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	ConnDOT: Chapter 7 DOT History
		The federal share of interstate construction increased from 50 to 60 percent with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1954.
		Under this act, the federal government committed itself to providing 90 percent of the funds necessary to build a National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, which were considered to be the routes of highest importance to the nation.
		The avowed purpose of the four-lane highway in New London and Windham Counties was to stimulate the economy in a relatively depressed region.
	www.ct.gov /dot/cwp/view.asp?a=1380&Q=259704&dotPNavCtr=\|40015\| (2808 words)

	Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System
		As consideration of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 began, the highway community was divided.
		However, 1954 was a year in which a new Federal-aid highway act would be needed, and from the start, during the State of the Union Address on Jan. 7, Eisenhower made clear that he was ready to turn his attention to the nation's highway problems.
		Acting on a suggestion by Secretary of Treasury George Humphrey, Rep. Boggs included a provision that credited a revenue from highway user taxes to a Highway Trust Fund to be used for the highway program.
	www.nationalatlas.gov /articles/transportation/a_highway.html (2459 words)

	Federal Highway Act: Later Road Development: Wisconsin History Explorer of the Wisconsin Historical Society
		The passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916 discouraged the haphazard construction of roads by counties without state supervision by requiring states to establish a highway department that met the approval of the Office of Public Roads.
		The state highway commission had the responsibility for the preparation of plans and specifications and all construction and maintenance, while the federal government held the right to inspect all projects.
		This act provided states with financial aid for the construction of highways under the seven-percent system, in which each state was eligible for assistance for the construction of seven percent of its highways.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /archstories/late_roads/fed_hwy_act.asp (528 words)

	Federal Aid Highway Act -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Federal Aid Highway Act -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		States could use part of the Highway Trust Fund for (Conveyance for passengers or mail or freight) public transport.
		Thus cities which decided to abandon or drop (Click link for more info and facts about interstate highway) interstate highways through city centers could reuse that money for other purposes, rather than losing it entirely.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/federal_aid_highway_act.htm (98 words)

	Highway Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 directed the chief of the Bureau of Public Roads (precursor to today's Federal Highway Administration) to study the feasibility of a six-route national toll road network.
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, created today's Interstate system and was signed by President Eisenhower on June 29, 1956 in a hospital room without any fanfare.
		Federal Highway Administration, are commonly seen as the fathers of the Interstate system.
	www.eisenhower.utexas.edu /highway.htm (1152 words)

	Public Roads On-Line (Summer 1996) - From 1916 to 1939: The Federal-State Partnership at Work
		The federal-aid highway program, which was initiated by the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, got off to a slow start, with only $5 million available the first year.
		To satisfy them, the act limited federal aid to a system of federal-aid highways, not to exceed 7 percent of all roads in the state.
		Federal funds were diverted from projects that served transportation needs to projects that could provide work for the unemployed.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su7.htm (1055 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System
		The 1956 act deferred a decision on the controversial issue of whether to reimburse states for turnpikes and toll-free segments built with less than 90-percent interstate funding or no funding.
		John A. Volpe (left) is sworn in as intertim, and first, federal highway administrator.
		Federal Highway Administrator Rodney Slater, and Rep. Norman Mineta (D-Calif.).
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su10.htm (5395 words)

	Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It provided that if the secretary of the treasury determines that the balance in the Highway Trust Fund will not be enough to meet required highway expenditures, the secretary of commerce is to reduce the apportionments to each of the states on a pro rata basis to eliminate this estimated deficiency.
		The act prohibited the secretary from apportioning funds to any state permitting excessively large vehicles - those greater in size or weight than the limits specified in the latest AASHO policy or those legally permitted in a state on July 1, 1956, whichever were greater - to use the interstate highways.
		The 1956 act also resolved one of the most controversial issues by applying the Davis-Bacon Act to interstate construction projects, despite concerns that the cost of the projects would be increased.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/rw96e.htm (5455 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Interstate Highway System
		The interstate highway system was built to consistent design standards requiring limited access, wide lanes, paved shoulders, at least four lanes, and accommodation for speeds of up to seventy miles per hour.
		I-516 is a spur highway in Savannah, and I-520 is Augusta's perimeter highway.
		Since their construction in the 1960s and 1970s, Atlanta's interstate highways have helped fuel urban sprawl, first around the northern I-285 perimeter and Interstates 75 and 85 north of the city in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2423 (695 words)

	history of our highway system
		The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938 directed the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads to study the feasibility of a six-route toll network.
		The Federal Highway Act of 1956 was signed by Eisenhower, while he was in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
		The Act approved $1.1 billion to the states for the use of interstate highways.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/sprg_98/poccia/history5.html (422 words)

