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23 U.S.C. § 308 — Cooperation with Federal and State agencies and foreign countries

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23 U.S.C. § 308 — Cooperation with Federal and State agencies and foreign countries

**(a) Authorized Activities.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary may perform, by contract or otherwise, authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, maintenance, or improvement of highways for other Federal agencies, cooperating foreign countries, and State cooperating agencies. (2) **Inclusions.—** — Services authorized under paragraph (1) may include activities authorized under section 214 of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. (3) **Reimbursement.—** — Reimbursement for services carried out under this subsection (including depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment) shall be credited to the applicable appropriation. (4) **Alternative contracting methods.—** (A) *In general.—* — Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including the Federal Acquisition Regulation), in performing services under paragraph (1), the Secretary may use any contracting method available to a State under this title. (B) *Methods described.—* — The contracting methods referred to in subparagraph (A) shall include, at a minimum— (i) project bundling; (ii) bridge bundling; (iii) design-build contracting; (iv) 2-phase contracting; (v) long-term concession agreements; and (vi) any method tested, or that could be tested, under an experimental program relating to contracting methods carried out by the Secretary. **(b)** Appropriations for the work of the Federal Highway Administration shall be available for expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration, or for sale or distribution to other Governmen

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**(a) Authorized Activities.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary may perform, by contract or otherwise, authorized engineering or other services in connection with the survey, construction, maintenance, or improvement of highways for other Federal agencies, cooperating foreign countries, and State cooperating agencies. (2) **Inclusions.—** — Services authorized under paragraph (1) may include activities authorized under section 214 of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. (3) **Reimbursement.—** — Reimbursement for services carried out under this subsection (including depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment) shall be credited to the applicable appropriation. (4) **Alternative contracting methods.—** (A) *In general.—* — Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including the Federal Acquisition Regulation), in performing services under paragraph (1), the Secretary may use any contracting method available to a State under this title. (B) *Methods described.—* — The contracting methods referred to in subparagraph (A) shall include, at a minimum— (i) project bundling; (ii) bridge bundling; (iii) design-build contracting; (iv) 2-phase contracting; (v) long-term concession agreements; and (vi) any method tested, or that could be tested, under an experimental program relating to contracting methods carried out by the Secretary. **(b)** Appropriations for the work of the Federal Highway Administration shall be available for expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration, or for sale or distribution to other Government agencies, cooperating foreign countries, and State cooperating agencies, and the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment, including the cost of transportation and handling, may be reimbursed to current applicable appropriations.

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42 U.S.C. § 4634 — Agency coordination

**(a) Agency capacity** Each Federal agency responsible for funding or carrying out relocation and acquisition activities shall have adequately trained personnel and such other resources as are necessary to manage and oversee the relocation and acquisition program of the Federal agency in accordance with this chapter. **(b) Interagency agreements** Not later than 1 year after July 6, 2012, each Federal agency responsible for funding relocation and acquisition activities (other than the agency serving as the lead agency) shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the lead agency that— (1) provides for periodic training of the personnel of the Federal agency, which in the case of a Federal agency that provides Federal financial assistance, may include personnel of any displacing agency that receives Federal financial assistance; (2) addresses ways in which the lead agency may provide assistance and coordination to the Federal agency relating to compliance with the 11 So in original. Probably should be “this”. chapter on a program or project basis; and (3) addresses the funding of the training, assistance, and coordination activities provided by the lead agency, in accordance with subsection (c). **(c) Interagency payments** (1) **In general** — For the fiscal year that begins 1 year after July 6, 2012, and each fiscal year thereafter, each Federal agency responsible for funding relocation and acquisition activities (other than the agency serving as the lead agency) shall transfer to the lead agency for the fiscal year, such funds as are necessary, but not less than $35,000, to support the training, assistance, and coordination activities of the lead agency described in subsection (b). (2) **Included costs** — The cost to a Federal agency of providing the f

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23 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions and declaration of policy

**(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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42 U.S.C. § 4622 — Moving and related expenses

**(a) General provision** Whenever a program or project to be undertaken by a displacing agency will result in the displacement of any person, the head of the displacing agency shall provide for the payment to the displaced person of— (1) actual reasonable expenses in moving himself, his family, business, farm operation, or other personal property; (2) actual direct losses of tangible personal property as a result of moving or discontinuing a business or farm operation, but not to exceed an amount equal to the reasonable expenses that would have been required to relocate such property, as determined by the head of the agency; (3) actual reasonable expenses in searching for a replacement business or farm; and (4) actual reasonable expenses necessary to reestablish a displaced farm, nonprofit organization, or small business at its new site, but not to exceed $25,000, as adjusted by regulation, in accordance with [section 4633(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4633/d&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Displacement from dwelling; election of payments: expense and dislocation allowance** Any displaced person eligible for payments under subsection (a) of this section who is displaced from a dwelling and who elects to accept the payments authorized by this subsection in lieu of the payments authorized by subsection (a) of this section may receive an expense and dislocation allowance, which shall be determined according to a schedule established by the head of the lead agency. **(c) Displacement from business or farm operation; election of payments; minimum and maximum amounts; eligibility** Any displaced person eligible for payments under subsection (a) of this section who is displaced from the person’s place of busin

