Rail Rapid Transit for the National Capital Region: Hearing, 89-1, July 20-23, 19651965 - 287 pages |
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Agency's ALAN BIBLE amendment approved Arlington Arlington County authorized automobile bill bonds building bus system buses Capital Transit Company Capital Transportation Act Capital Transportation Agency Capitol cars CHAIRMAN CHALK Chicago Citizens Association Commission Commissioners commuter Congress construction contract Corporation cost County D.C. Transit System DEAR SENATOR BIBLE District of Columbia downtown engineering estimates expenses Fairfax Fairfax County Falls Church fare Federal financing franchise freeways fuel tax Government highway House interest interstate compact legislation Maryland mass transit mass transportation MCCARTER ment Metropolitan Washington million Montgomery County MULTER National Capital region National Capital Transportation NCTA parking passengers percent portation President private enterprise private operator problem proposed rail rapid transit rail system railroad rapid rail transit rapid transit system revenue route Roy Chalk Senator KENNEDY Senator TYDINGS statement stations subsection subway system tion transit development program transportation planning U.S. Senate Washington area Washington Metropolitan Area
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Page 126 - Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the conferees and recommended in the accompanying conference report : The House amendment to the text struck out all of the Senate bill after the enacting clause and inserted a substitute.
Page 178 - Plan developed by the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council. The plan projected a total regional population of five million by the year 2000.
Page 4 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 102 - Such loans shall bear interest at a rate not less than (i) a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with remaining periods to maturity comparable to the average maturities of such loans, adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum, plus (ii) an allowance adequate in the judgment of the administering agency to cover administrative costs and probable losses under the...
Page 120 - ... having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows : That the...
Page 115 - An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes", approved June 26, 1912 (DC Code, sec.
Page 267 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed ; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service ; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and...
Page 40 - Act of 1960, an improved transportation system for this area "is essential for the continued and effective performance of the functions of the Government of the United States, for the welfare of the District of Columbia, for the orderly growth and development of the National Capital region, and for the preservation of the beauty and dignity of the Nation's Capital".
Page 5 - SEC. 513. The Administrator shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors...
Page 115 - Tax shown on return. — (1) GENERAL RULE. — Where the amount determined by the taxpayer as the tax imposed by this title, or any installment thereof, or any part of such amount or installment, is not paid on or before the date prescribed for its payment, there shall be collected as a part of the tax, interest upon such unpaid amount at the rate of 1 per centum a month from the date prescribed for its payment until it is paid.