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Excerpt from Reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (Tea-21): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session; April 25, June 13, 26, July 17, and September 18, 2002 Why all of this growth? I think we will hear from our witnesses today that the answer is due mainly to the improvements that tea - 21 helped our Nation's transit systems make. But the issue before this Subcommittee is not just to hear about how successful tea - 21 was, it is to hear how that success can be continued into the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reauthorization of TEA-21

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 2162


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Congress will soon decide how to allocate more than 200 billion over the next five years to preserve, modernize, and expand the U.S. surface transportation system. When it does, it will update two recent reforms of federal surface transportation law that inaugurated a new era of transportation policy in this country. The laws--the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998 - gave states and metropolitan areas the certainty in funding and the flexibility in program design necessary to attempt new transportation solutions. However, as this brief outlines, the broad reforms boldly initiated on the federal level have not been uniformly implemented. For that reason, the brief argues that reauthorization this year requires Congress to cement and advance the gains achieved in the past decade, and respond more forcefully to the pressing transportation needs of metropolitan America. The brief, to that end, offers a comprehensive policy framework that calls for a two-step approach to reauthorization. Congress must preserve the innovative framework of ISTEA and TEA-21, and ensure that states attend to the needs of their metropolitan areas. It must also give metropolitan areas more powers and greater tools, in exchange for enhanced accountability, to get transportation policy right for their regions.
The contents are presented in five sections, followed by an Authorization Table indicating the amounts, in millions of dollars, allocated to the different programs. The first section, Investing in Our Future, discusses funding level, highway funding equity, the Highway Trust Fund, and other revenue provisions. The next section, Improving Safety, discusses funding for driver and vehicle safety programs, infrastructure safety, motor carrier safety, recreational boating safety, and one-call notification (to reduce unintentional damage to underground facilities). The third section, Rebuilding America's Infrastructure, discusses TEA-21 provisions for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, highway construction programs, transit programs, rail programs, and special programs such as Welfare to Work, the Appalachian Development Highway System, Ferry Boats, National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation, and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge. The fourth section, Protecting Our Environment, discusses TEA-21 provisions for congestion mitigation and air quality improvement, transportation enhancements, bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways, the recreational trails program, the National Scenic Byways Program, the Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot, planning, streamlining, and ozone and particulate matter standards. The final section, Advancing Research and Technology, addresses TEA-21 provisions for research and technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems.