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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







1998 FWOC Resolution No. 18:

Reform of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965


The Highway Beautification Act of 1965 was passed in response to public outrage over the problem of highway blight.  However, it has failed to control the billboard problem on Federal highway, and it has failed to keep billboards out of the rural, scenic, and historic places it was intended to protect.  There are more than 450,000 billboards along Federal highways and 5000 to 15,000 new ones built annually.  Tens of thousands of trees are destroyed on public land to improve billboard visibliity.  No federal funds have been appropriated to assist communities in billboard removal.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs asks Congress to reform the Highway Beautification Act by adding provisions that prohibit all new billboards along Federal highways, prohibit all new billboards in unzoned rural areas, eliminate tree cutting on public property for billboard visibility, enable local governments to use constitutional means to remove non-conforming billboards, and require the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to conduct an annual survey of all billboards along Federal highways.

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ACTION: The FWOC urges member groups and members to contact their Congressional delegates and ask them to sponsor such reform measures to the Highway Beautification Act of 1965.








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