FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAMS: STATUS OF FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAMS IN THE ABSENCE OF REAUTHORIZATION. TESTIMONY
This is the statement of Phyllis F. Scheinberg, Associate Director, Transportation Issue, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate. In 1991 the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) authorized over $122 billion in federal funds for highway programs for fiscal years 1992-1997. This authorization expired on September 30, 1997, and no new federal highway funds have been authorized for fiscal year 1998. The states can however, use their unobligated balances that remain from the ISTEA authorization period. For all 50 states, these federal-aid highway balances totaled $12.1 billion at the beginning of fiscal year 1998. This testimony compares unobligated federal highway fund balances at the beginning of fiscal year 1998 with the highway funds that the states obligated during the first part of fiscal year 1997. The testimony also addresses strategies that could temporarily help the states continue to fund highway programs in the absence of a federal highway authorization act.
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U.S. General Accounting Office
441 G Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20548 - Publication Date: 1997-11-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Tables;
- Pagination: 13 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Federal aid; Financing; Highways; States
- Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
- Uncontrolled Terms: Federal highway programs; Reauthorization; Unobligated funds
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00761137
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: GAO/T-RCED-98-38
- Files: NTL, TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 12 1999 12:00AM