[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 97 (Friday, May 17, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25129-25130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12719]




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Part VIII





The President





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Proclamation 6896--National Defense Transportation Day and National 
Transportation Week, 1996

Executive Order 13003--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate 
Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National 
Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference 
and Their Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of 
Way Employes
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                Proclamation 6896 of May 15, 1996

                
National Defense Transportation Day and National 
                Transportation Week, 1996

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Americans derive daily benefits from the finest 
                transportation system in the world. Our Nation's 
                network of land, sea, and air travel allows for the 
                efficient movement of goods and people, strengthening 
                our economy, uniting our citizens, and linking us to 
                other countries around the globe. As we strive to 
                compete in an international marketplace, we must deepen 
                our commitment to this infrastructure and continue the 
                long-standing partnership between government and 
                industry that has made our successes possible.

                Transportation has played a vital role in America's 
                recent economic recovery, creating some 400,000 new 
                jobs in the last 3 years. Fields that faced financial 
                difficulties just a short time ago, such as aerospace, 
                shipbuilding, and airlines, are now profitable and 
                growing. My Administration has been proud to sign more 
                than 30 new market-opening aviation agreements, 
                including an agreement with Canada, our biggest trading 
                partner, that has generated significant economic 
                activity in just one year and facilitated air travel 
                between our two countries.

                In an effort to build on this progress and further 
                improve efficiency, we have increased our national 
                investment in infrastructure--by some 11 percent a year 
                over early 1990s levels--while streamlining the 
                Department of Transportation by 10,000 employees and 
                cutting red tape to speed the financing and 
                construction of highway projects. Safety remains a top 
                priority in these efforts, and communities across the 
                country are working to protect drivers, passengers, 
                pedestrians, and bicyclists. Sophisticated 
                communications technology helps relieve traffic 
                congestion in urban areas and expanded mass transit 
                systems move people more quickly and safely with 
                minimal environmental impact.

                To celebrate these accomplishments and to honor the 
                millions of men and women, both government and private 
                sector employees, who maintain America's transportation 
                system and contribute so much to our Nation's 
                activities, the Congress, by joint resolution approved 
                May 16, 1957 (36 U.S.C. 160), has designated the third 
                Friday in May of each year as ``National Defense 
                Transportation Day'' and, by joint resolution approved 
                May 14, 1962 (36 U.S.C. 166), declared that the week 
                within which that Friday falls be designated ``National 
                Transportation Week.''

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday, 
                May 17, 1996, as National Defense Transportation Day 
                and May 12 through May 18, 1996, as National 
                Transportation Week. I urge all Americans to observe 
                these occasions with appropriate ceremonies and 
                activities, giving due recognition to the countless 
                individuals and organizations that build, secure, and 
                operate this country's modern transportation system.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and twentieth

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 96-12719
Filed 5-16-96; 12:05 pm]
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