EMERGENCY HIGHWAY REPAIRS DEFENSE ACCESS HIGHWAYS HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2025 A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 9 OF THE FEDERAL-AID AND S. 1956 A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 12 OF THE FEDERAL-AID 9015 AUGUST 29 AND 31, 1951 Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works Moss, Gale, highway director, State of Kansas.. Smith, M. C., mining engineer, Atomic Energy Commission. Anderson, J. A., president, American Association of State Highway Bloch, Edward J., Director, Division of Construction and Supply, Brown, J. M., Chief, Roads Branch, Bureau of Indian Affairs.. Chacey, D. Kenneth, highway engineer, Office, Chief of Transporta- tion, Department of the Army.. Dean, A. P., Chief, Division of Engineering, United States Forest Granger, C. M., Assistant Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agri- Johnson, Jesse C., Director, Division of Raw Materials, Atomic Energy MacDonald, Thomas H., Commissioner, Bureau of Public Roads. Mercer, A. Bruce, Office of General Counsel, Atomic Energy Commis- 97 116 Bugge, W. A., director of highways, State of Washington. Cumulative cost of access and strategic network (graph) Walker, Stanley M., Defense Minerals Administration, Department of Watkins, Senator Arthur V. Digest of disaster relief authorizations for highways, with tables- Gillis, Jim L., Sr., chairman, Georgia State Highway Board. Hadden, S. C., chairman, State Highway Commission of Indiana Pace, Frank, Jr., Secretary of the Army 53 48 III 51-6155 36 Staats, Elmer B., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget_ Stoldt, C. A., director, Oklahoma State Highway Commission. Truman, Harry S., President of the United States, Message to Congress_ Vinson, Congressman Carl__ Walker, Stanley, Acting Chief, Housing and Utilities Branch, Defense 105 EMERGENCY HIGHWAY REPAIRS DEFENSE ACCESS HIGHWAYS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ROADS OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 412, Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C., Senator Spessard L. Holland (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Holland (presiding), Clements, Case, and Hennings. Also present: Theo W. Sneed, member of staff. Senator HOLLAND. The committee will come to order. We will first take up, unless there is objection, S. 2025, a bill to increase the amount available as an emergency relief fund for the repair or reconstruction of highways and bridges damaged by floods or other catastrophes. It is agreeable to you to take that one up first? Senator CLEMENTS. Yes. Senator HOLLAND. This is a bill introduced by Senator Chavez. I ask that it be incorporated in the record at this point. (S. 2025 is as follows:) [S. 2025, 82d Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 785) to increase the amount available as an emergency relief fund for the repair or reconstruetion of highways and bridges damaged by floods or other catastrophes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950, approved September 7, 1950 (64 Stat. 785), is hereby amended by striking out the figure $5,000,000 and inserting in lieu thereof $15,000,000. Senator HOLLAND. I also ask at this time that there be copied into the record the report of the Secretary of Commerce on this bill as included in a letter to the Honorable Dennis Chavez, chairman of the Committee on Public Works, dated August 27, signed by Thomas W. S. Davis, Acting Secretary. (The letter above referred to is as follows:) Hon. DENNIS CHAVEZ, Chairman, Committee on Public Works, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This letter is in reply to your request of August 21, 1951, for the views of this Department concerning S. 2025, a bill to amend section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 785) to increase the 1 |