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 PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005

119 STAT. 1795

State transportation departments, local governments, nonprofit entities, academia, and the private sector. ‘‘(4) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—The freight planning capacity building initiative shall include research, training, and education in the following areas: ‘‘(A) The identification and dissemination of best practices in freight transportation. ‘‘(B) Providing opportunities for freight transportation staff to engage in peer exchange. ‘‘(C) Refinement of data and analysis tools used in conjunction with assessing freight transportation needs. ‘‘(D) Technical assistance to State transportation departments and local transportation agencies reorganizing to address freight transportation issues. ‘‘(E) Facilitating relationship building between governmental and private entities involved in freight transportation. ‘‘(F) Identifying ways to target the capacity of State transportation departments and local transportation agencies to address freight considerations in operations, security, asset management, and environmental excellence in connection with long-range multimodal transportation planning and project implementation. ‘‘(5) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of the cost of an activity carried out under this section shall be up to 100 percent, and such funds shall remain available until expended. ‘‘(6) USE OF FUNDS.—Funds made available for the program established under this subsection may be used for research, program development, information collection and dissemination, and technical assistance. The Secretary may use such funds independently or make grants or to and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with a Federal agency, State agency, local agency, federally recognized Indian tribal government or tribal consortium, authority, association, nonprofit or for-profit corporation, or institution of higher education, to carry out the purposes of this subsection.’’. (2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available under section 5101(a)(2) of this Act, $875,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009 shall be available to carry out section 504(g) of such title. (i) EISENHOWER TRANSPORTATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.—Of the amounts made available by section 5101(a)(2) of this Act, $2,200,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009 shall be available to carry out section 504(c)(2) of such title. SEC. 5205. STATE PLANNING AND RESEARCH.

Section 505 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a) by adding at the end the following— ‘‘(7) The conduct of activities relating to the planning of real-time monitoring elements.’’; and (2) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘for the same’’ and all that follows through the period and inserting the following: ‘‘for the period described in section 118(b)(2).’’. SEC. 5206. INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION OUTREACH PROGRAM.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 506 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

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