and extend the service life of such highways and enhance highway safety. Provides for the submission of such report to Congress for approval. Permits States to place State-operated vending machines in rest and recreation areas and in safety rest areas located on rights-of-way of the Interstate System. Changes the circumstances for suspension of the general requirements of competitive bidding for contracts from a finding by the Secretary that some other method is in the public interest to a demonstration by the State highway department that some other method is more cost-effective. Changes from January 1, 1978, to January 1, 1983, the date governing the payment of bond interest as an eligible cost of construction for Interstate projects which are under construction in advance of apportionments. Authorizes the Secretary to pay interest on bonds issued after enactment of this Act to the effect that proceeds from the sale of bonds are expended for construction costs. Extends the availability of advance construction funding to bridge projects under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Authorizes the Secretary, if after 90 days following notification of a State highway department a project is still not being properly maintained, to withhold project funds for one or more of the other Federal-aid systems or programs in the State. (Presently the Secretary is required to withhold funds from all projects in the State.) Revises the method of distributing interstate discretionary funds and allows the Secretary to prioritize unobligated sums. Sets forth a procedure for the transfer of apportioned funds from the Federal-aid primary system to programs for interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing. Establishes the Federal share payable for interstate resurfacing projects financed with primary funds. Permits a Federal share of 100 percent for certain pavement markings projects. Sets forth congressional findings and procedures to deregulate provisions concerning the control of outdoor advertising. Encourages States to make provisions for the control of such advertising and sets forth requirements to assure that control efforts are effective. Permits the payment of compensation for the necessary legal removal of any sign obscured by vegetation grown by a State or local government for the purpose of impairing the visibility of advertising signs. Allows the use of Federal funds for an approach to any toll road, bridge, or tunnel to a point where such approach enters the main lanes of the toll facility. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for toll collection equipment. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects on the Interstate System for the construction of parking facilities for carpools and vanpools. Requires provisions of equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for minority business enterprises. Permits the cost of providing shuttle service to and from fringe and corridor parking facilities constructed with Federal funds to be included in the eligible fees that may be charged for the use of parking facilities. Revises the apportionment formula for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Requires the placement of deficient bridges into specified categories. Sets aside certain amounts from authorized funds for FY 1983 through 1986 for the use of the Secretary as discretionary funds. Permits the allocation of discretionary bridge funds for the replacement of the LaSalle Peru bridge in Illinois and a certain bridge in the vicinity of Cloverdale, California. Sets forth the Federal share for carpool and vanpool projects. Allows States to transfer funds allocated for a particular urbanized area to another such area. Extends the eligibility of hazard elimination funds to highway safety improvement projects outside the Federal-aid systems. Establishes a coordinated Federal Lands Highways Program for the construction and improvement of forest highways, public lands highways, park roads, parkways, and Indian reservation roads and bridges. Sets forth an allocation formula for such program. Allows Federal-aid highway projects to include construction programs for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways. Allows States to include the cost of certain parking ramp construction and frontage roads as part of the interstate cost estimate. Makes eligible for specified funding safety improvements near the inter-changes of certain Interstate System routes and Federal-aid primary routes not on the Interstate System. Requires the Secretary to establish alternative methods to accelerate the time required to complete highway projects. Authorizes payment of construction costs for certain two-lane bridges as four-lane bridges upon completion of certain substructures. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project in Los Angeles County, California, to demonstrate methods of improving the motor vehicle transportation of freight to and from areas for the transshipment of waterborne commerce. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 out of the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Requires the Secretary to carry out a highway project demonstrating state of the art technology connecting a city to the Interstate System using a toll road. Sets forth a timetable for reports to Congress on the results of such project. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1985 for such project. Requires the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project using state of the art methods of repairing damaged highways and preventing damage to highways resulting from shoreline erosion in the vicinity of Buhne Point, Humboldt Bay, California. Authorizes funds out the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than 180 days after such projects' completion. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a project in the vicinity of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to demonstrate the efficacy of reducing traffic congestion by connecting a certain highway to the Interstate System. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a project in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, to demonstrate methods of accelerating construction of high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which are directly connected to the Interstate System. Requires a report to Congress not later than 180 days after such projects' completion the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 and FY 1984 for such project. Revises vehicle weight, length, and width limitations for the Interstate System. Makes such revisions effective upon enactment of a more equitable allocation of the tax burden among classes of users of the highway system. Establishes criteria under which the Martin Luther King Bridge which crosses the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois will be eligible for assistance under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of future transportation professional manpower needs. Requests the National Academy of Sciences to report to the Secretary and the Congress not later than two years after enactment of this Act on the result of such study together with recommendations. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a comprehensive investigation and study of the feasibility of a highspeed ferryboat operation over the waters of the Caribbean Sea between Saint Croix and Saint Thomas. Requires the Office to complete and transmit a report on such study to Congress not later than January 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than one year after enactment of this Act on the need for including weather-related factors, particularly freezing and thawing, in the apportionment formulas for Federal-aid highways. