Sec. 1521. Roadside highway safety hardware

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Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall implement the following recommendations from the report of the Government Accountability Office entitled Highway Safety: More Robust DOT Oversight of Guardrails and Other Roadside Hardware Could Further Enhance Safety published in June 2016 and numbered GAO–16–575: Develop a process for third party verification of full-scale crash testing results from crash test labs to include a process for— formally verifying the testing outcomes; and providing for an independent pass/fail determination.

Establish a process to enhance the independence of crash test labs by ensuring that those labs have a clear separation between device development and testing in cases in which lab employees test devices that were developed within the parent organization of the employee. Until the implementation of the recommendations described in subsection

(a)is complete, the Secretary shall ensure that the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration continues to issue Federal-aid reimbursement eligibility letters as a service to States.