IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1195 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 27, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works 
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, 
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TITLE I—HIGHWAY PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL COR-
RECTIONS. 
(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; 
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‘‘(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 
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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) 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. 
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‘‘(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.’’. 
(h) CORRECTION
OF REFERENCE
IN APPORTION-
MENT
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’’. 
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(i) CORRECTION OF AMENDMENT TO ADVANCE CON-
STRUCTION.—Section 115 of title 23, United States Code, 
is amended by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection 
(c). 
(j) 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)’’. 
(k) CORRECTION OF TRANSFER OF UNUSED PRO-
TECTIVE-DEVICE FUNDS TO OTHER HIGHWAY SAFETY 
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS.—Section 130(e)(2) 
of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘purposes under this subsection’’ and inserting ‘‘highway 
safety improvement program purposes’’. 
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(l) METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.— 
(1) Section 134(j)(3)(D) of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘or the identified phase’’ 
before ‘‘within the time’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or the identified phase’’ 
before the period at the end. 
(2) Section 134(k)(2) of such title is amended 
by striking ‘‘a metropolitan planning area serving’’. 
(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’’; 
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(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); 
(G) 
by 
redesignating 
subsections 
(g) 
through (s) as subsections (f) through (r), re-
spectively; 
(H) in paragraph (2) of subsection (f) (as 
redesignated by subparagraph (G)) by striking 
the paragraph heading and inserting ‘‘BRIDGES 
NOT ON FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS’’; 
(I) in subsection (m) (as redesignated by 
subparagraph (G)) by striking the subsection 
heading and inserting ‘‘PROGRAM FOR BRIDGES 
NOT ON FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS’’; and 
(J) in subsection (n)(4)(B) (as redesig-
nated by subparagraph (G)) by striking ‘‘State 
highway agency’’ and inserting ‘‘State transpor-
tation department’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(A) METROPOLITAN
PLANNING.—Section 
104(f)(1) of such title is amended by striking 
‘‘replacement and rehabilitation’’. 
(B) 
EQUITY
BONUS
PROGRAM.—Sub-
sections (a)(2)(C) and (b)(2)(C) of section 105 
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of such title are amended by striking ‘‘replace-
ment and rehabilitation’’ each place it appears. 
(C) ANALYSIS.—The analysis for chapter 1 
of such title is amended in the item relating to 
section 144 by striking ‘‘replacement and reha-
bilitation’’. 
(n) CORRECTION
OF NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAYS 
PROGRAM COVERAGE.—Section 162 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(3)(B) by striking ‘‘a Na-
tional Scenic Byway under subparagraph (A)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘a National Scenic Byway, an All-Amer-
ican Road, or one of America’s Byways under para-
graph (1)’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)(3) by striking ‘‘or All- 
American Road’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘All-American Road, or one of America’s Byways’’. 
(o) CORRECTION OF REFERENCE IN TOLL PROVI-
SION.—Section 166(b)(5)(C) of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘paragraph (4)’’. 
(p) CORRECTION OF RECREATIONAL TRAILS PRO-
GRAM
APPORTIONMENT
EXCEPTIONS.—Section 
206(d)(3)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended 
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by striking ‘‘(B), (C), and (D)’’ and inserting ‘‘(B) and 
(C)’’. 
(q) CONSOLIDATION
OF GRANT APPLICATIONS.— 
Section 402(m) of title 23, United States Code, is amend-
ed in the first sentence— 
(1) by striking ‘‘through’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
which’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘is appropriate’’ before the pe-
riod at the end. 
(r) CORRECTION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE.— 
Section 601(a)(3) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ‘‘bbb minus, BBB (low),’’ after 
‘‘Baa3,’’. 
(s) 
CORRECTION
OF
MISCELLANEOUS
TYPO-
GRAPHICAL ERRORS.— 
(1) Section 1401 of the Safe, Accountable, 
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 
Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1226) is amended by 
redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections 
(c) and (d), respectively. 
(2) Section 1404(e) of such Act (119 Stat. 
1229) is amended by inserting ‘‘tribal,’’ after 
‘‘local,’’. 
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(3) Section 10211(b)(2) of such Act (119 Stat. 
1937) is amended by striking ‘‘plan administer’’ and 
inserting ‘‘plan and administer’’. 
(4) Section 10212(a) of such Act (119 Stat. 
1937) is amended— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘equity bonus,’’ after 
‘‘minimum guarantee,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘freight intermodal connec-
tors’’ and inserting ‘‘railway-highway cross-
ings’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘high risk rural road,’’; 
and 
(D) by inserting after ‘‘highway safety im-
provement programs’’ the following: ‘‘(and sep-
arately the set aside for the high risk rural road 
program)’’. 
SEC. 102. MAGLEV. 
(a) FUNDING.—Section 1101(a)(18) of the Safe, Ac-
countable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: 
A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1155) is amended by strik-
ing subparagraphs (A) and (B) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and 
‘‘(B) $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2008 and 2009.’’. 
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(b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Section 1307 of the 
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Eq-
uity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1217) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) CONTRACT
AUTHORITY.—Funds authorized 
under section 1101(a)(18) shall be available for obligation 
in the same manner as if the funds were apportioned 
under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code; except 
that the funds shall not be transferable and shall remain 
available until expended, and the Federal share of the cost 
of a project to be carried out with such funds shall be 
80 percent.’’. 
