The Administration's Fiscal Year 1987 Transportation Budget Proposals: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, February 19, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 221 pages |
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Page 94 - ... (2) to private nonprofit corporations and associations for the specific purpose of assisting them in providing transportation services meeting the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons...
Page 159 - Amounts collected and used by the Federal Government for carrying out specific purposes and programs according to terms of a trust agreement or statute, such as the social security and unemployment trust funds. Trust funds are not available for the general purposes of the Government.
Page 171 - AGC strongly believes that subsidizing the gasohol industry at the expense of the nation's highways and bridges is not sound public policy. It violates the user fee principle of the highway program, and the Highway Trust Fund simply cannot afford it. If the gasohol industry must continue to be subsidized, the subsidy should come from general revenues. A vehicle powered by gasohol contributes to the wear and tear of our highways and bridges the same as a vehicle powered by gasoline or diesel fuel.
Page 166 - These negative effects, significant as they are, are only part of the costs which would be inflicted on the economy. Every infrastructure repair delay adds to the eventual cost of that repair. Sacrificing proven and much-needed transportation infrastructure investments for supposed short-term deficit reduction gains will only serve to saddle future generations with a low-growth economy and to create a transportation system burdened with much greater repair and replacement costs.
Page 154 - I appear here today in my capacity as chairman of the highway division of the Associated General Contractors of America.
Page 172 - It violates the user fee principle of the highway program, and the Highway Trust Fund simply cannot afford it. If the gasohol industry must continue to be subsidized, the subsidy should come from general revenues. A vehicle powered by gasohol contributes to the wear and tear of our highways and bridges the same as a vehicle powered by gasoline or diesel fuel. Both vehicles should pay their fair share of highway user fees.
Page 81 - BEFORE THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE ON THE HOUSEHOLD GOODS TRANSPORTATION ACT OP I960 November 30, 1982 Mr.
Page 85 - STATEMENT OF RALPH L. STANLEY ADMINISTRATOR, URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE UNITED STATES SENATE, ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1986 Mr.
Page 94 - ... local units might be entitled to some funds. Douglas Commission Proposal The Douglas Commission also proposed earmarking a portion of the federal income tax base for revenue sharing, but it left the exact percentage open. No restrictions would be placed on the use of the funds by recipient governments. The funds would be distributed to the states on the basis of population and tax effort. In measuring effort, double weight would be given to state income tax revenue in order to encourage this...
Page 154 - DANIEL J. HANSON, SR., PRESIDENT, AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION Mr.