An Act to provide for a coordinated national highway safety program through financial assistance to the States to accelerate highway traffic safety programs, and for other purposes.
PL 89-564 (S.3052), enacted 09/09/1966

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Public Law 89-564 
A N A C T 
September 9, 1966 
To provide for a coordinated national highway safety program through financial 
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assistance to the States to accelerate highway traffic safety programs, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and HouJ^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, 
TITLE I—HIGHWAY SAFETY 
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Act of 1900. 
SEC. 101. Title 23, United States Code, is hereby amended by add- 
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ing at the end thereof a new chapter: 
"Chapter 4.—HIGHWAY SAFETY 
"Sec. 
"401. Authority of the Secretary. 
"402. Highway safety programs. 
"403. Highway safety research and development. 
"404. National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. 
"§401. Authority of the Secretary 
"The Secretary is authorized and directed to assist and cooperate 
with other Federal departments and agencies. State and local gov-
ernments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase 
highway safety. 
"§402. Highway safety programs 
"(a) Each State shall have a highway safety program approved by 
the Secretary, designed to reduce traffic accidents and deaths, injuries, 
and property damage resulting therefrom. 
Such programs shall be ^^f'^°"^ stand-
in accordance with uniform standards promulgated by the Secretary. 
Such uniform standards shall be expressed in terms of performance 
criteria. Such uniform standards shall be promulgated by the Secre-
tary so as to improve driver performance (including, but not limited 
to, driver education, driver testing to determine proficiency to operate 
motor vehicles, driver examinations (both physical and mental) and 
driver licensing) and to improve pedestrian performance. 
In addi-
tion such uniform standards shall mclude, but not be limited to, pro-
V isions for an effective record system of accidents (including injuries 
and deaths resulting therefrom), accident investigations to determine 
the probable causes of accidents, injuries, and deaths, vehicle registra-
tion, operation, and inspection, highway design and maintenance (in-
cluding lighting, markings, and surface treatment), traffic control, 
vehicle codes and laws, surv-eillance of traffic for detection and correc-
tion of high or potentially high accident locations, and emergency 
services. 
Such standards as are applicable to State highway safety 
programs shall, to the extent determined appropriate by tlie Secretary, 
be applicable to federally administered areas where a Federal depart-
ment or agency controls the highways or supervises traffic operations. 
The Secretary shall be authorized to amend or waive standards on a 
temporary basis for the purpose of evaluating new or different high-
M'ay safety programs instituted on an experimental, pilot, or demon-
stration basis by one or more States, where the Secretary finds that the 
public interest would be served by such amendment or waiver. 
"(b) (1) The Secretary shall not approve any State highway safety 
program under this section which does not— 
"(A) provide that the Governor of the State shall be respon-
sible for the administration of the program. 
"(B) authorize political subdivisions of such State to carry 
out local highway safety programs within their jurisdictions as a 
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part of the State highway safety program if such local highway 
safety programs are approved bv the Governor and are in ac-
cordance with the uniform standards of the Secretary promul-
gated under this section. 
"(C) provide that at least 40 per centum of all Federal funds 
apportioned under this section to such State for any fiscal year 
will be expended by the political subdivisions of such State in 
carrying out local highway safety programs a,uthorized in ac-
cordance with subparagraph (B) of this paragraph. 
"(D) provide that the aggregate expenditure of funds of the 
State and political subdivisions thereof, exclusive of Federal 
funds, for highway safety programs will be maintained at a level 
which does not fall below the average level of such expenditures 
for its last two full fiscal years preceding the date of enactment 
of this section. 
"(E) provide for comprehensive driver training programs, in-
cluding (1) the initiation of a State program for driver educa-
tion in the school systems or for a significant expansion and im-
provement of such a. program already in existence, to be admin-
istered by appropriate school officials under the supervision of the 
Governor as set forth in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph; 
(2) the training of qualified school instructors and their certifica-
tion; (3) appropriate regulation of other driver training schools, 
including licensmg of the schools and certification of their in-
structors; (4) adult driver training programs, and programs for 
the retraining of selected drivers; and (5) adequate research, de-
velopment and procurement of practice driving facilities, simu-
lators, and other similar teaching aids for both school and other 
driver training use. 
