economic, social, environmental, and other impact

economic, social, environmental, and other impact Sec. 136. (a) Section 109(g) of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(g) The Secretary shall issue within 30 days after the day of enactment of the Federal-Aid Highway Rct of 1970 guidelines for minimizing possible soil erosion from highway construction. Such guidelines shall apply to all proposed projects with respect to which plans, specifications, and estimates are approved by the Secretary after the issuance of such guidelines.” (b) Such section 109 is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “(h) Not later than July 1, 1972, the Secretary, after consultation with appropriate Federal and State officials, shall submit to Congress, and not later than 90 days after such submission, promulgate guidelines designed to assure that possible adverse economic, social, and environmental effects relating to any proposed project on any Federal-aid system have been fully considered in developing such project, and that the final decisions on the project are made in the best overall public interest, taking into consideration the need for fast, safe and efficient transportation, public services, and the costs of eliminating or minimizing such adverse effects and the following: “(1) air, noise, and water pollution; “(2) destruction or disruption of manmade and natural resources, aesthetic values, community cohesion and the availability of public facilities and services; “(3) adverse employment effects, and tax and property value losses; “(4) injurious displacement of people, businesses and farms; and 84 Stat. 1735 “(5) disruption of desirable community and regional growth. Such guidelines shall apply to all proposed projects with respect to which plans, specifications, and estimates are approved by the Secretary after the issuance of such guidelines. “(i) The Secretary, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State, and local officials, shall develop and promulgate standards for highway noise levels compatible with different land uses and after July 1, 1972, shall not approve plans and specifications for any proposed project on any Federal-aid system for which location approval has not yet been secured unless he determines that such plans and specifications include adequate measures to implement the appropriate noise level standards. “(j) The Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall develop and promulgate guidelines to assure that highways constructed pursuant to this title are consistent with any approved plan for the implementation of any ambient air quality standard for any air quality control region designated pursuant to the Clean Air Act, as amended.” (c) Subsection (b) of section 307 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding the following sentence: “The highway research program herein authorized shall also include studies to identify and measure, quantitatively and qualitatively, those factors which relate to economic, social, environmental, and other impacts of highway projects.”