SEC. 103. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SIGNIFI-
CANCE AND NATIONAL CORRIDOR INFRA-
STRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. 
(a) PROJECT OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SIGNIFI-
CANCE.—The table contained in section 1301(m) of the 
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Eq-
uity: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1203) is amended 
in item number 4 by striking the project description and 
inserting ‘‘$7,400,000 for planning, design, and construc-
tion of a new American border plaza at the Blue Water 
Bridge in or near Port Huron; $12,600,000 for integrated 
highway realignment and grade separations at Port Huron 
to eliminate road blockages from NAFTA rail traffic’’. 
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(b) NATIONAL
CORRIDOR
INFRASTRUCTURE
IM-
PROVEMENT PROJECT.—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 item number 23 by striking the 
project description and inserting ‘‘Improvements to State 
Road 312, Hammond’’. 
SEC. 104. IDLING REDUCTION FACILITIES. 
Section 111(d) of title 23, United States Code, is re-
pealed. 
SEC. 105. PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The table contained in section 
1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Trans-
portation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 
1256) is amended— 
(1) in item number 34 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Removal and Reconfig-
uration of Interstate ramps, I–40, Memphis’’; 
(2) by striking item number 61; 
(3) in item number 87 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘M–291 highway outer 
road improvement project’’; 
(4) 
in 
item 
number 
128 
by 
striking 
‘‘$2,400,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$4,800,000’’; 
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(5) in item number 154 by striking ‘‘Virginia’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Eveleth’’; 
(6) in item number 193 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Improvements to or ac-
cess to Route 108 to enhance access to the business 
park near Rumford’’; 
(7) in item number 240 by striking ‘‘$800,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$2,400,000’’; 
(8) by striking item number 248; 
(9) in item number 274 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Intersection improve-
ments at Belleville and Ecorse Roads and approach 
roadways, and widen Belleville Road from Ecorse to 
Tyler, Van Buren Township, Michigan’’; 
(10) in item number 277 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Construct connector road 
from 
Rushing 
Drive 
North 
to 
Grand 
Ave., 
Williamson County’’; 
(11) in item number 395 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Plan and construct inter-
change at I–65, from existing SR–109 to I–65’’; 
(12) 
in 
item 
number 
463 
by 
striking 
‘‘Cookeville’’ and inserting ‘‘Putnam County’’; 
(13) in item number 576 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Design, right-of-way, and 
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construction of Nebraska Highway 35 between Nor-
folk and South Sioux City, including an interchange 
at Milepost 1 on I–129’’; 
(14) in item number 595 by striking ‘‘Street 
Closure at’’ and inserting ‘‘Transportation improve-
ment project near’’; 
(15) in item number 649 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Construction and en-
hancement of the Fillmore Avenue Corridor, Buf-
falo’’; 
(16) in item number 655 by inserting ‘‘, safety 
improvement construction,’’ after ‘‘Environmental 
studies’’; 
(17) in item number 676 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘St. Croix River crossing 
project, Wisconsin State Highway 64, St. Croix 
County, Wisconsin, to Minnesota State Highway 36, 
Washington County’’; 
(18) in item number 770 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Improve existing Horns 
Hill Road in North Newark, Ohio, from Waterworks 
Road to Licking Springs Road’’; 
(19) in item number 777 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Akutan Airport access’’; 
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(20) in item number 829 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘$400,000 to conduct New 
Bedford/Fairhaven Bridge modernization study; 
$1,000,000 to design and build New Bedford Busi-
ness Park access road’’; 
(21) in item number 881 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Pedestrian safety im-
provements near North Atlantic Boulevard, Mon-
terey Park’’; 
(22) in item number 923 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Improve safety of a hori-
zontal curve on Clarksville St. 0.25 miles north of 
275th Rd. in Grandview Township, Edgar County’’; 
(23) in item number 947 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Third East/West River 
Crossing, St. Lucie River’’; 
(24) in item numbers 959 and 3327 by striking 
‘‘Northern Section,’’ each place it appears; 
(25) in item number 963 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘For engineering, right-of- 
way acquisition, and reconstruction of 2 existing 
lanes on Manhattan Road from Baseline Road to 
Route 53’’; 
(26) in item number 983 by striking the project 
description and inserting ‘‘Land acquisition for high-
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way mitigation in Cecil, Kent, Queen Annes, and 
Worcester Counties’’; 
(27) in item number 1039 by striking the 
project description and inserting ‘‘Widen State 
Route 98, including storm drain developments, from 
D. Navarro Avenue to State Route 111’’; 
(28) in item number 1047 by striking the 
project description and inserting ‘‘Bridge and road 
work at Little Susitna River Access road in 
Matanuska-Susitna Borough’’; 
(29) in item number 1124 by striking ‘‘bridge 
over Stillwater River, Orono’’ and by inserting 
‘‘routes’’; 
(30) in item number 1206 by striking ‘‘Pleas-
antville’’ and inserting ‘‘Briarcliff Manor’’; 
(31) in item number 1281 by striking the 
project description and inserting ‘‘Upgrade roads in 
Attala County District 4 (Roads 4211 and 4204), 
Kosciusko, Ward 2, and Ethel, Attala County’’; 
(32) in item number 1487 by striking 
‘‘$800,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,600,000’’; 
(33) in item number 1575 by striking the 
project description and inserting ‘‘Highway and road 
signage, and traffic signal synchronization and up-
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