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23 U.S.C. § 150 — National goals and performance management measures
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**(a) Declaration of Policy.—** Performance management will transform the Federal-aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal-aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance-based planning and programming.
**(b) National Goals.—** It is in the interest of the United States to focus the Federal-aid highway program on the following national goals:
(1) **Safety.—** — To achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.
(2) **Infrastructure condition.—** — To maintain the highway infrastructure asset system in a state of good repair.
(3) **Congestion reduction.—** — To achieve a significant reduction in congestion on the National Highway System.
(4) **System reliability.—** — To improve the efficiency of the surface transportation system.
(5) **Freight movement and economic vitality.—** — To improve the National Highway Freight Network, strengthen the ability of rural communities to access national and international trade markets, and support regional economic development.
(6) **Environmental sustainability.—** — To enhance the performance of the transportation system while protecting and enhancing the natural environment.
(7) **Reduced project delivery delays.—** — To reduce project costs, promote jobs and the economy, and expedite the movement of people and goods by accelerating project completion through eliminating delays in the project development and delivery process, including reducing regulatory burdens and improving agencies’ work practices.
**(c) Establishment of Performance Measures.—**
(1) **In general.—** — N
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**(a) Declaration of Policy.—** Performance management will transform the Federal-aid highway program and provide a means to the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds by refocusing on national transportation goals, increasing the accountability and transparency of the Federal-aid highway program, and improving project decisionmaking through performance-based planning and programming.
**(b) National Goals.—** It is in the interest of the United States to focus the Federal-aid highway program on the following national goals:
(1) **Safety.—** — To achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads.
(2) **Infrastructure condition.—** — To maintain the highway infrastructure asset system in a state of good repair.
(3) **Congestion reduction.—** — To achieve a significant reduction in congestion on the National Highway System.
(4) **System reliability.—** — To improve the efficiency of the surface transportation system.
(5) **Freight movement and economic vitality.—** — To improve the National Highway Freight Network, strengthen the ability of rural communities to access national and international trade markets, and support regional economic development.
(6) **Environmental sustainability.—** — To enhance the performance of the transportation system while protecting and enhancing the natural environment.
(7) **Reduced project delivery delays.—** — To reduce project costs, promote jobs and the economy, and expedite the movement of people and goods by accelerating project completion through eliminating delays in the project development and delivery process, including reducing regulatory burdens and improving agencies’ work practices.
**(c) Establishment of Performance Measures.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of the MAP–21, the Secretary, in consultation with State departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and other stakeholders, shall promulgate a rulemaking that establishes performance measures and standards.
(2) **Administration.—** — In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—
(A) provide States, metropolitan planning organizations, and other stakeholders not less than 90 days to comment on any regulation proposed by the Secretary under that paragraph;
(B) take into consideration any comments relating to a proposed regulation received during that comment period; and
(C) limit performance measures only to those described in this subsection.
(3) **National highway performance program.—**
(A) *In general.—* — Subject to subparagraph (B), for the purpose of carrying out section 119, the Secretary shall establish—
(i) minimum standards for States to use in developing and operating bridge and pavement management systems;
(ii) measures for States to use to assess—
(I) the condition of pavements on the Interstate system;
(II) the condition of pavements on the National Highway System (excluding the Interstate);
(III) the condition of bridges on the National Highway System;
(IV) the performance of the Interstate System; and
(V) the performance of the National Highway System (excluding the Interstate System);
(iii) minimum levels for the condition of pavement on the Interstate System, only for the purposes of carrying out section 119(f)(1); and
(iv) the data elements that are necessary to collect and maintain standardized data to carry out a performance-based approach.
(B) *Regions.—* — In establishing minimum condition levels under subparagraph (A)(iii), if the Secretary determines that various geographic regions of the United States experience disparate factors contributing to the condition of pavement on the Interstate System in those regions, the Secretary may establish different minimum levels for each region.
(4) **Highway safety improvement program.—** — For the purpose of carrying out section 148, the Secretary shall establish measures for States to use to assess—
(A) serious injuries and fatalities per vehicle mile traveled; and
(B) the number of serious injuries and fatalities.
(5) **Congestion mitigation and air quality program.—** — For the purpose of carrying out section 149, the Secretary shall establish measures for States to use to assess—
(A) traffic congestion; and
(B) on-road mobile source emissions.
(6) **National freight movement.—** — The Secretary shall establish measures for States to use to assess freight movement on the Interstate System.
**(d) Establishment of Performance Targets.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Not later than 1 year after the Secretary has promulgated the final rulemaking under subsection (c), each State shall set performance targets that reflect the measures identified in paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6) of subsection (c).
(2) **Different approaches for urban and rural areas.—** — In the development and implementation of any performance target, a State may, as appropriate, provide for different performance targets for urbanized and rural areas.
**(e) Reporting on Performance Targets.—** Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the MAP–21 and biennially thereafter, a State shall submit to the Secretary a report that describes—
(1) the condition and performance of the National Highway System in the State;
(2) the effectiveness of the investment strategy document in the State asset management plan for the National Highway System;
(3) progress in achieving performance targets identified under subsection (d); and
(4) the ways in which the State is addressing congestion at freight bottlenecks, including those identified in the national freight strategic plan, within the State.
