Volume 116 · 1741
Public Law 107–259
To identify certain routes in the States of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico as part of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.
Approved October 29, 2002
Statutory text
An Act
To identify certain routes in the States of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico as part of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor, a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. IDENTIFICATION OF PORTS-TO-PLAINS HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR ROUTES.
Section 1105(c)(38) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 114 Stat. 2763A-201) is amended—
in subparagraph (A), by redesignating clauses (i) through (viii) as subclauses (I) through (VIII), respectively;
by redesignating subparagraph (A) as clause (i);
by striking “(38) The” and inserting “(38)(A) The”;
in subparagraph (A) (as designated by paragraph (3))—
in clause (i) (as redesignated by paragraph (2))—
in subclause (VII) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), by striking “and” at the end;
in subclause (VIII) (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(IX) United States Route 287 from Dumas to the border between the States of Texas and Oklahoma, and also United States Route 87 from Dumas to the border between the States of Texas and New Mexico.”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(ii) In the State of Oklahoma, the Ports-to-Plains Corridor shall generally follow United States Route 287 from the border between the States of Texas and Oklahoma to the border between the States of Oklahoma and Colorado.
“(iii) In the State of Colorado, the Ports-to-Plains Corridor shall generally follow—
“(I) United States Route 287 from the border between the States of Oklahoma and Colorado to Limon; and
“(II) Interstate Route 70 from Limon to Denver.
“(iv) In the State of New Mexico, the Ports-to-Plains Corridor shall generally follow United States Route 87 from the border between the States of Texas and New Mexico to Raton.”; and
by striking “(B) The corridor designation contained in paragraph (A)” and inserting the following:
“(B) The corridor designation contained in subclauses (I) through (VIII) of subparagraph (A)(i)”
Approved October 29, 2002.