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A final Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 was reported out of conference committee on July 20. [10] The conference committee had met 29 times over two months, an exceptionally high number of meetings and long period of time. On August 1, the Senate approved the conference report by a vote of 95-to-1. [15] The House followed suit by voice vote on ...
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952: June 25, 1952, 66 Stat. 158; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954: May 6, 1954, 68 Stat. 70; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act): June 29, 1956, 70 Stat. 374; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1958: August 7, 1958; Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959: September 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 611
The U.S. federal-aid highway program was commenced in 1916, with milestones of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. [1] The federal-aid highway system consists of three parts: The Interstate Highway System (FAI routes) The Federal-aid primary highway system (FAP system) is a system of connected main highways ...
June 29, 1956: Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act), Pub. L. 84–627, 70 Stat. 374 July 28, 1956: Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act , Pub. L. 84–830 , 70 Stat. 709
The bill was introduced in House by Glenn Anderson (D-CA) on January 6, 1987.The bill nominally gave power to apportion money to the Secretary of Transportation. [1] It also allowed states to raise the speed limit to 65 miles per hour (105 km/h) on rural Interstate highways (101 Stat. 218 of the act, amending 23 U.S.C. § 154).
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-495; 82 Stat. 815) is legislation enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law on August 24, 1968, which expanded the Interstate Highway System by 1,500 miles (2,400 km); provided funding for new interstate, primary, and secondary roads in the United States; explicitly applied the environmental protections of the Department of ...
The Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974 was signed into law by President of the United States Gerald Ford on January 4, 1975. [1] Among other changes, the law permanently implemented a national 55-mph speed limit (which had already been a temporary limit) for the Interstate Highway System .
The National Network includes almost all of the Interstate Highway System and other, specified non-Interstate highways. Section 412 also specifically prohibits any state from denying reasonable access to the National Network. Provisions in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 further defined the National Network.