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PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005 (B) make recommendations for a broad range of policy and program changes that would serve to further reduce the level of deaths and injuries caused by alcohol impaired driving.

SEC. 2021. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF INCREASED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION LEVELS AND DANGERS OF ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— (1) in 2003— (A) 17,013 Americans died in alcohol-related traffic crashes; (B) 40 percent of the persons killed in traffic crashes died in alcohol-related crashes; and (C) drivers with blood alcohol concentration levels over 0.15 were involved in 58 percent of alcohol-related traffic fatalities; (2) research shows that 77 percent of Americans think they have received enough information about alcohol-impaired driving and the way in which alcohol affects individual blood alcohol levels; and (3) only 28 percent of the American public can correctly identify the legal limit of blood alcohol concentration of the State in which they reside. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should work with State and local governments and independent organizations to increase public awareness of— (1) State legal limits on blood alcohol concentration levels; and (2) the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving. 23 USC 402 note.

SEC. 2022. EFFECTIVE DATE.

Sections 2002 through 2007 of this title (and the amendments and repeals made by such sections) shall take effect October 1, 2005. Federal Public Transportation Act of 2005. 49 USC 5101 note.

TITLE III—PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SEC. 3001. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Public Transportation Act of 2005’’. SEC. 3002. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES CODE; UPDATED TERMINOLOGY.

49 USC 5301.

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(a) AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49.—Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision of law, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of title 49, United States Code. (b) UPDATED TERMINOLOGY.—Chapter 53 is amended— (1) in the chapter heading by striking ‘‘MASS’’ and inserting ‘‘PUBLIC’’; (2) in section 5310(h) by striking ‘‘Mass’’ and inserting ‘‘Public’’;

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