S.Amdt. 1519

SA 1519. Mr. COATS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1813, to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In 11008, in the amendment to section 133(c) of title 23, United States Code, strike paragraphs (7) through (28) and insert the following:

(7) Highway and transit safety infrastructure improvements and programs, installation of safety barriers and nets on bridges, hazard eliminations, projects to mitigate hazards caused by wildlife, and railway-highway grade crossings.

(8) Highway and transit research and development and technology transfer programs.

(9) Capital and operating costs for traffic and traveler information monitoring, management, and control facilities and programs, including truck stop electrification systems.

(10) Projects and strategies designed to support congestion pricing, including electronic toll collection and travel demand management strategies and programs.

(11) Surface transportation planning.

(12) Maintenance of and improvements to all public roads, including non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal land--

(A) that are located within 10 miles of the international border between the United States and Canada or Mexico; and

(B) on which federally owned vehicles comprise more than 50 percent of the traffic.

(13) Construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of, and operational improvements for, any public road if--

(A) the public road, and the highway project to be carried out with respect to the public road, are in the same corridor as, and in proximity to--

(i) a fully access-controlled highway designated as a part of the National Highway System; or

(ii) in areas with a population of less than 200,000, a Federal-aid highway designated as part of the National Highway System;

(B) the construction or improvements will enhance the level of service on the highway described in subparagraph (A) and improve regional traffic flow; and

(C) the construction or improvements are more cost-effective, as determined by benefit-cost analysis, than an improvement to the highway described in subparagraph (A).