Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act#High Priority Corridors
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| enacted by = 102nd
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| cite public law = {{USPL|102|240}}
| cite statutes at large = {{USStat|105|1914}}
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| leghisturl = https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/2950
| introducedin = House
| introducedbill = {{USBill|102|HR|2950}}
| introducedby = Norman Mineta (D-CA)
| introduceddate = July 18, 1991
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| passedbody1 = House
| passeddate1 = October 23, 1991
| passedvote1 = [https://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=1991&rollnumber=384 343-83]
| passedbody2 = Senate
| passeddate2 = October 31, 1991
| passedvote2 = unanimous consent, in lieu of {{USBill|102|S|1204}} passed June 19, 1991 [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=102&session=1&vote=00101 91-7]
| passedbody3 = House
| conferencedate = November 27, 1991
| passeddate3 = November 27, 1991
| passedvote3 = [https://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=1991&rollnumber=440 372-47]
| passedbody4 = Senate
| passeddate4 = November 27, 1991
| passedvote4 = [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=102&session=1&vote=00277 79-8]
| signedpresident = George H. W. Bush
| signeddate = December 18, 1991
|unsignedpresident=|vetoedpresident=| amendments = I-27 Numbering Act of 2023
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| name = Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
| fullname = An act to develop a national intermodal surface transportation system, to authorize funds for construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transit programs, and for other purposes
| acronym = ISTEA
| nickname = Ice Tea
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| title amended = {{ubl|15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade|23 U.S.C.: Highways| |26 U.S.C.: Internal Revenue Code|33 U.S.C.: Navigation and Navigable Waters|49 U.S.C.: Transportation}}
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The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA, {{IPAc-en|aɪ|s|ˈ|t|i}}) is a United States federal law that posed a major change to transportation planning and policy, as the first U.S. federal legislation on the subject in the post-Interstate Highway System era.
The act was signed into law on December 18, 1991, by President George H. W. Bush and codified as {{USPL|102|240}} and {{USStat|105|1914}}. The bill was preceded by the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act in 1987 and followed by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) in 2005, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) in 2012, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST) in 2015, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021.
Objective
The act presented an overall intermodal approach to highway and transit funding with collaborative planning requirements, giving significant additional powers to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
ISTEA also provided funds for the conversion of dormant railroad corridors into rail trails; the first rail trail to be funded was the Cedar Lake Regional Rail Trail, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
High priority corridors
Section 1105 of the act also defines a number of High Priority Corridors, to be part of the National Highway System.{{Efn | Section 1105 did not amend the U.S. Code, nor is it editorially classified as part of the U.S. Code, or set out as a statutory note to a section of the U.S. Code. However, an up-to-date version of ISTEA as amended can be found at govinfo.gov{{cite web | publisher= Office of the Law Revision Counsel | title=United States Code | access-date=December 30, 2021| url=http://uscode.house.gov}}{{cite web | publisher= Government Printing Office | title=Statute Compilations | access-date=May 5, 2020| url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/}}}}{{cite web|title=Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as Amended, §1105|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-1422/|access-date=December 30, 2021|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}{{cite web|title=High Priority Corridors - National Highway System - Planning |url= https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/high_priority_corridors/ |website=Federal Highway Administration |date=October 2012 |access-date=October 31, 2021}} After various amendments in subsequent transportation bills and other legislation, this is a list of the corridors:
