H. R. 4348 
One Hundred Twelfth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twelve 
An Act 
To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit 
programs, 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; ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Moving Ahead 
for Progress in the 21st Century Act’’ or the ‘‘MAP–21’’. 
(b) DIVISIONS.—This Act is organized into 8 divisions as follows: 
(1) Division A–Federal-aid Highways and Highway Safety 
Construction Programs. 
(2) Division B–Public Transportation. 
(3) Division C–Transportation Safety and Surface Transpor-
tation Policy. 
(4) Division D–Finance. 
(5) Division E–Research and Education. 
(6) Division F–Miscellaneous. 
(7) Division G–Surface Transportation Extension. 
(8) Division H–Budgetary Effects. 
(c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; organization of Act into divisions; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Effective date. 
DIVISION A—FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAY SAFETY 
CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS 
TITLE I—FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS 
Subtitle A—Authorizations and Programs 
Sec. 1101. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 1102. Obligation ceiling. 
Sec. 1103. Definitions. 
Sec. 1104. National Highway System. 
Sec. 1105. Apportionment. 
Sec. 1106. National highway performance program. 
Sec. 1107. Emergency relief. 
Sec. 1108. Surface transportation program. 
Sec. 1109. Workforce development. 
Sec. 1110. Highway use tax evasion projects. 
Sec. 1111. National bridge and tunnel inventory and inspection standards. 
Sec. 1112. Highway safety improvement program. 
Sec. 1113. Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program. 
Sec. 1114. Territorial and Puerto Rico highway program. 
Sec. 1115. National freight policy. 
Sec. 1116. Prioritization of projects to improve freight movement. 
Sec. 1117. State freight advisory committees.
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Sec. 1118. State freight plans. 
Sec. 1119. Federal lands and tribal transportation programs. 
Sec. 1120. Projects of national and regional significance. 
Sec. 1121. Construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities. 
Sec. 1122. Transportation alternatives. 
Sec. 1123. Tribal high priority projects program. 
Subtitle B—Performance Management 
Sec. 1201. Metropolitan transportation planning. 
Sec. 1202. Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning. 
Sec. 1203. National goals and performance management measures. 
Subtitle C—Acceleration of Project Delivery 
Sec. 1301. Declaration of policy and project delivery initiative. 
Sec. 1302. Advance acquisition of real property interests. 
Sec. 1303. Letting of contracts. 
Sec. 1304. Innovative project delivery methods. 
Sec. 1305. Efficient environmental reviews for project decisionmaking. 
Sec. 1306. Accelerated decisionmaking. 
Sec. 1307. Assistance to affected Federal and State agencies. 
Sec. 1308. Limitations on claims. 
Sec. 1309. Accelerating completion of complex projects within 4 years. 
Sec. 1310. Integration of planning and environmental review. 
Sec. 1311. Development of programmatic mitigation plans. 
Sec. 1312. State assumption of responsibility for categorical exclusions. 
Sec. 1313. Surface transportation project delivery program. 
Sec. 1314. Application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects. 
Sec. 1315. Categorical exclusions in emergencies. 
Sec. 1316. Categorical exclusions for projects within the right-of-way. 
Sec. 1317. Categorical exclusion for projects of limited Federal assistance. 
Sec. 1318. Programmatic agreements and additional categorical exclusions. 
Sec. 1319. Accelerated decisionmaking in environmental reviews. 
Sec. 1320. Memoranda of agency agreements for early coordination. 
Sec. 1321. Environmental procedures initiative. 
Sec. 1322. Review of State environmental reviews and approvals for the purpose of 
eliminating duplication of environmental reviews. 
Sec. 1323. Review of Federal project and program delivery. 
Subtitle D—Highway Safety 
Sec. 1401. Jason’s law. 
Sec. 1402. Open container requirements. 
Sec. 1403. Minimum penalties for repeat offenders for driving while intoxicated or 
driving under the influence. 
Sec. 1404. Adjustments to penalty provisions. 
Sec. 1405. Highway worker safety. 
Subtitle E—Miscellaneous 
Sec. 1501. Real-time ridesharing. 
Sec. 1502. Program efficiencies. 
Sec. 1503. Project approval and oversight. 
Sec. 1504. Standards. 
Sec. 1505. Justification reports for access points on the Interstate System. 
Sec. 1506. Construction. 
Sec. 1507. Maintenance. 
Sec. 1508. Federal share payable. 
Sec. 1509. Transferability of Federal-aid highway funds. 
Sec. 1510. Idle reduction technology. 
Sec. 1511. Special permits during periods of national emergency. 
Sec. 1512. Tolling. 
Sec. 1513. Miscellaneous parking amendments. 
Sec. 1514. HOV facilities. 
Sec. 1515. Funding flexibility for transportation emergencies. 
Sec. 1516. Defense access road program enhancements to address transportation 
infrastructure in the vicinity of military installations. 
Sec. 1517. Mapping. 
Sec. 1518. Buy America provisions. 
Sec. 1519. Consolidation of programs; repeal of obsolete provisions. 
Sec. 1520. Denali Commission. 
Sec. 1521. Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies 
Act of 1970 amendments. 
Sec. 1522. Extension of public transit vehicle exemption from axle weight restric-
tions.