The Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100–17, 101 Stat. 132) is a United States

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, containing in Title I, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1987.

History

The bill was introduced in House by

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( D- CA) on January 6, 1987. The bill nominally gave power to apportion money to the

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. It also allowed states to raise the

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to on rural

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s ( of the act, amending ). It was followed by the

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(ISTEA). The local agencies (counties and cities) in California were assured that an equal or not less amount of monies will still be annually apportioned to the counties and cities as they received in 1990–91 under the Federal Highway Act of 1987 under the old Federal Aid Urban (FAU) and Federal Aid Secondary Program.

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Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987PDFdetails
as amended in the GPObr>Statute Compilations collection
1987 in law United States federal transportation legislation {{US-fed-statute-stub