Sec. 7002. National highway performance program

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Section 119 of title 23, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (b)— in paragraph

(2)by striking and at the end; in paragraph

(3)by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: to provide support for measures to increase the resiliency of Federal-aid highways and bridges on and off the National Highway System to mitigate the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, flooding, or other natural disasters. ; and by adding at the end the following: A State may use not more than 15 percent of the funds apportioned to the State under section 104(b)(1) for each fiscal year for 1 or more protective features on a Federal-aid highway or bridge off the National Highway System, if the protective feature is designed to mitigate the risk of recurring damage, or the cost of future repairs, from extreme weather events, flooding, or other natural disasters. A protective feature referred to in paragraph

(1)may include— raising roadway grades; relocating roadways in a base floodplain to higher ground above projected flood elevation levels or away from slide prone areas; stabilizing slide areas; stabilizing slopes; installing riprap; lengthening or raising bridges to increase waterway openings; deepening channels to prevent flooding; increasing the size or number of drainage structures; replacing culverts with bridges or upsizing culverts; repairing or maintaining tide gates; installing seismic retrofits on bridges; adding scour protection at bridges; adding scour, stream stability, coastal, or other hydraulic countermeasures, including spur dikes; the use of natural infrastructure to mitigate the risk of recurring damage or the cost of future repair from extreme weather events, flooding, or other natural disasters; and any other features that mitigate the risk of recurring damage or the cost of future repair as a result of extreme weather events, flooding, or other natural disasters, as determined by the Secretary. Nothing in this subsection limits the ability of a State to carry out a project otherwise eligible under subsection

(d)using funds apportioned under section 104(b)(1). .