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 96 STAT. 1738

PUBLIC LAW 97-364—OCT. 25, 1982

Public Law 97-364 97th Congress An Act Oct. 25, 1982 [H.R. 6170]

Alcohol traffic safety programs and national driver register.

To amend title 23, United States Code, to encourage the establishment by States of effective alcohol traffic safety programs and to require the Secretary of Transportation to administer a national driver register to assist State driver licensing officials in electronically exchanging information regarding the motor vehicle driving records of certain individuals.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I—ALCOHOL TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAMS SEC. 101. (a) Chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

Grants. 23 USC 408.

Federal share payments.

23 USC 402.

"§ 408. Alcohol traffic safety programs "(a) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary shall make basic and supplemental grants to those States which adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol. Such grants may only be used by recipient States to implement and enforce such programs. "(b) No grant may be made to a State under this section in any fiscal year unless such State enters into such agreements with the Secretary as the Secretary may require to ensure that such State will maintain its aggregate expenditures from all other sources for alcohol traffic safety programs at or above the average level of such expenditures in its two fiscal years preceding the date of enactment of this section. "(c) No State may receive grants under this section in more than three fiscal years. The Federal share payable for any grant under this section shall not exceed— "(1) in the first fiscal year the State receives a grant under this section, 75 per centum of the cost of implementing and enforcing in such fiscal year the alcohol traffic safety program adopted by the State pursuant to subsection (a); "(2) in the second fiscal year the State receives a grant under this section, 50 per centum of the cost of implementing and enforcing in such fiscal year such program; and "(3) in the third fiscal year the State receives a grant under this section, 25 per centum of the cost of implementing and enforcing in such fiscal year such program. "(d)(1) Subject to subsection (c), the amount of a basic grant made under this section for any fiscal year to any State which is eligible for such a grant under subsection (e)(1) shall equal 30 per centum of the amount apportioned to such State for fiscal year 1983 under section 402 of this title. "(2) Subject to subsection (c), the amount of a supplemental grant made under this section for any fiscal year to any State which is eligible for such a grant under subsection (e)(2) shall not exceed 20

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