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Lee Metcalf: as the Chairman has noted, the volume of international trade passing through Washington State's ports has snarled…

On the recordApril 1, 1998
as the Chairman has noted, the volume of international trade passing through Washington State's ports has snarled traffic at dozens of at-grade rail-highway crossing in the Puget Sound region. As the Chairman knows, public and private interests have come together to propose a series of grade-crossing projects and port-access projects that we refer to as the ``fast corridor'' program. Does the Chairman agree that section 115 of the bill, the National Corridor Planning and Development Program, was designed to help projects like the fast corridor?
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Lee Metcalf
Montana

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Discussing the impact of international trade on traffic and infrastructure in Washington State.

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