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 105 STAT. 2070 Highway Safety Act of 1991. 23 USC 401 note. Reports. Reports. Reports. PUBLIC LAW 102-240—DEC. 18, 1991 TITLE II—HIGHWAY SAFETY PART A—HIGHWAY SAFETY GRANT PROGRAMS SEC. 2001. SHORT TITLE. This part may be cited as the "Highway Safety Act of 1991". SEC. 2002. HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS. (a) UNIFORM GUIDELINES.— Section 402(a) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the third sentence the following: "In addition, such uniform guidelines shall include programs (1) to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehicles being driven in excess of posted speed limits, (2) to encourage the proper use of occupant protection devices (including the use of safety belts and child restraint systems) by occupants of motor vehicles and to increase public awareness of the benefit of motor vehicles equipped with airbags, (3) to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from persons driving motor vehicles while impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance, (4) to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from accidents involving motor vehicles and motorcycles, (5) to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from accidents involving school buses, and (6) to improve law enforcement services in motor vehicle accident prevention, traffic supervision, and post-accident procedures. If the Secretary does not designate as priority programs those programs described in the preceding sentence, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing the reasons for not prioritizing such programs. The Secretary shall establish a highway safety program for the collection and reporting of data on trafficrelated deaths and injuries by the States. Under such program, the States shall collect and report such data as the Secretary may require. The purposes of the program are to ensure national uniform data on such deaths and injuries and to allow the Secretary to make determinations for use in developing programs to reduce such deaths and injuries and making recommendations to Congress concerning legislation necessary to implement such programs. The program shall include information obtained by the Secretary under section 4007 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 and provide for annual reports to the Secretary on the efforts being made by the States in reducing deaths and injuries occurring at highway construction sites and the effectiveness and results of such efforts. The Secretary shall establish minimum reporting criteria for the program. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, criteria on deaths and injuries resulting from police pursuits, school bus accidents, and speeding, on traffic-related deaths and injuries at highway construction sites and on the configuration of commercial motor vehicles involved in motor vehicle accidents. ", (b) ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS AND USE OF TECHNOIX)GY FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.—Section 402(b) of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: " (3) ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS. — The Secretary may not approve a State highway safety program under this section which does not— "(A) provide that the Governor of the State shall be responsible for the administration of the program through a State highway safety agency which shall have adequate

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