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	DC: Comments on the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1991
		plans and programs which are formulated on the basis of transportation needs with due consideration to comprehensive long range land use plans, development objectives, and overall social, economic, environmental, system performance, and energy conservation goals and objectives, and with due consideration to their probable effect on the future development of urban areas....
		The process shall consider all modes of transportation and shall be continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive [the 3- C's]....
		Transportation projects cannot be built if they will degrade the air quality of the area and are part of a conformity plan.
	www.panix.com /~danielc/usa/staacom.htm (4656 words)

	TransitNet Glossary
		The federal account, established by the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, into which a designated portion of the federal Highway Trust Fund revenue from motor fuel taxes is placed.
		Transportation planners, decisionmakers and analysts refer to the means of transportation as the "mode." (BTS) 4.
		An analytical tool (often mathematical) used by transportation planners to assist in making forecasts of land use, economic activity, travel activity and their effects on the quality of resources such as land, air and water.
	www.ncdot.org /transit/transitnet/Glossary/M.html (1050 words)

	THE MCKINNEY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE ACT
		The McKinney Homeless Assistance Act "McKinney" is a federal law that requires all homeless youth to have access to the same free and appropriate public education that is provided to all other children.
		Young children between pre-school age and seven years or children who cannot be transported on regular transportation, specialized transportation from the child's temporary residence to the school of origin shall be provided until the end of the school year.
		Homeless children with special needs who wish to continue to attend their original school (even though temporarily residing in another district) and who have transportation written into their Individualized Education Plan must be transported from their temporary residence to their school of origin until the end of the school year.
	www.clcm.org /assistance_act.htm (1205 words)

	Federal Transit Administration - Legislation, Regulations & Circulars/Guidance
		SUMMARY: Section 319 of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, directs the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA), by delegation from the Secretary of Transportation, to issue regulations requiring pre-award and post-delivery audits of rolling stock purchases made with Federal financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended.
		Because Congress was concerned about the quality of mass transportation equipment purchased with Federal financial assistance, and the inspection and verification procedures used in the procurement process, the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, Pub.
		Section 12(j) requires the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, by delegation from the Secretary of Transportation, to issue regulations requiring pre-award and post-delivery audits when a recipient of Federal financial assistance purchases rolling stock with funds made available under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended.
	www.fta.dot.gov /laws/leg_reg_573.html (3613 words)

	Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
		Title II: Measures to Assist Victims of Apartheid - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to earmark a specified amount of the education and human resources development assistance funds for each of FY 1987 through 1989 to finance education, training, and scholarships for the victims of apartheid.
		Requires priority to be given, in providing assistance for disadvantaged South Africans, to working with and through South African nongovernmental organizations whose leadership and staff are selected on a nonracial basis and which have the support of the disadvantaged communities being served.
		Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to earmark a specified amount of Economic Support monies for assistance for disadvantaged South Africans, with a specified amount of such earmarked funds allocated for training programs for South Africa's trade unionists.
	training.itcilo.it /actrav_cdrom1/english/global/guide/antia.htm (2976 words)

	Proposition 209, Preferences and Federal Financial Assistance
		Acting under its power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment or its power to regulate commerce, Congress could probably require the state, in limited circumstances, to permit or engage in affirmative action.
		Any recipient of federal financial assistance is prohibited from discriminating by race or gender, and is required to take affirmative steps to eliminate the effects of past discrimination, by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
		Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987.
	w3.uchastings.edu /plri/96-97tex/prop209.htm (4537 words)

	49 CFR PART 661 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The bidder hereby certifies that it cannot comply with the requirements of section 165(a) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, as amended, but it may qualify for an exception to the requirement pursuant to section 165 (b)(2) or (b)(4) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 and regulations in 49 CFR 661.7.
		The bidder hereby certifies that it cannot comply with the requirements of section 165(b)(3) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, as amended, but may qualify for an exception to the requirement consistent with section 165(b)(2) or (b)(4) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act, as amended, and regulations in 49 CFR 661.7.
		A false certification is a criminal act in violation of 18 U.S.C. (b) Any party may petition FTA to investigate the compliance of a successful bidder with the bidder's certification.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /documents/cfr/title49/part661.html (4165 words)

	Oahu Trans 2K Glossary (M) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A colorless, nearly odorless, volatile alcohol used in transportation as a vehicle fuel by itself or blended with gasoline.
		Transportation planners, decisionmakers and analysts refer to the means of transportation as the "mode." 4.
		A Community-Based Transportation Visioning Process Managed by the City and County of Honolulu and the Hawaii Department of Transportation.
	www.oahutrans2k.com /info/glossary/M.htm (1173 words)

	Iowa Office of Public Transit
		In 1974 the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act created a program of formula grants to urbanized areas (over 50,000 population) that could be used for purchase of transit equipment or facilities or to assist in financing the operation of transit services.
		The Federal Public Transportation Act of 1978 (Section III of the Surface Transportation Act of 1978) established a formula program providing funding to states for support of planning, capital and operating needs of transit programs in small towns and rural areas.
		The Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 (Section III of the Surface Transportation Act of 1982) for the first time dedicated a penny of the federal motor fuel tax to public transit capital support.
	www.iatransit.com /history/general.asp (2558 words)

