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49 U.S.C. § 31104 — Authorization of appropriations
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**(a) Financial Assistance Programs.—** There are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account)—
(1) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the motor carrier safety assistance program under section 31102 (other than the high priority program under subsection (l) of that section)—
(A) $390,500,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $398,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $406,500,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $414,500,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $422,500,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(2) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the high priority program under section 31102(l) (other than the commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and support grant program under paragraph (5) of that section)—
(A) $57,600,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $58,800,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $61,200,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $62,400,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(3) to carry out the commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and support grant program under section 31102(l)(5), $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026;
(4) to carry out the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program under section 31103—
(A) $1,100,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $1,200,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $1,300,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $1,400,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2026; and
(5) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the financial assistance program for commercial driver’s license implementation under section 31313—
(A) $41,800,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $42,650,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $43,500,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $44,350,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $45,200,000 for fiscal year
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**(a) Financial Assistance Programs.—** There are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account)—
(1) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the motor carrier safety assistance program under section 31102 (other than the high priority program under subsection (l) of that section)—
(A) $390,500,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $398,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $406,500,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $414,500,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $422,500,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(2) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the high priority program under section 31102(l) (other than the commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and support grant program under paragraph (5) of that section)—
(A) $57,600,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $58,800,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $61,200,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $62,400,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(3) to carry out the commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and support grant program under section 31102(l)(5), $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026;
(4) to carry out the commercial motor vehicle operators grant program under section 31103—
(A) $1,100,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $1,200,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $1,300,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $1,400,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2026; and
(5) subject to subsection (c), to carry out the financial assistance program for commercial driver’s license implementation under section 31313—
(A) $41,800,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(B) $42,650,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(C) $43,500,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(D) $44,350,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(E) $45,200,000 for fiscal year 2026.
**(b) Reimbursement and Payment to Recipients for Government Share of Costs.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Amounts made available under subsection (a) shall be used to reimburse financial assistance recipients proportionally for the Federal Government’s share of the costs incurred.
(2) **Reimbursement amounts.—**
(A) *Reimbursement percentage.—*
(i) *In general.—* — The Secretary shall reimburse a recipient, in accordance with a financial assistance agreement made under section 31102 (except subsection (l)(5) of that section), 31103, or 31313, an amount that is at least 85 percent of the costs incurred by the recipient in a fiscal year in developing and implementing programs under such sections.
(ii) *Commercial motor vehicle enforcement training and support grant program.—* — The Secretary shall reimburse a recipient, in accordance with a financial assistance agreement made under section 31102(l)(5), an amount that is equal to 100 percent of the costs incurred by the recipient in a fiscal year in developing and implementing a training program under that section.
(B) *Limitation.—* — The Secretary shall pay the recipient an amount not more than the Federal Government share of the total costs approved by the Federal Government in the financial assistance agreement.
(C) *In-kind contributions.—* — The Secretary shall include a recipient’s in-kind contributions in determining the reimbursement.
(3) **Vouchers.—** — Each recipient shall submit vouchers at least quarterly for costs the recipient incurs in developing and implementing programs under sections 31102, 31103, and 31313.
**(c) Deductions for Program Support.—** On October 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon after that date as practicable, the Secretary may deduct from amounts made available under paragraphs (1), (2), and (5) of subsection (a) for that fiscal year not more than 1.50 percent of those amounts for program support in that fiscal year.
**(d) Grants and Cooperative Agreements as Contractual Obligations.—** The approval of a financial assistance agreement by the Secretary under section 31102, 31103, or 31313 is a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for payment of the Federal Government’s share of costs in carrying out the provisions of the grant or cooperative agreement.
**(e) Eligible Activities.—** The Secretary shall establish criteria for eligible activities to be funded with financial assistance agreements under this section and publish those criteria in a notice of funding availability before the financial assistance program application period.
**(f) Period of Availability of Financial Assistance Agreement Funds for Recipient Expenditures.—** The period of availability for a recipient to expend funds under a grant or cooperative agreement authorized under subsection (a) is as follows:
(1) For grants made for carrying out section 31102, other than section 31102(l), for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 2 fiscal years.