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Level II of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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**(a) Administrative Expenses.—**
(1) **In general.—** — There is authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) to be made available to the Secretary for administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration—
(A) $490,964,697 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $500,783,991 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $510,799,671 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $521,015,664 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $531,435,977 for fiscal year 2026.
(2) **Purposes.—** — The amounts authorized to be appropriated by this subsection shall be used—
(A) to administer the provisions of law to be funded from appropriations for the Federal-aid highway program and programs authorized under chapter 2;
(B) to make transfers of such sums as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to the Appalachian Regional Commission for administrative activities associated with the Appalachian development highway system; and
(C) to reimburse, as appropriate, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Transportation for the conduct of annual audits of financial statements in accordance with [section 3521 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3521&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Availability.—** — The amounts made available under paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.
**(b) Division Among Programs of State’s Share of Base Apportionment.—** The Secretary shall distribute the amount of the base apportionment apportioned to a State for a fiscal year under subsection (c) among the national highway performance program, the surface transportation block grant program, the highway safety improvement program, the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program, the national highway fr
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**(a) Establishment.—**
(1) **In general.—** — There is established a nationally significant freight and highway projects program to provide financial assistance for projects of national or regional significance.
(2) **Goals.—** — The goals of the program shall be to—
(A) improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas;
(B) generate national or regional economic benefits and an increase in the global economic competitiveness of the United States;
(C) reduce highway or freight congestion and bottlenecks;
(D) improve connectivity between modes of freight transportation;
(E) enhance the resiliency of critical highway or freight infrastructure and help protect the environment;
(F) improve roadways vital to national energy security, including highways that support movement of energy equipment; and
(G) address the impact of population growth on the movement of people and freight.
**(b) Grant Authority.—**
(1) **In general.—** — In carrying out the program established in subsection (a), the Secretary may make grants, on a competitive basis, in accordance with this section.
(2) **Grant amount.—** — Except as otherwise provided, each grant made under this section shall be in an amount that is at least $25,000,000.
(3) **Grant administration.—** — The Secretary may—
(A) retain not more than a total of 2 percent of the funds made available to carry out this section for the National Surface Transportation and Innovative Finance Bureau to review applications for grants under this section; and
(B) transfer portions of the funds retained under subparagraph (A) to the relevant Administrators to fund the award and oversight of grants provided under this section.
**(c) Eligible App
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**(a) Appropriation** In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2021, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—
(1) $219,800,000,000, to remain available through December 31, 2024 (except as provided in subsection (c)(5)), for making payments under this section to States, territories, and Tribal governments to mitigate the fiscal effects stemming from the public health emergency with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19); and
(2) $50,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the costs of the Secretary for administration of the funds established under this subchapter.
**(b) Authority to make payments**
(1) **Payments to territories**
(A) *In general* — The Secretary shall reserve $4,500,000,000 of the amount appropriated under subsection (a)(1) to make payments to the territories.
(B) *Allocation* — Of the amount reserved under subparagraph (A)—
(i) 50 percent of such amount shall be allocated by the Secretary equally to each territory; and
(ii) 50 percent of such amount shall be allocated by the Secretary as an additional amount to each territory in an amount which bears the same proportion to ½ of the total amount reserved under subparagraph (A) as the population of the territory bears to the total population of all such territories.
(C) *Payment* — The Secretary shall pay each territory the total of the amounts allocated for the territory under subparagraph (B) in accordance with paragraph (6).
(2) **Payments to Tribal governments**
(A) *In general* — The Secretary shall reserve $20,000,000,000 of the amount appropriated under subsection (a)(1) to make payments to Tribal governments.
(B) *Allocation* — Of the amount reserved under subparagraph (A)—
(i) $1,000,0
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TITLE 23—HIGHWAYS
§ 150
share of the cost of any project under this subsection
and the availability of funds authorized to carry out
this subsection shall be determined in accordance
with this subsection.’’
§ 150. National goals and performance manage-
ment measures
(a)
DECLARATION
OF
POLICY.—Performance
management will transform the Federal-aid
highway program and provide a means to the
most efficient investment of Federal transpor-
tation funds by refocusing on national transpor-
tation goals, increasing the accountability and
transparency of the Federal-aid highway pro-
gram, and improving project decisionmaking
through performance-based planning and pro-
gramming.
(b) NATIONAL GOALS.—It is in the interest of
the United States to focus the Federal-aid high-
way program on the following national goals:
(1) SAFETY.—To achieve a significant reduc-
tion in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on
all public roads.
(2) INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION.—To maintain
the highway infrastructure asset system in a
state of good repair.
(3) CONGESTION REDUCTION.—To achieve a sig-
nificant reduction in congestion on the Na-
tional Highway System.
(4) SYSTEM RELIABILITY.—To improve the ef-
ficiency of the surface transportation system.
(5) FREIGHT MOVEMENT AND ECONOMIC VITAL-
ITY.—To
improve
the
National
Highway
Freight Network, strengthen the ability of
rural communities to access national and
international trade markets, and support re-
gional economic development.
(6) ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY.—To en-
hance the performance of the transportation
system while protecting and enhancing the
natural environment.
(7) REDUCED PROJECT DELIVERY DELAYS.—To
reduce project costs, promote jobs and the
economy, and expedite the movement of peo-
ple and g
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