(6) 
BICYCLE
AND
PEDESTRIAN
SAFETY 
GRANTS.—Section 1212(i) of the Transportation Eq-
uity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 196–197) is 
amended by redesignating subparagraphs (D) and 
(E) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, and mov-
ing such paragraphs 2 ems to the left. 
(d) LIMITATION.—The amendments made by this sec-
tion shall not apply to, or have any affect with respect to, 
funds made available under section 118 of title 23, United 
States Code, before the date of enactment of this section. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by sub-
sections (a) and (b) of this section shall take effect on Sep-
tember 30, 2005. 
SEC. 1115. HIGHWAY BRIDGE. 
(a) SCOUR COUNTERMEASURES.—Section 144(d) of 
title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) APPLICATIONS FOR AND APPROVAL OF ASSIST-
ANCE.—
‘‘(1) BRIDGE
REPLACEMENT
OR
REHABILITA-
TION.—Whenever any State or States make applica-
tion to the Secretary for assistance in replacing or re-
habilitating a highway bridge which the priority sys-
tem established under subsections (b) and (c) shows to 
be eligible, the Secretary may approve Federal par-
ticipation in replacing such bridge with a comparable 
facility or in rehabilitating such bridge. 
‘‘(2) PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, SCOUR MEAS-
URES, AND
APPLICATIONS
OF
CERTAIN
COMPOSI-
TIONS.—Whenever any State makes application to the 
Secretary for assistance in painting, seismic retrofit, 
or preventive maintenance of, or installing scour 
countermeasures or applying calcium magnesium ace-
tate, sodium acetate/formate, or other environmentally 
acceptable, minimally corrosive anti-icing and de-
icing compositions to, the structure of a highway 
bridge, the Secretary may approve Federal participa-
tion in the painting, seismic retrofit, or preventive 
maintenance of, or installation of scour counter-
measures or application of acetate or sodium acetate/
formate or such anti-icing or de-icing composition to, 
such structure. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBILITY.—The Secretary shall deter-
mine the eligibility of highway bridges for replace-
ment or rehabilitation for each State based upon the 
unsafe highway bridges in such State; except that a 
State may carry out a project for preventive mainte-
nance on a bridge, seismic retrofit of a bridge, or in-
stalling scour countermeasures to a bridge under this
section without regard to whether the bridge is eligible 
for replacement or rehabilitation under this section.’’. 
(b) BRIDGE
DISCRETIONARY
SET-ASIDE.—Section 
144(g)(1) of such title is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(D) FISCAL YEARS 2004 THROUGH 2009.—
Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out the bridge program under this section 
for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2009, 
all but $100,000,000 shall be apportioned as pro-
vided in subsection (e). Such $100,000,000 shall 
be available at the discretion of the Secretary; 
except that $25,000,000 shall be available only 
for projects for the seismic retrofit of bridges, and 
of which $10,000,000 shall be available only for 
the seismic retrofit of a bridge described in sub-
section (l), and except as provided in subpara-
graph (E). 
‘‘(E) GRAVINA ACCESS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts au-
thorized to be appropriated to carry out the 
bridge program under this paragraph, for 
each of the fiscal years 2005 through 2009, 
$10,000,000 shall be set aside from the 
$100,000,000 available at the discretion of
the Secretary under subparagraph (D) for 
the construction of a bridge joining the Is-
land of Gravina to the community of Ketch-
ikan in Alaska. 
‘‘(ii) SCORING.—The project described 
in this subparagraph shall not be counted 
for purposes of the reduction set forth in the 
fourth sentence of subsection (e).’’. 
(c) OFF-SYSTEM BRIDGES.—Section 144(g)(3) of such 
title is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘15 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘20 
percent’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘1987’’ and inserting ‘‘2005’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘2004’’ the first place it appears 
and all that follows through ‘‘2005,’’ and inserting 
‘‘2009 for the bridge program,’’; 
(4) by inserting ‘‘, perform systematic preventive 
maintenance,’’ after ‘‘paint’’; and 
(5) by inserting a comma before ‘‘to highway 
bridges’’. 
(d) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 144(i) of such 
title is amended by striking ‘‘at the same time’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘Congress’’.
SEC. 1116. TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNITY AND SYS-
TEM PRESERVATION PROGRAM. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Section 1221(e)(1) of the Transpor-
tation Equity Act for the 21st Century (23 U.S.C. 101 note; 
112 Stat. 223; 118 Stat. 879; 118 Stat. 1149) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘1999 and’’ and inserting 
‘‘1999,’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘2004’’ the first place it appears 
and all that follows through ‘‘2005’’ and inserting the 
following: ‘‘, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2004, 
$30,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, $35,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2006, $35,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, and 
$35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009’’. 
(b) FEDERAL SHARE.—Section 1221(e)(2) of such Act 
is amended by inserting before the period at the end ‘‘; ex-
cept that such funds shall not be transferable and the Fed-
eral share for projects and activities carried out with such 
funds shall be determined in accordance with section 120(b) 
of title 23, United States Code’’. 
(c) PLANNING ACTIVITIES PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 
1221 of such Act is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) PLANNING ACTIVITIES PILOT PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
a pilot program using funds set aside under para-
graph (4) to support planning and public participa-
tion activities related to highway and public trans-
portation projects. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—Activities eligible to 
be carried out under the pilot program may include 
the following: 
‘‘(A) Improving data collection and anal-
ysis to improve freight movement, intermodal 
connections, and transportation access and effi-
ciency for all users, including children, older in-
dividuals, individuals with disabilities, low-in-
come individuals, and minority communities. 
‘‘(B) Supporting public participation by 
holding public meetings using an interactive 
workshop format facilitated by design or plan-
ning experts (or both) to consider public input at 
the initial stages of project development and dur-
ing other phases of a project. 
