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A House panel will hold a hearing March 12 to examine the Department of Transportation’s implementation of MAP-21 and President Obama’s budget request for surface transportation agencies.

The Capitol Hill hearing by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committ™s subcommittee on highway and transit will include Peter Rogoff, acting undersecretary for policy at DOT; Anne Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the heads of other DOT agencies that oversee surface transportation, the panel said March 7. Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) is the panel’s chairman.

Congress passed MAP-21 in 2012, but it expires Sept. 30. Lawmakers in the House and Senate have started to consider how to authorize surface transportation programs beyond MAP-21.

Obama’s budget, unveiled March 4, calls for $73 billion for surface transportation programs in fiscal 2015, which starts Oct. 1. It is part of Obama’s proposal to spend $302 billion on surface transportation over a four-year period.