Title: Safe Routes Act of 2019
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Safe Routes Act of 2019
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive any vehicle weight limit for covered logging vehicles.
The term "covered logging vehicle" means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles from the point of origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets applicable state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the boundaries of each state in which the vehicle is operating.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1509 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1509

  To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Transportation to waive vehicle weight limitations for certain logging 
                   vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2019

Mr. Johnson (for himself and Mr. Perdue) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the Secretary of 
Transportation to waive vehicle weight limitations for certain logging 
                   vehicles, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Routes Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. VEHICLE WEIGHT EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN LOGGING VEHICLES.

    Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(v) Certain Logging Vehicles.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall waive, for a covered 
        logging vehicle, the application of any vehicle weight limit 
        established under this section.
            ``(2) Application of weight tolerances.--The waiver under 
        this subsection shall only apply with respect to a State legal 
        weight tolerance in effect on the date of enactment of this 
        subsection.
            ``(3) Definition of covered logging vehicle.--In this 
        subsection, the term `covered logging vehicle' means a vehicle 
        that--
                    ``(A) is transporting raw or unfinished forest 
                products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood 
                chips;
                    ``(B) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 
                air miles on the Interstate System from the point of 
                origin to a storage or processing facility; and
                    ``(C) meets applicable State legal weight 
                tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting 
                raw or unfinished forest products within the boundaries 
                of each State in which the vehicle is operating.''.
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