National Highway System Designation Act

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The National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 (Pub.L. 104-59, 109 Stat. 568) is a United States Act of Congress that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 28, 1995. The legislation designated about 260,000 kilometers (160,955 miles) of roads, including the Interstate Highway System, as the National Highway System.

Aside from designating the National Highway System, the Act served several other purposes, including restoring $5.4 billion in funding to state highway departments and giving Congress the power to prioritize Highway System projects. The Act also repealed all federal speed limit controls, and prohibited the use of federal-aid highway funds to convert existing signs to the metric system, or purchase new signs with metric units.[1]

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  1. ^ 50th Anniversary of the Interstate Highway System—Frequently Asked Questions. US Department of Transportation. Retrieved on 2008-01-07.

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