(d) Any sums apportioned to any State under the provisions of this section shall be available for expenditure in that State for two years after the close of the fiscal year for which such sums are authorized to be appropriated, and any portions of sums so apportioned remaining unexpended at the end of such period shall lapse. For the purposes of this subsection any sums apportioned to a State shall be deemed to have been expended, if the State has entered into a formal agreement with the Secretary of Commerce for the expenditure of such sums on specific highway projects.

(e) Not to exceed $270,000,000 of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by this section for any fiscal year may be expended for urban access roads in connection with the national system of interstate highways.

(f) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to prescribe a uniform system of road markings to be used on the national system of interstate highways, including the intersections of such highways with all other highways and roads.

TEN-YEAR AUTHORIZATIONS FOR FOREST ROADS

SEC. 3. (a) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 218), as amended and supplemented, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each of the ten fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, (1) for forest highways, the sum of $24,000,000; and (2) for forest development roads and trails, the sum of $24,000,000.

(b) The sums authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a) for forest development roads and trails shall also be available for provision of vehicular parking areas and recreation areas.

(c) In any case involving the proposed construction or reconstruction of a timber access road with funds made available under the provisions of this section, advisory public hearings shall be held at a place convenient or adjacent to the area of construction or reconstruction and notice and reasonable opportunity to interested persons to present their views as to the practicability and feasibility of such construction or reconstruction shall be given.

(d) The sums authorized by this section to be appropriated for forest highways shall be apportioned by the Secretary of Commerce for expenditure in the several States, Alaska, and Puerto Rico in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950.

TEN-YEAR AUTHORIZATIONS FOR NATIONAL PARK ROADS, PARKWAYS, INDIAN ROADS, AND FEDERAL RESERVATION ROADS

SEC. 4. (a) For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails (including necessary bridges) in national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments and for national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat. 1053), as amended, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each of the ten fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $14,000,000.

(b) For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of parkways, authorized by Acts of Congress, on lands to which title is vested in the United States, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each of the ten fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $11,000,000. (c) For the construction, improvement, and maintenance of Indian reservation roads and bridges, and roads and bridges to provide access to Indian reservations and Indian lands under the provisions of the Act approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 750), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each of the ten fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $8,000,000.

(d) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 10 of the FederalAid Highway Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 785), 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 for each of the ten fiscal years, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, the sum of $1,000,000.

(e) The location, type, and design of all roads and bridges constructed pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be approved by the Secretary of Commerce before any expenditures are made thereon, and all such construction shall be under the general supervision of the Secretary of Commerce.

ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS AUTHORIZED BY SECTIONS 3 AND 4

SEC. 5. Any funds authorized to be appropriated by section 3 or section 4 for any fiscal year shall be deemed to be available for the purpose of entering into contracts for the expenditure of such funds from and after the first day of January of the year in which such fiscal year begins. Any amount authorized to be appropriated by section 3 or section 4 remaining unexpended two years after the close of the fiscal year for which authorized to be appropriated shall lapse. Subject to the provisions of the first sentence of this section, the Secretary of the Department charged with the administration of such funds is hereby granted authority to incur obligations, approve projects, and enter into contracts under such authorizations and his action in doing so 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.

INTERSTATE SYSTEM

SEC. 6. In furtherance of section 7 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, within the limitation of forty thousand miles, to approve as part of the interstate system such lateral feeder and distributing routes and circumferential routes as may be required to furnish maximum utility of the system within or adjacent to urban areas, provided that one or both ends of such routes shall lie on a route of the system. The Secretary is further authorized to approve as part of the interstate system any highway which complies with the standards of section 7 and which lies on an approved route of the interstate system irrespective as to whether or not tolls are collected for the use thereof. The Secretary is authorized, in cooperation with the State highway departments, to designate as promptly as he deems desirable routes to take up the mileage still undesignated so that the entire forty thousand miles of the system shall be designated. In approving any undesignated mileage the Secretary shall designate routes which shorten connections between control centers and contribute to the benefit of the system as a whole and are important from the point of view of national defense. In case the actual construction of highways on the system increases available undesignated mileage, the Secretary may redesignate this mileage in accordance with the preceding sentence.

STANDARDS FOR INTERSTATE SYSTEM

SEC. 7. (a) The standards to be used for the interstate system shall be those approved by the Secretary after consultation with the Department of Defense, the Federal Civil Defense Administration, and the State highway departments. The Secretary is authorized to make the final determination of the standards to be used.

(b) The geometric standards for the interstate system shall be such standards as are deemed adequate to properly accommodate the types and volume of traffic forecast for the twenty years immediately following enactment of this Act. Such standards shall provide for the development of a system as nationally uniform in characteristics as possible within a ten-year construction period. (c) The right-of-way width on the interstate system shall be adequate to permit construction of the route to the geometric standards provided for in subparagraph (b) for a period of at least twenty years following the date of authorization of a project under this Act. Such width shall not be deemed adequate if (1) it does not include provision for the addition of more traffic lanes at a future date, except that the maximum width in any case need not exceed that necessary for three moving lanes in each direction, plus service roads as necessary; and if (2) it does not contain the proper and necessary degree and type of control of access or exits from the highway which will permit maximum freedom of traffic flow and promote national safety.

