Remarks by Federal Highway Administrator F. C. Turner for Delivery before the Mississippi Valley Conference of State Highway Officials

In the evolution of our national highway program, the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1970 will take its place as benchmark legislation.It merits this description because it affirms in many practical ways the concerns and the priorities of our time.It looks from this vantage point with a sound plan for the future.And in so doing it provides those of us who manage the highway program with new support and new opportunities to serve our fellow citizens.We have been administering a program whose foundations were adherence to a set of plans and specifications drawn up in 1956.On the contrary, we have approved some very significant change orders along the way.America has been changing these past 15 years and so WASH1HG7 ONif D.C. 2059C laid in the 1956 legislation.But we have not been constrained by blind have we.To use the broadest description, it is the quality of life -more-