[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 97 (Friday, May 17, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25129-25130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12719]
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Part VIII
The President
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Proclamation 6896--National Defense Transportation Day and National
Transportation Week, 1996
Executive Order 13003--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate
Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National
Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference
and Their Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Employes
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6896 of May 15, 1996
National Defense Transportation Day and National
Transportation Week, 1996
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Americans derive daily benefits from the finest
transportation system in the world. Our Nation's
network of land, sea, and air travel allows for the
efficient movement of goods and people, strengthening
our economy, uniting our citizens, and linking us to
other countries around the globe. As we strive to
compete in an international marketplace, we must deepen
our commitment to this infrastructure and continue the
long-standing partnership between government and
industry that has made our successes possible.
Transportation has played a vital role in America's
recent economic recovery, creating some 400,000 new
jobs in the last 3 years. Fields that faced financial
difficulties just a short time ago, such as aerospace,
shipbuilding, and airlines, are now profitable and
growing. My Administration has been proud to sign more
than 30 new market-opening aviation agreements,
including an agreement with Canada, our biggest trading
partner, that has generated significant economic
activity in just one year and facilitated air travel
between our two countries.
In an effort to build on this progress and further
improve efficiency, we have increased our national
investment in infrastructure--by some 11 percent a year
over early 1990s levels--while streamlining the
Department of Transportation by 10,000 employees and
cutting red tape to speed the financing and
construction of highway projects. Safety remains a top
priority in these efforts, and communities across the
country are working to protect drivers, passengers,
pedestrians, and bicyclists. Sophisticated
communications technology helps relieve traffic
congestion in urban areas and expanded mass transit
systems move people more quickly and safely with
minimal environmental impact.
To celebrate these accomplishments and to honor the
millions of men and women, both government and private
sector employees, who maintain America's transportation
system and contribute so much to our Nation's
activities, the Congress, by joint resolution approved
May 16, 1957 (36 U.S.C. 160), has designated the third
Friday in May of each year as ``National Defense
Transportation Day'' and, by joint resolution approved
May 14, 1962 (36 U.S.C. 166), declared that the week
within which that Friday falls be designated ``National
Transportation Week.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday,
May 17, 1996, as National Defense Transportation Day
and May 12 through May 18, 1996, as National
Transportation Week. I urge all Americans to observe
these occasions with appropriate ceremonies and
activities, giving due recognition to the countless
individuals and organizations that build, secure, and
operate this country's modern transportation system.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and twentieth
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 96-12719
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