DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1970 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts, Chairman JOHN J. MCFALL, California SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio RALPH PRESTON and THOMAS J. KINGFIELD, Staff Assistants to the Subcommittee PART 1 Civil Aeronautics Board Federal Highway Administration Interstate Commerce Commission National Transportation Safety Board United States Coast Guard Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations 34-650 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1969 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Ohio EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts GEORGE E. SHIPLEY, Illinois JOHN J. FLYNT, JR., Georgia NEAL SMITH, Iowa ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut JULIA BUTLER HANSEN, Washington DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina BEN REIFEL, South Dakota RALPH PRESTON and THOMAS J. KINGFIELD, Staff Assistants to the Subcommittee (II) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1970 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1969. STATUS OF BUDGET PROPOSALS WITNESSES CHARLES D. BAKER, DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY Mr. BOLAND. The committee will come to order. We welcome the new addition to this committee, my colleague from Massachusetts, Mr. Conte, who is well known to the Coast Guard from his service on the Treasury and Post Office Subcommittee. As you know, in addition to this committee, he serves on two other subcommittees, Treasury and Post Office and Foreign Assistance, so he is a busy Member of the Congress. We regret that Mr. Jonas of North Carolina is not serving on the subcommittee this year. He gave valuable service as a member of the subcommittee. We welcome the new Deputy Under Secretary of Transportation, Charles Baker, who is from our State. We want to tell you, Charles, that you have come into beautiful surroundings here, as you can see. It is a pleasant atmosphere and people who come here have ordinarily said it is one of the nicest subcommittees to appear before. This morning we shall begin our hearings on the budget for the Department of Transportation. We had hoped it would have been possible for us to start these hearings earlier in the year. There were a number of reasons for not doing so. For one, the legislative programs of the other appropriation subcommittees have interfered. All these subcommittees have been working long hours and rather hard. Then, we did not get the revision of the budget by the new administration until some time in April. Also, there has been a delay in the submission and enactment of various required authorizations. All of these things have precluded an earlier start. We would like again to welcome the Deputy Under Secretary. Secretary Baker, if you will supply us briefly with some of your background, we shall be glad to have the record show it. OPENING REMARKS OF THE DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY Mr. BAKER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First I would like to express my pleasure at being here before your committee on behalf of Secretary Volpe. I think that the importance of these hearings to the Secretary and to the Department can hardly be overstated. Certainly we want to make every effort to present in considerable detail the |