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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, Pub. L. 84–627 was enacted on June 29, 1956, when...
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    The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, also called the Phipps Act (Pub. L. 67–87, 42 Stat. 212), sponsored by Sen. Lawrence C. Phipps (R) of Colorado, defined...
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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 (Public Law 93–87; 87 Stat. 250) is legislation enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law on August...
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    The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 (also known as the Bankhead–Shackleford Act and Good Roads Act), Pub. L. 64–156, 39 Stat. 355, was enacted on July 11...
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  • The following bills in the United States have been known as the Federal-Aid Highway Act or similar names since their initial adoption in 1916. The initial...
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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-495; 82 Stat. 815) is legislation enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law on August...
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    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (Pub. L. 78–521; 58 Stat. 838) is legislation enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law on December...
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  • The U.S. federal-aid highway program was commenced in 1916, with milestones of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The...
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    Assistance Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100–17, 101 Stat. 132) is a United States Act of Congress, containing in Title I, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952
    The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952 authorized $550 million for the Interstate Highway System on a 50–50 matching basis, meaning the federal government...
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    System and the existing federal-aid primary highway system. It also required certain junkyards along Interstate or primary highways to be removed or screened...
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    through the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, and started an effort to construct a national road grid with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921...
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  • Expenditure Act 1882 The Highway Act Amendment Act 1885 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 Federal-Aid Highway Act (disambiguation...
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    United States Department of Transportation (category United States federal executive departments)
    1950 – Federal Aid to Highway, Pub. L. 81–769, 64 Stat. 785 1954 – Saint Lawrence Seaway Act 1956 – Federal-Aid to Highway/Interstate Highway Act, Pub....
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  • was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which provided federal funds for construction of limited access highways. Indiana's initial set...
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    championed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. In 1956, he also opposed the segregationist Southern Manifesto, but he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
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  • construction at the time President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. One example is the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which originally...
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    Interstate 640 (category Auxiliary Interstate Highways)
    Knoxville in 1945 and initiated by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, along with most of the Interstate Highway System. Initial construction work began...
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    Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, which required the formation of an MPO for any urbanized area (UZA) with a population greater than 50,000. Federal funding...
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  • fund federal highways, and several Federal-Aid Highway Acts were passed through the 20th century to build on this law. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944...
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    significantly, the Lincoln Highway inspired the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, also known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627)...
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    Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The Interstate Highway System was expanded to Alaska in 1976, by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976, which defined the system for...
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    opening in 1935. In the US, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 (Phipps Act) enacted a fund to create an extensive highway system. In 1922, the first blueprint...
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    activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed...
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  • Thumbnail for Interstate 40
    generally parallels US 64 and US 70. I-40 was established by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, and the numbering was subsequently approved on August...
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  • The Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974 was signed into law by President of the United States Gerald Ford on January 4, 1975. Among other changes,...
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    The freeway was established by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, replacing a series of existing U.S. highways that had been preceded by local roads...
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    The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 was the first federal highway act. War and lack of funding hampered any positive results of this act. The Federal Aid Highway...
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    Emergency Quota Act Emergency Tariff of 1921 Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921 Future Trading Act Fordney–McCumber Tariff Grain Futures Act Great Railroad...
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    Interstate 40 in North Carolina (category Interstate Highways in North Carolina)
    was an original Interstate Highway planned in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. In North Carolina, the original highway was to run from the Tennessee...
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