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to submit a detailed report to Congress on the potential benefits and costs associated with the establishment of a national intercity truck route network for the operation of a special class of longer combination commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a change in location of Interstate segments if the original location meets specified criteria. Extends the deadline for reports to Congress on specified access control demonstration projects from September 30, 1983, to September 30, 1985. Authorizes the modification of a project agreement for a highway project in New Jersey to compensate businesses in the vicinity that have suffered economic losses as a result of such project. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility of incorporating rubber from recycled tires into materials used for roadway resurfacing. Prohibits the apportionment of highway funds to a State which does not require proof of payment of the heavy vehicle use tax before such vehicle can be registered in the State. Provides for a study by the National Academy of Sciences to monitor the effects on highways and highway safety from the use of double trailer combinations. Authorizes the advancement of non-Federal shares for qualifying highway projects to States which certify the lack of sufficient funds to meet their share of such projects. Prohibits California from imposing lane restrictions in certain areas of Alameda County. Makes California eligible for funds to upgrade certain interchanges. Prohibits the use of materials made by convict labor on Federal-aid highway projects. Requires the Secretary to insure the payment of the prevailing rate of wage for all construction work on highway projects. Title II: Highway Safety Act of 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 out of the Highway Trust Fund for: (1) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; and (2) projects for elimination of hazards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1985 and 1986 for highway safety programs administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Requires that specified amounts be obligated to enforce the 55 mph speed limit and requires States to expend specified amounts to encourage the use of safety belts in motor vehicles. Sets forth limitations on amounts to be obligated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration for highway safety programs for FY 1983 through 1986. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1978 to extend certain highway safety program authorizations until September 30, 1986. Makes a specified amount previously authorized under the Highway Safety Act of 1978, no longer available for obligation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving certain projects in any State whose laws do not constitute a substantial deterrent to violations of the maximum speed limit. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1973 to extend until September 30, 1986, the authorization to carry out projects for the elimination of hazards at rail-highway crossings. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1978 to make certain of its provisions relating to highway safety and information applicable to certain authorization provisions of Federal-aid primary highway funds. Requires the Secretary to report annually, beginning on December 31, 1983, to Congress on the highway safety performance of each State in the preceding fiscal year. Eliminates provisions of the highway safety program which require a different apportionment for the territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Declares that Congress encourages each State to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages to persons who are less than 21 years of age. Title III: Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the discretionary capital grant program; (2) the innovative methods and techniques grant program; (3) the planning program; (4) the block grant program; (5) the program to meet the special needs of the elderly and handicapped; and (6) the formula grant program for other than urbanized areas. Requires that a specified percentage of such funding be available from the Public Transportation Trust Fund to carry out certain programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the research and development program; (2) the training grant program; (3) the university research grant program; (4) administrative expenses; and (5) the human resource grant program. Requires research and development funding to remain available until expended. Creates a block grant program for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas. Sets forth a formula for distribution of funds for such areas with populations of less than 200,000 and of more than 200,000. Provides certification procedures for persons in receipt of such grants. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees prior to the issuance of a letter of intent to obligate future Appropriation Act funds for a project. Extends the authorization for grants for research and training in urban transportation problems from FY 1982 until FY 1986. Permits matching funds for university operating grants to consist of any non-Federal funds (in lieu of State funds). Permits contracts for the purchase of rolling stock to be based on a competitive procurement process. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act on any legislative or administrative revisions required to ensure that procurement procedures are fair and competitive. Revises the definition of "fixed guideway" to include a public transportation facility which uses a fixed catenary system and utilizes a right-of-way usable by other forms of transportation. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1965 to repeal provisions relating to bus seat specifications. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1984 and biennially thereafter on the current performance and condition of public mass transportation systems and an assessment of the future needs of such facilities. Sets forth conditions applicable for Federal assistance to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Exempts the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from repaying a certain percentage of a transit loan to acquire rail properties. Grants the Secretary discretionary authority relative to the remaining percentage. Authorizes advance acquisition of transit rights-of-way. Directs the Secretary to make a grant to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to conduct a feasibility study of new transit technology. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the possibility of providing long-term contracts with local or State transit authorities for use in leveraging further capital assistance from State or local government or private sector sources. Title IV: Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the Secretary from imposing limitations on assistance which restrict a State from imposing more stringent Buy America requirements, provided such requirements do not conflict with exceptions under such Act. Makes Buy America provisions inapplicable when the inclusion of domestic materials increases project contract costs by more than 20 percent (currently, ten percent).