(d) The standards shall be periodically reviewed by the Secretary to insure maximum utility of the completed system with due recognition to the desirability of developing a national system having the greatest uniformity of characteristics possible.

CONTINUANCE IN EFFECT OF PROVISIONS OF PREVIOUS FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACTS

SEC 8. All provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, approved December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 838); the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1948, approved June

29, 1948 (62 Stat. 1105); the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1950, approved September 7, 1950 (64 Stat. 785); the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952, approved June 25, 1952 (66 Stat. 158), and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954, approved May 6, 1954, not inconsistent with this Act, shall remain in full force and effect.

TITLE II-NATIONAL INTERSTATE HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY

CORPORATION

CREATION OF CORPORATION

SEC. 201. There is hereby created, subject to the direction and supervision of the President, a body corporate to be known as the National Interstate Highway Right-of-Way Corporation. As hereafter provided in section 403, the Corporation shall be subject to the provisions of the Government Corporation Control Act. The principal office of the Corporation shall be located in the District of Columbia.

MANAGEMENT OF CORPORATION

SEC. 202. (a) The management of the Corporation shall be vested in a Board of Directors (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") composed of five members who shall be the Secretary of Commerce (hereinafter called "Secretary"), the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Interior, or their representatives. The Board shall meet at least four times a year, or more often, at the call of the Secretary of Commerce who shall be Chairman of the Board.

(b) The Chairman of the Board shall preside at meetings of the Board and be the Corporation's chief representative. He shall be responsible for general supervision of the activities of the staff of the Corporation. He shall also maintain liaison with the representatives of the States with respect to the operations of the Corporation in the various States. The Chairman in the conduct of his functions as chairman shall act in conformance with determinations of the Board and may designate one executive secretary for the Board who shall receive compensation at the rate of $15,000 per annum.

(c) The members of the Board shall receive no additional compensation, but may receive transportation expenses, in accordance with the standardized Government Travel Regulations, when engaged on assignment by the Board or the Chairman in connection with the business of the Corporation.

DUTIES OF CORPORATION

SEC. 203. (a) It shall be the duty of the Corporation

(1) to acquire, in the name of the United States, by purchase, donation, condemnation, or otherwise in accordance with the laws of the United States (including the Act of February 26, 1931, 46 Stat. 1421), such lands and interests in lands (including the right to control access to any lands from adjoining lands) as the Secretary of Commerce upon request by a State highway department accompanied by its agreement to pay 10 per centum of the cost thereof, may have determined to be necessary in order to provide adequate rights-of-way for any portion of the national system of interstate highways to be hereafter constructed or reconstructed;

(2) to grant, for valuable consideration, easements to maintain water, power, heat, and communications lines, pipelines, and any facilities for the rendition of public utility services on, over, or under any lands acquired (or interests in which are acquired) pursuant to paragraph (1);

(3) to grant, for valuable consideration, temporary permits to graze stock, to cut hay, to conduct other agricultural operations, or to maintain emergency landing fields for aircraft on any lands acquired (or interests in which are acquired) pursuant to paragraph (1) ; except that any such permit shall not authorize the continuance, after such lands are devoted to rightof-way purposes, of any operations on such lands which are not consistent with the use of such lands for right-of-way purposes;

(4) to contruct, operate, and maintain toll bridges over or tunnels under any waters crossed by the route of any highway on the national system of interstate highways utilizing lands acquired for right-of-way purposes pursuant to paragraph (1); and

(5) to provide for the issuance of permit licenses as required under the provisions of title III of this Act for motor vehicles of twenty thousand pounds or more gross weight using any highway in the interstate system, and to use the income from the issuance of such permit licenses for expenses incident to such issuance and for debt service on the general obligations of the Corporation authorized under section 205 (a) of this Act. (b) In carrying out its duties under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section, the Corporation shall give priority to the acquisition of those lands or interests in lands which will be first required for right-of-way purposes in connection with the construction or reconstruction of the national system of interstate highways and to the acquisition of those lands or interests in lands which are most likely rapidly to increase in value.

(c) The tolls charged by the Corporation for the use of any bridge or tunnel constructed by it pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of subsection (a) shall be fixed by it, from time to time, at such rates as will enable it to collect over a period of fifty years sufficient revenues to pay the costs of construction of such bridge or tunnel (including financing costs), the interest on any bonds issued to finance the construction of such bridge or tunnel, and the costs of operation and maintenance of such bridge or tunnel during such fifty years. Any tolls charged after the expiration of such fifty years for the use of any such bridge or tunnel shall be adequate to provide for the operation and maintenance of such bridge or tunnel and to provide the Corporation with a fair share of the funds required to meet the debt service on its obligations issued pursuant to section 205 (a) of this Act.

