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S 2129 116th Congress Senate Transportation and Public Works Disaster relief and insurance Government information and archives Natural disasters Roads and highways State and local government operations Transportation programs funding

A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to develop best practices for incorporating resilience into emergency relief projects, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 16, 2019 Introduced by: Baldwin, Tammy Democratic · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Jul 16, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jul 16, 2019
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Department of Transportation to (1) revise the emergency relief manual of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), including by incorporating resilience into its emergency relief program; (2) develop best practices for improving the use of resilience in the program; (3) provide information on such best practices to the FHWA and states; and (4) develop and implement a process to track the consideration of resilience as part of emergency relief efforts and the costs of emergency relief products. (The emergency relief program provides funds for emergency and permanent repairs on federal-aid highways and roads that have suffered serious damage because of a natural disaster or catastrophic failure from an external cause.)

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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