A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 with respect to the identification of high priority corridors and the inclusion of certain route segments on the Interstate System, and for other purposes.

Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to include U.S. Route 83 from U.S. Route 281 to U.S. Route 77 as part of the high priority Lower Rio Grande Valley Corridor of the National Highway System in Texas.

Declares that the requirement of connection to an existing Interstate System segment shall not apply to segments of the Lower Rio Grande Valley Corridor or to the U.S. Route 59 Corridor from Laredo through Houston to near Texarkana, Texas.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1037 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1037

 To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
 with respect to the identification of high priority corridors and the 
 inclusion of certain route segments on the Interstate System, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 19, 2011

 Mrs. Hutchison (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) 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 
 with respect to the identification of high priority corridors and the 
 inclusion of certain route segments on the Interstate System, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SEC.

    (a) Identification of High Priority Corridors on National Highway 
System.--Section 1105(c)(18)(D) of the Intermodal Surface 
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 112 Stat. 189) 
is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii) by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iii) by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) include United States Route 83 from 
                        United States Route 281 to United States Route 
                        77.''.
    (b) Inclusion of Certain Route Segments on Interstate System.--
Section 1105(e)(5)(A)(ii) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 109 Stat. 597) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``(except that 
this clause does not apply to any segment of a portion of a route 
referred to in paragraph (18)(D) or (20) of subsection (c))''.
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