H. R. 1195 
One Hundred Tenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and eight 
An Act 
To amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: 
A Legacy for Users to make technical corrections, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘SAFETEA– 
LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS 
Sec. 101. Surface transportation technical corrections. 
Sec. 102. MAGLEV. 
Sec. 103. Projects of national and regional significance and national corridor infra-
structure improvement projects. 
Sec. 104. Idling reduction facilities. 
Sec. 105. Project authorizations. 
Sec. 106. Nonmotorized transportation pilot program. 
Sec. 107. Correction of Interstate and National Highway System designations. 
Sec. 108. Budget justification; buy America. 
Sec. 109. Transportation improvements. 
Sec. 110. I–95/Contee Road interchange design. 
Sec. 111. Highway research funding. 
Sec. 112. Rescission. 
Sec. 113. TEA–21 technical corrections. 
Sec. 114. High priority corridor and innovative project technical corrections. 
Sec. 115. Definition of repeat intoxicated driver law. 
Sec. 116. Research technical correction. 
Sec. 117. Buy America waiver notification and annual reports. 
Sec. 118. Efficient use of existing highway capacity. 
Sec. 119. Future interstate designation. 
Sec. 120. Project flexibility. 
Sec. 121. Effective date. 
TITLE II—TRANSIT PROVISIONS 
Sec. 201. Transit technical corrections. 
TITLE III—OTHER SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Technical amendments relating to motor carrier safety. 
Sec. 302. Technical amendments relating to hazardous materials transportation. 
Sec. 303. Highway safety. 
Sec. 304. Correction of study requirement regarding on-scene motor vehicle colli-
sion causation. 
Sec. 305. Motor carrier transportation registration. 
Sec. 306. Applicability of Fair Labor Standards Act requirements and limitation on 
liability. 
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 401. Conveyance of GSA Fleet Management Center to Alaska Railroad Cor-
poration.
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Sec. 402. Conveyance of retained interest in St. Joseph Memorial Hall. 
TITLE V—OTHER PROVISIONS 
Sec. 501. De Soto County, Mississippi. 
Sec. 502. Department of Justice review. 
TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 
(a) CORRECTION OF INTERNAL REFERENCES IN DISADVANTAGED 
BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES.—Paragraphs (3)(A) and (5) of section 
1101(b) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation 
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1156) are amended 
by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘paragraph (2)’’. 
(b) CORRECTION OF DISTRIBUTION OF OBLIGATION AUTHORITY.— 
Section 1102(c)(5) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1158) 
is amended by striking ‘‘among the States’’. 
(c) CORRECTION OF FEDERAL LANDS HIGHWAYS.—Section 1119 
of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 
Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1190) is amended by striking 
subsection (m) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(m) FOREST HIGHWAYS.—Of the amounts made available for 
public lands highways under section 1101— 
‘‘(1) not more than $20,000,000 for each fiscal year may 
be used for the maintenance of forest highways; 
‘‘(2) not more than $1,000,000 for each fiscal year may 
be used for signage identifying public hunting and fishing 
access; and 
‘‘(3) not more than $10,000,000 for each fiscal year shall 
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the costs of 
facilitating the passage of aquatic species beneath forest roads 
(as defined in section 101(a) of title 23, United States Code), 
including the costs of constructing, maintaining, replacing, and 
removing culverts and bridges, as appropriate.’’. 
(d) CORRECTION OF DESCRIPTION OF NATIONAL CORRIDOR INFRA-
STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.—Item number 1 of the table 
contained in section 1302(e) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 
1205) is amended in the State column by inserting ‘‘LA,’’ after 
‘‘TX,’’. 
(e) CORRECTION OF HIGH PRIORITY DESIGNATIONS.— 
(1) KENTUCKY HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDOR DESIGNATION.—Sec-
tion 1105(c)(18)(E) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2032; 112 Stat. 189; 115 
Stat. 872) is amended by inserting before the period at the 
end the following: ‘‘, follow Interstate Route 24 to the Wendell 
H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway, then utilize the existing 
Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway and Edward T. 
Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway to Henderson’’. 
(2) INTERSTATE ROUTE 376 HIGH PRIORITY DESIGNATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Section 1105(c)(79) of the Intermodal 
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 
2032; 119 Stat. 1213) is amended by striking ‘‘and on 
United States Route 422’’.
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(B) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
1105(e)(5)(B)(i)(I) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation 
Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2033; 119 Stat. 1213) 
is amended by striking ‘‘and United States Route 422’’. 
(f) CORRECTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE SECTION.—Sec-
tion 1602(d)(1) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor-
tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1247) is amended 
by striking ‘‘through 189 as sections 601 through 609, respectively’’ 
and inserting ‘‘through 190 as sections 601 through 610, respec-
tively’’. 
(g) CORRECTION OF PROJECT FEDERAL SHARE.—Section 1964(a) 
of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 
Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1519) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘only for the States of Alaska, Montana, 
Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and South Dakota,’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘section 120(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 120’’. 
(h) TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS 
DEFINED.—Section 101(a) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(39) TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND OPER-
ATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘transportation systems 
management and operations’ means an integrated program 
to optimize the performance of existing infrastructure 
through the implementation of multimodal and intermodal, 
cross-jurisdictional systems, services, and projects designed 
to preserve capacity and improve security, safety, and reli-
ability of the transportation system. 
‘‘(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘transportation systems 
management and operations’ includes— 
‘‘(i) regional operations collaboration and coordina-
tion activities between transportation and public safety 
agencies; and 
‘‘(ii) improvements to the transportation system, 
such as traffic detection and surveillance, arterial 
management, freeway management, demand manage-
ment, work zone management, emergency manage-
ment, electronic toll collection, automated enforcement, 
traffic 
incident 
management, 
roadway 
weather 
management, traveler information services, commercial 
vehicle operations, traffic control, freight management, 
and coordination of highway, rail, transit, bicycle, and 
pedestrian operations.’’. 
(i) CORRECTION OF REFERENCE IN APPORTIONMENT OF HIGHWAY 
SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FUNDS.—Effective October 1, 2007, 
section 104(b)(5)(A)(iii) of title 23, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘the Federal-aid system’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘Federal-aid highways’’. 
(j) CORRECTION OF AMENDMENT TO ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION.— 
Section 115 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by redesig-
nating subsection (d) as subsection (c). 
(k) CORRECTION OF HIGH PRIORITY PROJECTS.—Section 117 of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (h) as sub-
sections (e) through (i), respectively; 
(2) by redesignating the second subsection (c) (relating 
to Federal share) as subsection (d);