Highway Revenue Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 10660 an Act to Amend and Supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act Approved July 11, 1916, to Authorize Appropriations for Continuing the Construction of Highways ; to Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to Provide Additional Revenue from the Taxes on Motor Fuel, Tires, and Trucks and Buses ; and for Other Purposes, May 17 and 18, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 202 pages |
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additional allocation amended amount annual approximately Association authorized automobiles average Boggs bill buses cabs carriers cents a gallon CHAIRMAN committee Congress construction cost diesel fuel ending June 30 equipment equitable estimated excise tax exemption expenditures Federal gasoline tax Federal highway Federal tax Federal-aid highway financing fiscal year ending fuel tax Gore bill gross weight HARRY FLOOD BYRD hereby Highway Act highway program highway system highway trust fund highway users highway vehicles Interstate System jobber liquefied petroleum gas logging manufacturers mileage miles million National nonhighway oil companies operation passenger percent pounds producer proposed Public Roads refund retail retreading RUTLAND Secretary HUMPHREY Secretary of Commerce Senator BENNETT Senator KERR Senator LONG special motor fuels statement tax imposed tax increases tax on gasoline tax on tires taxicab industry thereof tion toll road ton-mile trailers transportation tread rubber Treasury United United States Senate urban
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Page 24 - If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 15 - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Page 14 - Stat. 805), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the survey, construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of main roads through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations...
Page 8 - Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar construction in the immediate locality, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act (46 Stat.
Page 13 - ... shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof, and such funds shall be deemed to have been expended when so obligated.
Page 2 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 21 - There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Deep Seabed Revenue Sharing Trust Fund...
Page 17 - ... (A) such highway motor vehicle fully equipped for service, and (B) the semitrailers and trailers (fully equipped for service) customarily used in connection with highway motor vehicles of the same type as such highway motor vehicle...
Page 190 - The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to their actual necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
Page 22 - Fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.