	Interstate Highway System: Later Road Development: Wisconsin History Explorer of the Wisconsin Historical Society
		It provided for the selection of a federal aid secondary system (the farm-to-market roads) and it called upon the states and the Public Roads Administration to designate a national system of interstate highways, not to exceed 40,000 miles connecting state capitals, principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centers by direct routes.
		In an attempt to satisfy both the smaller populous eastern states and the larger, less-populated western states, 50 percent of the federal aid was based on population.
		Appeals by Eisenhower and Congress led to the passing of the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act, authorizing construction of the 40,000 miles proposed in 1944.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /archstories/late_roads/interstate_system.asp (1454 words)

	Federal Highway Act of 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Also known as Federal Highway Act of 1956), authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation's history.
		The resulting legislation was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938, which directed the chief of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) to study the feasibility of a six-route toll network.
		Because of the 1956 law, and the subsequent Highway Act of 1958, the pattern of community development in America was fundamentally altered and was henceforth based on the automobile.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_113.shtml (513 words)

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		Approval by the United States of a proposed public transportation project means that the project is consistent with the purposes of this chapter and with the continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive regional transportation planning implemented in accordance with the Federal Transit Act and the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
		Federal transit grants for public transportation purposes may be used only by the department to carry out the responsibilities of the commission and the department for public transportation under this chapter.
		The comptroller may transfer from that portion of the state highway fund to the general revenue fund the amount needed to repay any unpaid balance on the loan, including applicable interest, in accordance with the loan agreement.
	www.capitol.state.tx.us /statutes/docs/TN/content/word/tn.006.00.000456.00.doc (1856 words)

	OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ACT
		enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in such highways, to preserve the scenic beauty of lands bordering on such highways, and to insure that information in the specific interest of the traveling public is presented safely and effectively, recognizing that a reasonable freedom to advertise is necessary to attain such objectives.
		When a highway within an incorporated area is designated as an interstate or a primary highway, each advertising display maintained adjacent to such highway shall thereupon become subject to all of the provisions of this act.
		For purposes of applying the provisions of this act, each such display shall be considered as though it had been placed along an interstate or a primary highway during all of the time that it had been in existence.
	ceres.ca.gov /planning/pzd/outdoor_ad.html (9079 words)

	Interstate History
		In the beginning of the 20th century, a national, uninterrupted system of highways was merely a pipe dream.
		Under the auspices of the Bureau of Public Roads, the goal of this act was to study the feasibility of a toll-financed system of three east-west and three north-south superhighways.
		Congress passed further legislation in the form of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/interstate1.html (627 words)

	Interstate Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938 called on the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), the predecessor of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), to study the feasibility of a toll-financed system of three east-west and three north-south superhighways.
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952 authorized the first funding specifically for System construction, but it was only a token amount of $25 million a year for fiscal years (FY) 1954 and 1955.
		Section 16 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 provided that the Secretary may designate, as part of the Interstate System, a highway meeting all standards for Interstate highways and that are logical additions or connections to the System.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /programadmin/interstate.html (2837 words)

	AGO_1955-57_No_324 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Federal funds may be available, depending upon congressional approval of the needs study submitted by the secretary of commerce on January 2, 1958, and upon concurrence by the secretary of commerce in the project, its location and plans.
		Primary state highway No. 1 (U.S. 99) must be abandoned and deeded to the county, together with other procedural steps.
		Page 2]] additional moneys to be made available pursuant to the act are primarily to be spent on the interstate system.
	www.atg.wa.gov /opinions/1955-57/opinion_1955-57_324.html (421 words)

	AGO_1957-58_No_104 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Under the 1956 federal aid highway act federal funds cannot be made available for the purchase of additional rights of way to accommodate a rapid rail transit system within the highway right of way.
		Under the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act, can federal funds be made available for the purchase of additional rights of way to accommodate a rapid rail transit system within the highway right of way?
		A thorough examination of the several sections of the 1956 Federal Highway Aid Act failed to disclose any provision of said act which either directly or impliedly authorizes the allocation of federal funds for the purpose set out in question 1.
	www.atg.wa.gov /opinions/1957-58/opinion_1957-58_104.html (1343 words)

	Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The interregional highways would follow existing roads wherever possible (thereby preserving the investment in earlier stages of improvement).
		Through a cooperative arrangement with the Ways and Means Committee, Fallon's bill included highway user tax increases with the revenue informally committed to the program.
		At the same time, the highway interests that had killed the Fallon bill in 1955 were reassessing their views and clarifying their concerns.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/burns7/medialib/docs/hiway56.htm (4957 words)

	Traffic Engineer bio
		Responding to this public concern, the federal government entered into the field of highway construction through the establishment of policies that significantly affected the development of the national highway system.
		However, the most important transportation legislation was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 which authorized the construction of a 41,000 mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
		This Act enacted many provisions which are still in place today such as the Relocation Assistance Program for families and businesses displaced by highway construction and that public hearings must consider social and environmental impacts in planning highways, not just the economic impacts as was previously required.
	www.cityofcanton.com /safetyservice/trafficeng/history.html (2446 words)

	Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		(However, legislation passed in 1966 required all parts of the interstate highway system to be at least four lanes with no at-grade intersections regardless of traffic volume.) On June 26, 1956, the Senate approved the bill by a vote of 89 to 1.
		In August 1957, the numbering scheme for the interstate highways was announced and the red, white, and blue interstate shield was unveiled.
		Many of the states had submitted proposals for the shield, but the final version was a combination of designs submitted by Missouri and exas.
	www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org /legacy/ike0005.htm (253 words)

	The U.S. Highway System
		This act expanded the network to 65,000 km (40,391 mi) and charged state highway agencies and the Department of Defense with planning nationwide routes that would directly connect the country's major cities and industrial centers.
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954 set aside $175 million for the construction of an interstate highway system.
		Two years later, the expanded Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 authorized a budget of $25 billion, of which the federal share was to be 90%.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0881994.html (663 words)

	ACPA - History PCA Federal-Aid Highway Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Firm placement of rigid pavements on the map, however, would come 25 years later - and only after an act of Congress and the simultaneous formation of one of the country's oldest and largest trade associations.
		Many business interests inside and outside the construction industry had a stake in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1916, but few were in the position to promulgate and fuel a road-building rage in a manner similar to Association of American Portland Cement Manufacturers members.
		On the technical side, PCA assisted in early concrete-pavement testing and research programs with federal and state agencies and engineering departments of major universities.
	www.pavement.com /PavTech/AbtConc/History/PCA.html (537 words)

	NEPA Project Development - Environment and Planning - FHWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Independent bikeway or walkway construction projects are those highway construction projects which provide bicycle or pedestrian facilities in contrast to a project whose primary purpose is to serve motorized vehicles.
		It is required that a public agency be responsible for maintenance of the federally funded bikeway or walkway.
		This document does not cover bicycle or pedestrian facilities that are incidental items of construction in conjunction with highway improvements having the primary purpose of serving motor vehicular traffic.
	environment.fhwa.dot.gov /projdev/4fbikeways.htm (1933 words)

	Sprawl Guide: Roots of Sprawl (Highway Building)
		While the Interstate Highway System has had a multitude of impacts, many positive, it has also led to dispersal of growth and development.
		Financed largely by the federal Public Works Administration and Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the 160-mile long Turnpike between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg was constructed in just 23 months.
		It served as a model for the first generation of limited access highways.
	www.plannersweb.com /sprawl/roots_highway.html (183 words)

	Federal History
		The Act authorized appropriations for survey, improvement, construction, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads not eligible for Federal-aid highway funding.
		The partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) began in 1930 when the Secretary of Agriculture was authorized to cooperate with the State highway departments and the Department of the Interior (DOI) in the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of IRR serving Indian lands.
		The Federal-aid Highway Act of 1936, Public Law 686, Section 6, required that the FHWA approve the location, type, and design of all IRR roads and bridges to be constructed using BIA funds.
	ttap.colostate.edu /history.cfm (1506 words)

	Encyclopedia: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956
		The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, officially began on June 29, 1956, when a hospitalized Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this bill creating a $25 billion system of Interstate highways.
		The act created a trust fund that paid for 90% of highway construction costs, with the states required to pay the rest.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Federal_Aid-Highway-Act-of-1956 (149 words)

	Celebrating the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Designating the Urban Interstates
		The landmark legislation formally established a federal commitment to build the Interstate System, established a funding mechanism based on highway user taxes, called for high design standards, and changed the name of the network to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
		TRB, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other agencies and organizations will be highlighting the upcoming 50th anniversary of the official beginning of the Interstate System.
		Along these lines, the U.S. Federal Highway Administrations has released a paper that focuses on how the urban Interstates were selected.
	gulliver.trb.org /news/blurb_detail.asp?id=4744 (181 words)

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