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and ‘‘urbanized area’’ have the meanings such terms 
have under section 5302 of title 49, United States 
Code. 
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State 
of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puer-
to Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Is-
lands. 
(3) TRANSIT-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT
COR-
RIDOR.—The term ‘‘transit-oriented development 
corridor’’ means rights-of-way for fixed-guideway 
mass transportation facilities, including commercial 
development that is connected with any such facility 
physically and functionally. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—In consultation with State trans-
portation departments and metropolitan planning organi-
zations, the Secretary shall designate, in urbanized areas, 
at least 20 transit-oriented development corridors by 2015 
and 50 transit-oriented development corridors by 2025. 
(c) TRANSIT GRANTS.—The Secretary shall award 
grants to a State or local governmental authority to con-
struct or improve transit facilities, bicycle transportation 
facilities, and pedestrian walkways in transit-oriented de-
velopment corridors, including capital projects. 
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(d) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—In order to 
support effective deployment of grants and incentives 
under this section, the Secretary shall establish a transit- 
oriented development corridors research and development 
program for the conduct of research on best practices and 
performance criteria for transit-oriented development cor-
ridors. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2017, 
of which $2,000,000 per fiscal year is authorized for the 
research and development program under subsection (d). 
(f) LABOR STANDARDS.—The Secretary shall not 
provide a grant under this section for a transit project 
unless the Secretary receives reasonable assurances from 
a State that laborers and mechanics employed by contrac-
tors or subcontractors in the performance of construction 
or modernization on the transit project will be paid wages 
not less than those prevailing on similar construction or 
modernization in the locality as determined by the Sec-
retary of Labor under the Act of March 3, 1931 (known 
as the Davis-Bacon Act) (40 U.S.C. 276a et seq.). 
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SEC. 304. MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES SUPPORTING MAXIMUM 
FUEL EFFICIENCY. 
(a) STANDARDS FOR TIRES MANUFACTURED FOR 
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.—Section 30123 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting after the first 
sentence the following: ‘‘The grading system shall 
include standards for rating the fuel efficiency of 
tires designed for use on passenger cars and light 
trucks.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) NATIONAL
TIRE
FUEL
EFFICIENCY
PRO-
GRAM.—(1) The Secretary shall develop and carry out a 
national tire fuel efficiency program for tires designed for 
use on passenger cars and light trucks. 
‘‘(2) The program shall include the following: 
‘‘(A) Policies and procedures for testing and la-
beling tires for fuel economy to enable tire buyers to 
make informed purchasing decisions about the fuel 
economy of tires. 
‘‘(B) Policies and procedures to promote the 
purchase of energy-efficient replacement tires, in-
cluding purchase incentives, website listings on the 
Internet, printed fuel economy guide booklets, and 
mandatory requirements for tire retailers to provide 
tire buyers with fuel-efficiency information on tires. 
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‘‘(C) Minimum fuel economy standards for 
tires, promulgated by the Secretary. 
‘‘(3) The minimum fuel economy standards for tires 
shall— 
‘‘(A) ensure, in conjunction with the require-
ments under paragraph (2)(B), that the average fuel 
economy of replacement tires is equal to or better 
than the average fuel economy of tires sold as origi-
nal equipment; 
‘‘(B) secure the maximum technically feasible 
and cost-effective fuel savings; 
‘‘(C) not adversely affect tire safety; 
‘‘(D) not adversely affect the average tire life of 
replacement tires; 
‘‘(E) incorporate the results from— 
‘‘(i) laboratory testing; and 
‘‘(ii) to the extent appropriate and avail-
able, on-road fleet testing programs conducted 
by the manufacturers; and 
‘‘(F) not adversely affect efforts to manage 
scrap tires. 
‘‘(4) The policies, procedures, and standards devel-
oped under paragraph (2) shall apply to all types and 
models of tires that are covered by the uniform tire quality 
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grading standards under section 575.104 of title 49, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation). 
‘‘(5) Not less often than every three years, the Sec-
retary shall review the minimum fuel economy standards 
in effect for tires under this subsection and revise the 
standards as necessary to ensure compliance with require-
ments under paragraph (3). The Secretary may not, how-
ever, reduce the average fuel economy standards applica-
ble to replacement tires. 
‘‘(6) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to 
preempt any provision of State law relating to higher fuel 
economy standards applicable to replacement tires de-
signed for use on passenger cars and light trucks. 
‘‘(7) Nothing in this chapter shall apply to— 
‘‘(A) a tire or group of tires with the same 
SKU, plant, and year, for which the volume of tires 
produced or imported is less than 15,000 annually; 
‘‘(B) a deep tread, winter-type snow tire, space- 
saver tire, or temporary use spare tire; 
‘‘(C) a tire with a normal rim diameter of 12 
inches or less; 
‘‘(D) a motorcycle tire; or 
‘‘(E) a tire manufactured specifically for use in 
an off-road motorized recreational vehicle. 
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‘‘(8) In this subsection, the term ‘fuel economy’, with 
respect to tires, means the extent to which the tires con-
tribute to the fuel economy of the motor vehicles on which 
the tires are mounted.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 30103(b) 
of title 49, United States Code, is amended in paragraph 
(1) by striking ‘‘When’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided 
in section 30123(d) of this title, when’’. 
(c) TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of 
Transportation shall ensure that the national tire fuel effi-
ciency program required under subsection (d) of section 
30123 of title 49, United States Code (as added by sub-
section (a)(2)), is administered so as to apply the policies, 
procedures, and standards developed under paragraph (2) 
of such subsection (d) beginning not later than March 31, 
2009. 
Æ 
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