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- Allocation
- An administrative
distribution of funds among the States for programs that do not have
statutory distribution formulas
- Apportionment
- The distribution
of funds as prescribed by a statutory formula; a "line of credit"
- Appropriation
- Legislation that
makes funds available for expenditure with specific limitations; legislation
that provides for States to be reimbursed
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- Attribution
- A process that
(1) uses State-reported motor fuel tax revenue data, estimates missing
data, and adjusts the data as required to determine on-highway use of
motor fuels within each State; (2) uses this determination to find the
proportion of each State's usage in comparison to all other States;
and (3) attributes the Federal Highway Trust Fund receipts to highway
users in each State
- Authorization
- An Act that allows
a program to start and establishes a level of funds that may be used
- Ethanol
- An alcohol (CH5OH)
distilled from renewable sources such as grain, sugar crops, or almost
any starchy plant
- Gasohol
- A blend of unleaded
gasoline and alcohol (ethanol or methanol); the percentage of alcohol
content varies
- Highway Trust
Fund
- An account established
by law to hold Federal tax revenues dedicated for highway and transit
purposes
- Methanol
- An alcohol (CH2OH)
produced from coal and organic wastes, especially waste-wood products
- Minimum Guarantee
- Funding provided
to ensure that States receive a certain share of the total Federal-aid
highway program, that they receive a minimum return on their contributions
to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund, and that no State
receives less than $1 million per year in minimum guarantee funds
- State
- For purposes of
apportioning funds under Sections 104 and 105 of Title 23, U.S. Code,
any of the 50 States plus the District of Columbia
- Trust Funds
- Accounts established
by law to hold receipts collected by the Federal Government and earmarked
for financing special purposes and programs
Definitions in this
list were derived from the following sources: Financing Federal -Aid
Highways, FHWA-PL-99-015, August 1999; Primer, Highway Trust Fund,
Federal Highway Administration, Office of Policy Development, http://www.fhwa.gov/policy/primer98.pdf,
November 1998; Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001, http://encarta.msn.com.
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