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                                      HM 1811, First Engrossed/ntc



  1                          House Memorial

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging that in the reauthorization of

  4         the Intermodal Surface Transportation

  5         Efficiency Act an allocation method be adopted

  6         which provides for a more equitable

  7         distribution of federal transportation funds to

  8         all states, including "donor states" like

  9         Florida.

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11         WHEREAS, the current federal Intermodal Surface

12  Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, known as ISTEA, expires

13  on September 30, 1997, and

14         WHEREAS, activities associated with reauthorization of

15  ISTEA are already well underway in Washington, D.C., and

16         WHEREAS, Florida is a "donor state" which has only

17  averaged a rate of return of 77 cents for every dollar sent to

18  the federal Highway Trust Fund for the first four years of

19  ISTEA, and

20         WHEREAS, Florida ranks 4th in population, 3rd in

21  population growth, 3rd in gas tax contributions to the federal

22  Highway Trust Fund, and yet only ranked 45th in rate of return

23  under ISTEA, and

24         WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Transportation's ISTEA

25  reauthorization proposal, known as NEXTEA, would actually

26  reduce Florida's already inadequately low share of federal

27  surface transportation funding, and

28         WHEREAS, it is absolutely essential that future methods

29  of allocating federal transportation funds be more favorable

30  to Florida than the formulas used in the past, NOW, THEREFORE,

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                                      HM 1811, First Engrossed/ntc



  1  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  3         That the Congress of the United States is urged to

  4  reform the allocation methods for distributing federal

  5  transportation funding in order to recognize the needs of a

  6  high growth state such as Florida.

  7         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

  8  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

  9  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

10  United States House of Representatives, to each member of the

11  U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and

12  Infrastructure Committee, to each member of the U.S. Senate

13  Transportation Committee, and to each member of the Florida

14  delegation to the United States Congress.

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