Emergency Highway Repairs. Defense Access Highways: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 2025--and S. 1956-- August 29 and 31, 1951Considers (81) H.R. 8396, (82) H.J. Res. 292, (82) S. 2025, (82) S. 1956. |
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Page 12 - The President may, from time to time, promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of the provisions of this Act ; and he may exercise any power or authority conferred on him by this Act through such department, agency, or officer as he shall direct.
Page 12 - ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.
Page 136 - Secretary as important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense or such other official as the President may designate...
Page 56 - Defense for construction may be used for advances to the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, for the construction of access roads as authorized by section 210 of title 23, United States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense. SEC.
Page 13 - The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923...
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Page 11 - Not to exceed $10,000,000 of any money heretofore or hereafter appropriated for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat.
Page 44 - System, the Secretary is authorized, in the name of the United States and prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General, to acquire, enter upon, and take possession of such lands or interests in lands by purchase, donation, condemnation, or otherwise in accordance with the laws of the United States (including the Act of February 26, 1931, 46 Stat. 1421...
Page 11 - Planning to provide an orderly and continuing means of supplemental assistance by the Federal Government to States and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate suffering and damage resulting from major disasters.
Page 11 - major disaster" means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, fire, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States, which, in the determination of the President, is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government...