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Senate Hearing, 92nd Congress - National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, first session on S.J. Res.88, authorizing additional appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for the purpose of providing urgently needed intercity rail passenger service around the nation and for the purpose of research and development in the field of high-speed ground transportation, and for other purposes; S.1018, to amend The Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 in order to expand the basic rail passenger transportation system to provide service to certain states; S. 1380, to amend The Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970; [and] S.1639, to provide an additional period of time for review of the basic national rail passenger system; to postpone for six months the date on which the National Railroad Passenger Corporation is authorized to contract for provision of intercity rail passenger service; to postpone for 6 months the date on which the corporation is required to begin providing intercity rail passenger service and for other purposes. April 28, 1971.