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Federal Transportation Update IV
Administration Provides Details on Proposed 18 Month Transportation Program Extension - The U.S. DOT has released its proposal for an 18 month extension of authorization for federal surface transportation programs.
- Calling the proposal “Stage I Reauthorization,” the administration asked for a $20 billion general fund transfer to keep both the federal-aid highway program and the federal transit program solvent through March 31, 2011.
- Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Ranking Republican Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and several other committee members expressed support for providing the necessary funds and authorization to keep the programs operating for the next eighteen months.
- Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, led by its bipartisan leadership, spoke out strongly against an 18 month extension, preferring to continue its effort to enact a full six year reauthorization measure.
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