(ii) monitor such excavation as appro-
priate.
(F) Provision for notification of excavators
if no underground facilities are located at the
excavation site.
(G) Provision for the approval of a State
program under this Act with time limitations
longer than those required under subpara-
graphs (C) and (E) of this paragraph where
special circumstances, such as severe weather
conditions or remoteness of location, pertain.
(H) Procedures for excavators and facility
operators to follow when the location of under-
ground facilities is unknown.
(I) Procedures to improve underground fa-
cility location capabilities, including compiling
and notifying excavators, facility operators, and
one-call centers of any information about pre-
viously unknown underground facility locations
when such information is discovered.
(J) Alternative rules for timely compliance
with State program requirements in emergency
circumstances.
(K) If a State has procedures for licensing
or permitting entities to do business, procedures
for the revocation of the license or permit to do
business of any excavator determined to be a
habitual violator of the requirements of the
State program.
(3) WORKSHOPS.—Within 6 months after the
date of enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after, the Secretary shall conduct workshops with fa-
cility operators, excavators, one-call notification sys-
tem operators, and State and local governments in
order to develop, amend, and promote the model
program, and to provide an opportunity to share in-
formation among such parties and to recognize State
programs that exemplify the goals of this Act.
(c) PUBLIC EDUCATION.—The Secretary shall de-
velop, in conjunction with facility operators, excavators,
one-call notification system operators, and State and local
governments, public service announcements and other edu-
cational materials and programs to be broadcast or pub-
lished to educate the public about one-call notification sys-
tems, including the national phone number.
SEC. 9. STATE REPORTS.
(a) REQUIREMENT.—
(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Within 3 years after the
date of enactment of this Act, each State shall sub-
mit to the Secretary a report on progress made in
implementing this Act.
(2) STATUS REPORTS.—Within 41⁄2 years after
the date of enactment of this Act, and annually
thereafter, each State shall report to the Secretary
on the status of its State program, if any, and its
requirements, and any other information the Sec-
retary requires.
(b) SIMPLIFIED REPORTING FORM.—Within 3 years
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
develop and distribute to the States a simplified form for
complying with the reporting requirements of subsection
(a)(2).
SEC. 10. FEDERAL REPORT.
The Secretary shall report annually to Congress on
the number and circumstances surrounding accidents
caused by routine railroad maintenance.
SEC. 11. MORE PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS.
Nothing in this Act prohibits a State from imple-
menting a one-call notification system that provides great-
er protection for underground facilities from damage due
to excavation than a system established pursuant to this
Act.
SEC. 12. USE OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR REMOTE AND ABOVE-
GROUND PIPELINE LOCATION.
The Secretary shall consult with other agencies as to
the availability and affordability of technologies which will
help relocate pipelines from above-ground and remote loca-
tions.
SEC. 13. VISION WAIVER STUDY PROGRAM.
Pursuant to section 31136(e) of title 49, United
States Code, and in order to further substantiate research
carried out by the Secretary in fiscal year 1992 under the
vision waiver study program, the Secretary shall carry out
a follow-up study to such program to include drivers who
otherwise would have qualified to participate in the initial
vision waiver study but for the time limits on applications
and the failure to learn of the program in a timely man-
ner.
SEC. 14. SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARDING
NOTICE.
(a) PURCHASE
OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of Congress that, to the
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products
purchased with funds made available under this Act
should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance under this Act, the Adminis-
trator of the Research and Special Programs Administra-
tion of the Department of Transportation, to the greatest
extent practicable, shall provide to each recipient of the
assistance a notice describing the statement made in sub-
section (a).
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