United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Congress House of Representatives author aut Government Organization text government publication eng CRPT Congressional Committee Materials 104_cong_reports legislative 2010-08-09 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-12-20 monographic deposited born digital 141 digital object pages Y 1.1/8: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-104hrpt871 P0b002ee18032010d f:hr871.104.txt DGPO 2010-08-09 2024-11-10 CRPT-104hrpt871 machine generated eng fdlp Report PROVISIONS OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APPLICABLE TO COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES; JURISDICTION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE ``Rule X ``Establishment and jurisdiction of standing committees ``The Committees and Their Jurisdiction ``1. There shall be in the House the following standing committees, each of which shall have the jurisdiction and related functions assigned to it by this clause and clauses 2, 3, and 4; and all bills, resolutions, and other matters relating to subjects within the jurisdiction of any standing committee as listed in this clause shall (in accordance with and subject to clause 5) be referred to such committees, as follows: ``(q) Committee on Transportation and infrastructure. ``(1) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy. ``(2) Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters. ``(3) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors. ``(4) inland waterways. ``(5) inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels. ``(6) Navigation and the laws relating thereto, including pilotage. ``(7) Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats. ``(8) Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at sea. ``(9) Measures relating to the Capitol Building and the Senate and House office buildings. ``(10) Measures relating to the construction or maintenance of roads and post roads, other than appropriations therefor; but it shall not be in order for any bill providing general legislation in relation to roads to contain any provision for any specific road, nor for any bill in relation to a specific road to embrace a provision in relation to any other specific road. ``(11) Measures relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian institution. ``(12) Measures relating to merchant marine, except for national security aspects of merchant marine. ``(13) Measures relating to the purchase of sites and construction of post offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia. ``(14) Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters. ``(15) Marine affairs (including coastal zone management) as they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters. ``(16) Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally. ``(17) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams). ``(18) Related transportation regulatory agencies. ``(19) Roads and the safety thereof. ``(20) Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto). ``(21) Water power. FOREWORD The House Transportation & infrastructure Committee: A Track Record of Success in the 104th Congress ``Building for America's Future'' This simple phase is emblematic of the House Transportation and infrastructure Committee's work and remarkable record in the 104th Congress. indeed, building and maintaining a transportation infrastructure that enables our economy to thrive and providing communities with a safe and reliable environmental infrastructure is what the Committee is all about. in the 104th Congress, the Committee undertook an ambitious agenda. Not only was its jurisdiction expanded to include railroads, Coast Guard, and maritime issues--giving it one of the largest jurisdictions in the U.S. House of Representatives--but, working together on a bipartisan basis, the Committee tackled a multitude of important issues, providing national leadership in all aspects of our transportation systems and environmental infrastructure. Through its six subcommittees--Aviation, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Public Buildings and Economic Development, Railroads, Surface Transportation, and Water Resources and Environment--the 64-Member T&I Committee held 137 hearings and markups, heard testimony from over 1,200 public witnesses, and conducted 51 legislative mark-ups. The total of 188 Committee meetings in a single Congress is a testament to the efforts and dedication of Members and staff. On a substantive level, the Committee shaped legislation to finance the development of our nation's infrastructure into the next century. in doing so, it reaffirmed the important Federal role in developing both transportation and environmental infrastructure to help create jobs and spur economic growth. At the same time, the Committee reviewed long-standing Federal agencies and programs, reforming or modifying those that no longer served the country well. It sought to streamline Federal regulatory requirements and to return power to States and local communities where appropriate. The Committee also examined the safety of our various transportation modes and developed several legislative reforms to address shortcomings. Finally, the Committee worked to achieve progress in protecting our environment through a sound policy and environmental framework. Ever since this country was founded, the importance of our transportation system has been a nationally recognized priority. Beginning with our ocean ports, and then later canals, railways, highways, and airports, wherever there were transportation links, communities prospered. Given today's increasingly global marketplace, where just-in-time manufacturing is becoming a major competitive requirement, the need for an efficient intermodal transportation system is more important than ever before. Unfortunately, the current budget inhibits investments in infrastructure. Unlike most state governments, the Federal budget does not differentiate between capital and consumption spending. If it did, much of the Transportation and infrastructure Committee's expenditures would fall under a capital investment budget. Although four user-financed transportation trust funds (aviation, highway, inland waterways, and harbor maintenance) were established to ensure continued capital investment in roads, bridges, transit, airports, harbors, locks, and canals, they are tied to a unified budget. As Federal entitlements grow and pressure to balance the budget increases, spending from the ever-growing trust funds erodes. to break this destructive status quo, T&I Committee Members unanimously sponsored H.R. 842, the ``Truth in Budgeting Act,'' bipartisan legislation adopted by the full House on an overwhelming 284-143 vote, that would free the transportation trust funds from the Federal budget, thereby allowing them to operate on a pay-as-you-go basis as originally intended. