Interstate 3/3rd Infantry Division Highway Initiation Act

        [Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2736 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2736

To require a study and report regarding the designations and
construction of a new interstate route from Savannah, Georgia to
Knoxville, Tennessee.

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 22, 2004

Mr. Miller (for himself and Mr. Chambliss) 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 require a study and report regarding the designations and
construction of a new interstate route from Savannah, Georgia to
Knoxville, Tennessee.

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 ``Interstate 3/3rd Infantry Division
Highway Initiation Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERSTATE 3/3RD INFANTRY DIVISION HIGHWAY.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) in accordance with the original purposes of the Dwight
D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense
Highways, a direct interstate highway link between Fort Gordon,
Eisenhower Army Regional Medical Center, the Augusta Veterans
Administration Hospitals, Fort Stewart, Hunter Army Airfield,
and the Port of Savannah would be in the strategic defense
interest of the United States;
(2) eastern Georgia, western North Carolina, and the Great
Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee are underserved by north-
south interstate highways, and would benefit economically and
through increased public safety by establishment of an
interstate highway extending from Savannah, Georgia to
Knoxville, Tennessee, following a route generally defined
through Sylvania, Waynesboro, Augusta, Lincolnton, Elberton,
Hartwell, Toccoa, and Young Harris, Georgia, and Maryville,
Tennessee;
(3) the United States Army 3rd Infantry Division of Fort
Stewart, Georgia, provided the ``Tip of the Spear'' in the War
on Terror in Iraq;
(4) the soldiers of that Division sacrificed their blood
and lives so that their fellow Americans may live in peace and
freedom;
(5) the soldiers of that Division conquered Najaf, seized
Saddam International Airport, and Saddam Hussein's palaces; and
(6) those soldiers led the fighting on the day of Baghdad's
historic liberation.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) a new interstate highway designated as ``United States
Interstate Route 3'' should be constructed on the routes
described in subsection (a)(2) between Savannah, Georgia and
Knoxville, Tennessee; and
(2) that interstate highway should be known and designated
as the ``3rd Infantry Division Highway'', in honor of the
professionalism, heroism, and sacrifice of the men and women of
the United States Army 3rd Infantry Division in defending the
freedom of the United States.
(c) Study and Report.--Not later than December 31, 2004, the
Secretary of Transportation shall study and submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report on the steps and estimated funding
necessary to designate and construct a new interstate route for the 3rd
Infantry Division Highway, from Savannah, Georgia and Knoxville,
Tennessee (formerly the Savannah River Parkway in the State of
Georgia), as described in subsection (b).
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