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be in addition to any penalty or remedy avail-
able under any other law or common law. 
‘‘(3) CIVIL ACTION.—On learning of a violation 
of a provision of this section’’. 
SEC. 6607. REGULATORY REVIEW AND REVISION. 
Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall review and revise the Federal 
motor carrier safety regulations contained in chapter III 
of subtitle B of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to— 
(1) simplify the regulations; and 
(2) eliminate those requirements that are out-
moded or excessively burdensome. 
SEC. 6608. ISSUANCE OF SAFETY REGULATIONS. 
The Secretary shall take such actions as may be nec-
essary in fiscal year 2012 to expedite the issuance of safety 
regulations to carry out this title (and the amendments 
made by this title) following the effective date of this title. 
SEC. 6609. REPEALS. 
(a) REPEAL OF HIGH-PRIORITY PROGRAM.—Section 
31104(k) is repealed. 
(b) BORDER ENFORCEMENT GRANTS.—Section 31107, 
and the item relating to that section in the analysis for 
chapter 311, are repealed. 
(c) COMMERCIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE INFORMATION 
SYSTEM MODERNIZATION.—Subsections (c), (d), and (e) of 
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section 4123 of SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1735–1736) are 
repealed. 
(d) OUTREACH
AND EDUCATION.—Section 4127 of 
SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1741), and the item relating to 
that section in the table of contents contained in section 
1(b) of that Act, are repealed. 
(e) SAFETY DATA IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.—Section 
4128 of SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1742), and the item re-
lating to that section in the table of contents contained in 
section 1(b) of that Act, are repealed. 
(f) GRANT PROGRAM FOR COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHI-
CLE OPERATORS.—Section 4134 of SAFETEA–LU (119 
Stat. 1744), and the item relating to that section in the 
table of contents contained in section 1(b) of that Act, are 
repealed. 
(g) REPORT ON MOTOR CARRIER EMPLOYEE PROTEC-
TIONS.—Section 4023 of the Transportation Equity Act for 
the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 31105 note; 112 Stat. 415), 
and the item relating to that section in the table of contents 
contained in section 1(b) of that Act, are repealed. 
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TITLE VII—RESEARCH AND 
EDUCATION 
SEC. 7001. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The following sums are authorized 
to be appropriated out of the Alternative Transportation 
Account of the Highway Trust Fund: 
(1) HIGHWAY
RESEARCH
AND
DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAM.—To carry out section 503 of title 23, 
United States Code, $141,750,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2013 through 2016. 
(2) TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEPLOYMENT 
PROGRAM.—To carry out section 503a of title 23, 
United States Code, $60,750,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2013 through 2016. 
(3) TRAINING AND EDUCATION.—To carry out 
section 504 of title 23, United States Code, 
$25,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 
2016. 
(4) INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS RE-
SEARCH.—To carry out sections 512, 514, 515, 516, 
and 517 of title 23, United States Code, $110,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2016. 
(5) UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH.— 
To carry out section 5506 of title 49, United States 
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Code, $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 
through 2016. 
(6) BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS.— 
To carry out section 111 of title 49, United States 
Code, $27,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 
through 2016. 
(b) APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 1 OF TITLE 23.— 
Funds authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a) shall 
be available for obligation in the same manner as if such 
funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
States Code, except that the Federal share of the cost of a 
project or activity carried out using such funds shall be 80 
percent, unless otherwise expressly provided by this Act (in-
cluding the amendments made by this Act) or otherwise de-
termined by the Secretary, and such funds shall remain 
available until expended and shall not be transferable. 
SEC. 7002. OBLIGATION CEILING. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the total 
of all obligations from amounts made available from the 
Alternative Transportation Account of the Highway Trust 
Fund by section 7001(a) shall be $440,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2013 through 2016. 
SEC. 7003. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 501 of title 23, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (7); 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (1) as para-
graph (2); 
(3) by inserting before paragraph (2) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(1) CONNECTED
VEHICLE
TECHNOLOGY.—The 
term ‘connected vehicle technology’ means the utiliza-
tion of wireless technology to enable multiple vehicles 
to communicate information to each other.’’; and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (2) (as so redes-
ignated) the following: 
‘‘(3) INCIDENT.—The term ‘incident’ means a 
crash, natural disaster, workzone activity, special 
event, or other emergency road user occurrence that 
adversely affects or impedes the normal flow of traffic. 
‘‘(4) 
INTELLIGENT
TRANSPORTATION
INFRA-
STRUCTURE.—The term ‘intelligent transportation in-
frastructure’ means fully integrated public sector in-
telligent transportation system components, as defined 
by the Secretary. 
‘‘(5) INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.— 
The term ‘intelligent transportation system’ means 
electronics, photonics, communications, or informa-
tion processing used singly or in combination to im-
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prove the efficiency or safety of a surface transpor-
tation system. 
