Senate Resolution

8lst Congress a lst Session ARCHIVED RECORDO and SENATE RESOLUTION In the Senate of the United States Mr. Hayden submitted the following resolution, which was re- ferred to the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Depart- ments RESLUTION WHEREAS the transfer of the Public Roads Administration from the Federal Works Agency to the Department of Commerce was recommended by Pentral step the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Govern- Two ment as a part of a proposed new service to be known as the Transporta- tion Service; and WHEREAS no action has been taken by the President with reference to the submission of a Reorganization Plan, nor by the Congress in enacting legislation, which would establish such a Transportation Service; and WHEREAS the President of the United States submitted to the Congress on June 20, 1949, Reorganizetion Plan No. 7 transferring the Public Roads Administration to the Department of Commerce; and Howev Commi WHEREAS the Public Roads Administration does not in fact deal Base state Ins BROOKINGS Bestcann.1. directly with transportation matters and its grants-in-aid functions CAN Inland was. Byrd committe are extraneous to the functions of the Department of Commerce; and Francically BAW Wedier Cast (Goddic WHEREAS Public Law 152, the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, approved on June 30, 1949, changed the name of No morning the Public Roads Administration to the Bureau of Public Roads, and transferred all of its functions and the functions of the Commissioner of Public Roads to the Administrator of General Services; and WHEREAS the Bureau of Public Roads is a public works agency en- The in gaged not only in the development of standards and planning and works pirgions. financing of highways, but plans and actually constructs and maintains The propose largely in many miles of national forests, national parks, and Indian reservation adeneis* roads each year, and has no direct relation to non-regulatory aotivities The plan This relating to transportation; and consomes is This T. concer PRA was established to