CORPORATE POWERS

SEC. 204. For the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Act, the Corporation

(1) shall have succession in its corporate name;

(2) may adopt and use a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed; (3) may sue and be sued in its corporate name;

(4) may adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations governing the manner in which its functions may be carried out and the powers vested in it may be exercised;

(5) may make and carry out such contracts, agreements, or other transactions as it may deem necessary or advisable in the conduct of its business; (6) may incur indebtedness as provided in section 205, and incur current obligations incidental to performing its functions, subject to provisions of law applicable to Government corporations;

(7) may appoint such officers, agents, attorneys, and employees as it deems necessary for the conduct of its affairs, define their authority and duties, delegate to them such of the powers vested in the Corporation as the Board may determine, require bonds of such of them as the Board may designate, and fix the penalties and pay the premiums on such bonds;

(8) may utilize the available services and facilities of other agencies as provided in section 206;

(9) may use the United States mails in the same manner as the executive departments; and

(10) may take such actions and exercise such other powers as may be necessary, incidental or appropriate to carry out the function of the Corporation, and to further the objectives of this Act.

CORPORATE FINANCING

SEC. 205. (a) The Corporation is authorized to issue, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, general obligations under the authority of this subsection in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000,000, of which not to exceed $500,000,000 shall be issued in any calendar year. Obligations issued under this subsection shall have such maturities, not to exceed 30 years, and shall bear such rate or rates of interest, as may be determined by the Corporation with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and they shall be redeemable at the option of the Corporation before maturity in such manner as may be stipulated in the obligations. The Corporation shall insert appropriate language in all of its obligations issued under this subsection clearly indicating that the obligations, together with the interest thereon, are not guaranteed by the United States and do not constitute a debt or obligation of the United States or of any agency or

insrumentality thereof other than the Corporation. The Corporation is authorized to purchase in the open market for retirement, at any time and at any price, any outstanding obligations issued under this subsection. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase any obligations of the Corporation to be issued under this subsection, and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as now or hereafter in force, are extended to include any purchases of the Corporation's obligations hereunder.

(b) The Corporation is authorized to issue, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, revenue bonds to raise the funds required to enable it to construct any toll bridge or tunnel constructed by it pursuant to the provisions of section 203 (a) (4). Such bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable only from the tolls collected on such bridge or tunnel, shall have such maturities, not to exceed fifty years, shall bear such rate or rates of interest as may be determined by the Corporation with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be redeemable at the option of the Corporation before maturity in such manner as may be stipulated in the bonds. The Corporation shall insert appropriate language in all such bonds clearly indicating that such bonds, together with the interest thereon, are payable only from the tolls collected on the bridge or tunnel constructed with the funds raised by the issuance of such bonds, that they are not general obligations of the Corporation, and that they are not guaranteed as to principal or interest by the United States and do not constitute a debt or obligation of the United States or of any agency or instrumentality of the United States. The aggregate amount of the bonds issued under this subsection to finance the construction of any one bridge or tunnel shall not exceed $ and the aggregate amount of the bonds issued under this subsection to finance the construction of all bridges or tunnels constructed by the Corporation shall not exceed $

(c) All obligations issued by the Corporation shall be lawful investments, and may be accepted as security, for all fiduciary, trust, and public funds, the investment or deposit of which shall be under authority and control of the United States or any officer or officers thereof.

(d) The penultimate sentence of paragraph seventh of section 5136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, is amended by inserting after the phrase "or obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association," the phrase "or obligations of the National Interstate Highway Right-of-Way Corporation,”. (e) All revenues of the Corporation shall be maintained as a trust fund.

SERVICES AND FACILITIES OF OTHER AGENCIES

SEC. 206. (a) To the extent specifically authorized by the President, the Corporation shall, with the consent of the agency concerned, accept and utilize, on a reimbursable basis, the services of the officers, employees, facilities, and information of any agency of the United States, except that any such agency having custody of any data relating to any of the matters within the jurisdiction of the Corporation shall, upon the request of the Corporation, make such data available to the Corporation without reimbursement.

(b) The Corporation shall contribute to the civil-service retirement and disability fund, on the basis of annual billings as determined by the Civil Service Commission, for the Government's share of the cost of the civil-service retirement system applicable to the Corporation's employees and their beneficiaries. The Corporation shall also contribute to the employee's compensation fund, on the basis of annual billings as determined by the Secretary of Labor, for the benefit payments made from such fund on account of the Corporation's employees. The annual billings shall also include a statement of the fair portion of the cost of the administration of the respective funds, which shall be paid by the Corporation into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS

SEC. 207. (a) All general penal statutes relating to the larceny, embezzlement, or conversion, of public moneys or property of the United States shall apply to the moneys and property of the Corporation.

(b) Any person who, with intent to defraud the Corporation, or to deceive any director, officer, or employee of the Corporation or any officer or employee of