Assemblymember Pedro Nava, California
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Representative Jim Keane, Montana
Vice Chair |
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| This committee focuses on the issues related to the movement of people and goods throughout the West and through the airports or seaports of the region into global commerce. The committee investigates the critical transportation issues facing the West, particularly the impacts of exploding population growth combined with aging transportation infrastructure. The committee works takes the lead for western legislators in working with the Western Governors’ Association and the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in support of the SAFETEA-LU and its reauthorization in 2009 and the Essential Air Service Act (EAS) to protect small, non-hub communities. As the only region that borders both Canada and Mexico, the committee will work with these organizations in support of trade corridor programs to improve commerce and trade between northern and southern border ports of entry. |
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2006
Highlights: Committee members
discussed the role of light rail as well as innovations in
transportation planning 50 years after the birth of the interstate
highway system. In addition, lawmakers looked at the impacts on
immigration from the North America Free Trade Agreement and the Central
American Free Trade Agreement.
2006 Annual
Meeting
presentations click here. |
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2005
Highlights: Legislators
considered the impacts of the Central American Free Trade Agreement on
western agriculture, the future of the airline industry in the West, and
how the new Transportation Equity Act (TEA-21) legislation meets the
region's rapidly growing population and traffic demands. |
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| For More Information on the Trade & Transportation Committee, please contact CSG-WEST consultant: Rich Lindsey |
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