HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 20
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegates
Staton, Browning, Wright, Yeager, Mahan,
McGraw, Susman and R. M. Thompson)
[Introduced March 12, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Rules.]
H. C. R. 20--Requesting the Governor of West Virginia, the
West Virginia members of the United States Congress, the Secretary
of Transportation and the Commissioner of the Division of
Transportation to support and assist the completion of the
Coalfields Expressway.
WHEREAS, The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
(ISTEA) provides for the construction of the Coalfields Expressway
from Beckley, West Virginia, to the Virginia state line at Grundy;
and
WHEREAS, Construction of the Coalfields Expressway will
significantly contribute to the improvement of transportation into,
from, within and through southern West Virginia, assist in regional
economic development and generally enhance highway safety; and
WHEREAS, Federal legislation has designated the Coalfields
Expressway as a component of the National Highway System, making
the project eligible for federal funds; and
WHEREAS, The Coalfields Expressway's inclusion in the National
Highway System will make it an integral part of the nation's most
important long-distance, high-speed highway system, providing
efficient, safe and convenient movement of goods and people
throughout the United States; and
WHEREAS, The Coalfields Expressway Authority, a public
corporation created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature in
1996, highly advocates the recreational, tourism, industrial,
economic and community development aspects of the Coalfields
Expressway; and
WHEREAS, The prompt construction of the Coalfields Expressway
is indispensable to the economic development of southern West
Virginia and time is of the essence; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Governor of West Virginia, the West Virginia members
of the United States Congress, the Secretary of Transportation and
the Commissioner of the Division of Transportation are hereby
requested to make all possible efforts to support and assist the
completion of the Coalfields Expressway; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates
transmit copies of this resolution to the Governor of West
Virginia, the West Virginia members of the United States Congress,
the Secretary of Transportation and the Commissioner of the
Division of Transportation in order that they may be apprised of
the sense of the House of Delegates of West Virginia in this
matter.
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