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HOUSE
JOINT MEMORIAL 4028
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Passed
Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/22/95.
Referred to Committee on Transportation.
Urging passage of
legislation authorizing the National Highway System.
TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO
THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS
ASSEMBLED:
We,
your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and
petition as follows:
WHEREAS,
The establishment of the National Highway System (NHS) is deemed necessary to
ensure that our citizens are connected to the rest of the nation and the world,
and that all citizens of our nation are connected to the natural resources,
national parks, cities, and other points of national importance now and in the
future; and
WHEREAS,
The provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
provide States with overall responsibility for NHS route and project selection;
and
WHEREAS,
The planning and public participation provisions of the ISTEA ensure that
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), other transportation agencies, and
the general public have a significant role in the NHS program; and
WHEREAS,
An equitable process for designation of NHS routes as defined by the ISTEA and
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rules and procedures has been
established; and
WHEREAS,
The flexibility and transferability provisions in Section 1006 of the ISTEA,
describing the NHS, enable States to address critical transportation needs
identified in the MPO and State transportation planning processes; and
WHEREAS,
The FHWA has submitted their proposed designations to Congress; and
WHEREAS,
After September 30, 1995, no Federal funds made available for the National
Highway System or the Interstate Maintenance program may be apportioned unless
a law has been approved designating the National Highway System;
NOW,
THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully urge that Congress pass legislation
approving the National Highway System (NHS) at the earliest date possible, but
no later than September 30, 1995.
BE
IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the
President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, to the Speaker and the
Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of this
state's delegation to Congress.
