Sentences with phrase «federal highway aid»
I call on our local Congressional delegation to publicly reject this plan and increase federal highway aid to localities, not cut it.
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The report also highlights the potential slowing of transportation aid from the federal government in the current 2014 - 15 fiscal year as Congress balks at increasing the 18.4 cent excise tax on gasoline, the primary source for replenishing the Federal Highway Trusfederal government in the current 2014 - 15 fiscal year as Congress balks at increasing the 18.4 cent excise tax on gasoline, the primary source for replenishing the Federal Highway TrusFederal Highway Trust Fund.
This FHA money will help to restore traffic services and make emergency roadway repairs including removal of debris, repairing sign and signal damages and road washouts on federal - aid highways.»
The bill would authorizes $ 81 billion in aid for ongoing response and recovery from 2017 hurricanes and wildfires, and would authorize Puerto Rico to use surplus toll credits to cover the local share of federal highway emergency relief.
The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.
A case in point: the Arara people, who had been called the scourge of the Trans?amazônica Highway for their attacks on work crews but today live as poor peasants fully dependent on federal aid.
The SAFETEA - LU Act authorizes funds for Federal - aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.
State Departments of Highways and Transportation (SDH&T) receive supportive services funds from the Federal Highway Administration to help increase DBE participation in Federal - aid highway conHighway Administration to help increase DBE participation in Federal - aid highway conhighway contracts.
We were invited to meet with ARTBA's membership to discuss various issues relating to Federal - aid highway construction contracting including value engineering, innovative contracting, Recovery Act construction contracting requirements, price adjustment clauses, Buy America, Davis - Bacon and other issues of interest to the highway construction industry.
49 USC 306, Federal - Aid Highway Act A person in the United States may not be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under, a project, program, or activity because of race, color, national origin, or sex when any part of the project, program, or activity is financed through financial assistance under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 or Title V of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976.
23 USC 324, Federal - Aid Highway Act This act prohibits the sexual discrimination in employment connected with Federal proposed projects
Issue: 23 U.S.C. 125 authorizes an Emergency Relief (ER) program for the repair or reconstruction of Federal - aid highways and of roads on Federal lands that have suffered serious damage as a result of natural disasters or catastrophic failures from an external cause.
Background: Federal interest in preserving highways goes back to the enactment of the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956, which authorized funds for construction of the National Interstate and Defense Highway System, known as the Interstate System.
In 2012, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) established a new performance - based approach, called Transportation Performance Management (TPM), to carry out the Federal - aid highway program.
TIFIA Program With certain exceptions noted below, the project's eligible costs, as defined under 23 U.S.C. § 601 (a)(2), must be reasonably anticipated to be at least (i) $ 50 million or (ii) 33 1/3 percent or more of the state's Federal - aid highway apportionments for the most recently completed fiscal year, whichever is less.
Oregon's Programmatic ESA Consultation on the Federal Aid Highway Program for NMFS trust species is an example of a statewide approach.
The FHWA's emergency relief program reimburses states for the repair or reconstruction of federal - aid highways that were damaged in disasters and catastrophic failures.
North Carolina follows New York and Rhode Island in requesting assistance from the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the $ 4 million approved today represents another installment of federal - aid highway funds going toward repair.
estimate the balance of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) at the end of such fiscal year and the end of the next fiscal year, for purposes of which estimation, the Secretary shall assume that the obligation limitation on Federal - aid highways and highway safety construction programs for the next fiscal year will be equal to the obligation limitation enacted for the fiscal year for which the limitation is being distrHighway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) at the end of such fiscal year and the end of the next fiscal year, for purposes of which estimation, the Secretary shall assume that the obligation limitation on Federal - aid highways and highway safety construction programs for the next fiscal year will be equal to the obligation limitation enacted for the fiscal year for which the limitation is being distrhighway safety construction programs for the next fiscal year will be equal to the obligation limitation enacted for the fiscal year for which the limitation is being distributed;
(Sec. 1317) Directs DOT to examine ways to modernize and improve the NEPA environmental review process for federal - aid highway projects.
Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of, and operational improvements for, a Federal - aid highway not on the National Highway System, and construction of a transit project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of title 49highway not on the National Highway System, and construction of a transit project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of title 49Highway System, and construction of a transit project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of title 49, if --
We had the interstate highway bill [the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building hihighway bill [the Federal - Aid Highway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building hiHighway Act of 1956], and we collected gas tax and spent it to complete the interstate, but as the years went by, there was an increasing desire to do more than just keep building highways.
