S.Amdt. 754

SA 754. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 639 submitted by Mr. Lautenberg and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 3, to authorize funds for Federal-aid
highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the
following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF THE SENATE REAFFIRMING SUPPORT FOR FEDERAL
LIMITATIONS ON TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that -
(1) on March 11, 1998, the Senate agreed unanimously to
reaffirm limitations on the length and weight of commercial
motor vehicles as part of S. 1173, the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997;
(2) in 2000, the Department of Transportation released the
Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study, which raised new
safety, infrastructure, and cost recovery concerns about
lifting limitations on the length and weight of commercial
motor vehicles; and
(3) in 2004, the Department of Transportation released the
Western Uniformity Scenario Analysis report, which stated
that the Department--
(A) does not favor change in Federal truck size and weight
policy;
(B) believes an appropriate balance has been struck
nationwide on truck size and weight; and
(C) opposes a piecemeal approach to truck size and weight
policy.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that the prohibitions and restrictions on commercial motor
vehicles under subsections (a) and (d) of section 127 of
title 23, United States Code, should not be amended so as
to--
(1) weaken the current ``freeze'' on those vehicles; or
(2) result in any more or less restrictive prohibition or
restriction on those vehicles.
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