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THE 50 SOVEREIGN STATES
Details of 50 Sovereign States, Maps, Regulations, Harbors and Airports...
THE TERRITORIES
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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Department of Transportation (1966)

Secretary of Transportation: Mary E. Peters

The U.S. Department of Transportation establishes the Nation's overall transportation policy. Under its umbrella there are 10 administrations whose jurisdictions include highway planning, development, and construction; urban mass transit; railroads, aviation; and the safety of waterways, ports, highways, and oil and gas pipelines. Decisions made by the Department in conjunction with the appropriate State and local officials strongly affect other programs such as land planning, energy conservation, scarce resource utilization, and technological change. The Department of Transportation was established "to assure the coordinated, effective administration of the transportation programs of the Federal Government" and to develop "national transportation policies and programs conducive the provision of fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent therewith."

The Department of Transportation is administered by the Secretary of Transportation, who is the principal adviser to the President in all matters relating to Federal transportation programs.