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SAFETEA-LU Overall Highway Safety Funding / FY 2008
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154 Open Container Law Transfer Program
Section 5 of the TEA-21 Restoration Act established a new program (under Section 154 of chapter 1 of Title 23) to encourage States to enact Open Container laws. A State which does not have an Open Container law by October 1, 2000, will have certain Federal-aid highway funds transferred to the State's Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety grant program.

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157 Seat Belt Innovative Grants
On April 30, 2001, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published an announcement of grants to support innovative and effective projects designed to increase seat belt use rates. After the announcement was published, the agency decided that it contained a number of requirements that might be burdensome to the grant applicants. Accordingly, the announcement published on April 30, 2001 is cancelled. That announcement has been revised and is being re-issued in its entirety in this notice.
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157 Seat Belt Incentive Grants
Section 1403 of TEA-21 established a new program of incentive grants (under Section 157 of chapter 1 of Title 23) to encourage States to increase seat belt use rates. A State may use these grant funds for any project eligible for assistance under Title 23.

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163 .08 Incentive Grants
Section 1404 of TEA-21 established a new program of incentive grants (under Section 163 of chapter 1 of Title 23) to encourage States to establish 0.08 percent blood alcohol concentration (BAC) as the legal limit for drunk driving offenses. A State may use these grant funds for any project eligible for assistance under Title 23.

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163 0.08 Sanction
In October 2000, as part of the FY 2001 DOT Appropriations Act, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, a provision making 0.08 BAC the national standard for impaired driving. States that do not adopt 0.08 BAC laws by FY 2004 would have certain highway construction funds withheld. A joint NHTSA/FHWA regulation must be published to implement this sanction.

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164 Repeat Intoxicated Driver Law Transfer Program
Section 5 of the TEA-21 Restoration Act established a new program (under Section 164 of chapter 1 of Title 23) to encourage States to enact Repeat Intoxicated Driver laws. A State which does not have a Repeat Intoxicated Driver law by October 1, 2000, will have certain Federal-aid highway funds transferred to the State's Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety grant program.

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2003b Child Passenger Protection Education Grants
Section 2003 of TEA-21 established a new program of incentive grants (under Section 405(b) of chapter 4 of Title 23) to encourage States to implement child passenger protection programs. A state may use these grant funds to implement programs that are designed to (a) prevent deaths and injuries to children; (b) educate the public concerning all aspects of the proper installation of child restraints, appropriate child restraint design, selection, and placement, and harness threading and harness adjustment on child restraints; and (c) train and retrain child passenger safety professionals, police officers, fire and emergency medical personnel, and other educators concerning all aspects of child restraint use.

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402 State and Community Highway Safety Grant Program
Section 2001 of TEA-21 reauthorizes the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (Section 402 of chapter 4 of Title 23) to support State highway safety programs, designed to reduce traffic crashes and resulting deaths, injuries, and property damage. A state may use these grant funds only for highway safety purposes; at least 40 percent of these funds are to be used to address local traffic safety problems.

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405 Occupant Protection Incentive Grants
Section 2003 of TEA-21 established a new program of incentive grants (under Section 405(a) of chapter 4 of Title 23) to encourage States to adopt and implement effective programs to reduce highway deaths and injuries resulting from individuals riding unrestrained or improperly restrained in motor vehicles. A state may use these grant funds only to implement and enforce occupant protection programs.

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410 Alcohol-impaired Driving Countermeasures Incentive Grants
Section 2004 of TEA-21 amended the alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grant program (under Section 410 of chapter 4 of Title 23) to encourage States to adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from individuals driving while under the influence of alcohol. A state may use these grant funds only to implement and enforce impaired driving programs. (TEA-21 continued the current Section 410 through the end of FY 1998.)

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411 State Highway Safety Data Improvement Incentive Grants
Section 2005 of TEA-21 established a new program of incentive grants (under Section 411 of chapter 4 of Title 23) to encourage States to adopt and implement effective programs to improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, and accessibility of State data that is needed to identify priorities for national, State, and local highway and traffic safety programs; to evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to make such improvements; to link these State data systems, including traffic records, with other data systems within the State; and to improve the compatibility of the State data system with national data systems and data systems of other States to enhance the ability to observe and analyze national trends in crash occurrences, rates, outcomes, and circumstances. A state may use these grant funds only to implement such data improvement programs.

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