Verbesserung der Sicherheit beim Transport gefährlicher Güter durch US-Stationierungsstreitkräfte (G-SIG: 09050204)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 December 1982

Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982

Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from making a discretionary capital grant or loan unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Sets forth the Federal share for grants to assist projects under this Act, including projects for the construction of certain fixed guideway systems. Prohibits alteration of Federal share commitments before enactment of this Act, including projects within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area transit system. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for: (1) grants or loans to States and local public agencies; (2) long-range planning and technical studies; (3) grants and loans to meet the needs of the elderly and handicapped; and (4) the grant program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Limits the amounts available for appropriations under this Act for FY 1983 and 1984. Establishes a formula capital and operating assistance program to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, and operating costs of facilities, equipment, and maintenance items in mass transportation service. Sets forth the apportionments of such funds for urbanized areas, and the Federal share payable for such projects. Allows States to transfer apportionments between urbanized areas of different sizes. Sets forth requirements for entities to receive such grants. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees before issuing letters of intent to obligate funds under this Act. Directs the Secretary to give priority to such commitments approved before enactment of this Act. Makes funds available under the urban mass transit program available for expenditure through 1985. Revises the definition of construction to include any bus rehabilitation project which extends the economic life of a bus by five or more years. Revises the definition of fixed guideway to include any transportation facility which utilizes a right-of-way rail usable by other forms of transportation and a public transit facility which utilizes a fixed catenary system. Repeals the intercity bus service/terminal development program and safety authority provisions of the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974. Terminates funding for the waterborne transportation demonstration project. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for the transit capital infrastructure program. Sets forth requirements for receiving grants under such program.

A bill to repair and rehabilitate America's highways, roads, bridges, mass transit systems, sewers, and water supply systems; to put Americans back to work carrying out needed public works repairs; and to develop a long-term national public works investment plan.

United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982

Title I: Public Improvements Repair Act - Public Improvements Repair Act of 1982 - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 for projects to repair, rehabilitate, or replace existing interstate highways, primary, secondary, or urban roads, bridges, mass transit systems, and sewer and water supply lines. Title II: Rebuilding of America Act - Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan areas of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs the Comptroller General to submit to specified congressional committees model unified budgets for the year of enactment of this Act and the preceding fiscal year that distinguish Federal civilian capital investment outlays from other Federal outlays. Requires the Comptroller General to include with such budgets a report on their usefulness.

A bill to authorize funds for beach erosion at Presque Isle Peninsula, Pennsylvania.

United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982

Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement the project for beach erosion control at Presque Isle Peninsula, Pennsylvania.

Public Works Employment Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982

Public Works Employment Act of 1982 - Amends the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to increase from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent the minimum unemployment rate necessary to qualify a State for a special allocation of set aside funds for local public works programs. Extends to December 23, 1983, the date by which grant applications must be received by the Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and following years.

A bill to authorize appropriations for construction of certain highways in accordance with title 23 of the United States, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982