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|+ List of High Priority Corridors ! style="width: 7.5%;" | Corridor # ! style="width: 22.5%;" | Name ! style="width: 40%;" | Location ! style="width: 30%;" | Notes |
1 |
2 |
3
|East-West Transamerica Corridor |Hampton Roads, Virginia to southern Kansas |Interstate 66 (Kansas–Kentucky) |
4 |
5
|Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Cincinnati, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan |
6
|United States Route 80 Corridor |
7
|Memphis, Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee |
8
|Highway 412 East-West Corridor |
9
|United States Route 220 and the Appalachian Thruway Corridor |
10
|Appalachian Regional Corridor X |Fulton, Mississippi to Birmingham, Alabama{{cite web |last1=Appalachian Regional Commission|title=Status of the Appalachian Development Highway System as of September 30, 2019 |url= https://www.arc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ADHSStatusReportFY2019.pdf |work=Appalachian Regional Commission |access-date=December 12, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Appalachian Regional Commission |title=Status of the Appalachian Development Highway System as of September 30, 2017 |url= https://www.arc.gov/images/programs/transp/ADHSStatusReportFY2017.pdf |work=Appalachian Regional Commission |access-date=July 3, 2020|url-status = dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200704022840/https://www.arc.gov/images/programs/transp/ADHSStatusReportFY2017.pdf |archive-date=July 4, 2020 |See corridor 45 |
11
|Appalachian Regional Corridor V |From Interstate 55 in northern Mississippi in the west to Interstate 24 in East Tennessee |Route is from Batesville, Mississippi, and via Tupelo, Mississippi, Russellville, Alabama, and Huntsville, Alabama, ending just west of Chattanooga, Tennessee See also corridor 42. |
12
|United States Route 25E Corridor |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16
|I-15 and I-40 in California, Arizona, and Nevada |
17
|Route 29 Corridor |
18
| |Port Huron, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois, Corpus Christi, Texas and Victoria, Texas |Interstate 69 (see Corridor 20) |
19
|United States Route 395 Corridor |
20
|United States Route 59 Corridor |Laredo, Texas to Texarkana, Texas |Interstate 69 (see Corridor 18) |
21
|United States Route 219 Corridor |
22
|Alameda Transportation Corridor |Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Interstate 10 |(See Corridor 34) |
23
|Interstate Route 35 Corridor |Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota and the Canada–US border (via Interstate 29) |
24 |
25
|State Route 168 (South Battlefield Boulevard) |Great Bridge, Virginia Bypass to the North Carolina state line |
26
|Nogales, Arizona to the Canada–US border |
27
|El Paso, Texas to the Canada–US border |
28 |
29 |
30
|California, Oregon and Washington |
31 |
32
|Wisconsin Development Corridor |Dubuque, Iowa to Eau Claire, Wisconsin |Consists of three different corridors in the state of Wisconsin |
33
|Washington, D.C. to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland |
34
|Alameda Corridor-East and Southwest Passage |East Los Angeles, California to Barstow, California and Coachella, California, and San Bernardino, California to Arizona |(See Corridor 22) |
35 |
36
|Harriman, New York to I-90 in Pennsylvania |ISTEA mandates that route be Interstate 86 |
37 |
38
|Laredo, Texas to Denver, Colorado |
39 |
40 |
41
|International Falls, Minnesota to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin |
42
| |Batesville to Fulton, Mississippi |formed from portions of ADHS corridors V and X; law designates highway as a future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
43
|United States Route 95 Corridor |
44
|Louisiana Highway 1 Corridor |
45
|United States Route 78 Corridor |
46 |
47
|Quebec to New York City |
48 |
49 |
50 |
51 |
52
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53 |
54
|California Farm-to-Market Corridor |south of Bakersfield, California to Sacramento, California |
55
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56 |
57
|United States Route 41 corridor |
58 |
59
