S 1024 · 99th Congress · Agriculture and Food
Appalachian Regional Development Repeal Act of 1985
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Introduced2
Committee3
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House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.(1985-04-26)
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Appalachian Regional Development Repeal Act of 1985 - Repeals the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Transfers to the Secretary of Transportation all functions, powers, and duties of the Appalachian Regional Commission that relate to the Appalachian Development Highway System. Authorizes the Secretary to take all necessary and appropriate actions to administer, monitor, manage to completion, and liquidate all existing grants, contracts, agreements, obligations, or guarantees made by said Secretary under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to assist in the construction of Appalachian development highways and local access roads. Makes funds which were authorized and appropriated for the Appalachian development highway and local access road programs and allocated to the States available to the Secretary for such programs. Makes Appalachian development highways eligible for construction assistance funds from the Highway Trust Fund under the Federal-aid primary highway program. Limits the Federal share to 70 percent for projects approved after March 31, 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, the…
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