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NADO Issues Action Alert on Surface Transportation Reauthorization

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SPECIFIC ACTION NEEDED:

Urge your Senators and Representatives to support the House language (included in H.R. 7) for state DOT “cooperation” with non-metropolitan local officials in the statewide transportation planning

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House and Senate Leaders Name Conferees to Negotiate Surface Transportation Legislation

ACTION NEEDED:
Please continue to urge your Senators and Representatives to support the House language for state DOT “cooperation” with non-metropolitan local officials in the statewide transportation planning process (including the establishment of Regional Transportation Planning Organizations for areas outside…

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Congress Clears 90-Day Extension of Surface Transportation Programs

On March 29, the House passed a 90-day extension of surface transportation programs (H.R. 4281) by a vote of 266-158.  The measure, which only required a simple majority vote to pass, extends programs under the Highway Trust Fund as well…

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Senate Finance Chair Releases Funding Ideas for Transportation Bill

On February 4, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) unveiled his plan, Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012, (http://finance NULL.senate NULL.gov/newsroom/chairman/release/index NULL.cfm?id=4f035bc1-14e2-4bea-8d0b-7e578fa5bfbc) to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through FY2013.  The Senate Finance Committee…

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House Transportation Committee Approves Surface Bill After Long, Partisan Markup

On January 31, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, led by Chairman John Mica (R-FL) and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Chairman John Duncan (R-TN) unveiled the “American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act” (H.R. 7).  On February 2, the committee…

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Surface Transportation Bills Moving Ahead

The House and Senate are moving full steam ahead on completing multi-year reauthorization bills for the nation’s federal surface transportation programs for highways, freight, transit, safety and other related issues.
As part of the SAFETEA-LU rewrite process, the Senate is…

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DOT Announces Next Round of TIGER Grants

This week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the availability of funds for the next round of the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Discretionary Grant program. The FY2012 TIGER grant program will make $500 million available for projects…

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House Begins to Move Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill

The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is scheduled to mark up a five-year SAFETEA-LU highway and transit reauthorization bill on February 2 at 9:00 am.  In addition to new revenues from expanded oil and gas drilling, rumors are circulating…

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NADO Issues Action Alert on Senate’s Surface Transportation Bill

On November 9, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) considered and unanimously approved “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century” (S. 1813), their long term SAFETEA-LU reauthorization legislation.  The two-year, $109 billion measure aims to maintain existing…

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Surface Transportation and Aviation Programs Extended

On September 13, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a combined extension of surface transportation programs and aviation programs.  H.R. 2887 provides for a six month extension of highway programs (until March 31, 2012) and a four and a half…

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