Arlington County (Va.) Civic Federation, Betty Taff, secretary, letter Arlingtonians for Preservation of the Palisades, Leslie Logan, president, Becker, Mrs. Ellen L., letter dated June 13, 1963, to the House Committee on the District of Columbia....... Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, C. J. Haggerty, president, letter dated July 10, 1963, to Chairman Whitener. Burnt Mills Hills (Md.) Citizens Association, John B. Nutter, president, letter dated February 9, 1963, to National Capital Transportation Cathedral Heights-Cleveland Park Citizens Association, Mrs. Hildegard W. Cannan, secretary, letter dated July 7, 1963, to Chairman Whitener.. Citizens' Association of Belair, Prince Georges County (Md.), Inc., Richard W. Saunders, secretary, letter dated August 8, 1963, to Chairman Commissioners' Planning Advisory Council, Frank Wolfsheimer, Chair- man, letter dated July 8, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with copies of letters dated March 26, June 1, and June 12, 1963, enclosed__ Commission of Fine Arts, David E. Finley, Chairman: Letter dated June 19, 1963, to Chairman McMillan.. Letter dated July 8, 1963, to Chairman McMillan. Connecticut Avenue Citizens Association: Dillon, Timothy V. A., president, letter dated July 15, 1963, to Chair- McConnell, Homer J., president, letter dated January 22, 1963, to Chairman McMillan, with letter dated January 22, 1963, enclosed_ Winnemore, Lawrence P., chairman, municipal service committee, editorial from Philadelphia Inquirer of March 5, 1963, entitled "Our Priceless Rail Transit Assets". Corber, Robert J., letter dated July 22, 1963, to Chairman McMillan - District of Columbia Government, Hon. Walter N. Tobriner, President, Board of Commissioners, letter dated July 8, 1963, to Chairman District of Columbia Republican Committee, Hon. Robert E. McLaughlin, District of Columbia Society of Professional Engineers, Frank Wolfsheimer, D.C. Transit System, Inc., O. Roy Chalk, president and chairman of the board, brochure entitled "A Report to the President of the United States on Transportation in the Washington Metropolitan Area and Its Fairfax, Va., William M. Zollman, Jr., city manager, letter dated August 8, Fairfax County (Va.), Carlton C. Massey, county executive, letter dated 370 Fairfax County (Va.) Board of Supervisors, resolution.... 235 Gude, Hon. Gilbert, State senator, Montgomery County, Md., letter dated Hailman, E. V., letter dated July 19, 1963, to Chairman McMillan. 440 Kyle, John M. DeW. II: Letter dated July 3, 1963, to Chairman Whitener. Lyon Village Citizens Association, Joseph H. Newlin, president, and Edith Merrill, Laura A., letter dated July 30, 1963, to Chairman Whitener. Montgomery County (Md.) Civic Federation, resolution dated February Morey, Harold F., letter dated August 4, 1963, to Chairman Whitener Quenstedt, Warren D., Deputy Administrator: Chart No. 1.-Growth of the rail transit system....... Preliminary estimate of the manpower requirements and the ma- Seeger, Edwin H., Assistant Administrator and General Counsel: Chart No. 4.-Average fare per mile_ Chart No. 5.-Index of transit revenue passengers. Stolzenbach, C. Darwin, Administrator: Letter dated July 8, 1963, to Chairman McMillan..-. Letter dated July 15, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with list of Letter dated July 22, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with list of Letter dated July 31, 1963, to Chairman Whitener. Map No. 1.-Employees per acre... Map No. 2.-Walking time from proposed stations. Neighbors, Inc., Mrs. Margery T. Ware, letter dated July 26, 1963, to Nye, Mrs. Edna Vincel, letter dated July 27, 1963, to Chairman Whitener.. Ploss, Thomas H., letter dated July 28, 1963, to Chairman Whitener. Potomac Valley Chapter of Maryland, the American Institute of Architects, Jack C. Cohen, planning group chairman, letter dated October 3, 1962, to C. Darwin Stolzenbach, Administrator, National Capital Transportation Agency.. Prince Georges County (Md.) Civic Federations, Inc., Caroline V. Donnelly, letter dated March 29, 1963, to Cody Pfanstiehl, Chief, Division of Community Services- Randall, Richard R., letter dated July 3, 1963, to Chairman McMillan___ Record Publishing Co., William C. McLaughlin, editor, letter dated August 2, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with editorial enclosed.. S. 3073, 84th Congress, 2d session, an act to grant a franchise to D.C. 270 Sertoma Club of Washington, D.C., resolution dated July 23, 1963 - 230 51 Ulman, Lewis H., letter dated July 9, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with letter dated June 27, 1963, enclosed.. 97 Vienna (Va.) Town Council, resolution. 455 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, Delmer Ison, Execu- tive Director, letter dated July 29, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with Washington Planning & Housing Association, Inc., Mrs. Nancy L. Good, acting executive director, letter dated August 2, 1963, to Chairman Whitener, with statement of Grosvenor Chapman, chairman, trans- portation committee, enclosed__ Woodridge Civic Association, Inc., Helen H. Safrit, corresponding secre- tary, letter dated March 23, 1963, to National Capital Transportation TRANSIT PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1963 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE No. 6 OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 445-A, Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Basil Whitener (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Whitener, Dowdy, Broyhill, Nelsen, Harsha, and Horton. Also present: James T. Clark, clerk; Hayden S. Garber, counsel; Donald J. Tubridy, minority clerk; and Leonard O. Hilder, investigator. Mr. WHITENER. The subcommittee will come to order. We will proceed with hearings on H.R. 6633 and H.R. 7249, which will be made a part of the record at this point, along with the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960 (Public Law 86-669, 74 Stat. 537, approved July 14, 1960). (H.R. 6633, H.R. 7249, and Public Law 86-669 follow:) [H.R. 6633, 88th Cong., 1st sess.]. A BILL To authorize the prosecution of a transit development program for the National Capital region Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in accordance with section 204 (c) of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960 (40 U.S.C. 664 (c)), the National Capital Transportation Agency (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency") is hereby authorized, subject to the availability of appropriations and other funds, to undertake the construction and acquisition of the transit facilities described in the report of the Agency entitled "Summary Report on the Transit Development Program, May 1963". SEC. 2. The work authorized by section 1 shall be subject to the provisions of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960 (40 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) and substantially in accordance with the schedules and plans contained in the aforesaid report with such modifications thereof as may be advisable in the discretion of the Administrator of the Agency: Provided, That except for extensions of the system to (1) Woodside and Friendship Heights in Montgomery County, Maryland, (2) Pentagon City in Arlington County, Virginia, and (3) Bowie, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, no extensions of the system shall be constructed in Maryland and Virginia until there is concluded an agreement between the Agency and the State or local governing body or bodies through which such line is to be constructed providing for the payment by such body or bodies of a share of the construction cost of such extension in accordance with the financing plan recommended in the aforesaid report. SEC. 3. The Agency is authorized to make relocation payments to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations, whether owners of land |