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  2. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Federal-aid highway program - Wikipedia

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    The Federal-aid primary highway system (FAP system) is a system of connected main highways, selected by each state highway department subject to the approval of the Bureau of Public Roads. It encompasses routes of the Interstate System and other important routes serving essentially through traffic with their urban extensions, including ...

  4. Federal-Aid Highway Act - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. Transportation policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 was the first law to fund federal highways, and several Federal-Aid Highway Acts were passed through the 20th century to build on this law. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 authorized the construction of interstate highways , and the federal government set standards with input from state ...

  6. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 - Wikipedia

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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 covered federal spending on highways "after the war", which (after World War II ended in August 1945) meant spending in fiscal 1946, 1947, and 1948. Among the act's provisions were: [8] Creation of a 40,000-mile (64,000 km) National System of Interstate Highways to connect major cities and industrial areas.

  8. Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act

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    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).

  9. Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974 - Wikipedia

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    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 .