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<br />. ...... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />COUNT'( OF OF HAWAII <br /> <br />. . . <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2.7398 ..... : <br /> <br />SUPPORTING THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES' PLATFORM ON . <br />THE INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANS}>ORTATI()N EFFICIENCY ACT (ISTEA); <br /> <br />- .,' , <br /> <br />WHEREAS, th~passage of tlW Interm~dal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act <br />(ISTEA) in Deceqlber 1991 providedfederalfundingauthorizations totaling . <br />. approximately. $155 billion for highways, highway safety and mass transportation for the' <br />next six years; and <br /> <br />. WHEREAS,I~TEA was considered to be piyotal reform legislation for national <br />transportation policy- and platming because it declared the Interstate Highway system <br />completed and made the gas tax generated revenues, which had been used solely for <br />highway financing, available for the transportation modes including transit, bicycling and <br />. pedestrian facilities; and. . <br />.' <br /> <br />WHEREAS, key in the ISTEAreforms wasthe flexibiiity'givento state and local <br />governments in determining, planning and managing the transportation solutions and <br />enhancements thatbest met their needs; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, ISTEA was allowed to lapse in September 1997 and legislation to <br />reauthorize ISTEAjs 'currently pending in: Qo,ngress;)lnd '. . <br /> <br />WHEREAS, prior to ISTEA's expiration, the National Association of Counties <br />. (NACo) took a firm stance in support of the reauthorization ofISTEA; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, NACo also endorsed a number of provisions for inclusion in <br />ISTEA's reauthorization inclllding, but not limited to, the strengthening of urban <br />counties' role as equal partnen;with the state governments in the ISTEA planning, <br />funding allocation and other transportation decision-making/planning processes; and <br /> <br />. . <br />- ,'- . . <br />. . <br /> <br />WHEREAS, NACo maintains its support of the pending ISTEA reauthorization <br />legislation as well as its platform ofrecommended provisions for inclusion in the <br />reauthorization. ..' <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by theCouncil of the Comity of <br />Hawai'i that it supports the ISTEA reauthorization legislation pending before Congress <br />and NACo's platform of recommended provisions for inclusion in the new ISTEA'" <br />legislation; and '. <br />