Title I: Federal-Aid Highway Reauthorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for the Interstate Highway System for FY 1984 through 1991. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for FY 1985 and 1986 the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid urban system; (3) forest highways; (4) public lands highways; (5) parkways and park highways; (6) Indian reservation highways; (7) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; (8) the highway safety improvement program; and (9) substitute highway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the interstate system resurfacing for FY 1984 through 1989. Sets aside funding for the rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Virginia. Revises the definition of the term construction to include costs incurred by States in performing Federal-aid project related audits which directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Allows Federal participation in the relocation of utilities for the purpose of eliminating hazards on the Federal-aid system. Revises the interstate withdrawal and substitution process for the Federal-aid system. Makes any route or segment added to the Interstate System after March 7, 1978, ineligible for withdrawal or substitution. Eliminates the priority primary program and the connector primary demonstration program. Sets forth provisions to assure a State's FY 1984 and FY 1985 apportionments for resurfacing and construction notwithstanding enactment of this Act. Repeals requirements for specified reports under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1983, and biennially thereafter, on estimates of the future highway needs of the Nation. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish guidelines for the Federal-aid system to conform to provisions of the Clean Air Act. Permits vending machines on the interstate system without cost to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection and approval of construction on Federal-aid projects. Eliminates requirements for a final inspection of such projects. Permits construction by States of highway substitute and bridge projects in advance of such apportioned funds. Repeals provisions requiring payments to States for bond retirement. Permits the Secretary to withhold project approval for projects in specific areas within a State, or for the entire State, where the Secretary finds that a project is not being properly maintained. (Present law requires the Secretary to withhold funds for the entire State). Revises the certification acceptance program to eliminate the requirement for the Secretary to make final inspections. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to State highway departments any of his responsibilities under any Federal law, except those involving civil rights and authority over bridges over navigable waters. Revises the Interstate Discretionary Fund to authorize the Secretary to give priority to interstate projects of unusually high cost in relation to a State's apportionment, and to projects which contribute to the completion of an Interstate segment. Sets forth provisions for program consolidation. Revises provisions for emergency relief due to natural disasters or catastrophic failures to limit the amounts payable for emergency relief. Requires each State to establish commercial motor vehicle weights in accordance with weights specified in Federal law. Allows toll financing of new highway construction projects. Eliminates the toll road provisions under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Amends the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 to change references to historic sites to references to National Historic Landmarks. Requires equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Makes funds available for such purposes. Authorizes the withholding of apportioned funds from any State which does not enforce the heavy vehicle use tax. Sets forth apportionment formulas for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Allows States to transfer funds allocated to one urbanized area to another such area within the State. Revises the highway safety improvement program by combining existing safety categories. Requires the Secretary to conduct an interagency environmental process review. Establishes a Federal Lands Highways Program for oversight of forest highways, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways. Revises apportionments for research and planning projects and sets forth the Federal share payable for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State highway and transportation departments and certain organizations without regard to provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Establishes the obligation limitation for FY 1983 Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs. Exempts from such limitation emergency relief projects, certain bridge demonstration projects, and the Woodrow Wilson bridge and Union Station projects. Allows light truck traffic and limited commercial truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Transfers the functions, powers, and duties of the Appalachian Regional Commission that relate to the Appalachian Development Highway System to the Secretary of Transportation. Eliminates the authority of the Federal Highway Administrator to regulate the rate of tolls on bridges. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge by Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Prohibits the Secretary from approving any such project until the three jurisdictions accept title to their portions of the bridge without monetary consideration. Establishes a working group in the Department of Transportation to develop uniform State procedural standards for vehicle registration, fuel tax, and third structural tax requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to initiate rulemaking to implement acceptable recommended standards. Sets forth minimum financial responsibilities for motor carriers transporting hazardous wastes in interstate, foreign, and intrastate commerce. Sets forth provisions to ensure that certain trucks are allowed to operate on the Interstate System in every State. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States to assist in implementing programs for the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1984 through 1988 for such purposes. Sets forth civil penalties and injunctive relief for the enforcement of violations of motor carrier safety regulations. Title II: Amendments to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 - Transit Assistance Authorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit a discretionary capital grant or loan from being made by the Secretary of Transportation unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Decreases the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for the: (1) discretionary capital grant program; (2) innovative methods and techniques program; (3) planning program; (4) urbanized area capital formula program; (5) program to meet special needs of the elderly and handicapped; (6) formula grant program for other than urbanized areas; and (7) capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for FY 1982 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; and (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems. Provides that any such unobligated or deobligated funds shall be added to amounts available for certain other capital grant programs. Declares that apportionments for FY 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for FY 1976 shall lapse on September 30, 1978. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project for the payment of operating expenses of urban mass transit services after September 30, 1984. Repeals provisions that require that rates charged elderly and handicapped persons for transportation during non-peak hours be no more than one-half of peak hour full fares. Establishes a capital formula program for urbanized areas to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities, equipment, and spare parts for transit vehicles in mass transportation service. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction or extension of fixed-guideway systems other than exclusive facilities for buses. Exempts from such prohibition projects already agreed upon for the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Provides a procedure for receiving and distributing assistance under such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a benchmark price representing the maximum Federal participation for the acquisition of buses. Transfers the enforcement of labor standards for construction projects funded by the Department of Transportation from the Secretary of Labor to the Secretary of Transportation. Includes the capital formula programs for urbanized areas and for non-urbanized areas within the reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Makes technical amendments to formula grants for nonurbanized areas to parallel the operation of formula grants for urbanized areas. Establishes a capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas consistent with provisions of formula grant programs for nonurbanized areas. Authorizes Governors to transfer funds between the two programs under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations out of the Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 to finance grants for urban transit capital infrastructure development projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1983. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems. Title III: Highway Revenue Act of 1982 - Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend the period for which taxes may go into the Highway Trust Fund until April 1, 1990. Makes expenditures available from such Fund until October 1, 1991, to meet obligations of the Federal-aid highway program. Makes conforming amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Establishes a Transit Account within the Highway Trust Fund to consist of amounts attributable after March 31, 1983, to one cent per gallon user fees on diesel fuel, special motor fuels, and gasoline under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Requires such amounts to be spent according to provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Extends the authority for the user fees transferred into the Fund from October 1, 1984, until April 1, 1990. Increases the rate of tax on gasoline, diesel and special motor fuels from four cents per gallon to nine cents per gallon. Repeals the tax on diesel and special motor fuel which is used in off-highway vehicles. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on trucks and trailers from ten percent to 12 percent. Increases the taxable threshold weight from 10,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on truck parts and accessories from eight percent to 12 percent. Repeals the excise tax on highway tires weighing less than 100 pounds and on inner tubes. Changes the manufacturers' excise tax on tires from 9.75 cents a pound for all tires to 25 cents a pound for tires weighing more than 100 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on tread rubber from five cents a pound to 25 cents a pound. Repeals the manufacturers' excise tax on lubricating oil. Revises the heavy vehicle use tax to provide a graduated rate of tax for vehicles weighing 55,000 pounds and up. Exempts vehicles which travel less than 2,500 miles on Federal-aid highways. Provides a tax credit for gasoline used for nonhighway uses. Imposes a floor stocks tax on specified products held by dealers for sale. Provides that certain exemptions from user fees expire on April 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study alternatives to the heavy vehicle user fees and report to Congress within two years of enactment of this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit States to assist in the collection or enforcement of such tax.

