Highway Account
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The Highway Account is the portion of the U.S. Highway Trust Fund that finances the construction, maintenance, and improvement of federal-aid highways and related road infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Highway Account canonical | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
component of the Highway Trust Fund
ⓘ
transportation trust fund account ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Federal Highway Administration ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
federal-aid highway program recipients
ⓘ
states and territories of the United States ⓘ |
| budgetProcess | subject to federal surface transportation authorization acts ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
United States Congress
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Congress
|
| distinguishedFrom | Mass Transit Account ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 ⓘ |
| establishedIn | 1956 ⓘ |
| expendituresRestrictedTo | eligible highway and road-related purposes ⓘ |
| finances |
federal-aid highways
ⓘ
highway construction ⓘ highway improvement projects ⓘ highway maintenance ⓘ interstate highway system projects ⓘ road infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| fundingMechanism | trust fund accounting ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
diesel fuel tax revenues
ⓘ
federal motor fuels excise taxes ⓘ gasoline tax revenues ⓘ heavy vehicle use tax ⓘ tire excise taxes ⓘ truck and trailer excise taxes ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Internal Revenue Code
ⓘ
surface form:
Internal Revenue Code provisions on the Highway Trust Fund
Title 23 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| managedUnder | federal budget rules for trust funds ⓘ |
| monitoredBy |
Congressional Budget Office
ⓘ
Government Accountability Office ⓘ |
| overseenBy |
United States Department of Transportation
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
|
| partOf | Highway Trust Fund ⓘ |
| policyArea |
highway infrastructure finance
ⓘ
surface transportation ⓘ |
| purpose |
to maintain and improve the federal-aid highway network
ⓘ
to provide dedicated funding for federal-aid highway programs ⓘ to support construction of the Interstate Highway System ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Mass Transit Account ⓘ |
| reportsTo |
United States Congress
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Congress
|
| revenueType | earmarked federal excise taxes ⓘ |
| scope | national highway and road infrastructure in the United States ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
apportionment formulas for federal-aid highway programs
ⓘ
obligation limitations set by Congress ⓘ |
| usedBy | state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| usedFor | federal share of eligible highway project costs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Highway Account Description of subject: The Highway Account is the portion of the U.S. Highway Trust Fund that finances the construction, maintenance, and improvement of federal-aid highways and related road infrastructure.
Referenced by (1)
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