This bill revises the emergency relief program of the Department of Transportation to require that a project for the permanent repair or construction of a repeatedly damaged facility includes feasible and economically justifiable betterments (including protective features) to increase the resiliency of such facility. 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.
To amend section 125 of title 23, United States Code, to require that a 
  project for the permanent repair or reconstruction of a repeatedly 
    damaged facility includes feasible and economically justifiable 
improvements to increase the resilience of such facility, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY RELIEF.

    Section 125(d) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) Repeatedly damaged facilities.--An application 
        submitted under this section for the permanent repair or 
        reconstruction of a repeatedly damaged facility shall include 
        consideration and incorporation of feasible and economically 
        justifiable betterments, including protective features, to 
        increase the resilience of such facility.''.
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To amend section 125 of title 23, United States Code, to require that a project for the permanent repair or reconstruction of a repeatedly damaged facility includes feasible and economically justifiable improvements to increase the resilience of such facility, and for other purposes.
To amend section 125 of title 23, United States Code, to require that a project for the permanent repair or reconstruction of a repeatedly damaged facility includes feasible and economically justifiable improvements to increase the resilience of such facility, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To amend section 125 of title 23, United States Code, to require that a project for the permanent repair or reconstruction of a repeatedly damaged facility includes feasible and economically justifiable improvements to increase the resilience of such facility, and for other purposes.
Rep. Davids, Sharice