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PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005 funding necessary to construct a route for the 14th Amendment Highway, from Augusta, Georgia, to Natchez, Mississippi (formerly designated the Fall Line Freeway in the State of Georgia); and (2) carry out a study and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that describes the steps and estimated funding necessary to designate and construct a route for the 3rd Infantry Division Highway, extending from Savannah, Georgia, to Knoxville, Tennessee, by way of Augusta, Georgia (formerly the Savannah River Parkway in the State of Georgia).

SEC. 1928. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING BUY AMERICA.

It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Buy America test required by section 165 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (23 U.S.C. 101 note) needs to be applied to an entire bridge project and not only to component parts of such project; (2) the law clearly states that domestic materials must be used in Federal highway projects unless there is a finding that the inclusion of domestic materials will increase the cost of the overall project by more than 25 percent; (3) uncertainty regarding how to apply Buy America laws for major bridge projects threatens the domestic bridge industry; (4) because the Nation’s unemployment rate continues to hover around 5.6 percent, steps are needed to protect American workers and the domestic bridge building industry; and (5) the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.) was designed to ensure that, when taxpayer money is spent on direct Federal Government procurement and infrastructure projects, these expenditures stimulate United States production and job creation. SEC. 1929. DESIGNATION OF DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY.

New York.

(a) DESIGNATION.—The portion of Interstate Route 86 in the State of New York, extending from the Pennsylvania border near Lake Erie through Orange County, New York, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Daniel Patrick Moynihan Interstate Highway’’. (b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the highway portion referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Daniel Patrick Moynihan Interstate Highway’’. Massachusetts.

SEC. 1930. DESIGNATION OF THOMAS P. ‘‘TIP’’ O’NEILL, JR. TUNNEL.

(a) DESIGNATION.—In honor of his service to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States, and in recognition of his contributions toward the construction of the Central Artery project in Boston, the northbound and southbound tunnel of Interstate Route 93, located in the City of Boston, which extends north of the intersection of Interstate Route 90 and Interstate Route 93 to the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Thomas P. ‘Tip’ O’Neill, Jr. Tunnel’’. (b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the tunnel referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Thomas P. ‘Tip’ O’Neill, Jr. Tunnel’’.

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