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Transportation Deal Reached; Draft Conference Report Includes Regional Transportation Planning Organizations
After nearly 20 years of effort, NADO and its members have made substantial progress in promoting Regional/Rural Transportation Planning Organizations as part of the final SAFETEA-LU reauthorization conference report filed late last night. While we still have many hours of...
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Transportaton Update: Three Days Until Current Authorization Expires
With only three days remaining before the current authorization (P.L. 112-102) of surface transportation programs expires at midnight on June 30, House and Senate leadership and conference committee negotiators have been working non-stop to complete a final measure. Today marks...
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Update on Transportation Reauthorization Bill
With only eight days remaining until the current (and ninth) extension of surface transportation programs (P.L. 112-102) expires on June 30, House and Senate leadership and conference committee negotiators have turned up the heat in hopes of agreeing on a...
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Negotiations Continue on Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
NOTE TO NADO MEMBERS: Negotiations are well under way at the staff level. If you are concerned about the Regional Transportation Planning Organization issue or the MPO population issue, now is the time to contact your members of Congress that...
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NADO Issues Action Alert on Surface Transportation Reauthorization
Click Here to View the Full NADO Transportation Action Alert 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...