Judgment of the Court of 30 November 1982.#Criminal proceedings against Petrus Suys and others.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Gent - Belgium.#Road transport - Bracket tariffs.#Case 32/82.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 30 November 1982

Judgment of the Court of 30 November 1982.#Criminal proceedings against Joseph Trinon.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal de police de Verviers (1er canton) - Belgium.#Road transport - Bracket tariffs.#Case 12/82.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 30 November 1982

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Reischl delivered on 30 November 1982. # D. J. Smit Transport BV v Commissie Grensoverschrijdend Beroepsgoederenvervoer. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Raad van State - Netherlands. # Common transport policy - Restrictions on load capacity in international carriage of goods by road. # Case 126/82.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 30 November 1982

Federal-Aid Highway Improvement Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982

Federal-Aid Highway Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 through 1990 for the Interstate Highway System. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1987 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary program; (2) the Federal-aid rural program; (3) the Federal-aid urban program; (4) forest highways; (5) public lands highways; (6) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; and (7) highway safety improvements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 for Indian reservation roads. Rescinds specified unapportioned or unallocated sums authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982. Declares that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the total apportionment for the Interstate System for FY 1984 through 1988. Revises apportionments for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Requires that not less than 60 percent of apportioned funds for the Federal-aid primary, rural, and urban programs be spent on projects for resurfacing, restoring, and rehabilitating roads. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to develop a selection process for discretionary bridges according to certain criteria. Revises the apportionment ratio for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Interstate System. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the distribution of Federal financial assistance for such activities. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY 1983 through 1988 for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing specified lanes on the Interstate System. Authorizes appropriations, out of the Highway Trust Fund, for FY 1983 through 1987 for substitute highway and mass transit projects. Repeals provisions concerning priority primary routes. Revises procedures concerning the Federal-aid urban and rural programs. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the States, to establish a highway safety improvement program for projects on public roads including: (1) specified highway safety improvement projects; (2) railway-highway crossing projects; (3) highway-related safety requirements and guidelines; and (4) evaluation of the highway safety improvement program. Sets forth procedures for the implementation of such program. Revises the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Revises provisions concerning the Federal lands highways program including forest highways and park roads. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) economic growth center development highways; (2) the national scenic and recreational highway; (3) access highways to certain public recreation areas; and (4) highway crossings. Directs the Secretary to expend such sums as are necessary (up to 100 percent of costs) for carpool and vanpool projects. Authorizes the Secretary to approve financial assistance for acquisition or construction of preferential parking facilities for carpools. Prohibits the use of emergency relief funds for the repair or reconstruction of certain bridges that have been permanently closed to vehicular traffic. Requires that emergency relief funds be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund. Revises the Federal share payable for emergency repairs or reconstruction. Allows Federal-aid highway projects to include nonconstruction programs or projects which enhance the safety and use of bicycles. Increases to 100 percent the Federal share for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 to allow limited truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Allows States to transfer funds allocated for a particular urbanized area to another such area. Authorizes the Secretary to discharge any of his responsibilities relative to the physical construction phase of Interstate projects using established certification acceptance procedures. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to make a final inspection of each such project. Requires defense access roads to be funded from monies appropriated for defense maneuvers and exercises. Authorizes the Secretary, if after 90 days following notification of a State highway department a project is still not being properly maintained, to withhold project funds for one or more of the other Federal-aid systems or programs in the State. (Presently the Secretary is required to withhold funds from all projects in the State). Requires each State on January 1 of each year to certify to the Secretary that it has a program for the Interstate Highway System in accordance with the Secretary's guidelines. Combines highway planning and research funds into a single fund for administration by the Secretary. Establishes the Federal share for any project financed by such fund. Requires provision of equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for minority business enterprises. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with other Federal agencies to minimize duplication, paperwork, and delays in the development of Federal highway projects. Sets forth limitations on obligations and State allocations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1983 through 1987. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the State of Vermont, to carry out a project to demonstrate the feasibility of reducing the time required to complete highway projects by extending the coverage of State certifications to any Federal law, regulation, or policy applicable to such project. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for such project. States that the Federal share of any such project shall be 100 percent of the total cost and that authorized funds shall remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to submit a recommendation and report to Congress within six months of the project's completion. Allows the State of Alaska to expend Federal-aid highway funds on portions of an Alaskan highway that extend into Canada. Repeals the Territorial Highway Program. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to repeal the acceleration of the bridge projects program. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out projects in and around Devils Lake, North Dakota, to demonstrate construction techniques to prevent wave erosion on closed basin lakes with grade level highway crossings. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse North Dakota for funds previously expended on such projects. Sets forth the Federal share for the demonstration projects and makes authorized funding available until expended. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the State of Idaho, to conduct a demonstration project to study factors contributing to truck accidents. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out such project. States that the Federal share of the project shall be 100 percent of the total cost and that authorized funds shall remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the results of such project not later than 180 days after its completion.

