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2 CIS H 18123
TITLE: Department of
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2002, Part 4
CIS-NO: 2002-H181-23
SOURCE: Committee on Appropriations.
House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing
Retrieve
the full text of testimony DATE: Mar. 22, 29, Apr. 26, May 9,
2001
LENGTH: ii+1781+xxi p. il. Index.
CONG-SESS: 107-1
ITEM-NO: 1011; 1011-A
SUDOC: Y4.AP6/1:T68/4/2002/PT.4
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2002-10144
INCLUDED IN LEGISLATIVE
HISTORY OF:
P.L.
107-87 SUMMARY: Continuation of hearings before
the Subcom on Transportation Appropriations to consider FY2002 budget requests
for DOT and related agencies.
Also examines issues relating to
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) evaluation and oversight of transit
projects receiving FTA grants.
Some testimony abstracts include
page references to matching submitted justifications in Parts 1 and 2 (see 2001
CIS Index H181-49 and H181-50).
Includes a subject index (p.
iii-xxi).
CONTENT-NOTATION: DOT and related agencies
programs, FY2002 approp
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS. HOUSE;
FEDERAL AID TO TRANSPORTATION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; FEDERAL TRANSIT
ADMINISTRATION; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY; FEDERAL AID TO
STATES-TRANSPORTATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-TRANSPORTATION;
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH
02-H181-23 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Mar. 29, 2001 p. 1-34, 117-595
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WALKER, HIRAM J. (Acting Deputy Administrator, FTA)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Overview of and
issues involved in FTA evaluation, oversight, and funding of transit projects
receiving capital investment grants; details on selected transit projects in
various localities, including Seattle, Wash.; issues relating to FTA clean
fuel formula program and bus rapid transit systems.
BUDGET EXPLANATION: FTA FY2002 request (for submitted justifications,
performance plan, see 2001 CIS Index H181-50, p. 967-1216) for mass transit
assistance programs, including:
a. Job access and reverse
commute grants for transportation services to assist welfare recipients,
low-income persons, and individuals commuting to suburban employment centers.
b. Formula grant programs for State and local governments
for capital assistance, transportation of the elderly and handicapped, and
non-urban area mass transit assistance.
c. Capital
investment grants for modernization of fixed guideway systems; construction of
new fixed guideway systems and extensions of existing systems; and
rehabilitation, replacement and purchase of buses.
d.
University transportation research.
e. Transit planning
and research.
INSERTIONS:
a. FTA, status of
bus projects earmarked funds, FY99-FY2001, list (p. 158-196).
b. FTA, bus and bus facilities projects, obligated and
unobligated balances, FY99-FY2001, table (p. 198-234).
c.
FTA, status of FY99-FY2001 earmarked transit projects with unobligated balances
as of Mar. 31, 2001, table (p. 246-261).
d. FTA, section
5307 urbanized area formula apportionments, FY2001, table, (p. 278-290).
e. FTA, section 5307 urbanized area formula
apportionments, FY2001-FY2002 comparison, table (p. 291-305).
f. FTA, agency personnel by title, grade and salary, list
(p. 369-391).
g. FTA, job access and reverse commute
program grant awards, FY2000-FY2001, tables (p. 409-422).
h. FTA, job access and reverse commute grant program,
projects selected competitively for FY2000 funding, list with summary
descriptions (p. 428-472).
i. FTA, national research and
technology projects programmed FY2000-FY2002, table (p. 560-571).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Fed Transit Admin programs, FY2002
approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PUBLIC
WELFARE PROGRAMS; EMPLOYMENT; POVERTY; COMMUTING; FEDERAL AID TO CITIES;
TRANSPORTATION OF THE AGED; TRANSPORTATION OF THE HANDICAPPED; FEDERAL AID TO
RURAL AREAS; RURAL TRANSPORTATION; SUBWAYS; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MOTOR BUS LINES;
COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; SEATTLE, WASH.;
FUEL; TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATIONS; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; WAGES AND SALARIES; PLANNING
02-H181-23 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Mar. 29, 2001 p.
35-116
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
LLUCH GARCIA, JOSE F. (Executive Director, Puerto Rico
Highway and Transportation Authority)
EARL, JONI (Chief
Operating Officer and Acting Executive Director, Central Puget Sound Regional
Transit Authority)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Status of and issues relating to Tren Urbano rail project
in San Juan, P.R. funded by FTA (related correspondence, p. 48-52); explanation
of recent cost increases and schedule delay for light rail project in Seattle,
Wash., with initiatives taken to improve fiscal control and project management
(related materials, p. 59-71, 87-96); elaboration on fiscal and other issues
relating to Seattle light rail project.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Transit projects funding and mgmt issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
PUERTO RICO HIGHWAY AND
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY; PUERTO RICO; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; SAN JUAN, P.R.;
SEATTLE, WASH.
02-H181-23 TESTIMONY NO: 3
Apr. 26, 2001 p. 597-871
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
SHELTON, L. ROBERT, III (Executive
Director, NHTSA)
BUDGET EXPLANATION: NHTSA FY2002 request (for
submitted justifications, see 2001 CIS Index H181-49, p. 1240-1467) for highway
safety programs operations, research, and grants, including:
a. Promulgation of safety
standards for
motor vehicles and equipment and
fuel economy and theft
prevention
standards, and provision of vehicle safety
information to consumers through the new car assessment program (NCAP).
b. Motor vehicle safety assurance programs, including
safety defects investigation and odometer fraud programs.
c. Highway safety programs involving technical assistance
to States, local governments, and the private sector, including alcohol and drug
safety programs; pedestrian, bicycle, and motorcycle safety programs; promotion
of seat belt and child restraint usage; traffic law enforcement; emergency
medical services; traffic records and driver licensing assistance; and operation
of the National Driver Register.
d. Research and analysis
programs, including crashworthiness and crash avoidance research, National
Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) and NCSA Fatality Analysis Reporting
System and National Automotive Sampling System, and pneumatic tire research.
e. Highway traffic safety grants to States.
