87 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 93-87-AUG. 13, 1973
269
(1) The first sentence is amended by striking out "additional mileage lor the Interstate System of two hundred miles, to be used in making modifications" and inserting in lieu thereof "additional mileage for the Interstate System of five hundred miles, to be used in making modifications". (2) The fourth sentence is amended by striking out "the 1968 Interstate System cost estimate set forth in House Document Numbered 199, Ninetieth Congress, as revised," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "the 1972 Interstate System cost estimate set forth in House Public Works Committee Print Numbered 92-29, as revised in House Report Numbered 92-1443." (3) The fifth sentence is amended by striking out "due regard" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "preference, along with due regard for interstate highway type needs on a nationwide basis,". (b) Subsection (e) of section 103 of title 23, United States Code, is ^"^«' P- 268.. amended by adding the following: "(4) Upon the joint request of a State Governor and the local governments concerned, the Secretary may withdraw his approval of any route or portion thereof on the Interstate System within any urbanized area in that State selected and approved in accordance with this title prior to the enactment of this paragraph, if he determines that such route or portion thereof is not essential to completion of a unified and connected Interstate System or will no longer be essential by reason of the application of this paragraph and will not be constructed as a part of the Interstate System, and if he receives assurances that the State does not intend to construct a toll road in the traffic corridor which would be served by such route or portion thereof. The mileage of the route or portion thereof approval of which is withdrawn under this paragraph shall be available for designation on the Interstate System in any other State in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection. After the Secretary has withdrawn his approval of any such route or portion thereof, whenever responsible local officials of such urbanized area notify the State highway department that, in lieu of a route or portion thereof approval for which is withdrawn under this paragraph, their needs require a nonhighway public mass transit project involving the construction of fixed rail facilities, or the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for any mode of mass transit, or both, and the State highway department determines that such public mass transit project is in accordance with the planning process under section 134 of this title and is entitled to priority 76 Stat. IMS; under such planning process, such public mass transit project shall be ^'*2rusc^i34'. submitted for approval to the Secretary. Approval of the plans, specifications, and estimates for such project by the Secretary shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the United States for payment out of the general funds in the Treasury of its proportional share of the cost of such project in an amount equal to the Federal share which would be paid for such a project under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, except that the total Federal cost of all such projects ^8 Stat. 302. under this paragraph with respect to such route or portion thereof note.'^^*^ ^^°^ approval of which is withdrawn under this paragraph, shall not exceed the Federal share of the cost which would have been paid for such route or portion thereof, as such cost is included in the 1972 Interstate System cost estimate set forth in table 5 of House Public Works Committee Print Numbered 92-29, as revised in House Report Numbered 92-1443. Funds apportioned to such State for the Interstate System, which apportionment is based upon an Interstate System cost estimate that includes a route or portion thereof approval of which is withdrawn under this paragraph, shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Federal share of such project as such share
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