Volume 77 · 277
Public Law 88–157
To amend various sections of title 23 of the United States Code relating to the Federal-aid highway systems.
Approved October 24, 1963
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend various sections of title 23 of the United States Code relating to the Federal-aid highway systems.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act may be cited as the “Federal-Aid Highway Amendments Act of 1963”.
Sec. 2.
Paragraph (3) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(3) For extensions of the Federal-aid primary and Federal-aid secondary systems within urban areas:
“In the ratio which the population in municipalities and other urban places of five thousand or more in each State bears to the total population hi municipalities and other urban places of five thousand or more in all the States as shown by the latest available Federal census.”
Sec. 3.
So much of paragraph (5) of subsection (b) of section
104 of title 23, United States Code, as precedes the third sentence thereof is amended to read as follows:
“(5) For the Interstate System for the fiscal years 1960 through 1971:
“For the fiscal years 1960 through 1966, in the ratio which the estimated cost of completing the Interstate System in such State, as determined and approved in the manner provided in this paragraph, bears to the sum of the estimated cost of completing the Interstate System in all of the States. For the fiscal years 1967 through 1971, in the ratio which the Federal share of the estimated cost of completing the Interstate System in such State, as determined and approved in the manner provided in this paragraph, bears to the sum of the estimated cost of the Federal share of completing the Interstate System in all of the States. Each apportionment herein authorized for the fiscal years 1960 through 1971, inclusive, shall be made on a date as far in advance of the beginning of the fiscal year for which authorized as practicable but in no case more than eighteen months prior to the beginning of the fiscal year for which authorized.”
The eighth and ninth sentences of paragraph (5) of subsection (b) of section 104 of title 23, United States Code, are amended to read as follows: “The Secretary shall make a revised estimate of the cost of completing the then designated Interstate System, after taking into account all previous apportionments made under this section, in the same manner as stated above, and transmit the same to the Senate and the House of Representatives within ten days subsequent to January 2, 1965. Upon the approval of such estimate by the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal share of such approved estimate in making apportionments for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1967; June 30, 1968; and June 30, 1969. The Secretary shall make a revised estimate of the cost of completing the then designated Interstate System after taking into account all previous apportionments made under this section, in the same manner as stated above, and transmit the same to the Senate and the House of Representatives within ten days subsequent to January 2, 1968. Upon the approval by the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal share of such approved estimate in making apportionments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. The Secretary shall make a final revised estimate of the cost of completing the then designated Interstate System after taking into account, all previous apportionments made under this section, in the same manner as stated above, and transmit the same to the Senate and the House of Representatives within ten days subsequent to January 2, 1969. Upon the approval by the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal share of such approved estimate in making apportionments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971.”
Sec. 4.
Subsection (b) of section 109 of title 23, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(b) The geometric and construction standards to be adopted for the Interstate System shall be those approved by the Secretary in cooperation with the State highway departments. Such standards, as applied to each actual construction project, shall be adequate to enable such project to accommodate the types and volumes of traffic anticipated for such project for the twenty-year period commencing on the date of approval by the Secretary, under section 106 of this title, of the plans, specifications, and estimates for actual construction of such project. The right-of-way width of the Interstate System shall be adequate to permit construction of projects on the Interstate System to such standards. The Secretary shall apply such standards uniformly throughout all the States.”
Sec. 5.
Subsection (c) of section 131 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking out “1963” and inserting in lieu thereof
“1965”.
Sec. 6.
Section 307(c)(1) of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(c) (1) Not to exceed 114 per centum of the sums apportioned for each fiscal year prior to the fiscal year 1964 to any State under section 104 of this title shall be available for expenditure upon request of the
State highway department, with the approval of the Secretary, with or without State funds, for engineering and economic surveys and investigations; for the planning of future highway programs and the financing thereof; for studies of the economy, safety, and convenience of highway usage and the desirable regulation and equitable taxation thereof; and for research and development, necessary in connection with the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of highways and highway systems, and the regulation and taxation of their use.”
Sec. 7.
Subsection (c) of section 106 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
“(c) Items included in any such estimate for construction engineering shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total estimated cost of a project financed with Federal-aid primary, secondary, or urban funds, after excluding from such total estimated cost, the estimated costs of rights-of-way, preliminary engineering, and construction engineering: Provided, That such limitation shall be 15 per centum in any State with respect to which the Secretary finds such higher limitation to be necessary. For any project financed with interstate funds, such limitation shall be 10 per centum.”
The second sentence of subsection (d) of section 121 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “Payments for construction engineering on any project financed with Federal-aid primary, secondary, or urban funds shall not exceed 10 per centum of the Federal share of the cost of construction of such project after excluding from the cost of construction the costs of rights-of-way, preliminary engineering, and construction engineering: Provided, That such limitation shall be 15 per centum in any State with respect to which the Secretary finds such higher limitation to be necessary. For any project financed with interstate funds, such limitation shall be 10 per centum.”
Approved October 24, 1963.