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gram that will provide highway and transportation agencies in (1) urbanized areas of 50,000 to

1,000,000 population, and (2) rural areas, access

to modern highway technology.

(b) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.—The Secretary

may make grants and enter into contracts for

education and training, technical assistance,

and related support service that will—

(1) assist rural local transportation agencies

to develop and expand their expertise in road

and transportation areas (including pavement,

bridge and safety management systems), to

improve roads and bridges, to enhance programs for the movement of passengers and

freight, to deal effectively with special road

related problems by preparing and providing

training packages, manuals, guidelines, and

technical resource materials, and developing a

tourism and recreational travel technical assistance program;

(2) identify, package, and deliver usable

highway technology to local jurisdictions to

assist urban transportation agencies in developing and expanding their ability to deal effectively with road related problems; and

(3) establish, in cooperation with State

transportation or highway departments and

universities (A) urban technical assistance

program centers in States with 2 or more urbanized areas of 50,000 to 1,000,000 population,

and (B) rural technical assistance program

centers.

Not less than 2 centers under paragraph (3) shall

be designated to provide transportation assistance that may include, but is not necessarily

limited to, a ‘‘circuit-rider’’ program, providing

training on intergovernmental transportation

planning and project selection, and tourism recreational travel to American Indian tribal governments.

(c) FUNDS.—The funds required to carry out

the provisions of this section shall be taken out

of administrative funds deducted under section

104(a). The sum of $6,000,000 per fiscal year for

each of the fiscal years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,

and 1997 shall be set aside from such administrative funds for the purpose of providing technical

and financial support for these centers, including up to 100 percent for services provided to

American Indian tribal governments. There

shall be available from the Highway Trust Fund

(other than the Mass Transit Account) to carry

out this section $3,000,000 for the period of October 1, 1997, through March 31, 1998, and such

funds shall be subject to any limitation on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway

safety construction programs.

(Added Pub. L. 102–240, title VI, §6004(a), Dec. 18,

1991, 105 Stat. 2169; amended Pub. L. 105–130,

§5(e)(4), Dec. 1, 1997, 111 Stat. 2558.)

AMENDMENTS

1997—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–130 inserted at end

‘‘There shall be available from the Highway Trust Fund

(other than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out this

section $3,000,000 for the period of October 1, 1997,

through March 31, 1998, and such funds shall be subject

to any limitation on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs.’’

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 204 of this title.

CHAPTER 4—HIGHWAY SAFETY

Sec.

401. Authority of the Secretary.

402. Highway safety programs.

403. Highway safety research and development.

404. National Highway Safety Advisory Committee.

405. Repealed.

406. School bus driver training.

407. Innovative project grants.

408. Alcohol traffic safety programs.

409. Discovery and admission as evidence of certain reports and surveys.

410. Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures.

AMENDMENTS

1991—Pub. L. 102–240, title I, §1035(b), title II, §2004(c),

Dec. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 1978, 2079, substituted ‘‘Discovery

and admission’’ for ‘‘Admission’’ in item 409 and ‘‘Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures’’ for ‘‘Drunk

driving prevention programs’’ in item 410.

1988—Pub. L. 100–690, title IX, §9002(b), Nov. 18, 1988,

102 Stat. 4525, added item 410.

1987—Pub. L. 100–17, title I, §132(b), Apr. 2, 1987, 101

Stat. 170, added item 409.

1982—Pub. L. 97–364, title I, §101(b), Oct. 25, 1982, 96

Stat. 1740, added item 408.

1978—Pub. L. 95–599, title II, §208(b), Nov. 6, 1978, 92

Stat. 2732, added item 407.

1976—Pub. L. 94–280, title I, §135(d), May 5, 1976, 90

Stat. 442, substituted item 405 ‘‘Repealed’’ for ‘‘Federalaid safer roads demonstration program’’.

1975—Pub. L. 93–643, §126(b), Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2291,

added item 406.

1973—Pub. L. 93–87, title II, §230(b), Aug. 13, 1973, 87

Stat. 294, added item 405.

CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This chapter is referred to in title 49 sections 104, 105.

§ 401. Authority of the Secretary

The Secretary is authorized and directed to

assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, private industry, and other interested

parties, to increase highway safety. For the purposes of this chapter, the term ‘‘State’’ means

any one of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam,

American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands.

(Added Pub. L. 89–564, title I, §101, Sept. 9, 1966,

80 Stat. 731; amended Pub. L. 93–87, title II, §218,

Aug. 13, 1973, 87 Stat. 290; Pub. L. 98–363, §3(b),

July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 436; Pub. L. 100–17, title I,

§133(b)(19), Apr. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 172.)

AMENDMENTS

1987—Pub. L. 100–17 inserted reference in second sentence to Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

1984—Pub. L. 98–363 struck out ‘‘, except that all expenditures for carrying out this chapter in the Virgin

Islands, Guam, and American Samoa shall be paid out

of money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated’’

after ‘‘and American Samoa’’.

1973—Pub. L. 93–87 inserted definition of ‘‘State’’ and

provided that all expenditures for carrying out this

chapter in the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American

Samoa shall be paid out of money in the Treasury not

otherwise appropriated.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT

Section 3(c) of Pub. L. 98–363 provided that: ‘‘The

amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) [amending