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42 U.S.C. § 4623 — Replacement housing for homeowner; mortgage insurance

**(a)** (1) In addition to payments otherwise authorized by this subchapter, the head of the displacing agency shall make an additional payment not in excess of $31,000, as adjusted by regulation, in accordance with 4633(d) 11 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “section”. of this title, to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling actually owned and occupied by such displaced person for not less than 90 days before the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of the property. Such additional payment shall include the following elements: (A) The amount, if any, which when added to the acquisition cost of the dwelling acquired by the displacing agency, equals the reasonable cost of a comparable replacement dwelling. (B) The amount, if any, which will compensate such displaced person for any increased interest costs and other debt service costs which such person is required to pay for financing the acquisition of any such comparable replacement dwelling. Such amount shall be paid only if the dwelling acquired by the displacing agency was encumbered by a bona fide mortgage which was a valid lien on such dwelling for not less than 180 days immediately prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such dwelling. (C) Reasonable expenses incurred by such displaced person for evidence of title, recording fees, and other closing costs incident to the purchase of the replacement dwelling, but not including prepaid expenses. (2) The additional payment authorized by this section shall be made only to a displaced person who purchases and occupies a decent, safe, and sanitary replacement dwelling within 1 year after the date on which such person receives final payment from the displacing agency for the acquired dwelling or the

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42 U.S.C. § 4624 — Replacement housing for tenants and certain others

**(a)** In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this subchapter, the head of a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under [section 4623 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4623&num=0&edition=prelim) which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than 90 days immediately prior to (1) the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of such dwelling, or (2) in any case in which displacement is not a direct result of acquisition, such other event as the head of the lead agency shall prescribe. Such payment shall consist of the amount necessary to enable such person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed 42 months, a comparable replacement dwelling, but not to exceed $7,200, as adjusted by regulation, in accordance with [section 4633(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4633/d&num=0&edition=prelim). At the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, a payment under this subsection may be made in periodic installments. Computation of a payment under this subsection to a low-income displaced person for a comparable replacement dwelling shall take into account such person’s income. **(b)** Any person eligible for a payment under subsection (a) of this section may elect to apply such payment to a down payment on, and other incidental expenses pursuant to, the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary replacement dwelling. Any such person may, at the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, be eligible under this subsection for the maximum payment allowed under subsection (a).

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42 U.S.C. § 4633 — Duties of lead agency

**(a) General provisions** The head of the lead agency shall— (1) develop, publish, and issue, with the active participation of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the heads of other Federal agencies responsible for funding relocation and acquisition actions, and in coordination with State and local governments, such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this chapter; (2) provide, in consultation with the Attorney General (acting through the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service), through training and technical assistance activities for displacing agencies, information developed with the Attorney General (acting through the Commissioner) on proper implementation of [section 4605 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4605&num=0&edition=prelim); (3) ensure that displacing agencies implement [section 4605 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4605&num=0&edition=prelim) fairly and without discrimination in accordance with [section 4605(b)(2)(B) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4605/b/2/B&num=0&edition=prelim); (4) ensure that relocation assistance activities under this chapter are coordinated with low-income housing assistance programs or projects by a Federal agency or a State or State agency with Federal financial assistance; (5) monitor, in coordination with other Federal agencies, the implementation and enforcement of this chapter and report to the Congress, as appropriate, on any major issues or problems with respect to any policy or other provision of this chapter; and (6) perform such other duties as may be necessary to carry out this chapter. **(b) Regulat

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23 U.S.C. § 308 — Cooperation with Federal and State agen-

Page 350 TITLE 23—HIGHWAYS § 305 Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 2012—Pub. L. 112–141 substituted ‘‘Federal-aid high- ways’’ for ‘‘the Federal-aid highway systems’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries 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 this title. § 305. Archeological and paleontological salvage Funds authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title to the extent approved as nec- essary by the highway department of any State, may be used for archeological and paleontolog- ical salvage in that State in compliance with the Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the preservation of American antiquities’’, approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), and State laws where applicable, (Pub. L. 85–767, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 913; Pub. L. 86–657, § 8(e), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 525.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT An Act for the preservation of American antiquities, referred to in text, is act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, popularly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Ta- bles. AMENDMENTS 1960—Pub. L. 86–657 substituted ‘‘appropriated to carry out this title to the extent approved’’ for ‘‘appro- priated under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, to the extent approved’’. § 306. Mapping (a) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the provi- sions of this title, the Secretary shall, wherever practicable, authorize the use of photo- grammetric methods in mapping, and the utili- zation of commercial enterprise for such serv- ices. (b) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary shall issue guid- ance to encourage States to utilize, to the max- imu

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