An Act to amend various sections of title 23 of the United States Code relating to the Federal aid highway systems
PL 88-157 (H.R.7195), enacted 10/24/1963

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"(4) provides for submission of a final report of the activities 
of the State agency in carrying out the purposes of this title, and 
for submission of such other reports, in such form and containing 
such information, as the Secretary may from time to time find 
necessary for carrying out the purposes of this title and for 
keeping such records and affording such access thereto as he may 
find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such 
reports; and 
"(5) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting pro-
cedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and 
accounting for funds paid to the State under this title. 
"PAYMENTS 
"SEC. 1704. Payment of grants under this title may be made (after 
necessary adjustment on account of previously made underpayments 
or overpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such 
installments and on such conditions, as the Secretary may determine." 
MEANING OF "SECRETARY*' 
SEC. 6. As used in the amendments to the Social Security Act made 
by this Act, the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, 
Education, and Welfare. 
Approved October 24, 1963, 11:35 a.m. 
Public Law 88-157 
October 24, 1963 
AN A C T 
[H. R. 7195] 
rj.y amend various sections of title 23 of the United States Code relating to the 
Federal-aid highway systems. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Federal-Aid 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
Highway^Amend- 
^^ cited as the "Federal-Aid Highway Amendments Act of 1963". 
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SEC. 2. Paragraph (3) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States 
72 Stat. 889. 
Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"(3) For extensions of the Federal-aid primary and Federal-aid 
secondary systems within urban areas: 
"In the ratio which the population in municipalities and other 
urban places of five thousand or more in each State bears to the 
total population in municipalities and other urban places of five 
thousand or more in all the States as shown by the latest available 
Federal census." 
SEC, 3. (a) So much of paragraph (5) of subsection (b) of section 
72 Stat. 890. 
104 of title 23, United States Code, as precedes the third sentence 
thereof is amended to read as follows: 
"(5) For the Interstate System for the fiscal years 1960 through 
1971: 
"For the fiscal years 1960 through 1966, in the ratio which the 
estimated cost of completing the Interstate System in such State, 
as determined and approved in the manner provided in this 
paragraph, bears to the sum of the estimated cost of completing 
the Interstate System in all of the States. For the fiscal years 
1967 through 1971, in the ratio which the Federal share of the 
estimated cost of completing the Interstate System in such State, 
as determined and approved in the manner provided in this para-
graph, bears to the sum of the estimated cost of the Federal 
share of completing the Interstate System in all of the States. 
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Each apportionment herein authorized for the fiscal years 1960 
through 1971, inclusive, shall be made on a date as far in advance 
of the beginning of the fiscal year for which authorized as 
practicable but in no case more than eighteen months prior to the 
beginning of the fiscal year for which authorized." 
(b) The eighth and ninth sentences of paragraph (5) of subsec-
tion (b) of section 104 of title 23, United States Code, are amended 
to read as follows: "The Secretary shall make a revised estimate of 
the cost of completing the then designated Interstate System, after 
taking into account all previous apportionments made under this 
section, in the same manner as stated above, and transmit the same 
to the Senate and the House of Representatives within ten days subse-
quent to January 2, 1965. Upon the approval of such estimate by 
the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal share of such 
approved estimate in making apportionments for the fiscal years 
ending June 30, 1967; June 30, 1968; and June 30, 1969. The Secre-
tary shall make a revised estimate of the cost of completing the then 
designated Interstate System after taking into account all previous 
apportionments made under this section, in the same manner as 
stated above, and transmit the same to the Senate and the House of 
Representatives within ten days subsequent to January 2,1968. Upon 
the approval by the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal 
share of such approved estimate in making apportionments for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. The Secretary shall make a final 
revised estimate of the cost of completing the then designated Inter-
state System after taking into account all previous apportionments 
made under this section, in the same manner as stated above, and 
transmit the same to the Senate and the House of Representatives 
wathin ten days subsequent to January 2, 1969. Upon the approval 
by the Congress, the Secretary shall use the Federal share of such 
approved estimate in making apportionments for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1971." 
