Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 119.djvu/1769

 PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005

119 STAT. 1751

‘‘(D) make policy and legislative recommendations the Director believes are necessary and appropriate to achieve the goals of the plan. ‘‘(3) PLAN DEVELOPMENT FUNDING.—Such sums as may be necessary from the administrative expenses of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration shall be reserved by the Secretary of Transportation each year for the purpose of completing and updating the plan to improve the national intermodal transportation plan. ‘‘(g) IMPACT MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY; IMPACT REVIEW.— The Director and the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics shall jointly— ‘‘(1) develop, in consultation with the modal administrations, and State and local planning organizations, common measures to compare transportation investment decisions across the various modes of transportation; and ‘‘(2) formulate a methodology for measuring the impact of intermodal transportation on— ‘‘(A) the environment; ‘‘(B) public health and welfare; ‘‘(C) energy consumption; ‘‘(D) the operation and efficiency of the transportation system; ‘‘(E) congestion, including congestion at the Nation’s ports; and ‘‘(F) the economy and employment. ‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2006 through 2009 to carry out this chapter.’’.

Subtitle B—Household Goods Transportation

Household Goods Mover Oversight Enforcement and Reform Act of 2005. 49 USC 10101 note.

SEC. 4201. SHORT TITLE.

This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Household Goods Mover Oversight Enforcement and Reform Act of 2005’’ SEC. 4202. DEFINITIONS; APPLICATION OF PROVISIONS.

(a) TERMS USED IN THIS CHAPTER.—In this subtitle, the terms ‘‘carrier’’, ‘‘household goods’’, ‘‘motor carrier’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, and ‘‘transportation’’ have the meaning given to such terms in section 13102 of title 49, United States Code. (b) HOUSEHOLD GOODS MOTOR CARRIER AND INDIVIDUAL SHIPPER IN PART B OF SUBTITLE IV OF TITLE 49.—Section 13102 of title 49, United States Code (as amended by section 4141 of this Act) is amended by redesignating paragraphs (12) through (24) as paragraphs (14) through (26) and by inserting after paragraph (11) the following: ‘‘(12) HOUSEHOLD GOODS MOTOR CARRIER.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘household goods motor carrier’ means a motor carrier that, in the ordinary course of its business of providing transportation of household goods, offers some or all of the following additional services: ‘‘(i) Binding and nonbinding estimates. ‘‘(ii) Inventorying.

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