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Calendar No. 116
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-61
REVIVING AMERICNS SCENIC BYWAYS ACT OF 2019
JULY 23, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 349]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 349) to require the Secretary of Transportation
to request nominations for, and make determinations regarding,
roads to be designated under the national scenic byways program,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and
recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
The National Scenic Byways Program was established under the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991,
and is part of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA). The program is a grass-roots col-
laborative effort established to help recognize, preserve, and en-
hance selected roads throughout the United States. Pursuant to the
program, the Secretary of Transportation recognizes certain roads
as All-American Roads or National Scenic Byways based on one or
more archeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and sce-
nic qualities. The FHWA discontinued the process for designating
roads under the National Scenic Byways Program because the
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) of
2012 did not provide funding for the grant program.
S. 349, Reviving America's Scenic Byways Act of 2019, restarts
the designation process by requiring the Secretary of Transpor-
tation to issue a request for nominations with respect to roads to
be designated under the program, and make publicly available a
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