{"id":576,"date":"2010-04-09T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mississippivalleyfreight.org\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-04-09T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:55:32","slug":"marine-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/09\/marine-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Highway Rule Now Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the most recent edition of the Federal Register, America&#8217;s Marine Highway Rule became final:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 9, 2008, the Department of Transportation published  an interim final rule that established America&#8217;s Marine Highway  Program, under which the Secretary will designate marine highway  corridors and identify and support short sea transportation projects to  expand domestic water transportation services as an alternative means  of moving containerized and wheeled freight cargoes; mitigate the  economic, environmental and energy costs of landside congestion;  integrate the marine highway into the transportation planning process;  and research improvements in efficiencies and environmental  sustainability.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis rule adopts the interim final rule, addresses  Marine Highway Corridors (and continues to solicit recommendations for  Marine Highway Corridor recommendations), and establishes eligibility  requirements, criteria and information necessary to apply for  designation as a Marine Highway Project by the Secretary of  Transportation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/edocket.access.gpo.gov\/2010\/2010-7899.htm\">FR Doc 2010-7899<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0the MARAD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marad.dot.gov\/news_room_landing_page\/news_releases_summary\/news_release\/DOT_60-10_release.htm\">press release<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aashtojournal.org\/Pages\/040910marine.aspx\">AASHTO journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the most recent edition of the Federal Register, America&#8217;s Marine Highway Rule became final: On October 9, 2008, the Department of Transportation published an interim final rule that established America&#8217;s Marine Highway Program, under which the Secretary will designate marine highway corridors and identify and support short sea transportation projects to expand domestic water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}