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- electric
test train,
the
DOT Office of High-Speed Ground Transportation
has scheduled a news
media run Wednesday morning, May 24, on the 21-mile test track between
Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey.
This train,
which is equipped with research test
- Folder, "Volume I, Documentary Supplements, News Releases," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 3
- to the same effect could be included in
Section 3 either as a part of or as a new subsection following
Sub~ection (d), with the succeeding Subsections to be renum•
bered as required.
In either event, Section 8(1) should be
amended to insert the following
-
to the· total
transportation
picture
in North
America
and to the role
of air transport.
- 3 What I will
--That
ask
of you
you be aware
of
--that
you be aware.of
new technology;
of
--and
that
your actions
today
is
quite
the
desires
- bis
Committee.
Senator McClellan told Alan Boyd and me that he will hold
the hearings himself on the Department
of Transportation
bill and will "expedite" the matter.
His first question
concerned what functions if any the new Department would
take from
- are producing
a new
second page, which will be available
early tomorrow
morning.
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Two
- DCT and
of the
Part
is
the
Development
the
of New Conununi ties
Federal
response
Act· of 1968.
New Cornmuni ties
provides
for
developers
a revolving
fund
Act necessitates
the
cooperation
ments,
the
Department
18,· 1968
- and the advisors
.
-- Emphasize
increased
researchand
.
0
committee
would
.
development.
• - - Develop a modern dry bulk carrier
fleet (Bulk carri~s ·are the
·ships we now need in view of our growing b~k .trade .. The tastforce
.
recommends
5 sucij new ships
- objection,
therefore,
I am planning to have a
meeting with Secretaries
Connor and Boyd on Saturday morning and ask
them to cons·der
and prepare
papers on the following ideas:
l. A Department
executive
transportation
z.
of Transportation
functions
- at the highest levels of Government.
New program emphasis led to the creation of a Federal Aviation Agency
outside the Department of Commerce. The inception of a program to assist
urban mass transportation h::is led to an increasing transportation function
- ...
THE WHITS: HOUSE:
WASHINC:,TON
•• August
MEMORANDUM
FOR
12, 1965
Honorable Alan Boyd
• Under Secretary
of Commerce.
for Transportation
•Department
of Commerce
In accordance
with our discussion
Friday morning,
August 6, 1965
-
concluded
lines.
flag
allocations
considerable
a new conference
The conference
the objection
listed
arrangements
Examiner's
delay following
agreement that
the new pooling
arrangements
lines
Affairs'
involved
Affairs'
office
procedure
-
considerably
Secretary
easier
in
to the new Depart
made the transition
than it might otherwise
have
been.
Besides
personnel
and personnel
from Mr. Boyd's Bureau at Commerce, functions
were transferred
to the Department
~Agency, Coast Guard
- .
.
.
'
,
att a• a
....
,~·..•--~.:.I~1 J'
''T·
(Variation
'I ,_f(•.1·t1·
l?.:\()3
'f"H"
r•·I
«r•r)•:r
on Sunday morning
~; f·0r-!
-- Grinstein)
COMPROMISE
1.
Delete "Federal Maritime Administration"
from Section
6(5)(d). (Removing administrative
- beset
the advantageous
are steps
for the new Depart
that can and should be
taken immediately:
1.
Maritime
I am today issuing
Labor Management
difficult
manning,
• - have hampered
the Secretary
program
order
Commission
to aid in resolving
- .
Faithfully yours.
/!2!/JI
Contents
Pog•
vii
Foreword---------------------------------------------··---··--------·Organization,Department of Transportation -----------------------------
Chapter I THE NEW DEPARTMENT
- of S. 3010 as amended, is to centr~lize in one new
Cabinet-level department the responsibility for leadership in the
development, direction, and coordination of the principal transporta
tion policies, functionsJ .and operations of the Federal
- . Equal opportunity
programs
f. Organization
for emergency preparedness
3. New administrative
elements
a. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
, b. Urban Mass Transit Administration
1.
B.
Programs of the Department of Transportation
1. Highway
- ,
was
decision that the contribution
of transportation
to our economy and way
the creation of a new Cabinet-level
"Department
of Transportation."
.
The following figures serve as examples to bring the importance
of transporta
tion irito focus.
America
spent
- shall
be renumbered and a new Section~
inserted
as follows,
"THE'tNATIONAL
OFFICEOF TRANSPORTATION
SERVICE"
"Section 5(a).
There is hereby established
within the Department a
\
N3tional Office of Transportation
Service at the head of'cy'hich shall
- this outline
could be prepared
very easily.
Therefore,
I patterned my draft
'more along the lines of the Budget outline, which contains a
number of new proposals.
I have also added a few proposals
of
my own.
If there is to be no Transportation
Message,
I would
-
for
Service
assistance
Commission
from 6ther
and General
agencies,Services
i.e.,
Admin
istration;
2
6.
A tentative
Several
days later,
des~gnated·Vice
.of
A~iral
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----
Charles
the new task
L .. Schultze,
Task
-
•
Bureau
of Equal
pre-construction
Ohio Department
parties
o.f Ohio and the B:PR chose
On December
which called
pre-nward
new proposal
by the proper
o.f the Director
out other
for
the Ohio plan.
requested
to substitute
"pre-award"
18
- the key determinant of the leyel of consumer demand·for
transit
(and more important than price).
While th~ purchase of new
equipment through mass transit grants may help achieve service
·improvementsin these area~, it wilLnot do so automatically
- in the co.i;r.itment or e.n 1~.ct-e~sing nu::iber of personnel tor this
pUX1)ose. Bo~"l 1:.w· e.nd :-:Ewhave created new offices
.,
intercover:l:lCntp.l
rclo.tions.
with responsibility
for
As DOT encoui·a.gos J:10rccOJnprchcnsiveti·3..""Ls-
porta:~io:i
