109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6233
AN ACT 
To amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans-
portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to make tech-
nical corrections, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS 
SECTION 101. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL 
CORRECTIONS. 
(a) CORRECTION OF INTERNAL REFERENCES IN DIS-
ADVANTAGED
BUSINESS
ENTERPRISES.—Paragraphs 
(3)(A) and (5) of section 1101(b) of the Safe, Account-
able, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 
Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1156) are amended by strik-
ing ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘paragraph (2)’’. 
(b) CORRECTION OF DISTRIBUTION OF OBLIGATION 
AUTHORITY.—Section 1102(c)(5) of the Safe, Account-
able, 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 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.—
Item number 1 of the table contained in section 1302(e) 
of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transpor-
tation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1205) 
is amended in the State column by inserting ‘‘LA,’’ after 
‘‘TX,’’. 
(e) CORRECTION OF INTERSTATE ROUTE 376 HIGH 
PRIORITY DESIGNATION.—
(1) 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’’. 
(2) 
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.—Section 1602(d)(1) of the Safe, Accountable, 
Flexible, Efficient Transportation 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, 
respectively’’. 
(g) CORRECTION OF PROJECT FEDERAL SHARE.—
Section 1964(a) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Effi-
cient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 
Stat. 1519) is amended 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
MANAGE-
MENT AND OPERATIONS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘transpor-
tation systems management and operations’ 
means an integrated program to optimize the 
performance of existing infrastructure through
the implementation of multimodal and inter-
modal, cross-jurisdictional systems, services, 
and projects designed to preserve capacity and 
improve security, safety, and reliability of the 
transportation system. 
‘‘(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘transpor-
tation systems management and operations’ in-
cludes—
‘‘(i) regional operations collaboration 
and coordination activities between trans-
portation and public safety agencies; and 
‘‘(ii) improvements to the transpor-
tation system, such as traffic detection and 
surveillance, arterial management, freeway 
management, demand management, work 
zone management, emergency manage-
ment, electronic toll collection, automated 
enforcement, traffic incident management, 
roadway weather management, traveler in-
formation services, commercial vehicle op-
erations, traffic control, freight manage-
ment, and coordination of highway, rail, 
transit, bicycle, and pedestrian oper-
ations.’’.
(i) CORRECTION OF REFERENCE IN APPORTIONMENT 
OF
HIGHWAY
SAFETY
IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM 
FUNDS.—Effective 
October 
1, 
2006, 
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 CON-
STRUCTION.—Section 115 of title 23, United States Code, 
is amended by redesignating 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 subsections (e) through (i), respectively; 
(2) by redesignating the second subsection (c) 
(relating to Federal share) as subsection (d); 
(3) in subsection (a)(2)(A) by inserting ‘‘(112 
Stat. 257)’’ after ‘‘21st Century’’; and 
(4) in subsection (a)(2)(B)—
(A) by striking ‘‘subsection (b)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (c)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘SAFETEA–LU’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users 
(119 Stat. 1256)’’.
(l) CORRECTION OF TRANSFER OF UNUSED PROTEC-
TIVE-DEVICE FUNDS TO OTHER HIGHWAY SAFETY IM-
PROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS.—Section 130(e)(2) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘pur-
poses under this subsection’’ and inserting ‘‘highway safe-
ty improvement program purposes’’. 
(m) CORRECTION OF HIGHWAY BRIDGE PROGRAM.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 144 of title 23, 
United States Code, is amended—
(A) in the section heading by striking ‘‘re-
placement and rehabilitation’’; 
(B) in subsections (b), (c)(1), and (e) by 
striking ‘‘Federal-aid system’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Federal-aid highway’’; 
(C) in subsections (c)(2) and (o) by strik-
ing ‘‘the Federal-aid system’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Federal-aid highways’’; 
(D) in the heading to paragraph (4) of 
subsection (d) by inserting ‘‘SYSTEMATIC’’ be-
fore ‘‘PREVENTIVE’’; 
(E) in subsection (e) by striking ‘‘off-sys-
tem bridges’’ each place it appears and insert-
ing ‘‘bridges not on Federal-aid highways’’; 
(F) by striking subsection (f);