"(2) The Secretary is authorized to waive the requirement of sub-
paragraph (C) of paragraph (1) of this subsection, in whole or in 
part, for a fiscal year for any State whenever he determines that there 
IS an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify 
the expenditure in such State of such percentage of Federal funds 
during such fiscal year. 
Use of funds. 
u (^^^ Funds authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
shall be used to aid the States to conduct the highway safety programs 
approved in accordance with subsection (a), shall be subject to a 
deduction not to exceed 5 per centum for the necessary costs of admin-
istering the provisions of this section, and the remainder shall be 
apportioned among the several States. 
For the fiscal years ending 
June 30, 1967, June 30, 1968, and June 30, 1969, such funds shall be 
apportioned 75 per centum on the basis of population and 25 per 
centum as the Secretary in his administrative discretion may deem 
appropriate and thereafter such funds shall be apportioned as Con-
gress, by law enacted hereafter, shall provide. 
On or before Janu-
ary 1, 1969, the Secretary shall report to Congress his recommenda-
tions with respect to a nondiscretionary formula for apportionment 
of funds authorized to carry out this section for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1970, and fiscal years thereafter. 
After December 31, 1968, 
tlie Secretary shall not apportion any funds under this subsection to 
any State which is not implementing a highway safety program ap-
proved by the Secretary in accordance with this section. 
Federal aid 
highway funds apportioned on or after January 1, 1969, to any State 
which is not implementing a highway safety program approved by 
the Secretary in accordance with this section shall be reduced by 
amounts equal to 10 per centum of the amounts which would other-
wise be apportioned to such State under section 104 of this title, until 
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such time as such State is implementing an approved highway safety 
program. 
Whenever he determines it to be m the public interest, 
the Secretary may suspend, for such periods as he deems necessary, 
the application of the preceding sentence to a State. Any amount 
which is withheld from apportionment to any State under this section 
shall be reapportioned to the other States in accordance with the 
applicable provisions of law. 
"(d) All provisions of chapter 1 of this title that are applicable to 
Federal-aid primary highway funds other than provisions relating 
to the apportionment formula and provisions limiting the expendi-
ture of such funds to the Federal-aid systems, shall apply to the high-
way safety funds authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
section, except as determined by the Secretary to be inconsistent wit!i 
this section. In applying such provisions of chapter 1 in carrying out 
this section the term 'State highway department' as used in such pro-
visions shall mean the Governor of a State for the purposes of this 
section. 
"(e) L'niform standards promulgated by the Secretary to carry 
out this section shall be developed in cooperation with the States, 
their political subdivisions, appropriate Federal departments and 
agencies, and such other public and private organizations as the Sec-
retary deems appropriate. 
"(f) The Secretary may make arrangements with other Federal 
departments and agencies for assistance in tlie preparation of uniform 
standards for the highway safety programs contemplated by subsec-
tion (a) and in the administration of such programs. Such depart-
ments and agencies are directed to cooperate in such preparation and 
administration, on a reimbursable basis. 
" (g) Nothing in this section authorizes the appropriation or expend-
iture of funds for (1) highway construction, maintenance, or design 
(other than design of safety features of highways to be incorporated 
into standards) or (2) any purpose for which funds are authorized 
by section 403 of this title. 
"§403. Highway safety research and development 
"Tlie Secretary is authorized to use funds appropriated to carry out 
this section to carry out safety research which he is authorized to con-
duct by subsection (a) of section 307 of this title. 
