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 LETTER FROM THE FEDERAL WORKS ADMINISTRATOR TO THE PRESIDENT , Washington, May 27, 1949. The White House.


 * I transmit, with my approval, a report on highway needs of the national defense, prepared by the Commissioner of Public Roads in cooperation with the several State highway departments, and with the advice of the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Resources Board.

This report has been prepared in compliance with a direction of the Congress contained in section 2 of the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1948, approved June 29, 1948, quoted as follows:

“Sec. 2, The Commissioner of Public Roads is hereby directed to cooperate with the State highway departments in a study of the status of improvement of the National System of Interstate Highways, designated in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1944; to invite the cooperation and suggestions of the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Resources Board as to their indicated or potential needs for improved highways for the national defense; and to supplement, not later than April 1, 1949, the report dated February 1, 1941, entitled ‘Highways for the National Defense’ (Seventy-seventh Congress, first session), to reflect current conditions and deficiencies.”

The report is factual in the highest degree. It points to improvement needs on the country’s most important highways that are of such moment as to warrant the most serious consideration.

I recommend the report and request that you transmit it, with your approval, to the Congress.

Sincerely yours,

Major General, United States Army, Administrator.