	Surface Transportation Practice: Motor Carriers
		We are also advising clients on several issues related to impending changes in procurement of government transportation services and have discussed those issues with federal officials.
		Our firm has acted as counsel in three of the largest motor carrier mergers and in the two largest rail carrier mergers in history.
		We have also prepared comments on proposed safety rules and prepared testimony for public hearings on rulemakings, and have drafted federal legislation that was enacted to require the Department of Transportation to establish a program to exempt light duty vehicles from the federal safety requirements.
	www.zsrlaw.com /practice_areas/surface_trans/motor_carriers.htm (912 words)

	A3093
		An Act concerning the funding of “The Senior Citizen and Disabled Resident Transportation Assistance Program” and amending P.L.1983, c.578.
		of section 4 of this act and for the general administration of the program, but no more than 10% of the total moneys allocated under this program shall be used for the general administration of the program.
		of this section. The application shall be in the form of a proposal to the board for transportation assistance and shall specify the degree to which the proposal meets the purposes of the program under paragraph (1) of subsection a.
	www.njleg.state.nj.us /2006/Bills/A3500/3093_I1.HTM (324 words)

	Transportation
		Transmittal to the Congress of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1975, to expedite completion of an inter-city interstate system, and to enhance state and local flexibility in using Federal transportation assistance.
		The Act authorizes the use of highway funds for a wider range of transportation needs, permitting individual states much greater flexibility in meeting their individual needs.
		The President was particularly pleased to see the implementation, under the Department of Transportation, of a special new program for improving public transportation in America's rural areas.
	www.ford.utexas.edu /library/document/factbook/transpor.htm (1042 words)

	Energy Efficiency Report:Chapter 5: Transportation Sector
		Choice of fuel varies by transportation mode, e.g., automobiles consume gasoline, diesel, and alternative fuels; trucks run on diesel fuel, gasoline, and liquefied petroleum gas; aircraft fly with jet fuel and aviation gasoline; and marine vessels burn distillate and residual fuel oil.
		The freight transportation sector is a very heterogeneous sector, making it difficult to find one demand indicator that captures changes in demand for all of the various modes.
		Since there is no common demand indicator that may be used for the entire transportation sector, the percent change in the energy-intensity indicators from both passenger and freight travel is used in a transportation sector energy-intensity composite indicator.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/efficiency/ee_ch5.htm (6886 words)

	Transweb - Mineta Transportation Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		ITS - Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California The stated goal of this multicampus research unit is to "improve the way transportation is organized, managed and maintained." Projects cover transportation policy, new technology (see PATH), safety, traffic management, infrastructure, and freight and logistics.
		LTC - Local Transportation Commission A body composed of members of boards of supervisors, mayors' select committees of counties, transit districts and other transit operators for areas not within the jurisdiction of an "RTPA" such as "MTC".
		A concept embraced in ISTEA, a multimodal approach to transportation planning focuses on the most efficient way of getting people or goods from place to place, be it by truck, train, bicycle, automobile, airplane, bus, boat, foot or even a computer modem.
	transweb.sjsu.edu /comglos2.htm (3338 words)

	The Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 1990, 49 USC 5701 et. seq
		The Secretary of Transportation has the same duties and powers in regulating transportation under this chapter as the Secretary has under section 5121(a)-(c) (except subsection (c)(1)(A)) of this title in regulating transportation under chapter 51 of this title.
		(6) `intermodal transportation' means the successive transportation of a loaded container or trailer from its place of origin to its place of destination by more than one mode of transportation in interstate or foreign commerce, whether under a single bill of lading or under separate bills of lading.
		The act of forwarding the certification may not be construed as a verification or affirmation of the accuracy or completeness of the information in the certification.
	www.fda.gov /opacom/laws/sftact.htm (1313 words)

	Transportation Operations_734_073
		(1) "Automobile transporter" means a combination of vehicles that transports vehicles on a semitrailer and may also transport vehicles on the power unit behind the cab or on an over-cab rack.
		(2) "Automobile transporter towing stinger-steered semitrailer" means an automobile transporter having the fifth-wheel assembly mounted on a stinger or extension to the framework of the truck.
		(4) "Boat transporter towing stinger-steer semitrailer" means a boat transporter having the fifth-wheel assembly mounted on a stinger or extension to the framework of the truck.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /rules/OARS_700/OAR_734/734_073.html (3051 words)

	Transportation
		Will increase competition between various kinds of transportation and encourage a better utilization of resources by assuring that goods are transported by the most efficient means of transportation.
		Transmittal to the Congress of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1975, to expedite completion of an inter-city interstate system, and to enhance state and local flexibility in using Federal transportation assistance.
		The Act authorizes the use of highway funds for a wider range of transportation needs, permitting individual states much greater flexibility in meeting their individual needs.
	www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov /library/document/factbook/transpor.htm (1042 words)

