Title 49, United States Code, "Transportation"-Continued 304. Powers and duties of Commission__ 304a. Actions for recovery of charges; limitation of actions; Investigation of motor vehicle sizes and weights and quali- 834. Regulations by Interstate Commerce Commission___ 835. Administration__. Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Transportation VI-46 Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Transportation-Continued Proceedings on petitions for reconsideration------- VI-58 [Parts 170-189 of Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (Hazardous Materials Regulations), and Parts 390-397 (Motor Carrier Safety Regulations), may be pur- chased from Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office. Part 398 (Transportation of Migrant Workers Regulations) is available from the Fed- eral Highway Administration, Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety.] PART I. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ACT Title 49, United States Code, "Transportation" Chapter 23.-DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION [New] Sec. 1651. Congressional declaration of purpose. 1652. Establishment of Department. (a) Designation and appointment of Secretary of Transportation. (b) Under Secretary; appointment; functions, powers, and duties. (c) Assistant Secretaries; General Counsel; appointment; functions, powers, and duties. (d) Assistant Secretary for Administration; appointment; functions, powers, and duties. (e) Federal Highway Administration; Federal Railroad Administration; Federal Aviation Administration; establishment; Administrators and Deputy Federal Aviation Administrator; appointment, functions, powers, and duties; transfer of functions. (f) National Traffic Safety Bureau; National Highway Safety Bureau; establishment; appointment of Directors; transfer and continuation of office of Federal Highway Administrator under title of Director of Public Roads. 1653. General provisions. (a) Responsibilities of Secretary of Transportation; leadership, consultation, and coordination. (b) Congressional policy standards for transportation; prohibition against adoption of standards or policy without appropriate Congressional action. (c) Judicial review of orders of the Secretary, National Transportation Safety Board, and Administrators. (d) Carryover of authority to Secretary, Administrators, and National Transportation Safety Board from departments and agencies formerly exercising functions and duties. (e) Safety record of applicants seeking operating authority from Interstate Commerce Commission. (f) Maintenance and enhancement of natural beauty of land traversed by transportation lines. (g) Consultation with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; annual report to the President for submission to Congress. 1654. National Transportation Safety Board. (a) Establishment. (b) Functions, powers, and duties of Board. (c) Aircraft accident investigations. (d) Transportation safety; investigation of transportation accidents; recommendations. (e) Publication of reports, orders, decisions, rules, and regulations. (f) Independent status of Board. (g) Annual report and recommendations to Congress. (h) Membership of Board; appointment and political affiliation of members; fitness; removal for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. Chapter 23.-DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION [New]-Con. 1654. National Transportation Safety Board—Continued (i) Term of office of members; filling of vacancies. (j) Designation of Chairman and Vice Chairman; administrative authority; three members required for quorum. (k) Rules and regulations. (1) Conduct of hearings; insurance of subpenas; oaths; witnesses; reception of evidence. (m) Delegation of functions. (n) Employment of investigators, attorneys, hearing examiners, and other employees. (0) Uses of services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of other agencies; use of state facilities. 1655. Transfer of functions. (a) Powers and duties of the Secretary of Commerce and other offices and officers of the Department of Commerce relating to highways, ground transportation generally, aircraft, pilotage, and traffic, and highway safety generally. (b) Coast Guard; functions of the Secretary of the Treasury and other offices and officers of the Department of the Treasury relating to the Coast Guard. (c) Federal Aviation Agency; functions, powers, and duties of Administrator and other offices and officers. (d) Civil Aeronautics Board; chairman, members, officers, and offices; transfer to National Transportation Safety Board. (e) Interstate Commerce Commission; functions, powers and duties relating to safety appliances and equipment on railroad engines and cars, protection of employees and travelers, hours of service, medals for heroism, explosives and other dangerous articles, standard time zones and daylight saving time; safety of operation and equipment. (f) Retention by Interstate Commerce Commission of powers and functions not expressly transferred railroad, pipeline, and motor carrier safety under Federal Railroad and Federal Highway Administrators; review of administrative decisions. (g) Department of the Army; functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of the Army relating to water vessel anchorages, drawbridge operating regulations, obstructive bridges, tolls, prevention of pollution of the sea by oil, and location and clearance of bridges and causeways on navigable waters. (h) Applicability of administrative procedure and judicial review provisions of Title 5. (i) Alaska Railroad. 1656. Transportation investment standards; promulgation by Secretary of Transportation; use of standards and criteria in surveys, plans, and reports of Federal agencies. 1657. Administrative provisions. (a) Authority of Secretary to employ personnel and prescribe their authority and duties. (b) Temporary or intermittent employment of experts and consultants. (c) Detailing of participating military personnel for service in (d) Military personnel assigned to Department of Transporta- |