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and the Secretary, may be erected and maintained 

 within six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge 

 of the right-of-way within areas adjacent to the 

 Interstate and primary systems which are zoned 

 Industrial or commercial under authority of 

 State law, or in unzoned commercial or indus- 

 trial areas as may be determined by agreement 

 between the several States and the Secretary 

 The States shall have full authority luider their own 

 zoning laws to zone areas for commercial or Indus- 

 trial purposes, and the actions of the States In this 

 regard will be accepted for the purposes of this Act 

 Whenever a bona fide State, county, or local zoning 

 authority has made a determination of customary 

 use, such determination will be accepted in lieu of 

 controls by agreement in the zoned commercial and 

 industrial areas -within the geographical jurisdiction 

 of such authority. Nothing in this subsection shall 

 apply to signs, displays, and devices referred to in 

 clauses (2) and (3) of subsection (ci of this section. 



(e) Any sign, display, or device lawfully in exist- 

 ence along the Interstate System or the Federal-aid 

 primary system on September 1. 1965. which does 

 not conform to this section shall not be required to 

 be removed until July 1. 1970. Any other sign, dis- 

 play, or device lawfully erected which does not con- 

 form to this section shall not be required to be 

 removed until the end of the fifth year after It be- 

 comes nonconforming. 



<f) The Secretary shall, in consultation with the 

 States, provide within the rights-of-way for areas 

 at appropriate distances from interchanges on the 

 Interstate System, on which signs, displays, and 

 devices giving specific information in the Interest of 

 the traveling public may be erected and maintained. 



The Secretary may also, in consultatioirwith the 

 States, provide within the rights-of-way of the 

 primary system for areas in which signs, displays, 

 and devices giving specific information in the 

 interest of the traveling public may be erected and 

 maintained. 



Such signs shall conform to national standards to 

 be promulgated by the Secretary. 



(g) Just compensation shall be paid upon the re- 

 moval of the following outdoor advertising signs, 

 displays, and devices — 



(1) those lawfully In existence on the date of 

 enactment of this subsection, 



(2) those lawfully on any highway made a part 

 of the interstate or primary system on or after 

 the date of enactment of this subsection and be- 

 fore January 1, 1968, and 



(3) those lawfully erected on or after January 

 1, 1968. 



The Federal share of such compensation shall be 

 75 per centum. Such compensation shall be paid 

 for the following: 



(A) The taking from the owner of such sign, 

 display, or device of all right, title, leasehold, and 

 interest in such sign, display, or device; and 



(B) The taking from the owner of the real 

 property on which the sign, display, or device is 

 located, of the right to erect and maintain such 

 signs, displays, and devices thereon. 



<h) All public lands or reservations of the United 



States which are adjacent to any portion of the 

 Interstate System and the primary system shall be 

 controlled in accordance with the provisions of this 

 section and the national standards promulgated by 

 the Secretary. 



(i) In order to provide information in the specific 

 interest of the traveling public, the State highway 

 departments are authorized to maintain maps and 

 to permit information directories and advertising 

 pamphlets to be made available at safety rest areas. 

 Subject to the approval of the Secretary, a State 

 may also establish information centers at safety 

 rest areas and other travel information systems 

 within the rights-of-way for the purpose of in- 

 forming the public of places of interest within the 

 State and providing such other information as a 

 State may consider desirable. The Federal share of 

 the cost of establishing such an information center 

 or travel information system shall be that which 

 is provided in section 120 for a highway project on 

 that Federal-aid system to be served by such cen- 

 ter or system. 



(j) Any State highway department which has, 

 under this section as in effect on June 30, 1965, 

 entered into an agreement with the Secretary to 

 control the erection and maintenance of outdoor 

 advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas ad- 

 jacent to the Interstate System shall be entitled to 

 receive the bonus payments as set forth in the agree- 

 ment, but no such State highway department shall 

 be entitled to such payments unless the State main- 

 tains the control required under such agreement. 

 Such payments shall be paid only from appropria- 

 tions made to carry out this section. The provisions 

 of this subsection shall not be construed to exempt 

 any State from controlling outdoor advertising as 

 otherwise provided in this section. 



(k) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a State 

 from establishing standards imposing stricter limi- 

 tations with respect to signs, displays, and devices 

 on the Federal-aid highway systems than those es- 

 tablished under this section. 



(/) Not less than sixty days before making a final 

 determination to withhold funds from a State under 

 subsection (b) of this section, or to do so under sub- 

 section <b) of section 136, or with respect to failing 

 to agree as to the size, lighting, and spacing of 

 signs, displays, and devices or as to unzoned com- 

 mercial or industrial areas in which signs, displays, 

 and devices may be erected and maintained under 

 subsection (d) of this section, or with respect to 

 failure to approve under subsection (g) of section 

 136, the Secretary shall give written notice to the 

 State of his prop>osed determination and a state- 

 ment of the reasons therefor, and during such period 

 shall give the State an opportunity for a hearing 

 on such determination. Following such hearing 

 the Secretary shall issue a written order setting 

 forth his final determination and shall furnish a 

 copy of such order to the State. Within forty-five 

 days of receipt of such order, the State may ap- 

 peal such order to any United States district court 

 for such State, and upon the filing of such appeal 

 such order shall be stayed until final judgment has 



