Mike
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Questions of legal authority, irresponsible spending and national security plagued the newly unveiled plan to open the border to long-haul trucks, even as the DOT pushed forward and officially published the plan.
The Department of Transportation released a plan on Friday, April 8, that published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, April 13. The 30-day comment period is set to end on Friday, May 13.
The Obama administration’s plan to phase in a cross-border program that would result in permanent operating authority drew immediate fire from one U.S. lawmaker.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-OR, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood that requests “written justification of how DOT’s planned program complies with the requirements for pilot programs.”
DeFazio, working from preliminary details, wrote the letter calling for the justification nearly a month before the DOT unveiled the plan.
DeFazio’s letter questions the legal authority of DOT to implement a permanent program.
“A true pilot program should grant a discrete number of Mexican carriers the opportunity to operate beyond the commercial zones at the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. government would strictly monitor the operations of these carriers, and at the end of the pilot program, suspend any further operations while evaluating the results,” DeFazio wrote in his letter to LaHood.
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The Department of Transportation released a plan on Friday, April 8, that published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, April 13. The 30-day comment period is set to end on Friday, May 13.
The Obama administration’s plan to phase in a cross-border program that would result in permanent operating authority drew immediate fire from one U.S. lawmaker.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-OR, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood that requests “written justification of how DOT’s planned program complies with the requirements for pilot programs.”
DeFazio, working from preliminary details, wrote the letter calling for the justification nearly a month before the DOT unveiled the plan.
DeFazio’s letter questions the legal authority of DOT to implement a permanent program.
“A true pilot program should grant a discrete number of Mexican carriers the opportunity to operate beyond the commercial zones at the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. government would strictly monitor the operations of these carriers, and at the end of the pilot program, suspend any further operations while evaluating the results,” DeFazio wrote in his letter to LaHood.
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