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 96 STAT. 2126 Federal financisil assistance, distribution procedures.

Report to Congress.

PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983 (b)(l) The Secretary of Transportation shall make a full and complete study regarding the procedures for distributing Federal financial assistance for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing routes on the Interstate System in order to maintain a high level of transportation service. The study shall analyze current conditions and factors including, but not limited to, volume and mix of traffic, weight and size of vehicles, environmental, geographical, and meteorological conditions in various States, and other pertinent factors that can be utilized to determine the most equitable and efficient method of apportioning such Federal financial assistance to the several States. In conducting the study the Secretary shall consider such criteria as need, national importance, impact on individual State highway programs, structural and operational integrity, and any other relevant criteria, to determine the most equitable method of distribution. (2) In conducting this study the Secretary shall consult with other agencies of the Federal Government, the States and their political subdivisions, and other interested private organizations, groups, and individuals. (3) The Secretary shall report to Congress not later than four months after the date of enactment of this section the results of such study together with recommendations for necessary legislation. REPORT REGARDING LONGER COMBINATION COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES

Submittal to Congress. 49 USC 2315 note.

Definitions.

SEC. 138. (a) Within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation with the transportation officials and Governors of the several States and after an opportunity for public comment, shall submit to Congress a detailed report on the potential benefits and costs, if any, to shippers, receivers, operators of commercial motor vehicles, and the general public, that reasonably may be anticipated from the establishment of a national intercity truck route network for the operation of a special class of longer combination commercial motor vehicles. GJ) For the purposes of this section— (1) the term "longer combination commercial motor vehicles" means multiple-trailer combinations consisting of (A) truck tractor-semitrailer-fuU trailer, and (B) truck tractor-semitrailerfull trailer-full trailer combinations with an overall length not in excess of one hundred and ten feet; and (2) the term "national intercity truck route network" means a network consisting of a number of controlled-access, interconnecting segments of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways and other highways of comparable design and traffic capacity including, but not limited to, all such highways where the operation of longer combination commercial motor vehicles is authorized on the date of enactment of this Act. (c) The detailed report mandated by this section shall include, but need not be limited to, the following: (1) a specific plan for the establishment of a national intercity truck route network, including the designation of those specific highway segments which would be required to connect the major distribution centers and markets for long-haul intercity freight service; except that the Secretary of Transportation

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