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that money collected from system users is spent as the Federal Government promised--to maintain and improve the infrastructure relied upon to transport goods, services, and people. With enactment of H.R. 2274/S.440, the ``National Highway System Designation Act,'' the National Highway System (NHS) was established. The NHS, comprised of 160,000 of the most important miles of highway in America, will be to the 21st Century what the interstate Highway System was to the 20th Century. The Act made available to the States nearly $12 billion in National Highway System (NHS) and interstate maintenance funds. This represents a major investment in our economy, creating jobs and ensuring that our network of highways can meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that every $1 billion invested in highway infrastructure directly creates 42,000 high-paying jobs. But the benefits of our transportation infrastructure extend beyond job creation. Transportation is the lifeblood of our economy. One only needs to recall the historic blizzard that engulfed the Northeast in early January 1996 to understand the vital role transportation plays in our daily lives. indeed, many cities in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic States were utterly paralyzed. The losses in terms of productivity to all business sectors was pronounced. Imagine if our economy relied on a crippled transportation system year- round. Another critical transportation investment was made in our aviation system with the successful passage of H.R. 3539, authorizing the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). This bill provides $7 billion from Aviation Trust Fund receipts for capital expansion projects. Already, 23 airports experience more than 20,000 hours of delays annually. The number of airports with significant delays is expected to grow to 33 by 2002. Moreover, growth in passenger travel is expected to double in the next fifteen years, from 500 million to one billion passengers annually. AIP funds are critical to ensuring our system can safely meet the needs of the flying public. The Committee also reaffirmed its commitment to our nation's environmental infrastructure. in H.R. 961, the ``Clean Water Amendments of 1995,'' the Committee authorized $2.3 billion a year for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) to finance wastewater infrastructure and source water protection. in H.R. 3604/S. 1316, the ``Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments,'' which became law on August 6, 1996, the Committee was instrumental in assuring that $1 billion a year would be available to States and communities for an SRF to help fund improved drinking water infrastructure. Communities are able to leverage SRF money in bond markets to reap benefits several times greater than they would through a conventional grant program. Both loan programs allow small and disadvantaged communities to acquire low- or no-interest loans. Moreover, these innovative accounts will become self-sustaining as communities begin to repay the loans. H.R. 3593/S. 640, the ``Water Resources Development Act,'' makes further investments in both our economic and environmental infrastructure by providing a $3.8 billion Federal authorization for navigation, flood control, and environmental restoration projects carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers. Navigation projects undertaken by the Corps and authorized through this legislation represent the backbone of the nation's waterborne commerce. in the environmental arena, the Corps is uniquely capable to undertake efforts in hurricane and flood protection as well as programs that improve our environment, such as wetlands restoration. The economic and social benefits to the American people are significant and cannot be fully quantified. in addition to the key role of the Committee in improving the nation's infrastructure, the Committee advanced a number of other goals in a variety of pieces of legislation: Downsizing Federal bureaucracy: through the ICC Termination Act (enacted into law) and the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, the Committee addressed the need to eliminate wasteful government spending by downsizing the government where possible. Making government work better: the House approved legislation to reauthorize and reform Amtrak so that it would be able to operate more as a business. in addition the Committee initiated legislation which was enacted to establish the FAA as an independent agency with greater flexibility in the areas of personnel and procurement and to modernize the Railroad unemployment insurance system. Streamlining and improving Federal regulations: in a variety of pieces of legislation (e.g. the Deepwater Port Modernization Act and the Pipeline Safety Act) the Committee sought to streamline the regulatory process. Empowering State and local governments: The Committee found opportunities to return power to the States where appropriate (e.g. the National Highway System Designation Act, which eliminated Federal requirements for management systems and crumb rubber usage). Promoting Safety: Safety was an important element of many of the Committee's bills (e.g. the National Highway System Designation Act, which requires States to establish and enforce a ``zero tolerance'' level for alcohol for drivers under age 21) as well as the oversight activities of the Committee. HRPT CRPT-104hrpt871 HOUSE 104 871 2 false true https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-104hrpt871 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-104hrpt871/html/CRPT-104hrpt871.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-104hrpt871/pdf/CRPT-104hrpt871.pdf H. Rept. 104-871 (104-82) SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES--COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION Convened January 5, 1995 Adjourned January 3 (Legislative day of Dec. 22, 1995), 1996 SECOND SESSION Convened January 3, 1996 Adjourned October 4, 1996;H. Rept. 104-871 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed FIRSTPART CRPT-104hrpt871 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 2 Mr. Shuster, from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, submitted the following Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Transportation and Infrastructure Mr. Shuster Bud Shuster Shuster, Bud

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