|Central North American Trade Corridor |border between North Dakota and South Dakota to the Canada–US border |
60 |
61
| |various corridors in Missouri |
62
|Georgia Developmental Highway System Corridors |various corridors in Georgia |
63
|various corridors in northern New Jersey |
64
| |various corridors in southern New Jersey |
65
|Interstate Route 95 Corridor |
66
|Interstate Route 91 Corridor |
67 |
68
|Intermountain West Corridor and Washoe County Corridor |Las Vegas, Nevada to Reno, Nevada |
69
|Interstate 5 to State Route 14, Santa Clarita Valley, California |
70
|I-15, I-40 and other roads in California, Arizona and Nevada |
71
|Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada |
72 |
73 |
74
| |Lafayette, Louisiana to New Orleans, Louisiana |
75
|Louisiana 28 corridor |
76
| |Toledo, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio |
77
| |Indiana to Toledo, Ohio |
78
| |Cincinnati, Ohio to Cleveland, Ohio |
79 |
80 |
81
|Goldsboro, North Carolina to Interstate 40 west of Faison, North Carolina |
82
|U.S. 70 from Interstate 40 at Garner, North Carolina to the port of Morehead City, North Carolina |law designates highway as a future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law). Assigned Interstate 42 by AASHTO{{cite web |publisher=AASHTO |url= http://route.transportation.org/Documents/2016%20SM%20Des%20Moines%2c%20IA/Agenda%20and%20List%20of%20Applications%20SM-2016.pdf |title=AASHTO Electronic Balloting System - View Ballot - Agenda and List of Applications SM-2016 |access-date =May 5, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160610231044/http://route.transportation.org/Documents/2016%20SM%20Des%20Moines,%20IA/Agenda%20and%20List%20of%20Applications%20SM-2016.pdf |archive-date=June 10, 2016}} |
83
|Sonoran Corridor (State Rte. 410) |A new highway from Interstate 19 to Interstate 10 south of Tucson International Airport, Arizona |law designates highway as a future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
84
|Two routes from Interstate 10 (Pecos County) and Interstate 20 (Midland–Odessa), joining in Brady and continuing east to the Sabine River, passing in or near Fort Hood; College Station; Huntsville; and Livingston; all in Texas (paragraphs A–C) Also designates spurs from I-14 North in Eden to I-10 near Junction following U.S. 83 (paragraph D), from I-14 in Woodville to I-10 in Beaumont via U.S. 69 (paragraph E), from I-14 in Jasper to I-10 in Beaumont via U.S. 96 (paragraph F), and from I-20 in Odessa to I-10 in Pecos County via U.S. 385, RM 305, and U.S. 190 (paragraph G). |FAST mandates that route be Interstate 14; IIJA designates Bryan–College Station loop as Interstate 214, the spur from Brady to I-10 as Interstate 14 South, and the spur from Brady to I-20 as Interstate 14 North. Routes in paragraphs D–G are designated as future Interstate highways (route number not specified in law) See also corridors 93 and 99–102 |
85
|From Interstate 86 to the Canada–United States border |
86
|Interstate 70 from Salt Lake City, Utah to Denver, Colorado{{Efn |{{no wrap|I-70}} does not come near Salt Lake City; instead terminating {{convert|173|miles}} south of such city at {{nowrap|I-15}}. Regardless, the law states "Interstate Route 70 from Denver, Colorado, to Salt Lake City, Utah"}} |
87
|Newberg-Dundee Bypass route |From Newberg, Oregon to Dayton, Oregon{{Efn | The law's text states, "The Oregon 99W Newberg-Dundee Bypass Route between Newberg, Oregon and Dayton, Oregon;" however, the actual route number is Oregon Route 18. The bypass runs east of {{nowrap|Oregon Rte. 99W}}. The southern portion, Phase 1, between {{nowrap|Rte. 99W}} at Dundee and Rte. 219 is finished. Sufficient funding for the northern portion, Phase 2, which is from {{nowrap|Rte. 219}} to {{nowrap|Rte. 99W}}, has not yet been identified.{{cite web | publisher= Oregon Department of Transportation |title=OR 18: Newberg Dundee Bypass Phase 2 Design Phase |access-date=June 7, 2020 |url= https://www.oregon.gov/odot/projects/pages/project-details.aspx?project=19909}}{{cite web |last1=Oregon Department of Transportation |title=Bypass Opened January 6, 2018 |url= http://www.oregonjta.org/region2/?p=highway99w&expandable=2 |publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation |access-date=June 7, 2020}}}} | |
88
|Interstate 205 in Oregon |
89
|Extending Interstate 57 from its southern terminus at I-55 in southeastern Missouri to I-40 in North Little Rock, Arkansas |ISTEA mandates that route be Interstate 57 |
