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 87 STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 9 3 - 8 7 - A U G. 13, 1973

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MINIMIZATION OF REDTAPE

SEC. 108. Section 101 of title 23 of the United States Code is amended g/staSfVyfs!' by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(e) I t is the national policy that to the maximum extent possible the procedures to be utilized by the Secretary and all other aflfected heads of Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities for carrying out this title and any other provision of law relating to the Federal highway programs shall encourage the substantial minimization of paperwork and interagency decision procedures and the best use of available manpower and funds so as to prevent needless duplication and unnecessary delays at all levels of government." FEDERAL-AID URBAN SYSTEM

SEC. 109. (a) Subsection (d) of section 103 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth sentences and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The Federalaid urban system shall be established in each urbanized area, and in such other urban areas as the State highway department may designate. The system shall be so located as to serve the major centers of activity, and shall include high traffic volume arterial and collector routes, including access roads to airports and other transportation terminals. No route on the Federal-aid urban system shall also be a route on any other Federal-aid system. Each route of the system to the extent feasible shall connect with another route on a Federal-aid system. Routes on the Federal-aid urban system shall be selected by the appropriate local officials so as to serve the goals and objectives of the community, with the concurrence of the State highway departments, and, in urbanized areas, also in accordance with the planning process under section 134 of this title. Designation of the Federalaid urban system shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary as provided in subsection (f) of this section." (b) Subsection (d) of section 105 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: " (d) In approving programs for projects on the Federal-aid urban system, the Secretary shall require that such projects be selected by the appropriate local officials with the concurrence of the State highway department of each State and, in urbanized areas, also in accordance with the planning process required pursuant to section 134 of this title."

84 Stat. i7i6; ° ' P* ®

^^ Stat. lus; ^^ Stat. 1717.

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REMOVAL OF DESIGNATED SEGMENTS OF THE INTERSTATE SYSTEM

SEC. 110. (a) Section 103(g) of title 23, United States Code, is 84 Stat. 1729. amended to read as follows: " (g) The Secretary, on July 1, 1974, shall remove from designation as a part of the Interstate System each segment of such system for which a State has not notified the Secretary that such State intends to construct such segment, and which the Secretary finds is not essential to completion of a unified and connected Interstate System. Any segment of the Interstate System, with respect to which a State has not submitted by July 1, 1975, a schedule for the expenditure of funds for completion of construction of such segment or alternative segment within the period of availability of funds authorized to be appropriated for completion of the Interstate System, and with respect to which the State has not provided the Secretary with assurances satisfactory to him that such schedule will be met, shall be removed from designation as a part of the Interstate System. No segment of the Interstate System removed under the authority of the preceding sentence shall

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