ESTABLISH A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 3010

A BILL TO ESTABLISH A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

CONTENTS

Opening statement of the chairman..

S. 3010, a bill to establish a Department of Transportation, and for other
purposes..

Message from the President of the United States transmitting the pro-

posal to the Congress...

Staff memo No. 89-2-11, dated March 25, 1966.......

WITNESSES

MARCH 29, 1966

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Hon. Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Senator from the State of Washington.

Hon. Charles Schultze, Director, Bureau of the Budget__

Hon. John T. Connor, Secretary of Commerce_

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Hon. Alan S. Boyd, Under Secretary for Transportation, Department of

Commerce__

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Maj. Gen. R. G. MacDowell, Acting Chief of Engineers, Office of the

Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army...

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MARCH 30, 1966

Hon. Charles M. Haar, Assistant Secretary for Metropolitan Develop-

ment, Department of Housing and Urban Development_

Charles E. Shumate, president, and A. E. Johnson, executive secretary,

American Association of State Highway Officials..

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APPENDIX

EXHIBIT 1. Principal transportation proposals__

143

EXHIBIT 2. Analysis of section 7:

The use of standards and criteria in the formulation and evaluation of

Federal transportation investments..

146

The use of standards and criteria in the formulation and evaluation of

Federal water resources development projects___

149

U.S. Coast Guard..

(h) The Alaska Railroad_

EXHIBIT 3. Steps leading up to authorization of a waterway project

(chart)

EXHIBIT 4. Department of Transportation (briefing book):

1. Objectives of transportation reorganization proposals..

2. Establishments of executive departments__

3. Formation of recent Cabinet offices.

4. Section-by-section summary of the bill.

5. Technical addendum to section-by-section summary.

6. The Department of Transportation (agencies and functions trans-

ferred in the bill).---

7. Agencies included and excluded..

8. General transfers of authority to Department heads__.

9. Summaries of all elements transferred to the new Department..

(a) Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation__

(b) Bureau of Public Roads_-

(c) Maritime Administration_.

(d) St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation..

(e) Great Lakes Pilotage Association..

Federal Aviation Agency..

(2) Bureau of Safety (CAB)..

Motor, rail, and pipeline safety, car service (ICC).

Corps of Engineers (certain functions) -