1 2 ANNUAL REPORT SEC. 11. The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after 3 the end of each fiscal year, make a report in writing to the 4 President for submission to the Congress on the activities of 5 the Department during the preceding fiscal year. 6 7 SAVINGS PROVISIONS SEC. 12. (a) All orders, determinations, rules, regula 8 tions, permits, contracts, certificates, licenses, and privileges 9 which have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to be10 come effective by any department or agency, functions of 11 which are transferred by this Act, or by any court of com12 petent jurisdiction, or under any provision of law repealed or amended by this Act, or in the exercise of duties, powers, 13 14 or functions which, under this Act are vested in the Secre15 tary, and which are in effect at the time this section takes 16 effect, shall continue in effect according to their terms until 17 modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or repealed by 18 the Secretary, or by any court of competent jurisdiction, or 19 by operation of law. 20 (b) The provisions of this Act shall not affect any pro21 ceedings pending at the time this section takes effect before 22 any department, agency, or component thereof, functions of 23 which are transferred by this Act; but any such proceedings 24 involved in such transfer shall be continued before the De 1 partment of Transportation, orders therein issued, appeals 2 therefrom taken, and payments made pursuant to such 3 orders, as if this Act had not been enacted; and orders 4 issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect until 5 modified, terminated, superseded, or repealed by the Secre6 tary or by operation of law. 7 (c) The provisions of this Act shall not affect suits 8 commenced prior to the date on which this section takes 9 effect; and all such suits shall be continued by the Depart10 ment of Transportation, proceedings therein had, appeals 11 therein taken, and judgments therein rendered, in the same 12 manner and effect as if this Act had not been enacted. No 13 suit, action, or other proceeding commenced by or against 14 any officer in his official capacity of any department or 15 agency, functions of which are transferred by this Act, shall 16 abate by reason of the enactment of this Act. No cause of 17 action by or against any department or agency, functions 18 of which are transferred by this Act, or by or against any 19 officer thereof in his official capacity shall abate by reason 20 of the enactment of this Act. Causes of actions, suits, actions 21 or other proceedings may be asserted by or against the 22 United States or such official of the Department as may 23 be appropriate and, in any litigation pending when this 24 section takes effect, the court may at any time, on its own 1 motion or that of any party, enter an order which will 2 give effect to the provisions of this section. 3 4 (d) With respect to any function, power, or duty trans ferred by this Act and exercised hereafter, reference in any 5 other Federal law to any department or agency, officer or 6 office so transferred or functions of which are so transferred 7 shall be deemed to mean the Secretary. 8 9 SEPARABILITY SEC. 13. If any provision of this Act or the application 10 thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the 11 remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision 12 to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 13 thereby. 14 15 CODIFICATION SEC. 14. The Secretary is directed to submit to the 16 Congress within two years from the effective date of this 17 Act, a codification of all laws that contain the powers, duties, 18 and functions transferred to and vested in the Secretary of 19 the Department by this Act. 20 21 EFFECTIVE DATE SEC. 15. The President and the Secretary are authorized 22 to nominate and appoint any of the officers provided for in 23 sections 3 and 5 of this Act, as provided in such sections, at 24 any time after the date of enactment of this Act. Such 1 officers shall be compensated from the date they first take 2 office, in accordance with sections 5 and 10 of this Act. 3 Such compensation and related expenses of their offices shall 4 be paid from funds available for the functions to be trans5 ferred to the Department pursuant to this Act. All other 6 provisions of this Act shall take effect ninety days after the 7 Secretary first takes office, or on such prior date after en8 actment of this Act as the President shall prescribe and 9 publish in the Federal Register. A PROPOSAL FOR A CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CONSOLIDATING VARIOUS EXISTING TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES MARCH 2, 1966.-Referred to the Committee on the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed To the Congress of the United States: Two centuries ago the American Nation came into being. Thirteen sparsely populated colonies, strung out along the Atlantic seaboard for 1,300 miles, joined their separate wills in a common endeavor. Three bonds united them. There was the cultural bond of a single language. There was the moral bond of a thirst for liberty and democratic government. There was the physical bond of a few roads and rivers, by which the citizens of the colonies engaged in peaceful commerce. Two centuries later the language is the same. The thirst for liberty and democracy endures. The physical bond-that tenuous skein of rough trails and primitive roads has become a powerful network on which the prosperity and convenience of our society depend. In a nation that spans a continent, transportation is the web of union. |