§20167 Reports on highway-rail grade crossing safety

Summary

Within 4 years after States must send their highway-rail grade crossing action plans under section 11401(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 22907 note), the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, working with the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The report must summarize the States’ action plans and include an evaluation of each State’s section 130 crossings program (including compliance and the safety strategies each State chose), the States’ progress in carrying out their plans, how many section 130 projects were done and how those projects break down by cost, road type, treatment, and later accident experience, which States missed their project schedules under section 130(d), and any recommendations for the program. Not later than 5 years after that report is sent, the Federal Railroad Administration, with the Federal Highway Administration, must update the report using State annual reports under section 130(g) and other available information and send the update to the same Congressional committees. Defined terms: - “highway-rail grade crossing”: a place where a public or private road, path, or authorized nonvehicular pathway crosses one or more railroad tracks (at grade or separated). - “State”: a U.S. State or the District of Columbia.