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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 502(f) of such title 
(as redesignated by subsection (b) of this section) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE PRO-
GRAM.—
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall com-
plete the 20-year long-term pavement performance 
program tests initiated under the strategic highway 
research program established under section 307(d) 
(as in effect on June 8, 1998). 
‘‘(2) GRANTS, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, AND 
CONTRACTS.—Under the program, the Secretary 
shall make grants and enter into cooperative agree-
ments and contracts to—
‘‘(A) monitor, material-test, and evaluate 
highway test sections in existence as of the date 
of the grant, agreement, or contract; 
‘‘(B) analyze the data obtained under sub-
paragraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) prepare products to fulfill program 
objectives and meet future pavement technology 
needs.’’. 
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available 
by section 5101(a)(1) of this Act, $10,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2004 and $21,000,000 for each of fiscal
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years 2005 through 2009 shall be available to carry 
out section 502(f) of title 23, United States Code. 
(i) TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CEN-
TER.—Section 502 of title 23, United States Code, is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CEN-
TER.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall operate 
in the Federal Highway Administration a Turner-
Fairbank Highway Research Center. 
‘‘(2) USES
OF
THE
CENTER.—The Turner-
Fairbank Highway Research Center shall support—
‘‘(A) the conduct of highway research and 
development related to new highway technology; 
‘‘(B) the development of understandings, 
tools, and techniques that provide solutions to 
complex technical problems through the devel-
opment of economical and environmentally sen-
sitive designs, efficient and quality-controlled 
construction practices, and durable materials; 
and 
‘‘(C) the development of innovative high-
way products and practices.’’. 
(j) UNIVERSITY FUNDING.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this title and any amendments made by this title,
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the Secretary may not provide financial assistance to a 
university under section 5101 unless the university is se-
lected to receive such funds through a competitive process 
that incorporates merit-based peer review and the selec-
tion is based on a proposal submitted to the Secretary by 
the university in response to a request for proposals issued 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 5202. LONG-TERM BRIDGE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM; 
INNOVATIVE BRIDGE RESEARCH AND DE-
PLOYMENT PROGRAM. 
(a) LONG-TERM
BRIDGE
PERFORMANCE
PRO-
GRAM.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 502 of title 23, 
United States Code, is further amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) LONG-TERM
BRIDGE
PERFORMANCE
PRO-
GRAM.—
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish a 20-year long-term bridge performance pro-
gram. 
‘‘(2) GRANTS, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, AND 
CONTRACTS.—Under the program, the Secretary 
shall make grants and enter into cooperative agree-
ments and contracts to—
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‘‘(A) monitor, material-test, and evaluate 
test bridges; 
‘‘(B) analyze the data obtained under sub-
paragraph (A); and 
‘‘(C) prepare products to fulfill program 
objectives and meet future bridge technology 
needs.’’. 
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available 
by section 5101(a)(1) of this Act, $5,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2004 and $15,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2005 through 2009 shall be available to carry 
out section 502(j) of title 23, United States Code. 
(b) INNOVATIVE BRIDGE RESEARCH AND DEPLOY-
MENT PROGRAM.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 503(b)(1) of such 
title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish and carry out a program to promote, dem-
onstrate, evaluate, and document the application of 
innovative designs, materials, and construction 
methods in the construction, repair, and rehabilita-
tion of bridges and other highway structures.’’. 
(2) GOALS.—Section 503(b)(2) of such title is 
amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(2) GOALS.—The goals of the program shall 
include—
‘‘(A) the development of new, cost-effec-
tive, innovative highway bridge applications; 
‘‘(B) the development of construction tech-
niques to increase safety and reduce construc-
tion time and traffic congestion; 
‘‘(C) the development of engineering design 
criteria for innovative products, materials, and 
structural systems for use in highway bridges 
and structures; 
‘‘(D) the reduction of maintenance costs 
and life-cycle costs of bridges, including the 
costs of new construction, replacement, or reha-
bilitation of deficient bridges; 
‘‘(E) the development of highway bridges 
and structures that will withstand natural dis-
asters; 
‘‘(F) the documentation and wide dissemi-
nation of objective evaluations of the perform-
ance and benefits of these innovative designs, 
materials, and construction methods; 
‘‘(G) the effective transfer of resulting in-
formation and technology; and
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‘‘(H) the development of improved methods 
to detect bridge scour and economical bridge 
foundation designs that will withstand bridge 
scour.’’. 
(3) FUNDING.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts made 
available by section 5101(a)(1) of this Act, 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
through 2009 shall be available to carry out 
section 503(b) of title 23, United States Code; 
and 
(B) 
HIGH
PERFORMANCE
CONCRETE 
BRIDGE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEPLOY-
MENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall 
obligate 
$2,000,000 of the amount described in subpara-
graph (A) for each of fiscal years 2004 through 
2009 to conduct research and deploy technology 
related to high-performance concrete bridges. 
SEC. 5203. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENT AND 
PLANNING COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 507 of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘§ 507. Surface Transportation environment and 
planning cooperative research program 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish and carry out a collaborative, public-private surface 
transportation environment and planning cooperative re-
search program. 
‘‘(b) AGREEMENT.—The Secretary shall enter into an 
agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to carry 
out administrative and management activities relating to 
the governance of the surface transportation environment 
and planning cooperative research program. 
‘‘(c) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish a committee that will be responsible for pro-
gram oversight and project selection. 