‘‘(6) NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE.—The term ‘na-
tional architecture’ means the common framework for 
interoperability that defines— 
‘‘(A) the functions associated with intel-
ligent transportation system user services; 
‘‘(B) the physical entities or subsystems 
within which the functions reside; 
‘‘(C) the data interfaces and information 
flows between physical subsystems; and 
‘‘(D) the communications requirements as-
sociated with the information flows.’’. 
SEC. 7004. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, DEVEL-
OPMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 502 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘re-
search’’ and inserting ‘‘research, develop-
ment, and technology’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 
through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through 
(E), respectively; 
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‘‘(F) conduct, facilitate, and support train-
ing and education of current and future trans-
portation professionals.’’; 
(C) in paragraph (4)(C) by striking ‘‘policy 
and planning’’ and inserting ‘‘all highway objec-
tives seeking to improve the performance of the 
transportation system’’; 
(D) in paragraph (5) by inserting ‘‘tribal 
governments,’’ after ‘‘local governments,’’; 
(E) by striking paragraph (7) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(7) PERFORMANCE REVIEW AND EVALUATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—To the maximum ex-
tent practicable, all surface transportation re-
search and development projects shall include a 
component of performance measurement and 
evaluation. 
‘‘(B) PERFORMANCE MEASURES.—Perform-
ance measures shall be established during the 
proposal stage of a research and development 
project and shall, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, be outcome-based. 
‘‘(C) PROGRAM
PLAN.—To the maximum 
extent practicable, each program pursued under 
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this chapter shall be part of a data-driven, out-
come-oriented program plan. 
‘‘(D) AVAILABILITY OF EVALUATIONS.—All 
evaluations under this paragraph shall be made 
readily available to the public.’’; and 
(F) in paragraph (8) by striking ‘‘surface’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(4) TECHNOLOGICAL
INNOVATION.—The Sec-
retary shall ensure that the programs and activities 
carried out under this chapter are consistent with the 
transportation research and development strategic 
plan developed under section 508.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘section’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘chapter’’; 
(C) in paragraph (6) by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(C) TRANSFER OF FUNDS AMONG STATES 
OR TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION.— 
The Secretary, at the request of a State, may 
transfer funds apportioned or allocated under 
this chapter to the State to another State, or to 
the Federal Highway Administration, for the 
purpose of funding research, development, and 
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technology transfer activities of mutual interest 
on a pooled funds basis. 
‘‘(D) TRANSFER OF OBLIGATION AUTHOR-
ITY.—Obligation authority for funds transferred 
under this subsection shall be transferred in the 
same manner and amount as the funds for 
projects that are transferred under this sub-
section.’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) PRIZE COMPETITIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with section 
24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innova-
tion Act of 1980, the Secretary may carry out a 
program to award prizes competitively to stimu-
late innovation in the area of surface transpor-
tation that has the potential to advance the Fed-
eral Highway Administration’s research and 
technology objectives and activities under section 
503. 
‘‘(B) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 
March 1 of each year, the Secretary shall 
submit to the Committees on Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure and Science, 
Space, and Technology of the House of Rep-
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resentatives and the Committees on Envi-
ronment and Public Works and Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation of the Senate a 
report on the activities carried out during 
the preceding fiscal year under the author-
ity in subparagraph (A) if such authority 
under subparagraph (A) was utilized by the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(ii) INFORMATION INCLUDED.—A re-
port under this subparagraph shall include, 
for each prize competition under subpara-
graph (A), the following: 
‘‘(I) A description of the proposed 
goals of each prize competition. 
‘‘(II) An analysis of why the uti-
lization of the authority in subpara-
graph (A) was the preferable method of 
achieving the goals described in sub-
clause (I) as opposed to other authori-
ties available to the agency, such as 
contracts, 
grants, 
and 
cooperative 
agreements. 
‘‘(III) The total amount of cash 
prizes awarded for each prize competi-
tion, including a description of the 
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amount of private funds contributed to 
the program, the sources of such funds, 
and the manner in which the amounts 
of cash prizes awarded and claimed 
were allocated among the accounts of 
the agency for recording as obligations 
and expenditures. 
‘‘(IV) The methods used for the so-
licitation and evaluation of submis-
sions under each prize competition, to-
gether with an assessment of the effec-
tiveness of such methods and lessons 
learned for future prize competitions. 
‘‘(V) A description of the re-
sources, including personnel and fund-
ing, used in the execution of each prize 
competition together with a detailed 
description of the activities for which 
such resources were used and an ac-
counting of how funding for execution 
was allocated among the accounts of 
the agency for recording as obligations 
and expenditures. 
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‘‘(VI) A description of how each 
prize competition advanced the mission 
of the Department of Transportation.’’; 
(4) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (3)(A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘The’’ and inserting 
‘‘Except as otherwise provided in this chap-
ter, the’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘subsection’’ and in-
serting ‘‘chapter’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘50’’ and inserting 
‘‘80’’; 
(B) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘sub-
section’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter’’; and 
(5) by striking subsections (d) through (j). 
(b) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—The analysis for 
chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 502 and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘502. Surface transportation research, development, and technology.’’. 
SEC. 7005. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 503 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
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