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PUBLIC LAW 91-605-DEC. 31, 1970

"(5) disruption of desirable community and regional growth. Such guidelines shall apply to all proposed projects with respect to which plans, specifications, and estimates are approved hj the Secretary after the issuance of such guidelines. " (i) The Secretary, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State, and local officials, shall develop and promulgate standards for highway noise levels compatible with different land uses and after July 1, 1972, shall not approve plans and specifications for any proposed project on any Federal-aid system for which location approval has not yet been secured unless he determines that such plans and specifications include adequate measures to implement the appropriate noise level standards. " (j) The Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall develop and promulgate guidelines to assure that highways constructed pursuant to this title are consistent with any approved plan for the implementation of any ambient air quality standard for any air quality control region designated pursuant to the Clean Air Act, as amended." (c) Subsection (b) of section 307 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding the following sentence: "The highway research program herein authorized shall also include studies to identify and measure, quantitatively and qualitatively, those factors which relate to economic, social, environmental, and other impacts of highway projects." I N T E R E S T PxVYMENTS FOR R E P L A C E M E N T

Noise level standards.

Air quality standards.

81 Stat. 485. 42 USC 1857 note. 72 Stat. 913.

HOUSING

SEC. 137. Section 506 of title 23, United States Code is amended by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c) and inserting a new subsection (b) as follows: "(b)(1) In addition to the amounts otherwise authorized by this title, the State agency shall make an interest payment to compensate such owner for any increased rate of interest which such owner is required to pay for financing such replacement dwelling. "(2) This interest payment shall be computed and allowed only if there was an existing mortgage against the dwelling transferred to the State and such mortgage was a valid lien on said premises for at least one year prior to the institution of negotiations for the acquisition of sudi property, and if the mortgage for the replacement dwelling bears a higher rate of interest than the interest rate on the mortgage of the transferred dwelling; but, in no event shall such interest on the replacement dwelling be greater than the maximum interest allowable under State law. "(3) The value of the interest payment shall be the difference in the interest rate existing on the balance of any mortgage on a transferred dwelling and the interest rate on the mortgage of the replacement dwelling for the remainder of the term of any such mortgage on such transferred dwelling reduced to discounted present value. "(4) The discount rate as above provided shall be the maximum rate of interest permitted to be paid on savings deposits by any savings bank within the State pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation." ALASKAN

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82 Stat. 832; Post, p. 1903,

Limitation.

ASSISTANCE

SEC. 138. (a) Subsection (b) of section 7 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1966 is amended to read as follows: "(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of Federal-aid highways of the State of Alaska, out of the High-

80 Stat. 768. Appropriation.

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