Transportation: New Finance Panel Set to Begin Work
A commission to delve into the future of the nation’s highways and transit systems—and how to fund them-—is ready to start its daunting job. In last year’s SAFETEA-LU statute, Congress set up the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission and directed it to produce a report by July 1, 2007.
The 12-member commission slated its first meeting for May 24, and plans several more in a race against its tight deadline. The panel chairman, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, on May 17 named Quintin C. Kendall as the commission’s executive director. Kendall has been deputy assistant transportation secretary for management and budget since April 2005.