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Is the Administrative Flexibility Originally Provided to the U.S. Railway Association Still Needed?

CED-78-19 Published: Feb 22, 1978. Publicly Released: Feb 22, 1978.
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The United States Railway Association (USRA) is a non-profit, mixed ownership Government corporation created under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to develop and carry out a plan to reorganize bankrupt railroads in the Midwest and Northeast. It has broad discretion in the use of its administrative expense appropriations, and its employees are not Federal Government employees. Therefore, many of the statutes and practices which apply to traditional departments are not applicable to USRA. It is managed by an 11-member board of directors consisting of 3 ex officio Government members (the Secretaries of Transportation and the Treasury and the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission) and 8 other members.

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