TITLE: Long Term Outlook on Highway Trust Fund: Are Fuel Taxes a Viable Measure

CIS-NO: 2003-H751-29  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: July 16, 2002  
LENGTH: v+141 p. il.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-90  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29582-8.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-90. Hearing before the Subcom on Highways and Transportation to examine the financial condition and operation of the Highway Trust Fund, focusing on impact of motor fuel taxes on gasoline and ethanol on revenues used to fund Highway Trust Fund highway and transit programs.
 
Supplementary material (p. 43-141) includes witnesses' written statements.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Hwy Trust Fund financial status and funding sources review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION. HOUSE;  ETHANOL; GASOLINE TAX; HIGHWAY TRUST FUND; HIGHWAYS; STATE GOVERNMENTS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION

03-H751-29 TESTIMONY NO: 1     July 16, 2002 p. 3-11, 125-131
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   TAFT, BOB (Governor, Ohio)
 
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
   Concerns of Ohio State government regarding erosion of revenue from Highway Trust Fund due to ethanol consumption, with recommendations.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Hwy Trust Fund financial status and funding sources review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   OHIO; OHIO GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
 
 
03-H751-29 TESTIMONY NO: 2     July 16, 2002 p. 12-42, 46-79, 83-124, 132-141
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   KING, LARRY (Deputy Secretary, Planning, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; representing American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)
   RUANE, T. PETER (President and CEO, American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA))
   WALKER, THOMAS (Executive Director, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association)
   KUHL, JON (Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa)
   PISARSKI, ALAN E. (transportation consultant)
   DINNEEN, ROBERT (President, Renewable Fuels Association)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Views on and recommendations regarding Highway Trust Fund revenues and financing; overview of ARTBA proposal for financing Federal highway and mass transit programs (related graphs and tables, p. 96-115 passim); merits of motor fuel tax indexing as method of funding transportation projects in Wisconsin.
   Description of study to develop a new approach to assessing road user charges on vehicles traveling on public roadways; assessment of transportation funding mechanisms in foreign countries, citing merits of trust funds employed in U.S.; benefits of ethanol use, with views on ways of reducing adverse impact of ethanol consumption on Highway Trust Fund revenues.
   Elaboration on issues related to highway program financing.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Hwy Trust Fund financial status and funding sources review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS; AMERICAN ROAD AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION; RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION; STATISTICAL DATA: COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION; TOLLS; TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH; WISCONSIN; WISCONSIN TRANSPORTATION BUILDERS ASSOCIATION

LOAD-DATE: July 30, 2003