1965 Cost Estimates for Completion of Interstate and Defense Highway System: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, First SessionReviews and clarifies 1965 cost estimates compiled by the 50 states and the Bureau of Public Roads. Also considers administration of the highway program, as it affects scheduled completion of the system. |
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Page 125 - Any State desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this title shall have a State highway department which shall have adequate powers, and be suitably equipped and organized to discharge to the satisfaction of the Secretary the duties required by this title. Among other things, the organization shall include a secondary road unit.
Page 112 - Governor as a member of the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council, and the latter term shall mean the Assembly.
Page 61 - That the Federal share payable on account of any repair or reconstruction of forest highways, forest development roads and trails, park roads and trails, and Indian reservation roads may amount to 100...
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Page 98 - ... where pronouncements are made for the record, but a working conference that has been carefully planned. I propose that the engineers and the planners proceed forthwith to prepare an agenda for such a conference. The means that I propose for this initial step is that the Bureau of Public Roads, the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Highway Research Board, the American Planning and Civic Association, the American Society of Planning Officials and the American Institute of Planners...
Page 106 - ... projects on road systems other than the Interstate, nor should there be legislation to provide additional Federal control or jurisdiction over wages paid on projects located on the Interstate System.
Page 106 - ... planned and developed by the State highway departments in close cooperation with local governmental units and interested Federal agencies. The responsibility of initiation of projects must remain in the State highway departments and of final decision with the State highway departments and the Bureau of Public Roads. The various modes of urban transportation should not be considered as competitive, but where conditions and needs warrant highways plus other modes of transportation, they should...
Page 112 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Louis W. Prentiss and I am the executive vice president of the American Road Builders' Association, a national organization whose 5,400 members include highway contractors, producers and suppliers of highway materials, manufacturers and distributors of construction equipment, engineers in private practice, highway engineering, educators and students, and Federal, State, and local highway engineers and officials.
Page 105 - Highways. (13) That the association vigorously opposes the use of any Federal highway trust fund moneys for any purpose other than now authorized by law. (14) That the contract authority procedure created by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1922, which gives the State the right to initiate Federal-aid highway projects as soon as the official apportionment of funds is made, should be restored and that the reimbursement planning procedure, which was installed as a temporary expedient in 1959, during...
Page 126 - ... public works agencies through private firms, without the necessity of adding to permanent civil service organizations. This talent should be utilized to complete assignments beyond the capabilities of State government resources for normal workloads. To remain competitive, the engineer in private practice is obliged to keep abreast of professional and technological developments, and must maintain the ability to provide these services to the client economically. The economy and flexibility provided...