90
|From Interstate 69 near Nortonville, Kentucky in the north, to Interstate 24 south of Hopkinsville, Kentucky |ISTEA mandates that route be Interstate 169 |
91
|The portion of the Western Kentucky Parkway between Interstate 69 in the west (near Nortonville, Kentucky) to Interstate 165 (formerly the William H. Natcher Parkway) in the east |ISTEA mandates that route be Interstate 569 |
92
| |U.S. 421 from I-85 in Greensboro to I-95 in Dunn, North Carolina |IIJA designates as future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
93
|South Mississippi Corridor |U.S. 84 from Natchez to Laurel, Mississippi, I-59 from Laurel to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and U.S. 49 and MS 601 from Hattiesburg to Gulfport, Mississippi |Largely identical to Central Mississippi Corridor (Corridor 100). IIJA designates the U.S. 84 and I-59 portions as a future Interstate highway (indirectly mandating it to be I-14); see also Corridor 94 |
94
|Kosciusko to Gulf Coast Corridor |Starting at I-55 near Vaiden, Mississippi, running south and passing east of the vicinity of the Jackson Urbanized Area, connecting to U.S. 49 north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and generally following U.S. 49 to I-10 near Gulfport, Mississippi. |Overlaps with corridors 93 and 100 south of Hattiesburg; IIJA designates as future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
95
|Interstate 22 Spur |U.S. 45 from I-22 in Tupelo south to near Shannon, Mississippi. |IIJA designates as future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
96
| |U.S. 412 from I-35 in Noble County, Oklahoma via Tulsa, to its intersection with I-49 in Springdale, Arkansas |IIJA designates as future Interstate highway (route number not specified in law) |
97
|Louie B. Nunn Cumberland Expressway (sic) |Cumberland Parkway from I-65 in Barren County to U.S. 27 in Somerset, Kentucky |Part of the cancelled East-West Transamerica Corridor route (Corridor 3); IIJA mandates this route be Interstate 365 |
98
| |MS 7 from I-55 in Grenada via Oxford to I-22 in Holly Springs, Mississippi | |
99
|Central Louisiana Corridor |From the Sabine River, follows LA 8 and LA 28 to Alexandria, continuing east to join U.S. 84 and cross the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi |IIJA mandates this route be Interstate 14 See corridors 84, 93, and 100–102 |
100
|Central Mississippi Corridor |U.S. 84 east from Natchez to Laurel, Mississippi, then follows I-59 northeast through Meridian to the Mississippi–Alabama state line near Cuba, Alabama; also includes a spur following I-59 south to Hattiesburg, then U.S. 49 and proposed MS 601 to Gulfport |IIJA mandates the route from Natchez to the Alabama state line be Interstate 14 See corridors 84, 93, 99, and 101–102 |
101
|Middle Alabama Corridor |U.S. 80 east from I-20/59 near Cuba to Montgomery, then follows the partially-completed Montgomery Outer Loop (AL 108) to I-85, continuing east from Tuskegee via either U.S. 80 or I-85 and U.S. 280 to the Alabama–Georgia border in Phenix City |IIJA mandates this route be Interstate 14 See corridors 84, 93, 99–100, and 102 |
102
|Middle Georgia Corridor |Fall Line Freeway (GA 540) from Columbus via Warner Robins and Macon to Augusta, Georgia |IIJA mandates this route be Interstate 14 See corridors 84, 93, and 99–101 |
High-speed rail corridors
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The legislation also called for the designation of up to five high-speed rail corridors. The options were studied for several months, and announced in October 1992. The first four were announced by United States Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card, while the last was announced by Federal Railroad Administration head Gil Carmichael.{{cite web|url= http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/618 |title=Chronology of High-Speed Rail Corridors |publisher=Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation |date=July 7, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091130111104/http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/618 |archive-date=November 30, 2009 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}
- October 15, 1992: The Midwest high-speed rail corridor with three links from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- October 16, 1992: The Florida high-speed rail corridor linking Miami with Orlando and Tampa.
