§20167 Reports on Highway-rail Grade Crossing Safety

Summary

Within 4 years after the date 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 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives. The report must summarize the State plans and, for each State, assess its crossings program and compliance, describe the safety strategies each State chose (including for spots with repeated crashes), report how far each State has come in carrying out its plan, count and break down projects done under section 130 by cost, road type, treatment type, and later crash history, name States behind on their section 130(d) schedules, and offer recommendations for future work under section 130. Not later than 5 years after that first report is sent, the FRA Administrator, with the FHWA Administrator, must update the report using State annual reports under section 130(g) of title 23 and any other available information, then send the updated report to the same two committees. Definitions: “highway-rail grade crossing” — where a public or private road or an authorized pedestrian/bicycle path crosses railroad tracks (at-grade or grade-separated); “State” — a U.S. State or the District of Columbia.