2160                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

legislative bills referred to herein, which Commission is requested to
make its report to the General Assembly by the time of the 1964 Ses-
sion with its findings and recommendations; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution is sent to the Governor of
Maryland LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Approved May 6, 1963.

No. 47
(Senate Joint Resolution 29)

Senate Joint Resolution, Memorializing the Congress of the United
States to amend Public Local Law 86-669, enacted July 14, 1960,
such law being a part of the National Capital Transportation Act
of 1960, to permit the District of Columbia to proceed with the
planning and construction of that portion of Interstate Route 70S
within the District of Columbia in order that the State of Maryland
may complete the construction of Interstate Route 70S through
that State to the District of Columbia line.

Whereas, The Congress of the United States in 1960 enacted the
National Capital Transportation Act of 1960, and Section 204 (b) (2)
of such Act prohibits the District of Columbia from spending Federal
Funds for INTERSTATE highway purposes in the corridor west of
12th Street, N. W. in the District of Columbia; and

Whereas, The State of Maryland has completed Interstate Route
70S from Frederick southward toward Washington, D.C., to the
Pooks Hill Interchange near Bethesda; and

Whereas, Maryland cannot plan, design and construct such Route
70S to the District of Columbia line until the District of Columbia
plans and designs Route 70S within the said District of Columbia
from downtown Washington northward to the Maryland line; and

Whereas, Rights of way necessary for the completion of Route
70S through Maryland from its present terminus to the District of
Columbia line are becoming more expensive because of the construc-
tion or threatened construction of new buildings in the path of such
Route 70S; and

Whereas, It is the considered opinion of the General Assembly of
Maryland that the Congress should amend said National Capital
Transportation Act of 1960 to permit the District of Columbia to
proceed with the construction of such Route 70S within the District
of Columbia in order that the State of Maryland may complete Route
70S in Maryland to the District of Columbia line; now, therefore,
be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Congress
of the United States is urged to amend Public Law 86-669, the Na-
tional Capital Transportation Act of 1960, to permit the District of