In addition, the 
Secretary may use the funds appropriated to carry out this section, 
either independently or in cooperation with other Federal departments 
or agencies, for (1) grants to State or local agencies, institutions, and 
individuals for training or education of highway safety personnel, 
(2) research fellowships in highway safety, (3) development of 
improved accident investigation procedures, (4) emergency service 
plans, (5) demonstration projects, and (6) related activities which 
are deemed by the Secretary to be necessary to carry out the purposes 
of this section. 
"§404. National Highway Safety Advisory Committee 
"(a)(1) There is established in the Department of Commerce a 
National Highway Safety Advisory Committee, composed of the Sec-
retary or an officer of the Department appointed by him, who shall be 
chairman, the Federal Highway Administrator, and twenty-nine mem-
bers appointed by the President, no more than four of whom shall be 
Federal officers or employees. The appointed members, having due 
regard for the purposes of this chapter, shall be selected from among 
representatives of various State and local governments, including 
State legislatures, of public and private interests contributing to, 
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affected by, or concerned with highway safety, and of other public 
and privato, agencies, organizations, or groups demonstrating an active 
interest in highway safety, as well as research scientists and other 
individuals who are expert in this field. 
"(2) (A) Each member appointed by the President shall hold office 
for a term of three years, except that (i) any member appointed to fill 
a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his 
predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such 
term, and (ii) the terms of office of members first taking office after the 
date of enactment of this section shall expire as follows: ten at the 
end of one year after such date, ten at the end of two years after such 
date, and nine at the end of three years after such date, as designated 
by the President at the time of appointment, and (iii) the term of any 
member shall be extended until the date on which the successor's 
appointment is effective. 
None of the members appointed by the Pres-
ident other than Federal officers or employees shall be eligible for 
reappointment within one year following the end of his preceding 
term. 
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"(B) Members of the Committee who are not officers or employees 
of the United States shall, while attending meetings or conferences of 
such Committee or otherwise engaged in the business of such Commit-
tee, be entitled to receive compensation at a rate fixed by the Secretary, 
but not exceeding $100 per diem, including traveltime, and while away 
from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed 
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized 
in section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
60 Stat. 808; 
73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. 
Payments under this section shall not render members of the Com-
mittee employees or officials of the United States for any purpose. 
"(b) The National Highway Safety Advisory Committee shall 
advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, the Secretary on 
matters relating to the activities and functions of the Department 
in the field of highway safety. The Committee is authorized (1) to 
review research projects or programs submitted to or recommended 
by it in the field of highway safety and recommend to the Secretary, for 
prosecution under this title, any such projects w4iich it believes show 
promise of making valuable contributions to human knowledge with 
respect to the cause and prevention of highway accidents; and (2) to 
review, prior to issuance, standards proposed to be issued by order of 
the Secretary under the provisions of section 402(a) of this title and 
to make recommendations thereon. 
Such recommendations shall be 
published in connection with the Secretary's determination or order. 
"(c) The National Highway Safety Advisory Committee shall meet 
from time to time as the Secretary shall direct, but at least once each 
year. 
"(d) The Secretary shall provide to the National Highway Safety 
Committee from among the personnel and facilities of the Department 
of Commerce such staff and facilities as are necessary to carry out the 
functions of such Committee." 
Rep^^i- 
SEC. 102. (a) Sections 135 and 313 of title 23 of the United States 
Code are hereby repealed. 
(b) (1) The analysis of chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, 
is hereby amended by deleting: 
"135. Highway safety programs." 
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(2) The analysis of chapter 3 of title 23, United States Code, is 
hereby amended by deleting: 
"313. Highway safety conference." 
(3) There is hereby added at the end of the table of chapters at the 
beginning of title 23, United States Code, the following: 
"4. Highway safety 
401". 
SEC. 103. Section 307 of title 23, United States Code, is amended 
(1) by inserting in subsection (a) thereof immediately after "sec-
tion 104 of this title" the following: ", funds authorized to carry 
out section 403 of this title," and (2) by adding at the end of such 
section the following new subsection: 
"(d) As used in this section the term 'safety' includes, but isJiot 
"safety." 
limited to, highway safety systems, research, and development relat-
ing to vehicle, highway, and driver characteristics, accident investi-
gations, communications, emergency medical care, and transportation 
of the injured." 
