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 92 STAT. 2722

PUBLIC LAW 95-599—NOV. 6, 1978 STUDY—^FACTORS AFFECTING TRANSPORTATION

23 USC 307 note.

OPERATIONS

SEC. 166. The Secretary of Transportation shall make a full and complete investigation and study of all those factors affecting the safe and efficient operation of bridges, tunnels, and roads within the United States, including, but not limited to, structural, operational, environmental, and civil disturbance factors. OBLIGATION LIMITATION

SEC. 167. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the total of all obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year 1979 shall not exceed $8,500,000,000. This limitation shall not apply to obligations for emergency relief under section 125 of title 23, United States Code. (b) Notwithstanding the limitation contained in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary shall not in any way control— (1) the rate of obligation of such limitation by allocation of such limitation or in any other manner; and (2) by priority or otherwise, programs or projects eligible for Federal financial assistance from those funds for such programs and projects which are subject to such limitation, if such programs or projects are otherwise eligible for such assistance under title 23, United States Code, or any other applicable provision of law. HAZARD E L I M I N A T I O N PROGRAM

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Survey and improvement schedule.

Federal share.

23 USC 402. Waiver. 23 USC 104. Evaluation process.

SEC. 168. (a) Section 152 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: ^§ 152. Hazard elimination program. "(a) Each State shall conduct and systematically maintain an engineering survey of all public roads to identify hazardous locations, sections, and elements, including roadside obstacles and unmarked or poorly marked roads, which may constitute a danger to motorists and pedestrians, assign priorities for the correction of such locations, sections, and elements, and establish and implement a schedule of projects for their improvement. "(b) The Secretary may approve as a project under this section any highway safety improvement project. "(c) Funds authorized to carry out this section shall be available solely for expenditure for projects on any Federal-aid system (other than the Interstate System) except in the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. "(d) The Federal share payable on account of any project under this section shall be 90 percent of the cost thereof. "(e) Funds authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section shall be apportioned to the States as provided in sectioh 402(c) of this title. Such funds shall be available for obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as if such funds were apportioned under section 104(b)(1), except that the Secretary is authorized to waive provisions he deems inconsistent with the purposes of this section. "(f) Each State shall establish an evaluation process approved by the Secretary, to analyze and assess results achieved by highway

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