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Cross-border trucking will continue, FMCSA vows
12/29/07 Quote: Cross-border trucking will continue, FMCSA vows
By eTrucker Staff
President Bush signed an omnibus spending bill Dec. 26 that explicitly cut off funds to any new cross-border trucking program with Mexico -- but the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says the existing program will continue nonetheless.
The language in the appropriations bill prohibiting funds "to establish" such a program doesn't apply to the program already in place, the FMCSA announced.
In accordance with the 2008 omnibus appropriations act, the U.S. Department of Transportation will not establish any new demonstration programs with Mexico," FMCSA said in a statement. "The current cross-border trucking demonstration project established in September will continue to operate.
H.R. 2764, the compromise bill approved by the House on Dec. 17 and the Senate on Dec. 18 and sent to the White House on Dec. 19, wrapped together funding for the entire federal government except the Department of Defense, already funded under separate legislation.
Signed into law by President Bush, the bill included a prohibition denying funds "to establish a cross-border motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between the United States and Mexico."
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