[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 719 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                 S. 719

To extend Corridor O of the Appalachian Development Highway System from 
 its current southern terminus at I-68 near Cumberland to Corridor H, 
  which stretches from Weston, West Virginia, to Strasburg, Virginia.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 6, 2005

 Mr. Sarbanes (for himself and Ms. Mikulski) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend Corridor O of the Appalachian Development Highway System from 
 its current southern terminus at I-68 near Cumberland to Corridor H, 
  which stretches from Weston, West Virginia, to Strasburg, Virginia.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM.

    Section 14501 of title 40, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Purpose.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of Transportation may 
        assist in the construction of an Appalachian development 
        highway system and local access roads serving the Appalachian 
        region to provide a highway system that, in conjunction with 
        the Interstate System and other Federal-aid highways in the 
        Appalachian region, will open an area with developmental 
        potential in which commerce and communication have been 
        inhibited by lack of adequate access.
            ``(2) Limitations.--
                    ``(A) Construction.--Construction on the 
                development highway system described in paragraph (1) 
                shall not be greater than 3,125\1/2\ miles.
                    ``(B) Local access roads.--There shall not be more 
                than 1,400 miles of local access roads that--
                            ``(i) serve--
                                    ``(I) specific recreational, 
                                residential, educational, commercial, 
                                industrial; or
                                    ``(II) similar facilities; or
                            ``(ii) facilitate a school consolidation 
                        program.''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF ADDITION.

    (a) In General.--There is designated as an addition to Corridor O 
in Maryland and West Virginia on the Appalachian Development Highway 
System a segment from Interstate Route 68 to Corridor H.
    (b) Extension and Development.--The addition to Corridor O shall--
            (1) extend approximately 35\1/2\ miles; and
            (2) be developed as a multilane freeway, with interchanges 
        at appropriate crossroad locations.
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