[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR1.3]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 1--GENERAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.3  Federal-State cooperation; authority of State highway departments.

    The Administrator shall cooperate with the States, through their 
respective State highway departments, in the construction of Federal-aid 
highways. Each State highway department, maintained in conformity with 
23 U.S.C. 302, shall be authorized, by the laws of the State, to make 
final decisions for the State in all matters relating to, and to enter 
into, on behalf of the State, all contracts and agreements for projects 
and to take such other actions on behalf of the State as may be 
necessary

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to comply with the Federal laws and the regulations in this part.