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With passage of the General Survey Act, Congress empowered the military to chart transportation improvements vital to the nation's military protection or commercial growth. Army engineers helped design state and private roads, canals, and railroads, and soldiers cleared forests and laid roadbeds; [ 6 ] the work was conducted under the direction ...
In Section 6021, Congress asked the Transportation Research Board (TRB) to conduct a study of the actions needed to upgrade and restore the Interstate Highway System to fulfill its role as a crucial national asset, serving the needs of people, cities and towns, businesses, and the military while remaining the safest highway network in the ...
Senator Russ Feingold and Senator John McCain sponsored an amendment requiring peer review of Corps projects to the Water Resources Development Act of 2006, [60] proclaiming "efforts to reform and add transparency to the way the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers receives funding for and undertakes water projects." A similar bill, the Water Resources ...
The Department of Defense awarded 10 new defense contracts Thursday, worth $1.094 billion in total. United Technologies won the day's biggest contract, a $550 million deal to supply the Navy with ...
[16] [a] On July 1, the House passed an amended $715 billion infrastructure bill focused on land transportation and water. [ 17 ] On May 27, Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito presented a $928 billion plan, [ 18 ] [ b ] [ c ] and on June 4, increased it by about $50 billion; this was quickly rejected by the Biden administration. [ 19 ]
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The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, Pub. L. 84–627 was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944; Long title: An act to amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916 as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for the post-war construction of highways and bridges, to eliminate hazards at railroad-grade crossings, to provide for the immediate preparation of plans, and for other purposes