- October 19, 1992: The California high-speed rail corridor linking San Diego and Los Angeles with the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento via the San Joaquin Valley.
- October 20, 1992: The Southeast high-speed rail corridor connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
- October 20, 1992: The Pacific Northwest high-speed rail corridor linking Eugene and Portland, Oregon with Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
There was not significant funding attached to these announcements: $30 million had been allocated to several states by 1997 to improve grade crossings,{{cite web|url= http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/515 |title=High Speed Ground Transportation for America - CFS Report To Congress |publisher=Federal Railroad Administration |date=September 1997 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090825213905/http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/515 |archive-date=August 25, 2009 |access-date=March 16, 2014}} but that was a very tiny amount in comparison to the billions required for a true high-speed network. Aside from a few places in California and the Chicago–Detroit Line, most areas outside the Northeast Corridor continued to be limited to {{convert|79|mph|abbr=on}} until $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was distributed in January 2010.{{cite web|url= https://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/high-speed-rail-grants/ |title=At Long Last, Clear Messages for High-Speed Rail |first=Zach |last=Rosenberg |date=February 1, 2010 |publisher=Wired Blogs |access-date=March 16, 2014}}
Jeff Morales one of the principal drafters of this bill, served as CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is currently constructing a high-speed rail line along the route originally proposed in this bill, from 2012 to 2017.{{cite web|last1=The Registry-San Francisco |title=California High-Speed Rail Authority Hires World Recognized CEO |url= http://news.theregistrysf.com/california-high-speed-rail-authority-hires-world-recognized-ceo/ |date=May 29, 2012 |access-date=October 31, 2021}}
Airbags
The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 also mandated that passenger automobiles and light trucks built after September 1, 1998, to have airbags installed as standard equipment for the driver and the right front passenger.{{cite web |url=http://www.nhtsa.gov.edgesuite-staging.net/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/Crashworthiness/Air%20Bags/rev_report.pdf |page=1 |date=June 21, 2001 |title=Air Bag Technology in Light Passenger Vehicles |author=Office of Research and Development |publisher=U.S. NHTSA |access-date=March 16, 2014 |archive-date=December 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215001813/http://www.nhtsa.gov.edgesuite-staging.net/DOT/NHTSA/NRD/Multimedia/PDFs/Crashworthiness/Air%20Bags/rev_report.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url= http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/federal-legislation-makes-airbags-mandatory |title=Sep 1, 1998: Federal legislation makes airbags mandatory |website=history.com |access-date=March 16, 2014}}
Notes
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References
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External links
- [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1422/uslm/COMPS-1422.xml Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991] as amended ([https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1422/pdf/COMPS-1422.pdf PDF]/[https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-1422/ details]) in the GPO [https://www.govinfo.gov/help/comps Statute Compilations collection]
- [https://www.govinfo.gov/link/statute/102/public/240?link-type=pdf&.pdf Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991] as enacted ([https://www.govinfo.gov/link/statute/102/public/240?link-type=details details]) in the US Statutes at Large
- {{USBill|102|hr|2950}} on Congress.gov
- {{USBill|102|s|1204}} on Congress.gov
- [http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/424MTP.html A Guide to Metropolitan Transportation Planning Under ISTEA - How the Pieces Fit Together (USDOT)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408061003/http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/424MTP.html |date=April 8, 2005 }}
- {{cite web | publisher=Federal Highway Administration |title=Statutory Listing of Priority Corridors - High Priority Corridors |access-date=May 5, 2020 | url= https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/Planning/national_highway_system/high_priority_corridors/hpcor.cfm }}
- {{cite web|url= http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/hipricorridors/ |title=FHWA - NHS High Priority Corridors |date=September 1996 |publisher=Federal Highway Administration - United States Department of Transportation |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070410041243/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/hipricorridors/ |archive-date=April 10, 2007 |access-date=March 16, 2014}}
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