SEC. 104. For the purpose of carrying out section 402 of title 23, Appropriations. 
L^nited States Code, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
the sum of $67,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; 
$100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; and $100,000,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. 
SEC. 105. For the purpose of carrying out sections 307(a) and 403 
of title 23, United States Code, there is hereby authorized to be appro-
priated the additional sum of $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1967; $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; 
and $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. 
SEC. 106. All facts contained in any report of any Federal depart- ^^^\°sinc^accf^' 
ment or agency or any officer, employee, or agent thereof, relating dents. 
to any highway traffic accident or the investigation thereof conducted 
pursuant to chapter 4 of title 23 of the ITnited States Code shall be 
available for use in any civil, criminal, or other judicial proceeding 
arising out of such accident, and any such officer, employee, or agent 
may be required to testify in such proceedings as to the facts developed 
in such investigation. 
Any such report sliall be made available to 
the public in a manner which does not identify individuals. All com-
pleted reports on research projects, demonstration projects, and other 
related activities conducted under sections 307 and 403 of title 23, 
United States Code, shall be made available to the public in a manner 
which does not identify individuals. 
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTING 
SEC. 201. The Secretary shall carry out the provisions of the High- wi5rsa°fety"'^^" 
way Safety Act of 1966 (including chapter 4 of title 23 of the United AgLcy. 
States Code) through a National Highway Safety Agency (herein-
after referred to as the "Agency"), which he shall establish in the 
Department of Commerce. The Agency shall be headed by an Ad-
ministrator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be compensated at the rate 
prescribed for level V of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule 
established by the Federal Executive Salary Aot of 1964. The Ad- 
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ministrator shall be a citizen of the United States, and shall be ap-
pointed with due regard for his fitness to discharge efficiently the 
powers and the duties delegated to him. The Administrator shall have 
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no pecuniary interest in or own any stock in or bonds of any enterprise 
involved in (1) manufacturing motor vehicles or motor vehicle equip-
ment, or (2) constructing highways, nor shall he engage in any other 
business, vocation, or employment. The Administrator shall perform 
such duties as are delegated to him by the Secretary. On highway 
matters the Administrator shall consult with the Federal Highway 
Administrator. The President is authorized to carry out the provi-
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g-^j^g ^f ^l^g National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 
through the Agency and Administrator authorized by this section. 
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^^O- 202. (a) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Presi-
gress. 
dent for transmittal to the Congress on March 1 of each year a com-
prehensive report on the administration of the Highway Safety Act 
of 1966 (including chapter 4 of title 23 of the United States Code) 
for the preceding calendar year. Such report should include but not 
be restricted to (1) a thorough statistical compilation of the accidents 
and injuries occurring in such year; (2) a list of all safety standards 
issued or in effect in such year; (3) the scope of observance of applica-
ble Federal standards; (4) a statement of enforcement actions includ-
ing judicial decisions, settlements, or pending litigation during the 
year; (5) a suimmary of all current research grants and contracts to-
gelther witli a description of the problems to be considered by such 
grants and contracts; (6) an analysis and evaluation of completed re-
search activities and technological progress achieved during such year 
together with the relevant policy recommendations flowing therefrom; 
(7) the effectiveness of State highway safety programs (including 
local highway safety programs) and (8) the extent to which technical 
information was being disseminated to the scientific community and 
consumer-oriented material was made available to the motoring public, 
(b) The annual report shall also contain such recommendations for 
tionai Tegisiation. additional legislation as the Secretary deems necessary to promote 
cooperation among the several States in the improvement of highway 
safety and to strengthen the national highway safety program. 