‘‘(2) MEMBERSHIP.—The members of the com-
mittee shall be appointed by the Secretary and shall 
be composed of—
‘‘(A) representatives of State, regional, and 
local transportation agencies, including transit 
agencies; 
‘‘(B) representatives of State environ-
mental agencies and other environmental orga-
nizations; 
‘‘(C) representatives of the transportation 
private sector;
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‘‘(D) transportation and environmental sci-
entists and engineers; and 
‘‘(E) representatives of the Federal High-
way Administration, Federal Transit Adminis-
tration, 
Environmental 
Protection 
Agency, 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Corps 
of Engineers, American Association of State 
Highway and Transportation Officials, and 
American Public Transportation Association, 
who shall serve in an ex officio capacity. 
‘‘(3) BALANCE.—The majority of the commit-
tee’s voting members shall be representatives of gov-
ernment transportation agencies. 
‘‘(4) MEETINGS.—The National Academy of 
Sciences shall convene meetings of the committee. 
‘‘(d) GOVERNANCE.—The program established under 
this section shall include the following administrative and 
management elements: 
‘‘(1) NATIONAL RESEARCH AGENDA.—The advi-
sory committee, in consultation with interested par-
ties, shall carry out and periodically update research 
and development called for in the Transportation 
Research Board Special Report 268, entitled ‘Sur-
face Transportation Environmental Research: A 
Long-Term Strategy’ and published in 2002, as de-
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scribed in subsection (e). The national research 
agenda shall include a multiyear strategic plan. 
‘‘(2) INVOLVEMENT.—Interested parties may—
‘‘(A) submit research proposals; 
‘‘(B) participate in merit reviews of re-
search proposals and peer reviews of research 
products; and 
‘‘(C) receive research results. 
‘‘(3) OPEN COMPETITION AND PEER REVIEW OF 
RESEARCH PROPOSALS.—The National Academy of 
Sciences may award under the program research 
contracts and grants through open competition and 
merit review conducted on a regular basis. 
‘‘(4) EVALUATION OF RESEARCH.—
‘‘(A) PEER REVIEW.—Research contracts 
and grants may allow peer review of the re-
search results. 
‘‘(B) PROGRAMMATIC EVALUATIONS.—The 
National Academy of Sciences may conduct 
periodic programmatic evaluations on a regular 
basis. 
‘‘(5) DISSEMINATION
OF
RESEARCH
FIND-
INGS.—The National Academy of Sciences shall dis-
seminate research findings to researchers, practi-
tioners, and decisionmakers, through conferences
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and seminars, field demonstrations, workshops, 
training programs, presentations, testimony to gov-
ernment officials, World Wide Web, and publications 
for the general public. 
‘‘(e) CONTENTS.—The national research agenda for 
the program required under subsection (d)(1) shall include 
research in the following areas for the purposes described: 
‘‘(1) HUMAN HEALTH.—Human health to es-
tablish the links between transportation activities 
and human health; substantiate the linkages between 
exposure to concentration levels, emissions, and 
health impacts; examine the potential health impacts 
from the implementation and operation of transpor-
tation infrastructure and services; develop strategies 
for avoidance and reduction of these impacts; and 
develop strategies to understand the economic value 
of health improvements and for incorporating health 
considerations into valuation methods. 
‘‘(2) ECOLOGY AND NATURAL SYSTEMS.—Ecol-
ogy and natural systems to measure transportation’s 
short- and long-term impact on natural systems; de-
velop ecologically based performance measures; de-
velop insight into both the spatial and temporal 
issues associated with transportation and natural 
systems; study the relationship between highway
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density and ecosystem integrity, including the im-
pacts of highway density on habitat integrity and 
overall ecosystem health; develop a rapid assessment 
methodology for use by transportation and regu-
latory agencies in determining the relationship be-
tween highway density and ecosystem integrity; de-
velop ecologically based performance techniques to 
evaluate the success of highway project mitigation 
and enhancement measures; expand research and 
thinking on the uses for and vegetation of transpor-
tation corridors in the United States; expand re-
search efforts aimed at understanding wildlife move-
ment near corridors, roadkill rates, and road-barrier 
effects and at developing efficient mitigation designs 
for road crossing by animals; catalyze research on 
the effects of corridors and traffic on adjoining land, 
including traffic disturbance and the spread of 
invasive species; conduct further research on means 
of restoring natural hydrologic and sediment flows 
and distributions in the vicinity of roads; expand re-
search on transportation’s effects on water quality, 
aquatic ecosystems, and fish in various bodies of 
water and on ecologically effective solutions; support, 
expand, and initiate research on the ecological ef-
fects of air pollutants from roads and vehicles at the
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roadside, neighborhood, regional, and global levels; 
develop road-network models and approaches for re-
ducing habitat fragmentation, population extinction, 
wildlife-corridor, and remote-area impacts; foster col-
laborative landscape-wide environmental analyses by 
engineers, ecologists, and planners, with an empha-
sis on combining ecological solutions with other soci-
etal objectives; and stimulate research on under-
standing public preferences for improvements in nat-
ural systems of both short- and long-term signifi-
cance to society. 
‘‘(3) ENVIRONMENTAL
AND
SOCIOECONOMIC 
RELATIONSHIPS.—Environmental and socioeconomic 
relationships to understand differences in mobility, 
access, travel behavior, and travel preferences across 
socioeconomic groups; develop improved planning ap-
proaches that better reflect and respond to commu-
nity needs; improve evaluation methods for exam-
ining the incidence of benefits and costs; examine 
the differential impacts of current methods of fi-
nance and explore alternatives; understand the socio-
economic implications of emerging land development 
patterns and new transportation technologies; de-
velop cost-effective applications of technology that 
improve the equity of the transport system; develop