Rural Local Roads. Hearings ... on S. 244 and S. 1471 ... April 19-21, 25-26, May 2, 6, 19491949 - 364 pages |
Common terms and phrases
all-weather roads allocated amount appropriation April 18 areas authority average believe bridges build built Bureau of Public Chairman committee Congress construction cost county commissioners county highway county roads dollars DONNELLY engineers Farm Bureau farm-to-market road program farmers Federal aid Federal funds Federal Government Federal-aid secondary gasoline tax gentlemen going gravel hearings highway department Highway Officials highway system improvement KELLY legislation legislature MACDONALD maintenance match ment mileage miles of roads Mississippi Nation North Dakota Oklahoma percent plans present primary system problem projects Public Roads Administration question responsibility road system ROEBUCK rural local roads SALOMON secondary roads secondary system Senator KEM Senator KERR Senator MCCLELLAN Senator SPARKMAN Senator STENNIS Senator WITHERS Senator YOUNG South Carolina specifications standards statement STINCHCOMB surface THOMPSON tion township roads traffic trucks type of road United States Senate vehicles Washington
Popular passages
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the...
Page 1 - To amend and supplement the Federal- Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916 as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for the post-war construction of highways and bridges, to eliminate hazards at railroad-grade crossings, to provide for the immediate preparation of plane, and for other purposes.
Page 21 - Your committee is of the opinion that the gasoline tax should be reserved for the States after June 30, 1934.
Page 4 - Within sixty days after the close of each fiscal year the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine what part, if any, of the sums theretofore deducted for...
Page 110 - I do not know where they are going to get the money if we weaken this program.
Page 2 - That so much, not to exceed 2% per centum, of all moneys hereby or hereafter appropriated for expenditure under the provisions of this act, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary for administering the provisions of this act and for carrying on necessary highway research and investigational studies independently or in cooperation with the State highway departments and other research agencies, and for publishing the results thereof, shall be deducted for such purposes, available until expended.
Page 4 - States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States as shown by the latest available Federal census; one-third in the ratio which the mileage of rural delivery routes and star routes in each State bears to the total mileage of rural delivery and star routes in all the States...
Page 5 - June 29, 1956, shall not exceed 60 per centum of the cost of construction, except that in the case of any State containing unappropriated and unreserved public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, individual and tribal, exceeding 5 per centum of the total area of all lands therein, the Federal share shall be increased by a percentage of the remaining cost equal to the percentage that the area of all such lands in such State, is of its total area.
Page 246 - Triggs' statement the design standards for construction and reconstruction of secondary and feeder roads which was adopted in 1945.