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Show I MEW ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM Amount of Money Available for Federal Fed-eral Aid Largest Ever Set Aside by Any Nation. Prepared by lbs United Btsles Depart n. i -nl of Ami' allure. I With fuii stnte co-operation ceoed in to the terms of the federal aid riuid net. the Dhlted States Will have I total of nt bast uf4,00O.0VJO for eo I operative road building during the next three years. The federal part of this fund is bash red b;. an extra gppropria- ' tlmi of 2OU.QUOj0O0 in the post office appropriation i 1 1 1 Jusi passed by con trans and signed by the president. Official! nt the bureau nf public rntuls. United states department of a;; rlciilliire. which ndtullilslers the pTO visions of the federal aid road ad mid en operates wllh the slate govern nicnis in i in expenditure of the money, pnliit nut that this amoiiiit of funds Is 1 the largeal ever appropriated for elml I liii- purpnses mid fur a similar per, ml ' by any governnMol in the history of the world, mid thai it enables the federal fed-eral and state government! to carry mil ii road building program of i magnitude mag-nitude never equaled. in connection adth the greet federal aid program n is alaa noted thai expenditures ex-penditures for highway work in the United Slates this year are likely to amount to hair a billies dollars or more. On reports received from state highway departments, the bureau of public roads estimates the 1010 expenditures ex-penditures for roads and bridges al s::s:,,ikmi.(hh). ,r 110,OOOjDO0 bore than the nternge expenditures for i.'io and 11117. An Important effect of the inw con talnlng the new appropriation is that it broadens the definition of a rural post road, under which class a highway high-way had to quolltj in order to receive the benefits of the federal aid act 1'niier the old get it was required thar mall Should BCtUallj he carried on the mini or that there should be a reasonable prospect that inn 1 1 would be carried mi it within n short time after improvement. The new ad says: ". . . the term 'rural pdBI rmnls' . . . shall he construed to menu any public mud, a major portion of which -H-BOhto-v y I'.iV-8" . cj. '.ihm W'v' -. Traction Engine Haul ng Material for Construction of Road. Is BOW USed or can he Used, or fnrt'is a connecting link not to exceed ten miles in length of any mad or roads now or hereafter used, for the nuns port nt Ion of the Uultcd stales malls, excluding every street and road in a place having population, as shown by the latest available federal census, Of 2,600 iir I -e, except that portion of an) -mil street or rond along which the hiniscs average more than 200 feel a pad." The new net nlsn raises the govern tnent limit of POntlibUtlon from tint in e. .cd 110.000 a mile to not exceed s.'ii.imhi a mile, taking account ( h cr present costs ol labor and mutertals The l:.u also authorises the seei-e fury of war in transfer In the secre tnry of agriculture material, equip incut ami supplies suitable for highway iiiiimveiin nt and 0"! needed bj the w :ir depart tin m. The original federal aid r I act, which became law in July, lOIQ appro printed $7.'..(KHIIKHI to aid In the con i st met ion of post roads during a iie I year period ending June 80, 1021. and 1 110,000,000 to aid iii forest-road build Ing during a ten-year period ending June 80. r.i'ji'i ,.t over 18,000,000 the original IM.000.000 had been eg pended prim- to 1010 so that $82,000, 000, plus iaOO.000.000, or a total of $'ii 000,000 of federal funds, wm i. available, of which 1287,000.000 will be , available during the next three years, |