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^EC. 203. The Secretary of Commerce shall report to Congress, not 
later than July 1,1967, all standards to be initially applied in carrying 
out section 402 of title 23 of the United States Code. 
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SEC. 204. The Secretary of Commerce shall make a thorough and 
safety and driv- 
Complete study of the relationship between the consumption of alcohol 
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g gffg(.f upou highway safety and drivers of motor vehicles, in 
consultation with such other government and private agencies as may 
be necessary. 
Such study shall cover review and evaluation of 
State and local laws and enforcement methods and procedures relating 
to driving under the influence of alcohol, State and local programs for 
the treatment of alcoholism, and such other aspects of this overall 
problem as may be useful. The results of this study shall be reported 
to the Congress by the Secretary on or before July 1, 1967, and shall 
include recommendations for legislation if warranted. 
SEC. 205. The Federal Highway Administrator and any other officer 
who may subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act become the 
operating head of the Bureau of Public Roads shall receive compen-
sation at the rate prescribed for level IV of the Federal Executive 
Salary Schedule established by the Federal Executive Salary Act of 
1964. 
SEC. 206. Section 105 of title 23, ITnited States Code, is hereby 
amended by adding the following subsection at the end thereof: 
Priority proj- 
''''{&) In approviiig programs for projects on the Federal-aid systems 
pursuant to chapter 1 of this title, the Secretary shall give priority to 
those projects which incorporate improved standards and features 
with safety benefits." 
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tions for addi' 
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SEC. 207. In order to provide the basis for evaluating the continu-
ing programs authorized by this Act, and to furnish the Congress with 
the information necessary for authorization of appropriations for 
fiscal years beginning after June 30,1969, the Secretary, in cooperation 
with the Governors or the appropriate State highway safety agencies, 
shall make a detailed estimate of the cost of carrying out the provisions 
of this Act. 
The Secretary shall submit such detailed estimate and 
recommendations for Federal, State, and local matching funds to the 
Congress not later than January 10,1968. 
SEC. 208. This Act may be cited as the "Higliway Safety Act of 
1966". 
Approved September 9, 1966, 1:11 p.m. 
Estimate of 
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Short title. 
Public Law 89-565 
A N A C T 
September 9, 1966 
To authorize the establishment of the San Juan Island National Historical Park 
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in the State of Washington, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTnbled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States 
by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or by 
exchange, lands, interests in lands, and such other property on San 
Juan Island, Puget Sound, State of Washington, as the Secretary may 
deem necessary for the purpose of interpreting and preserving the 
sites of the American and English camps on the island, and of com-
memorating the historic events that occurred from 1853 to 1871 on 
the island in comiection with the final settlement of the Oregon Ter-
ritory boundary dispute, including the so-called Pig War of 1859. 
Lands or interests therein owned oy the State of Washington or a 
political subdivision thereof may be acquired only by donation. 
SEC. 2. The property acquired under the provisions of the first sec-
tion of this Act shall be known as the San Juan Island National His-
torical Park and shall commemorate the final settlement by arbitration 
of the Oregon boundary dispute and the peaceful relationship which 
has existed between the United States and Canada for generations. 
The Secretary of the Interior shall administer, protect, and develop 
such park in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 25, 
1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, 
and the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 16 U.S.C. 461 et secj.). 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into cooperative 
agreements with the State of Washington, political subdivisions 
thereof, corporations, associations, or individuals, for the preservation 
of na/tionally significant historic sites and structures and for the in-
terpretation of significant events which occurred on San Juan Island, 
in Puget Sound, and on the nearby mainland, and he may erect and 
maintain tablets or markers at appropriate sites in accordance with the 
provisions of the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 16 U.S.C. 461 
etseq.). 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, 
but not more than $3,542,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests 
therein and for the development of the San Juan National Historical 
Park. 
Approved September 9, 1966. 
San Juan Island 
National Histori-
cal Park, Wash. 
Establishment. 
Admini stration. 
Appropriation.