INSERTIONS:
a. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
traffic safety miscellaneous issues, articles, Status Report, Apr. 28, 2001 (p.
625-631).
b. NHTSA, motor vehicles crash tested under
NCAP, FY99-FY2001, list (p. 711-718).
c. NHTSA, highway
safety data improvement grants by State, FY2000-FY2001, table (p. 805-811).
d. NHTSA, seat belt use grants by State, FY2000-FY2001,
table (p. 816-825).
e. NHTSA, child passenger protection
education grants by State, FY2000-FY2001, table (p. 840-852).
CONTENT NOTATION:
NHTSA programs, FY2002 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
INSURANCE INSTITUTE
FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY; NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION;
TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY; PETROLEUM CONSERVATION;
ROBBERY AND THEFT; PRODUCT SAFETY; INDUSTRIAL
STANDARDS;
CONSUMER PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES; DEFECTIVE
PRODUCTS; GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS; FRAUD; FEDERAL AID TO
STATES-TRANSPORTATION; FEDERAL AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS-TRANSPORTATION; DRUNK
DRIVING; DRUG ABUSE AND TREATMENT; BICYCLES; MOTORCYCLES; AUTOMOBILE SAFETY
DEVICES; CHILDREN; POLICE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; LICENSES; NATIONAL DRIVER
REGISTER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; ACCIDENTAL
DEATH; FATALITY ANALYSIS REPORTING SYSTEM; NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SAMPLING SYSTEM;
TIRE INDUSTRY; EDUCATION
02-H181-23 TESTIMONY NO: 4
May 9, 2001 p. 873-1040
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
CIRILLO, JULIE A. (Acting Deputy Administrator
and Chief Safety Officer, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA))
BUDGET EXPLANATION: FMCSA FY2002 request (for submitted
justifications, performance plan, see 2001 CIS Index H181-49, p. 1181-1239) for
truck and bus safety programs, including:
a. Motor carrier
safety operations and research, including enhanced motor carrier safety
enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border and the commercial driver's license
improvement program.
b. Motor carrier safety assistance
program for grants to States for compliance and enforcement activities.
c. Information systems and strategic safety initiatives.
DISCUSSION:
Issues relating to planned
opening of U.S. border with Mexico to Mexican trucks, as required under the
North American Free Trade Agreement.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Fed Motor Carrier Safety Admin programs, FY2002 approp
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL MOTOR
CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY; TRUCKS AND TRUCKING
INDUSTRY; MOTOR BUS LINES; FEDERAL AID TO STATES-TRANSPORTATION; MEXICO;
LICENSES; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION
SERVICES; NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
02-H181-23 TESTIMONY NO: 5 Mar. 22, 2001 p. 1041-1781
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
SCHIMMOLLER, VINCENT F. (Deputy Executive Director, FHWA)
BUDGET EXPLANATION: FHWA FY2002 request (for submitted
justifications, performance plan, see 2001 CIS Index H181-49, p. 610-1180) for:
a. Highway Trust Fund expenditures for the Federal Aid
Highway Program, as authorized under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century, including grants to States and localities for highway and bridge
programs, congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program, seatbelt
use improvement and drunk driving law revision incentive grants, intelligent
transportation systems (ITS) R&D and deployment, Federal lands highways
program, national corridor planning and border infrastructure program, and
highway research and technology programs.
b. Appalachian
Development Highway System (ADHS).
c. New Freedom
Initiative to provide transportation alternatives for the disabled, including
innovative transportation pilot program and matching grants for alternative
transportation.
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Review of FHWA strategic goals and objectives; issues
involved in FHWA oversight of major highway projects; challenges and
accomplishments of FHWA staff teams tasked with addressing various highway
safety issues; elaboration on issues relating to ITS and intelligent vehicle
initiative programs.
INSERTIONS:
a. FHWA,
Federal aid highway projects with major increases over original estimated costs,
table (p. 1072-1089).
b. FHWA, transit projects funded
under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, funds obligated as
of Sept. 30, 1999, table, Nov. 2, 2001 (p. 1150-1178).
c.
FHWA, ADHS program funding by State, FY65-FY2000, table (p. 1192-1203).
d. FHWA, environmental research contracts, FY2000-FY2001,
table (p. 1371-1379).
e. FHWA, ITS program spending plan,
FY2000-FY2001, tables (p. 1422-1444).
f. FHWA, budget
earmarks for ITS projects, FY99-FY2000, status, tables (p. 1488-1501).
g. FHWA, ITS costs and benefits, completed studies and
reports, tabular list (p. 1529-1552).
h. FHWA, ITS
projects behind schedule, tabular list (p. 1555-1563).
i.
FHWA, highway project discretionary grants by State, FY2001, table (p.
1704-1738, 1740-1774).
CONTENT NOTATION:
FHWA programs, FY2002 approp
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HIGHWAYS;
BRIDGES; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; AIR POLLUTION; MOTOR VEHICLE EXHAUST; AUTOMOBILE
SAFETY DEVICES; DRUNK DRIVING; STATE LAWS; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; PUBLIC
LANDS; TRANSPORTATION OF THE HANDICAPPED; DEMONSTRATION AND PILOT PROJECTS;
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; URBAN
TRANSPORTATION; INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT; ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS; HIGHWAY TRUST FUND;
FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM; TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY;
PLANNING
LOAD-DATE: June 5, 2003