Highway Funding
Highway Funding

Author: Phyllis F. Scheinberg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780756703967

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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.

Highway Funding
Highway Funding

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781289098131

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.