A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify a route that passes through the States of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.

Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor (or SPIRIT Corridor), which extends along U.S. Route 54 from its starting point at El Paso, Texas, on the border between the United States and Mexico, through Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and ending in Wichita, Kansas.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[S. 169 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 169

 To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
   to identify a route that passes through the States of Texas, New 
    Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas as a high priority corridor on the 
                        National Highway System.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 26, 2005

Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Inhofe) 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 amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
   to identify a route that passes through the States of Texas, New 
    Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas as a high priority corridor on the 
                        National Highway System.

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

SECTION 1. SOUTHWEST PASSAGE INITIATIVE FOR REGIONAL AND INTERSTATE 
              TRANSPORTATION.

    Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency 
Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(46) The corridor extending from the point on the border 
        between the United States and Mexico at El Paso, Texas, where 
        United States Route 54 begins, along United States Route 54 
        through the States of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, 
        and ending in Wichita, Kansas, to be known as the `Southwest 
        Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation 
        Corridor' or `SPIRIT Corridor'.''.
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