SEC. 4. Subsection (b) of section 109 of title 23, United States 
Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
72 stat. 894. 
"(b) The geometric and construction standards to be adopted for 
the Interstate System shall be those approved by the Secretary in 
cooperation with the State highway departments. 
Such standards, 
as applied to each actual construction project, shall be adequate to 
enable such project to accommodate the types and volumes of traffic 
anticipated for such project for the twenty-year period commencing 
on the date of approval by the Secretary, under section 106 of this 
title, of the plans, specifications, and estimates for actual construction 
of such project. 
The right-of-w^ay width of the Interstate System 
shall be adequate to permit construction of projects on the Interstate 
System to such standards. The Secretary shall apply such standards 
uniformly throughout all the States." 
SEO. 5. Subsection (c) of section 131 of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out "1963" and inserting in lieu thereof 
72 stat. 904; 
" 1 9 6 5 " . 
75 stat. 123. 
SEC. 6. Section 307(c)(1) of title 23, United 
States Code, is 
72 stat. 9i4; 
amended to read as follows: 
76 stat. ii48. 
"(c) (1) Not to exceed 1% per centum of the sums apportioned for 
each fiscal year prior to the fiscal year 1964 to any State under section 
104 of this title shall be available for expenditure upon request of the 
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2 stat. 889. 
State highway department, with the approval of the Secretary, with 
or without State funds, for engineering and economic surveys and 
investigations; for the planning of future highway programs and 
the financing thereof; for studies of the economy, safety, and conven-
ience of highway usage and the desirable regulation and equitable 
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taxation thereof; and for research and development, necessary in 
connection with the planning, design, construction, and maintenance 
of highways and highway systems, and the regulation and taxation 
of their use." 
SEC. 7. (a) Subsection (c) of section 106 of title 23, United States 
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2 Stat. 892. 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) Items included in any such estimate for construction engi-
neering shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total estimated cost 
of a project financed with Federal-aid primary, secondary, or urban 
funds, after excluding from such total estimated cost, the estimated 
costs of rights-of-way, preliminary engineering, and construction 
engineering: Provided^ That such limitation shall be 15 per centum 
in any State with respect to which the Secretary finds such higher 
limitation to be necessary. For any project financed with interstate 
funds, such limitation shall be 10 per centum." 
(b) The second sentence of subsection (d) of section 121 of title 
72 Stat. 900. 
23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "Payments 
for construction engineering on any project financed with Federal-
aid primary, secondary, or urban funds shall not exceed 10 per centum 
of the Federal share of the cost of construction of such project after 
excluding from the cost of construction the costs of rights-of-way, 
preliminary engineering, and construction engineering: Provided^ 
That such limitation shall be 15 per centum in any State with respect 
to which the Secretary finds such higher limitation to be necessary. 
For any project financed with interstate funds, such limitation shall 
be 10 per centum." 
Approved October 24, 1963. 
Public Law 88-158 
October 24, 1963 
J O I N T RESOLUTION 
[H. J. Res. 724] 
rpQ provide additional housing for the elderly. 
Resolved hy the Senate aind House of Representatives 
of the United 
73 Stat. 667- 
Stotes of Amevica in Congress assembled^ That section 202(a) (4) of 
76 Stat. 670. 
the Houslng Act of 1959 is amended by striking out "$225,000,000" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$275,000,000". 
Approved October 24, 1963. 
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Public Law 88-159 
October 28, 1963 
AN A C T 
[H. R. 641] 
rj,^ approve an order of the Secretary of the Interior canceling and deferring 
certain irrigation charges, eliminating certain tracts of non-Indian-owned land 
under the Wapato Indian irrigation project, Washington, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
wapat indiAn 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in accordance 
irrigation project, 
with the Act of Juuc 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803; 25 U.S.C. 389-389e), 
the order of the Secretary of the Interior dated September 12, 1962, 
canceling $4,494.58 of delinquent irrigation charges, providing for the 
deferred payment of $10,356.03, and providing for the removal of 
78.12 acres of assessable land from the Wapato Indian irrigation 
project, is hereby approved. 
Approved October 28, 1963.