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Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari said Thursday the government has already awarded contracts to dispose of two World War II-era cargo ships from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.

Wise Team: Government Accountability Office: Physical Infrastructure Phone: (202) 512-5731 Recommendations for Executive Action ---------- Recommendation: To strengthen formal collaboration efforts, the Secretary of Transportation should direct the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should direct the appropriate program offices, to develop and publish an implementation plan for interagency efforts to promote affordable housing in transit-oriented developments, to include the HUD-FTA action plan and the Partnership for Sustainable Communities.

The Recovery Act has also created new programs: The secretary of transportation will use $1.

Chao, who was then the Deputy Secretary of Transportation.

Patrick has appointed state Secretary of Transportation Bernard Cohen to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority to fill a vacancy created by the departure of Thomas H.

Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, a Marianna native, started work last month at the Washington power-lobbying law firm of Patton Boggs LLC.

At present, the governor appoints the members of the state Transportation Commission, who hire the secretary of transportation to run the massive department.

Or so say Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater, Amtrak Chairman Tommy Thompson (who moonlights as the welfare-slashing governor of Wisconsin), and some of the senators who oversee Amtrak's government-granted monopoly.