‘‘(C) Using innovative planning or design 
visualization and simulation tools to improve the 
evaluation of alternatives and their impacts and 
to enhance public participation in the transpor-
tation planning process, including tools having a 
structure that enables modifications to scenarios 
and assumptions in real time.
‘‘(D) Enhancing coordination among trans-
portation, land use, workforce development, 
human service, economic development, and other 
agencies to strengthen access to job training serv-
ices, daycare centers, health care facilities, senior 
centers, public schools, universities, and residen-
tial areas, including the use of integrated plan-
ning and service delivery, especially for transit 
dependent and low-income individuals. 
‘‘(E) Contracting with nonprofit organiza-
tions, universities, and local agencies to deliver 
community-oriented transportation plans and 
projects, including public outreach, context sen-
sitive 
design, 
transit-oriented 
development, 
multimodal corridor investments, commuter ben-
efits deployment, and brownfield redevelopment. 
‘‘(F) Measuring and reporting on the an-
nual performance of the transportation system 
(or parts of) relative to State or locally-estab-
lished criteria regarding—
‘‘(i) maintenance and operating costs 
of the transportation system, vehicle miles 
traveled, peak-period travel times, transpor-
tation choices, and mode shares;
‘‘(ii) location of housing units, jobs, 
medical facilities, and commercial centers to 
transit; 
‘‘(iii) improvements directed to low-in-
come families and older individuals; 
‘‘(iv) transportation-related pollution 
emissions into the air and water; 
‘‘(v) land consumption; and 
‘‘(vi) other locally-significant factors. 
‘‘(G) Improving regional travel and emis-
sion modeling to examine factors not currently 
considered, such as induced travel and land use 
effects of transportation alternatives, types of ve-
hicles owned and used by households, time-of-day 
of travel and linkage of trips to each other 
throughout the day, effects of urban design and 
pedestrian and bicycle environment on travel be-
havior, and impacts of alternatives on the dis-
tribution of benefits and burdens among various 
groups protected under title VI of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.). 
‘‘(3) FEDERAL
SHARE.—Notwithstanding sub-
section (e)(2), the Federal share of the cost of activi-
ties carried out under the pilot program shall be 100 
percent.
‘‘(4) SET
ASIDE.—The Secretary shall make 
available $1,500,000 of the amounts made available to 
carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2005 
through 2009 to carry out the pilot program under 
this subsection.’’. 
SEC. 1117. DEPLOYMENT OF MAGNETIC LEVITATION TRANS-
PORTATION PROJECTS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) ELIGIBLE PROJECT COSTS.—The term ‘‘eligi-
ble project costs’’—
(A) means the capital cost of the fixed 
guideway infrastructure of a MAGLEV project, 
including land, piers, guideways, propulsion 
equipment and other components attached to 
guideways, power distribution facilities (includ-
ing substations), control and communications fa-
cilities, access roads, and storage, repair, and 
maintenance facilities, but not including costs 
incurred for a new station; and 
(B) includes the costs of preconstruction 
planning activities. 
(2) FULL
PROJECT
COSTS.—The term ‘‘full 
project costs’’ means the total capital costs of a
MAGLEV project, including eligible project costs and 
the costs of stations, vehicles, and equipment. 
(3) MAGLEV.—The term ‘‘MAGLEV’’ means 
transportation systems employing magnetic levitation 
that would be capable of safe use by the public at a 
speed in excess of 240 miles per hour. 
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the meaning 
such term has under section 101(a) of title 23, United 
States Code. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—
(1) ASSISTANCE FOR ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.—The 
Secretary shall make available financial assistance to 
pay the Federal share of full project costs of eligible 
projects authorized by this section. 
(2) USE OF ASSISTANCE.—Financial assistance 
provided under paragraph (1) shall be used only to 
pay eligible project costs of projects authorized by this 
section. 
(3) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER LAWS.—Financial 
assistance made available under this section, and 
projects assisted with such assistance, shall be subject 
to section 5333(a) of title 49, United States Code. 
(c) PROJECT ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive fi-
nancial assistance under subsection (b), a project shall—
(1) involve a segment or segments of a high-speed 
ground transportation corridor; 
(2) result in an operating transportation facility 
that provides a revenue producing service; and 
(3) be approved by the Secretary based on an 
application submitted to the Secretary by a State or 
authority designated by 1 or more States. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust 
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out 
this section $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2005 and 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009. 
(e) APPLICABILITY
OF TITLE 23, UNITED STATES 
CODE.—Funds authorized to be appropriated by this sec-
tion 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 
full project costs of an eligible project shall be 80 percent, 
and such funds shall remain available until expended and 
shall not be transferable. 
SEC. 1118. RECREATIONAL TRAILS. 
(a) RECREATIONAL TRAILS PROGRAM FORMULA.—
Section 104(h)(1) of title 23, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘research and technical’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘Committee’’ and inserting ‘‘research, technical as-
sistance, and training under the recreational trails pro-
gram’’. 
(b) PERMISSIBLE USES.—Section 206(d)(2) of such 
title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) PERMISSIBLE
USES.—Permissible uses of 
funds apportioned to a State for a fiscal year to carry 
out this section include—
‘‘(A) maintenance and restoration of exist-
ing recreational trails; 
‘‘(B) development and rehabilitation of 
trailside and trailhead facilities and trail link-
ages for recreational trails; 
‘‘(C) purchase and lease of recreational trail 
construction and maintenance equipment; 
‘‘(D) construction of new recreational trails, 
except that, in the case of new recreational trails 
crossing Federal lands, construction of the trails 
shall be—
‘‘(i) permissible under other law; 
‘‘(ii) necessary and recommended by a 
statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation 
plan that is required by the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 et seq.) and that is in effect;