(2) For grants made or cooperative agreements entered into for carrying out section 31102(l)(2), for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 2 fiscal years.
(3) For grants made for carrying out section 31102(l)(3), for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 4 fiscal years.
(4) For grants made for carrying out section 31102(l)(5), for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 4 fiscal years.
(5) For grants made for carrying out section 31103, for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 2 fiscal years.
(6) For grants made or cooperative agreements entered into for carrying out section 31313, for the fiscal year in which the Secretary approves the financial assistance agreement and for the next 4 fiscal years.
**(g) Contract Authority; Initial Date of Availability.—** Amounts authorized from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) by this section shall be available for obligation on the date of their apportionment or allocation or on October 1 of the fiscal year for which they are authorized, whichever occurs first.
**(h) Availability of Funding.—** Amounts made available under this section shall remain available until expended.
**(i) Reallocation.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (2), amounts not expended by a recipient during the period of availability shall be released back to the Secretary for reallocation for any purpose under section 31102, 31103, or 31313 or this section to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that all such amounts are obligated.
(2) **Motor carrier safety assistance program.—** — Amounts made available for the motor carrier safety assistance program established under section 31102 (other than amounts made available to carry out section 31102(l)) that are not expended by a recipient during the period of availability shall be released back to the Secretary for reallocation under that program.
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**(a) Administrative Expenses.—** There are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the Secretary of Transportation to pay administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration—
(1) $360,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;
(2) $367,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;
(3) $375,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;
(4) $382,500,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
(5) $390,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
**(b) Use of Funds.—** The funds authorized by this section shall be used for—
(1) personnel costs;
(2) administrative infrastructure;
(3) rent;
(4) information technology;
(5) programs for research and technology, information management, regulatory development, and the administration of performance and registration information systems management under section 31106(b);
(6) programs for outreach and education under subsection (c);
(7) other operating expenses;
(8) conducting safety reviews of new operators; and
(9) such other expenses as may from time to time become necessary to implement statutory mandates of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not funded from other sources.
**(c) Outreach and Education Program.—**
(1) **In general.—** — The Secretary may conduct, through any combination of grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other activities, an internal and external outreach and education program to be administered by the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The program authorized under this subsection may support, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking, while deferring to existing resources, as practicable.
(2) **Federal share.—** — The Federal share of an outreach
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**(a) State Defined.—** In this section, the term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
**(b) General Authority.—**
(1) **Grants and agreements.—** — Under criteria established by the Secretary, the Secretary may award grants to States, authorities of the States, metropolitan planning organizations, and local governmental authorities, and make agreements with other departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the Government to—
(A) develop transportation plans and programs;
(B) plan, engineer, design, and evaluate a public transportation project; and
(C) conduct technical studies relating to public transportation.
(2) **Eligible activities.—** — Activities eligible under paragraph (1) include the following:
(A) Studies related to management, planning, operations, capital requirements, and economic feasibility.
(B) Evaluating previously financed projects.
(C) Peer reviews and exchanges of technical data, information, assistance, and related activities in support of planning and environmental analyses among metropolitan planning organizations and other transportation planners.
(D) Other similar and related activities preliminary to and in preparation for constructing, acquiring, or improving the operation of facilities and equipment.
**(c) Purpose.—** To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall ensure that amounts appropriated or made available under section 5338 to carry out this section and sections 5303, 5304, and 5306 are used to support balanced and comprehensive transportation planning that considers the relationships among land use and all transportation modes, without regard to the programmatic source of the planning amounts.
**(d) Metropolitan Planning Program.—**
(1) **Apportionment
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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) In General.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall administer a motor carrier safety assistance program funded under section 31104.
**(b) Goal.—** The goal of the program is to ensure that the Secretary, States, local governments, other political jurisdictions, federally recognized Indian tribes, and other persons work in partnership to establish programs to improve motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety to support a safe and efficient surface transportation system by—
(1) making targeted investments to promote safe commercial motor vehicle transportation, including the transportation of passengers and hazardous materials;
(2) investing in activities likely to generate maximum reductions in the number and severity of commercial motor vehicle crashes and in fatalities resulting from such crashes;
(3) adopting and enforcing effective motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety regulations and practices consistent with Federal requirements; and
(4) assessing and improving statewide performance by setting program goals and meeting performance standards, measures, and benchmarks.
