Sec. 7005. Highway resiliency incentives
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Section 120(c) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal share payable for the cost of a protective feature on a Federal-aid highway or bridge project under this title may be up to 100 percent, at the discretion of the State, if the protective feature is an improvement designed and demonstrated to mitigate and reduce the risk of recurring damage, or the cost of future repair, from extreme weather events, flooding, or other natural disasters. A protective feature referred to in subparagraph
(A)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, and other hydraulic countermeasures, including spur dikes; the use of natural infrastructure to mitigate and reduce 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 and reduce 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. .