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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 64
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 117-41
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF
2021
OCTOBER 6, 2021.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CARPER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 1931]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works reports an
original bill (S. 1931) to amend title 23, United States Code, to au-
thorize funds for Federal-aid highways and highway safety con-
struction programs, and for other purposes, and recommends that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
S. 1931 authorizes Federal-aid highway and highway safety con-
struction programs from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2026.
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
highways, directed considerable funding to the building of the
Interstate System. The legislation also established the Highway
Trust Fund (HTF) as the mechanism for funding the Federal-aid
highway program and increased some of the existing highway-re-
lated Federal fees, established new fees, and provided that most of
the revenues from these fees be deposited in the HTF. A number
of multi-year reauthorization bills have been passed in the decades
following, which authorized and modified the Federal-aid highway
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