	NIST Responsibilities Under the National Construction Safety Team Act - World Trade Center
		The act (.pdf), signed into law on Oct. 1, 2002, by President Bush, authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish teams to investigate building failures.
		The act specifically states that at least one member of each team must be a NIST employee.
		No, the act specifically states that NIST is not authorized to require the adoption of building codes, standards or practices.
	www.nist.gov /public_affairs/factsheet/constructionact.htm (1004 words)

	Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.
		Sec.3041.Adjustments for the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997.
		(4) Surface transportation program.--For the surface transportation program under section 133 of such title $4,797,620,000 for fiscal year 1998, $5,539,944,000 for fiscal year 1999, $5,592,333,000 for fiscal year 2000, $5,702,651,000 for fiscal year 2001, $5,795,482,000 for fiscal year 2002, and $5,904,689,000 for fiscal year 2003.
	www.transact.org /library/h2400enr.htm (5851 words)

	The United States Department of Transportation:
		The mission of the Department of Transportation, a cabinet-level executive department of the United States government, is to develop and coordinate policies that will provide an efficient and economical national transportation system, with due regard for need, the environment, and the national defense.
		As mandated by the Department of Transportation Act, Johnson directed the secretaries of housing and urban development and transportation to inform Congress where the most "logical and efficient organization and location of urban mass transportation functions within the Executive Branch" would be.
		Ronald Reagan's first secretary of transportation, Andrew L. ("Drew") Lewis, Jr., a management consultant and political leader from Pennsylvania, successfully negotiated the transfer of the Maritime Administration from the Commerce Department to DOT and provided the department with the maritime connection it needed to formulate an effective national transportation policy.
	dotlibrary.dot.gov /Historian/history.htm (4554 words)

	The Whistleblower Program, Office of Investigative Assistance
		The Occupational Safety and Health Act is designed to regulate employment conditions relating to occupational safety and health and to achieve safer and more healthful workplaces throughout the nation.
		The Act also recognizes that effective implementation and achievement of its goals depend in large measure upon the active and orderly participation of employees, individually and through their representatives, at every level of safety and health activity.
		The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (STAA)
	www.osha.gov /dep/oia/whistleblower (738 words)

	USA PATRIOT Act
		President George W. Bush is joined by House and Senate representatives as he signs H.R. 3199, USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Thursday, March 9, 2006 in the East Room of the White House.
		Before the Patriot Act, it was easier to track a drug dealer's phone contacts than a terrorist's phone contacts, and it was easier to obtain a tax cheat's credit card receipts than to trace the financial support of an al-Qaida fundraiser.
		The Patriot Act allows Internet service providers to disclose customer records voluntarily to the government in emergencies involving an immediate risk of death or serious physical injury and permits victims of hacking crimes to request law enforcement assistance in monitoring trespassers on their computers.
	www.whitehouse.gov /infocus/patriotact (825 words)

	PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System (Sidebars)
		The 1956 act set an expiration date of 1972, which has been extended several times by later legislation.
		The dual accounts were established by the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, which increased the gas tax by a nickel (to 9 cents) and created the mass transit account to receive 1 cent of the new revenue.
		Hence, the 18.3-cent federal gasoline tax and the 24.3-cent diesel tax included in the price at the pump are, in effect, a reimbursement to the producers and distributors for taxes they have already paid.
	www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/summer96/p96su10c.htm (1193 words)

	EIA Kids Page Ethanol Energy Timelines - milestone in ethanol energy history
		The Surface Transportation Assistance Act increased the ethanol subsidy to 50 cents per gallon.
		EPACT also defined ethanol blends with at least 85% ethanol as “alternative transportation fuels.” It also required specified car fleets to begin purchasing alternative fuel vehicles, such as vehicles capable of operating on E-85 (a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline).
		The Clean Air Act Amendments mandated the winter-time use of oxygenated fuels in 39 major carbon monoxide non attainment areas (areas where EPA emissions standards for carbon mioxide had not been met) and required year-round use of oxygenates in 9 severe ozone non attainment areas in 1995.
	www.eia.doe.gov /kids/history/timelines/ethanol.html (1838 words)

	New Mexico Department of Transportation - Glossary m (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		transportation system with exclusive right-of-way which is propelled along a fixed guideway system by the attraction or repulsion of magnets on the rails and under the rail cars.
		Transportation planners, decision makers and analysts refer to the means of transportation as the "mode." (BTS) 4.
		Accommodating various modes of surface transportation including bicycles, pedestrians, transit vehicles, ferries, trains and personal vehicles.
	nmshtd.state.nm.us /main.asp?secid=15044 (1102 words)

	NWRS - Federal Lands Highway Program
		The primary purpose of the FLHP is to provide funding for a coordinated program of public roads that serve the transportation needs of the Federal lands which are not a State or local government responsibility.
		The FLHP was continued under the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987.
		Ensure that transportation projects are consistent with goals and values of Federal land managing agencies and Native Americans.
	www.fws.gov /refuges/roads/flhp.html (689 words)

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