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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5819 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a grant program 
to develop a roadway safety training institute to deliver comprehensive 
and uniform roadway safety training to roadway workers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 22, 2010 
Mr. GUTHRIE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a 
grant program to develop a roadway safety training insti-
tute to deliver comprehensive and uniform roadway safe-
ty training to roadway workers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Roadway Safety Train-
ing and Access Act of 2010’’. 
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SEC. 2. ROADWAY SAFETY TRAINING INSTITUTE GRANT 
PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall establish and implement a grant program to develop 
a roadway safety training institute. 
(b) GRANTS.—The Secretary shall make grants to 
one eligible entity to develop a roadway safety training in-
stitute in accordance with this section. 
(c) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible entity seeking a 
grant under this section shall submit an application to the 
Secretary in such form, and containing such information, 
as the Secretary may require. 
(d) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—An eligible entity receiv-
ing a grant under this section may use funds from the 
grant to develop and deliver comprehensive and uniform 
roadway safety training to roadway workers across the 
United States, including through the following activities: 
(1) Development, updating, and delivery of 
training courses on— 
(A) guardrail installation, maintenance, 
and inspection; 
(B) identification by law enforcement per-
sonnel of potential engineering improvements at 
crash locations; 
(C) traffic control for incident responders; 
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(D) law enforcement in roadway work 
zones; 
(E) traffic control for utility workers; and 
(F) traffic control for other individuals for 
whom temporary traffic control may be an inci-
dental part of their employment duties. 
(2) Sponsorship of demonstration projects to 
assess roadway work zone devices for disabled pedes-
trians, in partnership with local governments, manu-
facturers, and disabled users. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund (other 
than the Mass Transit Account) $2,750,000 to carry 
out this section for each of fiscal years 2011 through 
2016. 
(2) APPLICABILITY OF TITLE 23.—Funds au-
thorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
shall be available for obligation and administered in 
the same manner as if such funds were appropriated 
under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, ex-
cept that such funds shall remain available until ex-
pended and shall not be transferable. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act, the following definitions apply: 
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(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means a not-for-profit organization that has 
demonstrated experience in developing and delivering 
roadway work zone safety training to roadway work-
ers. 
(2) INCIDENT
RESPONDER.—The term ‘‘inci-
dent responder’’ means an individual whose job re-
quires responding to surface transportation inci-
dents, including fire and emergency medical per-
sonnel and vehicle tow truck operators. 
(3) ROADWAY WORKER.—The term ‘‘roadway 
worker’’ means an individual whose job requires 
working on or near a roadway work zone, including 
incident responders, law enforcement personnel, util-
ity workers, and individuals involved in guardrail in-
stallation, maintenance, and inspection. 
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