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iiiforination received by the end of such forty-tive-day period and tile the final version of such statement on the basis of such comments and information, together with any other final determination which he is required by law to make in order to permit the construction of such project to proceed. The determination of the Secretary shall be conclusive with respect to all issues of fact. U'RITCK L A N E S
Ante. p. 265.
s^j..^,^ ^^ (a) Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding to the end thereof the following new section:
- § 149. Truck lanes
"The Secretary may approve as a project on any Federal-aid system the construction of exclusive or preferential truck lanes." (b) The analysis of chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: ••14i). Truck lanes.". HKIHWAY
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y^Y-.v.. 143. The Secretary of Transportation shall report to (\)ngress by flanuar-y 1, 1975, on the feasibility and necessity for constructing to appropriate standards proposed highways along the followingroutes: (1) A route from Brunswick, Geor-gia, or its vicinity, to Kansas City, Missouri, or its vicinity, so aligned to serve the following intermediate locations, or vicinities thereof: Columbus. Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Tupelo, Mississippi; Memphis, Tennessee; Batesville or Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Springfield, Missouri. (2) A route from Kansas City, Missouri, or its vicinity, to Chicago, Illinois, or its vicinity, so aligned as to cross the Mississippi River at a point between Xauvoo, Illinois, on the north, and Hannibal, Missouri, on the south. (3) A route from Amarillo, Texas, or its vicinity to Las Cruces, New Mexico, or its vicinity, so aligned as to serve the following intermediate locations, or vicinities thereof: Hereford, Texas; Clovis, New Mexico; Portales, Xew Mexico; Roswell, New Mexico; Ruidoso, New Mexico; Tularosa, New Mexico; and Alamogordo, New Mexico together with a branch route from Alamogordo, New Mexico, or its vicinity, to El Paso, Texas, or its vicinity, to connect with Interstate Route No. 10 and the port of entry with Mexico. (4) A route from the Port of Catoosa, Catoosa, Oklahoma, or its vicinity, to Interstate Route No. 35 to Ponca City, Oklahoma, or its vicinity. (5) Extension of Interstate Highway 7() from Cove Fort, Utah, or its vicinity, in a westerly direction, so aligned to serve the intermediate locations of Ely and Carson City, Nevada, or their vicinities. (6) A route from Kansas City. Missouri, or its vicinity, to l^aton Rouge. Louisiana, or its vicinity, so aligned to ser-ve one or both of the following intermediate locations or vicinities thereof: Fayetteville, Fort Smith, and Texarkana, Arkansas; or Little Rock, Arkansas, or- any other route through the State of Arkansas determined feasible by such State and the Secretary. (7) A route from Interstate Highway 380 from Waterloo. Iowa, via Dubuque, Iowa, to Interstate Highway 90 at Rockford, Illinois; and an extension of Interstate Highway 74 from the Davenport, lowa-Moline, Illinois, area through DubiKjue. Iowa, to Inter-state 90 at LaCrosse. Wisconsin.
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