Title: Future Interstate in Oklahoma and Arkansas Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Future Interstate in Oklahoma and Arkansas Act
This bill designates the route that generally follows U.S. Route 412 from its intersection with Interstate 35 in Noble County, Oklahoma, passing through Tulsa, Oklahoma, to its intersection with Interstate 49 in Springdale, Arkansas, as (1) a high priority corridor on the National Highway System; (2) a future part of the Interstate System; and (3) a segment of highway, if designated as a route on the Interstate System, that permits the continued operation of vehicles without regard to vehicle weight limitation requirements.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1766 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1766

 To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
to designate United States Route 412 as a future part of the Interstate 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2021

 Mr. Inhofe (for himself, Mr. Boozman, and Mr. Cotton) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
to designate United States Route 412 as a future part of the Interstate 
                    System, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Future Interstate in Oklahoma and 
Arkansas Act''.

SEC. 2. FUTURE INTERSTATE DESIGNATION.

    (a) Designation as High Priority Corridor.--Section 1105(c) of the 
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 
102-240; 105 Stat. 2032; 133 Stat. 3018) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
            ``(92) The route that generally follows United States Route 
        412 from its intersection with Interstate 35 in Noble County, 
        Oklahoma, passing through Tulsa, Oklahoma, to its intersection 
        with Interstate 49 in Springdale, Arkansas.''.
    (b) Designation as Future Interstate.--Section 1105(e)(5)(A) of the 
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law 
102-240; 109 Stat. 597; 133 Stat. 3018) is amended in the first 
sentence by striking ``and subsection (c)(91)'' and inserting 
``subsection (c)(91), and subsection (c)(92)''.
    (c) Vehicle Weight Limitations.--Section 127 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(v) Operation of Vehicles on Certain Oklahoma Highways.--If any 
segment of highway referred to in paragraph (92) of section 1105(c) of 
the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public 
Law 102-240; 105 Stat. 2032; 133 Stat. 3018) is designated as a route 
on the Interstate System, a vehicle that could operate legally on that 
segment before the date of such designation may continue to operate on 
that segment, without regard to any requirement under this section.''.
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