A bill to amend Title 23 of the United States Code to clarify policies relating to the accommodation of utilities on Federal-aid highway rights-of-way.

Summary

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 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.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

1. 16 March 1978

   Introduced

   Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 16 March 1978

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 16 March 1978

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Anderson, Wendell R. [D-MN] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Humphrey, Hubert H. [D-MN] · D · Cosponsor
• · ssev00 · Standing

Related records

• related to → A bill to amend title 23 of the United States Code to clarify policies relating to the accommodation of utilities on Federal-aid highway rights-of-way.