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PUBLIC LAW 90-103-OCT. 11, 1967 COMMISSION E M P L O Y E E

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PROTECTIONS

80 Stat. 4 6 8.

"SEC. 109. Section 5334(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 'For the purpose of this subsection, an individual employed by the Appalachian Regional Commission under section 106(a) of the Appalachian 40 USC a *.106. R^gion^l Development Act of 1966, or by a regional commission ^ ' J ' established pursuant to section 502 of the Public Works and Economic 79 Stat. 564. Development Act of 1965, under section 506(2) of such Act, who was 3186. commission and within six months after separation from such employment is employed in a position to which this subchapter applies, shall be treated as if transferred from a position in the executive branch to which this subchapter does not apply.'." II fl^l' app. 2 0 1. SEC. 106. Section 201 of the Act is amended to read as follows: 40 USC i™ on, a A P P A L A C H I A N DEVELOPMENT H I G H W A Y SYSTEM
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"SEC. 201. (a) I n order to provide a highway system which, in conjunction with the Interstate System and other Federal-aid highways in the Appalachian region, will open up an area or areas with a developmental potential where commerce and communication have been inhibited by lack of adequate access, the Secretary of Transportation (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Secretary') is authorized to assist in the construction of an Appalachian development highway system and local access roads serving the Appalachian 72 Stat. 885. regiou. The provisions of title 23, United States Code, that are applicable to the construction and maintenance of Federal-aid primary and secondary highways, and which the Secretar;^ determines are not inconsistent with this Act, shall apply, respectively, to the development highway system and the local access roads. Construction on the development highway system shall not exceed two thousand seven hundred miles. Construction of local access roads shall not exceed one thousand six hundred miles that will serve specific recreational, residential, educational, commercial, industrial, or other like facilities or e^'- r will facilitate a school consolidation program. "(b) The Commission shall transmit to the Secretary its designations of (1) the general corridor location and termini of the development highways, (2) local access roads to be constructed, (3) priorities for the construction of segments of the development highways, and (4) other criteria for the program authorized by this section. Before any State member participates in or votes on such designations, he shall have obtained the recommendations of the State highway department of the State which he represents. ' "(c) I n no event shall the Secretary assist in any construction (including right-of-way acquisition) which would require for its completion the expenditure of Federal funds (other than funds available under title 23, United States Code) in excess of the appropriations authorization in subsection (g). On its completion each development highway not already on the Federal-aid primary system shall be added to such system and each development highway and local access road shall be required to be maintained by the State as provided for Federal-aid highways in title 23, United States Code. " (d) I n the construction of highways and roads authorized under this section, the States may give special preference to the. use of materials and products indigenous to the Appalachian region. Road construe«^g^ YoT the purposes of rescarch. and development in the use of tion Use of coal coal and coal products in highway construction and maintenance, the derivatives. Secretary is authorized to require each participating State, to the

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