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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 170
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 116-200
AMERICNS TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ACT OF
2019
JANUARY 8, 2020.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2302]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2302) to amend title 23, United States Code,
to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways and highway safety
construction programs, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment in the na-
ture of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as amended, do
pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
Legislation authorizing Federal investment in our nation's high-
ways dates back over 100 years, to the passage of the Federal Aid
Road Act of 1916 and the Federal Highway Act of 1921. However,
it was the enactment of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956
which significantly increased Federal investment in America's
highway system, directed considerable funding to the building of
the Interstate System, and established the Highway Trust Fund as
the mechanism for financing the highway program. In addition,
passage of the Highway Revenue Act of that same year increased
some of the existing highway-related Federal fees, established new
fees, and provided that most of the revenues from these fees be de-
posited in the Highway Trust Fund as the means to finance the
Federal-aid highway program. A number of multi-year authoriza-
tion bills have been passed in the decades following which author-
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