Download or read book Ensuring the Integrity of the Highway Trust Fund written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensuring the Integrity of the Highway Trust Fund written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensuring the Integrity of the Highway Trust Fund written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reauthorization of TEA 21 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 107 2 Hearings Reauthorization Of TEA 21 S Hrg 107 668 Part 1 January 24 2002 Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund written by Phillip R. Herr and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highway Account within the Highway Trust Fund is the primary mechanism for funding fed. highway programs. The account -- administered by the Fed. Highway Admin. (FHWA) -- channels about $33 billion in highway user excise taxes annually to states for highway projects. A shortfall in the balance became imminent in Aug. 2008. In Sept., Congress passed legislation to provide $8 billion to replenish the account, but officials anticipate the account could reach a critical stage again in FY 2009. This report: (1) describes the events that led to the decline in the account balance; and (2) identifies potential improvements in mechanisms to manage account solvency. Includes strategies that could be used to better align account outlays and revenues.
Download or read book Highway Funding written by Phyllis F. Scheinberg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) authorized $217 bill. for surface transportation programs. TEA-21 continued the use of the Highway Trust Fund as the mechanism to account for Fed. highway user tax receipts that fund various surface transportation programs. This report discusses: the Treasury Dept.'s process for allocating highway user tax receipts to the Highway Account of the Fund; FHWA's process for estimating motor fuel usage & the contributions to the account that are attributable to highway users in each state; & the impact of these processes on the amount of highway program funds distributed to each state. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Highway Funding written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund Options for Improving Sustainability and Mechanisms to Manage Solvency written by Phillip R. Herr and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highway Account (HA) within the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is the principal means for funding fed. highway programs. It channels about $33 billion in highway user excise taxes annually to states for highway and related spending. Estimated outlays from the HA exceeded estimated receipts throughout the authorization period -- FY 2005 through 2009. Furthermore, actual HA receipts were lower than had been estimated and the HA balance dropped more rapidly than anticipated, approaching zero in Aug. 2008. This statement summarizes work on: (1) the collection and distribution process for the HA of the HTF; (2) options for improving long-term sustainability of the HTF; and (3) mechanisms to help manage HA solvency. Figures.
Download or read book Subcommittee Hearing on the Upcoming Highway Bill and Ensuring it Meets the Needs of Small Businesses written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of Expected Highway Trust Fund Insolvency written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Trust Funds written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Members of Congress believe that the transportation trust funds should be viewed independently of other federal programs, and that federal transportation program spending should closely track revenues collected for the funds. Other Members of Congress believe that the transportation trust funds must be viewed as components of the entire federal budget and not as a separate element of the budget. Supporters of changing the budget treatment of trust funds, and especially those in favor of moving the trust funds off-budget, state that such a change would create the equivalent of a fire wall around federal transportation programs similar to, but not the same as, the one that exists for the Social Security program. They believe that this mechanism would provide an incentive for budget discipline and reserve the full value of user-fee-funded programs for their mandated purposes. Most importantly, this action would fulfill what they view as a “contractâ€ŗ between the taxpayer and the federal government to spend what are essentially viewed by supporters as user fees. The basic argument of those opposed to changing the treatment of trust funds is the need to maintain the accountability and integrity of the unified federal budget. They assert that the “surplusesâ€ŗ in the transportation trust funds do not exist because the federal government underspends on transportation programs. Transportation spending increased significantly until FY1995 - FY1996 and then increased slightly in FY1997. In FY1998, transportation spending is again appropriated at an increased level. To opponents of changing the treatment of trust funds, this situation demonstrates that special budget treatment of trust funds is not needed to facilitate necessary federal expenditures on transportation programs. The 1st Session of the 105th Congress ended without floor action on legislation that would change the budgetary treatment of transportation trust funds. Legislation giving the transportation trust funds off-budget status was introduced in the House early in the 105th Congress. The Truth in Budgeting Act, H.R. 4, attracted wide support in the House and had 242 cosponsors listed as of September 4, 1997. In addition, the provisions of H.R. 4 were incorporated in H.R. 2400, the Building Efficient Surface Transportation and Equity Act of 1997, (BESTEA) as Title VII. In committee markup on March 24, 1998, this title has been modified to take only the highway trust fund off-budget. Floor action on this legislation occurred on April 1, 1998. The Senate did not consider off-budget legislation in the 1st Session. Instead, legislation that could be viewed as a counterproposal to the off-budget initiative has been introduced. S. 404, the Highway Trust Fund Integrity Act of 1997, proposes the creation of a “revenue constrained fundâ€ŗ within the federal budget that would have some, but not all, of the same spending results as the off-budget bill. The Senate did not consider the budgetary treatment of trust funds during its recently completed floor action on S. 1173, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997 (ISTEA II), which provides for the long term reauthorization of surface transportation programs. It is likely that the budgetary treatment of trust funds will become an issue in conference on surface transportation legislation.
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund Revenue Sources Uses and Spending Controls written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund written by Jonathan Caulfield and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, dedicated revenues to the Highway Trust Fund have been eroding, resulting in fewer resources to fund surface transportation projects and requiring, between 2008 and 2014, transfers of over $50 billion in general revenues. This book reviews how Highway Trust Fund monies are being used to help ensure that sound choices and investment decisions about future funding are made. The book examines what is known about the types of projects, activities, and federal administrative functions and expenses supported by the Department of Transportation (DOT) using Highway Trust Fund monies in fiscal year 2013.
Download or read book Highway Trust Fund written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Financial Status of the Highway Trust Fund Impacts Surface Transportation Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
