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9.0 Feasibility
Pages 77-78

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... For these options, the feasibility evaluation consists of identifying the effort that likely would be required to overcome the feasibility obstacles, and the broader evaluation consists of determining whether or not this effort appears to be worthwhile. One set of potential feasibility limitations consists of those that are technical in nature.
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... For example, some of We Federal restrictions on the implementation of tolls on the Interstate system were eliminated by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA>, anymore are likely to be removed by the transportation bill that currently is pending before Congress. In general, an initial evaluation of the feasibility of adopting a new tax or increasing rates for an existing tax should consider Me sources and likely extent of opposition to the tax change and the prospects for overcoming this opposition.
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