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PUBLIC LAW 85-767-AUG. 27, 1958

State's obligation to the United States to maintain any such project shall cease when it no longer constitutes a part of a Federal-aid system. (b) I n any State wherein the State highway department is without legal authority to maintain a project constructed on the Federal-aid secondary system, or "within a municipality, such highway department shall enter into a formal agreement for its maintenance with the appropriate officials of the county or municipality in which such project is located. (c) If at any time the Secretary shall find that any project constructed under the provisions of this- chapter, or constructed under the provisions of prior Acts, is not being properly maintained, he shall call such fact to the attention of the State highway department. If, within ninety days after receipt of such notice, such project has not been put in proper condition of maintenance, the Secretary shall withhold approval of further projects of all types in the entire State until such project shall have been put in proper condition of maintenance, unless such project is subject to an agreement pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, in which case approval shall be withheld only for secondary or urban projects in the county or municipality where such project is located. (d) The Federal-aid funds apportioned to the Territory of Alaska and the funds contributed by the Territory under section 120 of this title may be expended for the maintenance of roads within the system or systems of roads agreed upon under section 103(f) of this title under the same terms and conditions as for the construction of such roads. § 117. Secondary road responsibility (a) The Secretary may, upon the request of any State highway department, discharge his responsibility relative to the plans, specifications, estimates, surveys, contract awards, design, inspection, and construction of all projects on the Federal-aid secondary system by his receiving and approving a certified statement by the State highway department setting forth that the plans, design, and construction for each such project are in accord with those standards and procedures which (1) were adopted by such State highway department, (2) were applicable to projects in this category, and (3) were approved by him. (b) The Secretary shall not approve such standards and procedures unless they are in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of section 10.5, subsection (b) of section 106, and subsection (c) of section 109, of this title. (c) Subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not be construed to relieve the Secretary of his obligation to make a final inspection of each project after construction and to require an adequate showing of the estimated cost of construction and the actual cost of construction. § 118. Availability of sums apportioned (a) On and after the date that the Secretary has certified to each State highway department the sums apportioned to each Federal-aid system or part thereof pursuant to an authorization under this title, or under prior Acts, such sums shall be available for expenditure under the provisions of this title. (b) Such sums shall continue available for expenditure in that State for the appropriate Federal-aid system or part thereof for a period of two years after the close of the fiscal year for which such sums are authorized and any amounts so apportioned remaining unexpended at the end of such period shall lapse, except that any amount apportioned to the States for the Interstate System under subsection (b)

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