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SUBCOMMITTEE ON
INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 13325

A BILL TO AMEND THE REGIONAL RAIL REORGANIZATION
ACT OF 1973 TO AUTHORIZE ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
FOR THE UNITED STATES RAILWAY ASSOCIATION

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COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

HARLEY O. STAGGERS, West Virginia, Chairman

TORBERT H. MACDONALD, Massachusetts

JOHN E. MOSS, California

JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan

PAUL G. ROGERS, Florida

LIONEL VAN DEERLIN, California

FRED B. ROONEY, Pennsylvania

JOHN M. MURPHY, New York

DAVID E. SATTERFIELD III, Virginia
BROCK ADAMS, Washington

W. S. (BILL) STUCKEY, JR., Georgia
BOB ECKHARDT, Texas
RICHARDSON PREYER, North Carolina
JAMES W. SYMINGTON, Missouri
CHARLES J. CARNEY, Ohio
RALPH H. METCALFE, Illinois
GOODLOE E. BYRON, Maryland
JAMES H. SCHEUER, New York
RICHARD L. OTTINGER, New York
HENRY A. WAXMAN, California
ROBERT (BOB) KRUEGER, Texas
TIMOTHY E. WIRTH, Colorado

PHILIP R. SHARP, Indiana

WILLIAM M. BRODHEAD, Michigan

JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey

ANTHONY TOBY MOFFETT, Connecticut

JIM SANTINI, Nevada

ANDREW MAGUIRE, New Jersey

MARTIN A. RUSSO, Illinois

SAMUEL L. DEVINE, Ohio

JAMES T. BROYHILL, North Carolina TIM LEE CARTER, Kentucky CLARENCE J. BROWN, Ohio

JOE SKUBITZ, Kansas

JAMES M. COLLINS, Texas
LOUIS FREY, JR., Florida
JOHN Y. MCCOLLISTER, Nebraska
NORMAN F. LENT, New York
H. JOHN HEINZ III, Pennsylvania
EDWARD R. MADIGAN, Illinois
CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California
MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey
W. HENSON MOORE, Louisiana

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Text of H.R. 13325___

Statement of

United States Railway Association witnesses:
Hagen, James A., President___

Dean, Alan L., Vice President for Administration_
Hillman, Jordan Jay, General Counsel..

Hoppe, Charles, Vice President for Operations and Facilities
Planning-

Murphy, Russell F., Vice President for Finance..

Robison, Howard W., Vice President for Congressional Affairs__
Additional material supplied for the record by:

Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, Transportation and
Commerce Subcommittee, letter dated April 23, 1976, from Roger
W. Hooker, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Inter-
government Affairs, Department of Transportation, to Chairman
Rooney re participation in hearing...

United States Railway Association:

Attachments to Mr. Hagen's prepared statement:

Fiscal year 1977 budget estimate..

Budget submission for administrative expenses, March 1976.
Budget submission for administrative expenses, October 1975____
Coal tonnages handled by Con Rail.

Membership of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Hogan & Hart-
son, law firms___

Contract between USRA and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering-
Contract between USRA and Hogan & Hartson..

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USRA AUTHORIZATION

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1976

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRANSPORtation and COMMERCE,
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to notice, in room 2218, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Fred B. Rooney, chairman, presiding.

Mr. ROONEY. This morning we will have hearings on H.R. 13325. This bill amends the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to authorize additional appropriations, not to exceed $20 million, for the U.S. Railway Association for the period beginning May 1, 1976, and ending September 30, 1977. Actually, of this amount only $11.8 million represents a new authorization of funds. A total of $54 million has been previously authorized. This authorization would bring the total amount authorized to USRA since its inception to $65.8 million, of which $45.8 million has already been appropriated. Also, this bill for the first time authorizes funds for a specific time period. This will enable future authorizations to be made on a continuing basis if this should become necessary.

It is my understanding that most of these funds will be necessary to conduct economic research and to obtain legal assistance to litigate controversies arising in defense of the final system plan. In addition, some of those funds are necessary to carry out the additional responsibilities of the Association imposed upon it by the recently enacted Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 and by the establishment of the "unified" Con Rail rather than the originally recommended Con Rail structure.

Without objection, the text of H.R. 13325 will be printed at this point in the record.

[The text of H.R. 13325 follows:]

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