III. Total borrowings The contemplated bond issues, according to the report of the President's Advisory Committee, are $20,235 million. Senate bill No. 1160 authorizes $21 billion. The annual amounts, as recommended by the committee, are given in schedule 1, attached. IV. Proposed total appropriations The proposed total appropriations for the Interstate System, as stated in the report of the President's Advisory Committee, are as follows (covering the years 1956-87): A. Repay principal__ B. Pay interest_-_. C. Directly for construction_ Total_ The annual amounts are given in schedule 1, attached. Millions $20, 235 11, 548 4, 765 36, 548 The committee also recommended continuing annual authorizations as follows: Million Federal-aid primary system___ $315 Federal-aid secondary system-- 210 Urban extensions of these 2 Federal-aid systems into cities not on the 75 Forest highway system--- 22.5 622.5 Total V. Federal motor-fuel taxes The receipts from these taxes in the years 1956-87 are estimated to be $51.9 billion. The annual amounts, and the breakdown showing the portion needed to finance the 10-year improvement program on the Interstate System, are given in scheulde 1, attached. VI. The detail requested in this question was not supplied by the States A breakdown of the construction into (1) widening and improving of existing free roads and (2) construction of new free roads is not available in these terms. Neither has any estimate been made of the specific mileage to be built in each year. The actual mileage to be built in any year depends upon many factors such as status of location surveys, rights-of-way acquisition, and agreements between governmental agencies in affected areas. FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACT OF 1954-SECTION 13 PROJECT-HIGHWAY NEEDS STUDY SCHEDULE 2.-Mileage and costs for overcoming critical deficiencies, 1955–64: Interstate System, rural Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. Reported by State highway departments. SCHEDULE 3.-Mileage and costs for overcoming critical deficiencies, 1955–64: Interstate System, urban 23, 393 1,945 3, 082, 315 1, 117 4, 466, 450 290 2,891, 329 3, 403 10, 463, 487 Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. Reported by State highway department. SCHEDULE 4.—Mileage and costs for overcoming critical deficiencies, 1955–64: Interstate System, rural and urban Total 8, 181 1, 667, 861 24, 292 12, 864,001 1, 781 5, 106, 898 356 3,016, 833.34, 610 22, 655, 593 Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. Reported by State highway departments. VII. Miles and cost of Interstate System, by States (NOTE. (1) There is no interstate system in Hawaii or Puerto Rico. (2) There are no improvements in the three-lane category.) A-1, A-2: Breakdown of mileage according to the requested categories is not available. The total mileage of proposed improvements 1955-64 is available, however. This is shown in schedules of "Mileage and costs for overcoming critical deficiencies, 1955-64." Schedule 2-For rural interstate. These schedules show, by States, the estimated construction of 2-, 4-, 6-, and over 6-lane roads in the 10-year program. In formation on the amount of proposed Interstate System which is in publicland areas is not available. It is known, however, that 806.5 miles of routes which now exist on interstate locations are forest highways. A State-by-State listing is shown in schedule 5. In addition to this mileage there are approximately 300 miles in other public lands. The State-by-State listing of this 300 miles is not available at this time. In total, about 3 percent of the entire system mileage is in public lands. A-3: Mileage of existing toll roads are shown in schedule 6. SCHEDULE 6.-Existing toll roads by States * Includes only sections opened to traffic. Original section plus western, eastern, and Delaware River extensions. NOTE. No rural-urban segregation available: none are in public lands. |