To reauthorize Federal - aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.
For purposes of which estimation, the Secretary shall assume that the obligation limitation on Federal - aid highways and highway safety construction programs will be equal to the obligation limitations enacted for those fiscal years in the MAP — 21.
Performance management will transform the Federal - aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal - aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance - based planning and programming.
FHWA works with states to build and maintain federal - aid highways; design and build highways on public lands; promote highway safety; conduct research and development relating to highway materials, safety, and construction.
construction of, and operational improvements for, a Federal - aid highway not on the Interstate System, and construction of a transit project eligible for assistance under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, if --
The Secretary shall ensure that a worker who is employed on a remote project for the construction of a Federal - aid highway or portion of a Federal - aid highway in the State of Alaska and who is not a domiciled resident of the locality shall receive meals and lodging.
Upon the lapse of any obligation limitation under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall reduce proportionately the amount authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for fiscal year 2012 to carry out each of the Federal - aid highway and highway safety construction programs (other than emergency relief and funds under the national highway performance program that are exempt from the fiscal year 2012 obligation limitation) by an aggregate amount equal to the amount of adjustment determined pursuant to paragraph Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for fiscal year 2012 to carry out each of the Federal - aid highway and highway safety construction programs (other than emergency relief and funds under the national highway performance program that are exempt from the fiscal year 2012 obligation limitation) by an aggregate amount equal to the amount of adjustment determined pursuant to paragraph highway and highway safety construction programs (other than emergency relief and funds under the national highway performance program that are exempt from the fiscal year 2012 obligation limitation) by an aggregate amount equal to the amount of adjustment determined pursuant to paragraph highway safety construction programs (other than emergency relief and funds under the national highway performance program that are exempt from the fiscal year 2012 obligation limitation) by an aggregate amount equal to the amount of adjustment determined pursuant to paragraph highway performance program that are exempt from the fiscal year 2012 obligation limitation) by an aggregate amount equal to the amount of adjustment determined pursuant to paragraph (1)(D).
The Secretary shall require each State to complete an inventory of all bridges on and off Federal - aid highways to determine the historic significance of the bridges.
(Sec. 1428) Directs DOT to encourage the FHWA to use durable, resilient, and sustainable materials and practices, including the use of geosynthetic materials and other innovative technologies for federal - aid highway projects.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall modify section 635.411 of title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), to ensure that States shall have the autonomy to determine culvert and storm sewer material types to be included in the construction of a project on a Federal - aid highway.
Directs DOT to redistribute to the states any federal - aid highway program funds that, because of any imposed obligation limitation, will not be allocated or otherwise made available to them for obligation for surface transportation program projects.
(Sec. 1314) Amends MAP - 21 to require inflation adjustments to specified dollar amounts indicating the maximum federal assistance to certain federal - aid highway projects which must be categorically excluded from the requirements relating to environmental assessments or environmental impact statements.
The White House recently announced plans to set aside a «highway» of conserved habitat between Texas and Minnesota that will aid embattled monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, part of a larger federal effort to protect crop pollinators.
Nearly 70 percent of U.S. roadways are aided by federal funds, and highway - only lobby continue to insist that increasing safety measures on these roads is a local government responsibility.
-- A person who falsely assumes or pretends to be a firefighter, sheriff, officer of the Florida Highway Patrol, officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, fire or arson investigator of the Department of Financial Services, officer of the Department of Financial Services, officer of the Department of Corrections, correctional probation officer, deputy sheriff, state attorney or assistant state attorney, statewide prosecutor or assistant statewide prosecutor, state attorney investigator, coroner, police officer, lottery special agent or lottery investigator, beverage enforcement agent, or watchman, or any member of the Florida Commission on Offender Review and any administrative aide or supervisor employed by the commission, or any personnel or representative of the Department of Law Enforcement, or a federal law enforcement officer as defined in s. 901.1505, and takes upon himself or herself to act as such, or to require any other person to aid or assist him or her in a matter pertaining to the duty of any such officer, commits a felony of the third degree,
Tom was most recently Chief Counsel for the Federal Highway Administration where he led the legal team responsible for the more than $ 40 billion Federal Aid Highway program.