PRINTER'S NO. 2364
No. 1907 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY REED AND CIMINI, OCTOBER 23, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 23, 1979
AN ACT
1 Requiring the Department of Transportation to make a feasibility
2 study of certain Amtrak services; make a report to the
3 General Assembly and making an appropriation.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. The Department of Transportation shall conduct a
7 study of the feasibility of the establishment and operation by
8 Amtrak of railroad passenger service between Harrisburg and
9 Williamsport and Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, including but not
10 limited to, the saving of energy by the elimination of duplicate
11 transportation, the lessening of America's reliance on imported
12 oil, the monetary benefit to the communities and personnel
13 involved, the continued utilization of already existing track
14 and facilities and the lowering of the rate of death and injury
15 which occurs in the use of highways instead of the railroad in
16 the area involved.
17 Section 2. The Department of Transportation shall make a
18 report of its findings and recommendations to the General
1 Assembly within six months of the effective date of this act.
2 Section 3. The sum of $300,000, or as much thereof as is
3 necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department for the
4 purposes of this study.
5 Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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