Surface Transportation Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982

Surface Transportation Act of 1982 - Title I: Highway Revenue Act of 1982 - Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend the period for which taxes may go into the Highway Trust Fund until April 1, 1990. Makes expenditures available from such Fund until October 1, 1991, to meet obligations of the Federal-aid highway program. Makes conforming amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Establishes a Transit Account within the Highway Trust Fund to consist of amounts attributable after March 31, 1983, to one cent per gallon user fees on diesel fuel, special motor fuels, and gasoline under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Requires such amounts to be spent according to provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Extends the authority for the user fees transferred into the Fund from October 1, 1984, until April 1, 1990. Increases the rate of tax on gasoline, diesel and special motor fuels from four cents per gallon to nine cents per gallon. Repeals the tax on diesel and special motor fuel which is used in off-highway vehicles. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on trucks and trailers from ten percent to 12 percent. Increases the taxable threshold weight from 10,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on truck parts and accessories from eight percent to 12 percent. Repeals the excise tax on highway tires weighing less than 100 pounds and on inner tubes. Changes the manufacturers' excise tax on tires from 9.75 cents a pound for all tires to 25 cents a pound for tires weighing more than 100 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on tread rubber from five cents a pound to 25 cents a pound. Repeals the manufacturers' excise tax on lubricating oil. Revises the heavy vehicle use tax to provide a graduated rate of tax for vehicles weighing 55,000 pounds and up. Exempts vehicles which travel less than 2,500 miles on Federal-aid highways. Provides a tax credit for gasoline used for nonhighway uses. Imposes a floor stocks tax on specified products held by dealers for sale. Provides that certain exemptions from user fees expire on April 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study alternatives to the heavy vehicle user fees and report to Congress within two years of enactment of this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit States to assist in the collection or enforcement of such tax. Title II: Federal- Aid Highway Reauthorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for the Interstate Highway System for FY 1984 through 1991. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for FY 1985 and 1986 the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid urban system; (3) forest highways; (4) public lands highways; (5) parkways and park highways; (6) Indian reservation highways; (7) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; (8) the highway safety improvement program; and (9) substitute highway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the interstate system resurfacing for FY 1984 through 1989. Sets aside funding for the rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Virginia. Revises the definition of the term construction to include costs incurred by States in performing Federal-aid project related audits which directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Allows Federal participation in the relocation of utilities for the purpose of eliminating hazards on the Federal-aid system. Revises the interstate withdrawal and substitution process for the Federal-aid system. Makes any route or segment added to the Interstate System after March 7, 1978, ineligible for withdrawal or substitution. Eliminates the priority primary program and the connector primary demonstration program. Sets forth provisions to assure a State's FY 1984 and 1985 apportionments for resurfacing and construction notwithstanding enactment of this Act. Repeals requirements for specified reports under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1983, and biennially thereafter, on estimates of the future highway needs of the Nation. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish guidelines for the Federal-aid system to conform to provisions of the Clean Air Act. Permits vending machines on the interstate system without cost to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection and approval of construction on Federal-aid projects. Eliminates requirements for a final inspection of such projects. Permits construction by States of highway substitute and bridge projects in advance of such apportioned funds. Repeals provisions requiring payments to States for bond retirement. Permits the Secretary to withhold project approval for projects in specific areas within a State, or for the entire State, where the Secretary finds that a project is not being properly maintained. (Present law requires the Secretary to withhold funds for the entire State). Revises the certification acceptance program to eliminate the requirement for the Secretary to make final inspections. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to State highway departments any of his responsibilities under any Federal law, except those involving civil rights and authority over bridges over navigable waters. Revises the Interstate Discretionary Fund to authorize the Secretary to give priority to interstate projects of unusually high cost in relation to a State's apportionment, and to projects which contribute to the completion of an Interstate segment. Sets forth provisions for program consolidation. Revises provisions for emergency relief due to natural disasters or catastrophic failures to limit the amounts payable for emergency relief. Requires each State to establish commercial motor vehicle weights in accordance with weights specified in Federal law. Allows toll financing of new highway construction projects. Eliminates the toll road provisions under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Amends the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 to change references to historic sites to references to National Historic Landmarks. Requires equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Makes funds available for such purposes. Authorizes the withholding of apportioned funds from any State which does not enforce the heavy vehicle use tax. Sets forth apportionment formulas for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Allows States to transfer funds allocated to one urbanized area to another such area within the State. Revises the highway safety improvement program by combining existing safety categories. Requires the Secretary to conduct an interagency environmental process review. Establishes a Federal Lands Highways Program for oversight of forest highways, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways. Revises apportionments for research and planning projects and sets forth the Federal share payable for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State highway and transportation departments and certain organizations without regard to provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Establishes the obligation limitation for FY 1983 Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs. Exempts from such limitation emergency relief projects, certain bridge demonstration projects, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Union Station projects. Allows light truck traffic and limited commercial truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Transfers the functions, powers, and duties of the Appalachian Regional Commission that relate to the Appalachian Development Highway System to the Secretary of Transportation. Eliminates the authority of the Federal Highway Administrator to regulate the rate of tolls on bridges. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge by Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Prohibits the Secretary from approving any such project until the three jurisdictions accept title to their portions of the bridge without monetary consideration. Title III: Amendments to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 - Transit Assistance Authorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit a discretionary capital grant or loan from being made by the Secretary of Transportation unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Decreases the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for the: (1) discretionary capital grant program; (2) innovative methods and techniques program; (3) planning program; (4) urbanized area capital formula program; (5) program to meet special needs of the elderly and handicapped; (6) formula grant program for other than urbanized areas; and (7) capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for FY 1982 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; and (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems. Provides that any such unobligated or deobligated funds shall be added to amounts available for certain other capital grant programs. Declares that apportionments for FY 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for FY 1976 shall lapse on September 30, 1978. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project for the payment of operating expenses of urban mass transit services after September 30, 1984. Repeals provisions that require that rates charged elderly and handicapped persons for transportation during non-peak hours be no more than one-half of peak hour full fares. Establishes a capital formula program for urbanized areas to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities, equipment, and spare parts for transit vehicles in mass transportation service. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction or extension of fixed-guideway systems other than exclusive facilities for buses. Exempts from such prohibition projects already agreed upon for the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Provides a procedure for receiving and distributing assistance under such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a benchmark price representing the maximum Federal participation for the acquisition of buses. Transfers the enforcement of labor standards for construction projects funded by the Department of Transportation from the Secretary of Labor to the Secretary of Transportation. Includes the capital formula programs for urbanized areas and for non-urbanized areas within the reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Makes technical amendments to formula grants for nonurbanized areas to parallel the operation of formula grants for urbanized areas. Establishes a capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas consistent with provisions of formula grant programs for nonurbanized areas. Authorizes Governors to transfer funds between the two programs under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations out of the Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 to finance grants for urban transit capital infrastructure development projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1983. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems. Title IV: Highway Safety - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1985 through 1988 for specified highway safety programs. Eliminates exceptions for apportionments for the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Revises the vehicle weight and width limitations for the Interstate System to make the maximum width of a commercial motor vehicle 102 inches. Sets forth provisions to ensure that certain trucks are allowed to operate on the Interstate System in every State. Establishes a working group in the Department of Transportation to develop uniform State procedural standards for vehicle registration, fuel tax, and third structural tax requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to initiate rulemaking to implement acceptable recommended standards. Sets forth minimum financial responsibilities for motor carriers transporting hazardous wastes in interstate, foreign, and intrastate commerce. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States to assist in implementing programs for the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1984 through 1988 for such purpose. Sets forth civil penalties and injunctive relief for the enforcement of violations of motor carrier safety regulations.

