TRANSFERS TO AND FROM LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND SEC. 201. (a) There shall be set aside in the land and water conservation fund in the Treasury of the United States provided for in title I of this Act the amounts specified in section 209 (f) (5) of the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 (relating to special motor fuels and gasoline used in motorboats). (b) There shall be paid from time to time from the land and water conservation fund into the general fund of the Treasury amounts estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury as equivalent to (1) the amounts paid before July 1, 1973, under section 6421 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to amounts paid in respect of gasoline used for certain nonhighway purposes or by local transit systems) with respect to gasoline used after December 31, 1964, in motorboats, on the basis of claims filed for periods ending before October 1, 1972; and (2) 80 percent of the floor stocks refunds made before July 1, 1973, under section 6412(a) (2) of such Code with respect to gasoline to be used in motorboats. * VOL. IV. REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, AND STATEMENTS OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION OF FEDERAL AID FOR 23 C.F.R., Ch. 1, Pt. 1 Part 1 of Chapter 1 of Title 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations is revised to read as follows: 1 1.3 Definitions. Federal-State cooperation; Authority of State highway departments. 1.4 Cooperation of governmental instrumentalities. Information furnished by State highway departments. Federal-aid highway systems. 1.5 1.6 AUTHORITY: §§ 1.1 to 1.38 issued under sec. 315, 72 Stat. 915, 23 U.S.C. 315. 1 Published in the Federal Register, 25 F.R. 4162, May 11, 1960. Sec. 1.1. Purpose The purpose of the regulations in this part is to implement and carry out the provisions of Federal law relating to the administration of Federal aid for highways. Sec. 1.2. Definitions (a) Terms defined in 23 U.S.C. 101 (a), shall have the same meaning where used in the regulations in this part, except as modified herein. (b) The following terms where used in the regulations in this part shall have the following meaning: Administrator. The Federal Highway Administrator. Advertising Policy. The national policy relating to the regulation of outdoor advertising declared in title 23 U.S.C. 131. Advertising Standards. The "National Standards for Regulation by States of Outdoor Advertising Signs, Displays and Devices Adjacent to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways" promulgated by the Secretary (Part 20 of this chapter). Commissioner. The Commissioner of Public Roads. Federal laws. The provisions of title 23, United States Code, and all other Federal laws, heretofore or hereafter enacted, relating to Federal aid for highways. Latest available Federal Census. The latest available Federal decennial census, except for the establishment of urban areas. Project. An undertaking by a State highway department for highway construction, including preliminary engineering, acquisition of rights-of-way and actual construction, or for highway planning and research, or for any other work or activity to carry out the provisions of the Federal laws for the administration of Federal aid for highways. Secondary road plan. A plan for administration of Federal aid for highways on the Federal-aid secondary highway system pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 117. Secretary. The Secretary of Commerce. State. Any State of the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Urban area. An area including and adjacent to a municipality or other urban place having a population of five thousand or more, as determined by the latest available published official Federal census, decennial or special, within boundaries to be fixed by a State highway department, subject to the approval of the Administrator. Sec. 1.3. Federal-State cooperation; authority of State highway departments The Administrator shall cooperate with the States, through their respective State highway departments, in the construction of Federalaid highways. Each State highway department, maintained in conformity with 23 U.S.C 302, shall be authorized, by the laws of the State, to make final decisions for the State in all matters relating to, and to enter into, on behalf of the State, all contracts and agreements for projects and to take such other actions on behalf of the State as may be necessary to comply with the Federal laws and the regulations in this part. Sec. 1.4. Cooperation of governmental instrumentalities The State highway department shall be responsible for any project to be undertaken with the cooperation of, or with funds provided by, any other governmental instrumentality. Sec. 1.5. Information furnished by State highway departments At the request of the Administrator the State highway department shall furnish to him such information as the Administrator shall deem desirable in administering the Federal-aid highway program. Sec. 1.6. Federal-aid highway systems (a) Selection or designation. To insure continuity in the direction of expenditures of available funds, system of Federal-aid highways are selected or designated by any State that desires to avail itself through its State highway department, of the benefits of Federal aid for highways. Upon approval by the Administrator of the selections or designations by a State highway department, such highways shall become portions of the respective Federal-aid highway systems, and all Federal-aid apportionments shall be expanded thereon. (b) Revisions. A State highway department may propose revisions, including additions, deletions or other changes, in the routes comprising the approved Federal-aid highway systems. Any such revision shall become effective only upon approval thereof by the Administrator upon a determination that such revision is in the public interest and consistent with Federal laws. There is no predetermined time limit for the submission of the full selection of the systems. (c) Selection considerations. Each Federal-aid system shall be so selected or designated as to promote the general welfare and the national and civil defense and to become the pattern for a long-range program of highway development to serve the major classes of highway traffic broadly identified as (1) interstate or interregional; (2) city-to-city primary, either interstate or intrastate; (3) rural secondary or farm-to-market; and (4) intraurban. The conservation and development of natural resources, the advancement of economic and social values, and the promotion of desirable land utilization, as well as the existing and potential highway traffic and other pertinent criteria are to be considered when selecting highways to be added to a Federal-aid system or when proposing revisions of a previously approved Federal-aid system. (d) Identity. The Federal-aid highway systems as now constituted and approved are identified as: (1) The Interstate System, as described in 23 U.S.C. 103 (d), comprised of highways of the highest importance to the nation; (2) The Federal-aid primary system, as described in 23 U.S.C. 103(b), comprised of important city-to-city, interstate and intrastate highways, serving essentially through traffic; and (3) The Federal-aid secondary system, as described in 23 U.S.C. 103 (c), not to exceed in any State at one time a mileage that can be initially improved within a reasonable period of years and thereafter maintained with income expected to be available. (e) Integration. The highways of the Federal-aid systems shall form integrated and connected networks in each State and nationwide. The individual routes of Federal-aid systems that cross the boundary line between contiguous States are to connect at the bound |