**(c) State Plans.—**
(1) **In general.—** — In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall prescribe procedures for a State to submit a multiple-year plan, and annual updates thereto, under which the State agrees to assume responsibility for improving motor carrier safety by adopting and enforcing State regulations, standards, and orders that are compatible with the regulations, standards, and orders of the Federal Government on commercial motor vehicle safety and hazardous materials transportation safety.
(2) **Contents.—** — The Secretary shall approve a State plan if the Secretary determines that the plan is adequate to comply with the require
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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) Medical Review Board.—**
(1) **Establishment and function.—** — The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a Medical Review Board to provide the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with medical advice and recommendations on medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of operators of commercial motor vehicles, medical examiner education, and medical research.
(2) **Composition.—** — The Medical Review Board shall be appointed by the Secretary and shall consist of 5 members selected from medical institutions and private practice. The membership shall reflect expertise in a variety of medical specialties relevant to the driver fitness requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
**(b) Chief Medical Examiner.—** The Secretary shall appoint a chief medical examiner who shall be an employee of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and who shall hold a position under [section 3104 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3104&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code, relating to employment of specially qualified scientific and professional personnel, and shall be paid under [section 5376 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5376&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code, relating to pay for certain senior-level positions.
**(c) Medical Standards and Requirements.—**
(1) **In general.—** — The Secretary, with the advice of the Medical Review Board and the chief medical examiner, shall—
(A) establish, review, and revise—
(i) medical standards for operators of commercial motor vehicles that will ensure that the physical condition of operators of commercial motor vehicles is adequate to enable them to op
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The purpose of this subchapter is to ensure that the Secretary, States, and other political jurisdictions work in partnership to establish programs to improve motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety to support a safe and efficient transportation system by—
(1) focusing resources on strategic safety investments to promote safe for-hire and private transportation, including transportation of passengers and hazardous materials, to identify high-risk carriers and drivers, and to invest in activities likely to generate maximum reductions in the number and severity of commercial motor vehicle crashes;
(2) increasing administrative flexibility and developing and enforcing effective, compatible, and cost-beneficial motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety regulations and practices, including improving enforcement of State and local traffic safety laws and regulations;
(3) assessing and improving statewide program performance by setting program outcome goals, improving problem identification and countermeasures planning, designing appropriate performance standards, measures, and benchmarks, improving performance information and analysis systems, and monitoring program effectiveness;
(4) ensuring that drivers of commercial motor vehicles and enforcement personnel obtain adequate training in safe operational practices and regulatory requirements; and
(5) advancing promising technologies and encouraging adoption of safe operational practices.
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 31104
2005—Subsec.
(a).
Pub.
L.
109–59
substituted
‘‘31102(b)(1)(E)’’ for ‘‘31102(b)(1)(D)’’ and inserted before
last sentence ‘‘Amounts generated under the unified
carrier registration agreement under section 14504a and
received by a State and used for motor carrier safety
purposes may be included as part of the State’s share
not provided by the United States.’’
1998—Pub. L. 105–178 designated existing provisions as
subsec. (a), inserted subsec. heading, inserted ‘‘improve
commercial motor vehicle safety and’’ after ‘‘imple-
menting programs to’’, and added subsec. (b).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2015 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 114–94 effective Oct. 1, 2016,
subject to a transition provision, see section 5101(f), (g)
of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as Effective Date of 2015
Amendment and Transition notes under section 31102 of
this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2012 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 112–141 effective Oct. 1, 2012,
see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effec-
tive and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note
under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.
RELIEF FOR RECIPIENTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
AWARDS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2019 AND 2020
Period of availability during which a recipient may
expend grant amounts under this section extended for
amounts awarded for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, see sec-
tion 441 of div. N of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note
under section 31102 of this title.
RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS
Except as provided in sections 14504, 14504a, and 14506
of this title, subtitle C (§§ 4301–4308) of title IV of Pub.
L. 109–59 is not intended to prohibit any State or any
political subdivision of any State from enacting, im-
posing, or enforcing a
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