A bill to amend the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to provide for the use of the Webster-Heise valve by 10 percent of new gasoline-powered government passenger vehicles purchased in model year 1984 and thereafter.

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982

Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to authorize the Administrator of the General Services Administration to issue an order requiring that up to ten percent of government gasoline-powered passenger motor vehicles be equipped with the Webster-Heise valve. Conditions such order upon a favorable determination by the Secretary of Transportation that such valve will increase fuel efficiency and decrease the volume of air pollutants emitted by government vehicles. Makes such order applicable to motor vehicles manufactured for model year 1984 and thereafter.

Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Unfällen bei Lagerung und Transport chemischer Waffen (G-SIG: 09050216)

Germany · German Bundestag · 26 November 1982

Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Unfällen bei der Lagerung und dem Transport chemischer Waffen sowie Verbot einer Lagerung im Bundesgebiet (G-SIG: 09052149)

Germany · German Bundestag · 19 November 1982

Erwerb eines Trägersystems für den Transport von Atombomben durch Brasilien auf Grund der deutsch-brasilianischen Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Raketentechnologie (G-SIG: 09051099)

Germany · German Bundestag · 12 November 1982

Ursachen für den Unfall beim Transport einer Pershing-Rakete der US-Streitkräfte am 2. November 1982 in Malsch-Waldprechtsweier (G-SIG: 09051106)

Germany · German Bundestag · 5 November 1982

Verkehrsunfälle beim Transport von Pershing I-Raketen (G-SIG: 09051115)

Germany · German Bundestag · 5 November 1982

Koordinierung der Sicherheitsmaßnahmen beim Transport von Pershing-Raketen (G-SIG: 09051117)

Germany · German Bundestag · 5 November 1982

Verkehrsunfall beim Transport einer US-Pershing-Rakete in Malsch-Waldprechtsweier; Anwendung der deutschen Verkehrssicherheitsvorschriften (G-SIG: 09052113)

Germany · German Bundestag · 5 November 1982

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Rozès delivered on 26 October 1982. # Criminal proceedings against Petrus Suys and others. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Rechtbank van eerste aanleg Gent - Belgium. # Road transport - Bracket tariffs. # Case 32/82.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 October 1982

Opinion of Mr Advocate General Rozès delivered on 26 October 1982. # Criminal proceedings against Joseph Trinon. # Reference for a preliminary ruling: Tribunal de police de Verviers (1er canton) - Belgium. # Road transport - Bracket tariffs. # Case 12/82.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 26 October 1982

A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to permit foreign carriers to transport domestic passengers between specified airports on the east coast and Alaska until a domestic carrier initiates comparable nonstop service.

A joint resolution congratulating the American Public Transit Association.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.

Rebuilding of America Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, mass transit facilities, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

Capital Improvement Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Capital Improvements Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, public transportation facilities, and water supply, sewer systems, airports and port facilities) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

A bill to address several problems relating to vessel service to the State of Alaska.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to allow transportation of merchandise during a three-year period between points within the continental United States, including Alaska, in any vessel engaged in such service on September 1, 1982, which involved transportation, in part, over Canadian rail lines. Allows documented foreign-built vessels used in the processing or assembly of fishery products to transport merchandise which is directly fisheries-related between points in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress, within one year of enactment of this Act, on measures necessary to improve marine transportation to, from, and within Alaska. Repeals provisions of this Act on January 1, 1986, and reamends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as of such date, to read the way it reads on the day before enactment of this Act.

A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require establishment of minimum wind shear alert standards.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish minimum wind shear alert standards for commercial and general aviation aircraft.

A joint resolution to congratulate the American Public Transit Association.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982

Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.

A joint resolution to congratulate the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982

Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.

A bill to improve highway safety and further interstate commerce by providing for a uniform width for commercial motor vehicles.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1982

Prohibits States from imposing vehicle width limitations of more or less than 102 inches on segments of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

Transport einer Gruppe des Düsseldorfer Lions Klubs in einem Bundeswehr-Hubschrauber nach Belgien (G-SIG: 09047823)

Germany · German Bundestag · 24 September 1982

projet de loi modifiant la loi no 82-684 du 4 août 1982 relative à la participation des employeurs au financement des transports publics urbains

France · Senate · 21 September 1982

projet de loi d'orientation des transports intérieurs

France · Senate · 21 September 1982

NINTH REPORT BY THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL on the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 of 25 March 1969 on the harmonization of certain social legislation relating to road transport

European Union · European Commission · 21 September 1982

Rebuilding of America Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982

Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

A bill to consolidate and reenact certain of the marine safety and seaman's welfare laws of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982

Amends Federal law to recodify and consolidate specified shipping and related marine provisions. Reorganizes existing law with respect to: (1) the operation, inspection, and regulation of passenger, cargo, animal transport, and recreational vessels; (2) marine casualties and accidents; (3) licenses, certificates and merchant mariners' documents; (4) the maning of vessels; and (5) merchant seamen, their protection and relief. Repeals specified laws.

Lagerung von Giftgas der US-Streitkräfte im Fischbacher Staatsforst; Gefährdung der Bevölkerung durch Transport des Giftgases (G-SIG: 09047572)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 September 1982

A bill to modify the navigation project for Lynnhaven Inlet, Bay, and connecting waters, Virginia.

United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982

Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1962 to authorize the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to pay the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for certain remedial work the city did as a result of the navigation project for Lynnhaven Inlet, Bay, and connecting waters, Virginia.

A resolution to promote the public safety and to prevent deterioration of aviation commerce by urging the President of the United States to take action to make the Nation's air traffic control system fully operational.

United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982

Declares the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Department of Transportation has not fully utilized the human resources available to restore the capacity of the air traffic control system; (2) steps should be taken to waive the age-thirty hiring rule; and (3) the processing of appeals of former traffic controllers seeking reinstatement should be expedited.