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49 U.S.C. § 31100 — Purpose
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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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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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**(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) 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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An employee serving intermittently in the Government service as an expert or consultant and paid on a daily when-actually-employed basis, or serving without pay or at $1 a year, may be allowed travel or transportation expenses, under this subchapter, while away from his home or regular place of business and at the place of employment or service.
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 31100
PART B—COMMERCIAL
CHAPTER 311—COMMERCIAL MOTOR
VEHICLE SAFETY
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL AUTHORITY AND
STATE GRANTS
Sec.
31100.
Purpose.
31101.
Definitions.
31102.
Motor carrier safety assistance program.
31103.
Commercial motor vehicle operators grant
program.
31104.
Authorization of appropriations.
31105.
Employee protections.
31106.
Information systems.
[31107.
Repealed.]
31108.
Motor carrier research and technology pro-
gram.
[31109.
Repealed.]
31110.
Authorization of appropriations.
SUBCHAPTER II—LENGTH AND WIDTH
LIMITATIONS
31111.
Length limitations.
31112.
Property-carrying unit limitation.
31113.
Width limitations.
31114.
Access to the Interstate System.
31115.
Enforcement.
SUBCHAPTER III—SAFETY REGULATION
31131.
Purposes and findings.
31132.
Definitions.
31133.
General powers of the Secretary of Transpor-
tation.
31134.
Requirement for registration and USDOT
number.
31135.
Duties of employers and employees.
31136.
United States Government regulations.
31137.
Electronic logging devices and brake mainte-
nance regulations.
31138.
Minimum financial responsibility for trans-
porting passengers.
31139.
Minimum financial responsibility for trans-
porting property.
[31140.
Repealed.]
31141.
Review and preemption of State laws and reg-
ulations.
31142.
Inspection of vehicles.
31143.
Investigating complaints and protecting com-
plainants.
31144.
Safety fitness of owners and operators.
31145.
Coordination of Governmental activities and
paperwork.
31146.
Relationship to other laws.
31147.
Limitations on authority.
31148.
Certified motor carrier safety auditors.
31149.
Medical program.
31150.
Safety performance history screening.
31151.
Roadability.
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