Sec. 1123. State flexibility for national highway system modifications
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Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue guidance relating to working with State departments of transportation that request assistance from the division offices of the Federal Highway Administration— to review roads classified as principal arterials within the State that were added to the National Highway System as of October 1, 2012, in order to comply with section 103 of title 23, United States Code; and to identify any functional classification changes needed to rural and urban principal arterials.
The Secretary shall direct each division office of the Federal Highway Administration to work with the applicable State departments of transportation that have requested assistance under this section— to assist in the review of roads pursuant to the guidance issued under subsection (a); to expeditiously review and facilitate requests from States to reclassify roads classified as principal arterials; and to work with States that request that certain roads be withdrawn from the National Highway System in a manner consistent with section 103(b)(3)(B) of title 23, United States Code, to carry out that withdrawal if the inclusion of that road on the National Highway System is not consistent with the needs and priorities of the community or region through which the road exists.
The Secretary shall— review the National Highway System modification process described in appendix D of part 470 of title 23, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations); and take any actions necessary to ensure that a process exists for a State to submit a request to the Secretary to modify the National Highway System by withdrawing a road from the National Highway System. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that includes a description of— each request for reclassification of National Highway System roads; the status of each request; and if applicable, the justification for the denial of the request by the Secretary.
Section 103(b)(3)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— in the matter preceding clause
(i)by inserting or the withdrawal of a road from that system after intermodal terminal ; and in clause (ii)— by striking
(ii)enhances and inserting (ii)(I) enhances ; by striking period at the end and inserting ; or ; and by adding at the end the following: in the case of the withdrawal of a road, is reasonable and appropriate. .