3.0.0 3338 2022-02-03T05:09:04Z 2022-02-03T05:09:04Z Senate S S 2008-07-25 110 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2008-09-10T15:25:55Z Referred to 2008-07-25T19:46:27Z National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act of 2008 110 3999 HR 2008-09-23 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1050. Related bill CRS 2008-09-10 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-1263. Committee 2008-07-25 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2008-07-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN N D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2008-07-25 True C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2008-07-31 False Transportation and Public Works Administrative procedure Authorization Bridges Building materials Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Corrosion Data banks Department of Transportation Economics and Public Finance Emergency Management Employee training Engineers Federal aid to transportation Federal-state relations Floods Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Highway maintenance Highway planning Infrastructure Labor and Employment Law Licenses Quality control Risk Road construction Science, Technology, Communications Standards State employees Technology assessment Traffic accidents and safety Transportation research Tunnels Water Resources Development Transportation and Public Works 00 2008-07-25 Introduced in Senate 2008-11-20T22:08:15Z National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act of 2008 - Revises the national highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program to direct the Secretary of Transportation to develop a risk-based priority process under which states shall assign priority for the replacement or rehabilitation of all federal-aid highways bridges, public roads bridges, and Indian reservation and park bridges found to be structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Requires states, as a condition of receiving federal assistance, to develop, and update annually, an approved five-year performance plan for highway bridge inspection and rehabilitation and replacement.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) revise annually, as necessary, the data contained in the national bridge inventory; (2) make it more accessible to the public and easier to understand; (3) establish procedures for states to report critical findings of bridge deficiencies and subsequent monitoring and corrective actions; (4) expand the national training program for bridge inspectors to ensure that all bridge inspectors are appropriately trained and certified; (5) revise federal regulations concerning the qualification of state highway bridge inspection personnel to require program managers and team leaders to be licensed professional engineers; (6) establish a two-year pilot grant program to evaluate the effectiveness, accuracy, and reliability of the use of advanced condition assessment inspection processes and technologies to monitor and evaluate the structural health of highway bridges meeting certain criteria; and (7) establish a national highway tunnel inspection program.

Revises national bridge inspection standards to provide for annual inspections of structurally deficient highway bridges, including biennial inspections of those bridges that have not been determined to be structurally deficient.

Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary on: (1) the factors that contribute to construction delays of bridge rehabilitation; and (2) any recommendations for simplifying and expediting the construction of bridges that are to be rehabilitated.

Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to specified congressional committees on the effectiveness of the bridge rating system of the Federal Highway Administration, including the use of the terms "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" to describe the condition of highway bridges in the United States.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the cost benefits of using carbon fiber composite materials in bridge replacement and rehabilitation projects instead of traditional construction materials; and (2) the risks posed by floods to bridges on Federal-aid highways, bridges on other public roads, bridges on Indian reservations, and park bridges located in a 500-year floodplain.

Expresses the sense of Congress that states should prepare bridge corrosion mitigation and prevention plans, containing specified features, for bridge construction, replacement, or rehabilitation projects.


]]> National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act of 2008 Display Title National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the safety of Federal-aid highway bridges, to strengthen bridge inspection standards and processes, to increase investment in the reconstruction of structurally deficient bridges on the National Highway System, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-07-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3338is/xml/BILLS-110s3338is.xml 2008-09-10 Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-1263. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.