Sec. 11517. Roadside highway safety hardware
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To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall develop a process for third party verification of full-scale crash testing results from crash test labs, including a method for formally verifying the testing outcomes and providing for an independent pass/fail determination. In establishing such a process, the Secretary shall seek to ensure 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 process described in subsection
(a)is complete, the Secretary may, and is encouraged to, ensure that the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration continues to issue Federal-aid reimbursement eligibility letters for roadside safety hardware as a service to States. If the Secretary seeks to discontinue issuing the letters described in subsection (b), 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 at least 1 year before discontinuing the letters. The report described in paragraph
(1)shall include a summary of the third-party verification process described in subsection
(a)that will replace the Federal Highway Administration issuance of eligibility letters and any other relevant information that the Secretary deems necessary.