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RCED-97-73R 1 (1997-02-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacljk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-276166 February 11, 1997 The Honorable John R. Kasich Chairman, Committee on the Budget House of Representatives The Honorable Connie Mack United States Senate As you requested, we are providing our analysis comparing what states received under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) with what they might have received under the proposed Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA 2). On October 2, 1996, you requested that we verify the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) analysis of TEA 2. The verification of FHWA's analysis proved difficult, however, because the assumptions governing it were not documented, and at times FHWA officials were not certain how the data were derived or what financial categories were included. Nonetheless, with the cooperation of and data received from officials in FHWA's Office of Budget and Finance and Office of Policy, we corrected problems with FHWA's analysis and identified data sources and assumptions to use in our analysis. Our analysis is dependent on the assumptions inherent in TEA 2, such as that all states increase their state gas tax by the same amount that the federal tax is decreased. Our analysis is also based on the assumption GAO/RCED-97-73R, Transportation Infrastructure: Estimated Funding Under the Transportation Empowerment Act \c~b 1r~y 158176 66 T 1) (0/

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