1976 Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act
Text of Public Law 94-210, the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976.
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1970 White House Transportation Policy Group Meeting
White House memos relating to a December 1, 1970 meeting of the “Transportation Policy Group” – White House, OMB, and DOT officials together with outside academic experts and representatives from other federal agencies. A two-page…
1972 Volpe Memo to Ehrlichman on Penn Central Bankruptcy
A July 19, 1972 memo from Transportation Secretary Volpe to President Nixon’s top domestic policy aide, John Ehrlichman, describing the looming bankruptcy of the Penn Central railroad and the potential federal actions to deal with…
1973 Airport Development Acceleration Act
Text of Public Law 93-44, the Airport Development Acceleration Act of 1973. Section 7 of the law banned airports from collecting what are now called Passenger Facility Charges.
1972 Veto Debate of Airport Expansion Bill and PFC Ban
This is a series of Nixon White House memos from October 1970 – Congress had presented the President with the enrolled bill S. 3755, the Airport Development Acceleration Act of 1970. The bill would have…
1970 (Dec. 9) Final OMB Memo on Highway Bill Conference
December 9, 1970 OMB memo detailing a December 8 conversation between OMB staff and the House Republican members of the conference committee on the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 (H.R. 19504), who were trying to…
1970 (Dec. 8) Memo of Phone Call With Conference Staff on Highway Bill
Memo of December 8, 1970 providing a record of a telephone call between a Nixon Administration official and the Republican staff of the House Public Works Committee indicating how the House-Senate conference committee on the…
1970 (Dec. 2) Draft OMB Letter to Highway Bill Conferees
Draft letter from OMB to the conferees on the 1970 highway bill (H.R. 19504) expressing Administration views on items in the bill. The attachment had already been given to the staffs of the Public Works…
1970 (Dec. 1) Summary of USDOT Views on Pending Highway Bill
December 1, 1970 update of this document from the Department of Transportation expressing whether not DOT’s views on each of the major issues in dispute in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 (H.R. 19504) had…
1970 (Nov.) Summary of DOT, OMB and WH Views on Pending Highway Bill
OMB memo from sometime in November 1970 giving detail of each major issue at stake in the pending highway bill (H.R. 19504) about to go before the House of Representatives and summarizing the OMB, DOT…
1970 (Nov.) USDOT Views on Pending Highway Bill
Memo from the Department of Transportation (undated, but from some time in November 1970) expressing DOT’s position on the various issues under discussion in the House and Senate versions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of…
1970 (Nov. 24) White House Floor Strategy Memo on Highway Bill
November 24, 1970 White House legislative affairs staff memo discussing meetings held with key GOP legislators on the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970 and their reluctant agreement to “swallowing the whole bill on the floor…