(a) The national objectives of general welfare, economic growth and stability, and security of the United States require the development of transportation policies and programs...

(a) The Department of Transportation is an executive department of the United States Government at the seat of Government. (b) The head of the Department is the Secretary of ...

(a) The Federal Railroad Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. To carry out all railroad safety laws of the United States, the Administration...

(a) The Federal Highway Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. (b)(1) The head of the Administration is the Administrator who is appointed...

(a) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. (b) The head of the Administration is the Administrator who is ...

(a) The Federal Aviation Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. (b) The head of the Administration is the Administrator. The Administration...

(a) The Federal Transit Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation. (b) The head of the Administration is the Administrator who is appointed by...

(a)(1) The Coast Guard is a part of the Department of Transportation. The Secretary of Transportation exercises all duties and powers related to the Coast Guard vested in the ...

(a) The Maritime Administration transferred by section 2 of the Maritime Act of 1981 (46 App. U.S.C. 1601) is an administration in the Department of Transportation. (b)...

(a) The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation established under section 1 of the Act of May 13, 1954 (33 U.S.C. 981), is subject to the direction and supervision of...

(a) Establishment. - There is established in the Department of Transportation a Bureau of Transportation Statistics. (b) Director. - (1) Appointment. - The Bureau shall...

(a) Establishment. - There is established in the Department of Transportation a Research and Special Programs Administration. (b) Administrator. - (1) Appointment. -...

(a) In General. - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall be an administration of the Department of Transportation. (b) Safety as Highest Priority. - In carrying...

The Secretary of Transportation shall - (1) under the direction of the President, exercise leadership in transportation matters, including those matters affecting ...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation is governed by the transportation policy of sections 10101 and 13101 of this title in addition to other laws. (b) This subtitle and...

(a) It is the policy of the United States Government that special effort should be made to preserve the natural beauty of the countryside and public park and recreation...

(a) Policy. - It is the policy of Congress - (1) to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities for the commerce of the United States; ...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall - (1) consult and exchange information about their respective ...

(a) Subject to sections 301-304 of this title, the Secretary of Transportation shall develop standards and criteria to formulate and economically evaluate all proposals for...

(a) In this section, ''financial assistance'' includes obligation guarantees. (b) A person in the United States may not be excluded from participating in, be denied the...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation shall inspect promptly the safety compliance record in the Department of Transportation of each person applying to the Interstate...

(a) As soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary of Transportation shall report to the President, for submission to Congress, on the activities of...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Energy, and Defense, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the...

In this subchapter, ''aeronautics'', ''air commerce'', and ''air navigation facility'' have the same meanings given those terms in section 40102(a) of this title. ...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may prescribe regulations to carry out the duties and powers of the Secretary. An officer of the Department of Transportation may...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may appoint and fix the pay of officers and employees of the Department of Transportation and may prescribe their duties and powers. (b)...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation - (1) to ensure that national defense interests are safeguarded properly and that the Secretary is advised properly about the needs...

(a) Without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointment in the competitive service, the Secretary of Transportation may appoint advisory committees to consult with and ...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may accept and use conditional or unconditional gifts of property for the Department of Transportation. The Secretary may accept a gift of...

(a) The Department of Transportation has an administrative working capital fund. Amounts in the fund are available for expenses of operating and maintaining common administrative ...

(a) The Department of Transportation has a Transportation Systems Center working capital fund. Amounts in the fund are available for financing the activities of the Center,...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may collect and collate transportation information the Secretary decides will contribute to the improvement of the transportation system of...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may make contracts with educational institutions, public and private agencies and organizations, and persons for scientific or...

(a) When necessary and not otherwise available, the Secretary of Transportation may provide for, construct, or maintain the following for officers and employees of the Department of ...

(a) In this section, ''minority'' includes women. (b) The Department of Transportation has a Minority Resource Center. The Center may - (1) include a national...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may develop and make available to interested persons any plans, proposals, and recommendations for mergers, consolidations, reorganizations, and ...

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(a) After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, a person found by the Secretary of Transportation to have violated a provision of law that the Secretary carries out through...

The annual budget the Secretary of Transportation submits shall include a specific request for the Office of the Director of Intelligence and Security. In deciding on the...

(a) Judicial Review. - An action of the Secretary of Transportation in carrying out a duty or power transferred under the Department of Transportation Act (Public Law 89-670,...

In carrying out a duty or power transferred under the Department of Transportation Act (Public Law 89-670, 80 Stat. 931), the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrators of...

(a) Collecting Specimens. - When the Secretary of Transportation or the head of a component of the Department of Transportation conducts post-accident or post-incident...

(a) In this chapter - (1) the definitions in sections 10102 and 13102 of this title apply. (2) ''migrant worker'' has the same meaning given that term in ...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation shall carry out this chapter. (b) The Secretary may - (1) inquire into and report on the management of the business of rail...

(a) Each motor carrier of migrant workers (except a motor contract carrier) and each motor private carrier shall designate an agent by name and post office address on whom service...

(a) In this section - (1) ''association'' means an organization maintained by or in the interest of a group of rail carriers, motor carriers, motor carriers of...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may require a motor carrier, motor carrier of migrant workers, or motor private carrier to file a copy of each arrangement related to a...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may begin an investigation under this chapter on the initiative of the Secretary or on complaint. If the Secretary finds that a rail...

(a) The Secretary of Transportation may bring a civil action to enforce - (1) an order of the Secretary under this chapter when violated by a rail carrier; and ...

(a) Limitation on Liability. - No action or proceeding for defamation, invasion of privacy, or interference with a contract that is based on the furnishing or use of...

(a)(1) A person required under section 504 of this title to make, prepare, preserve, or submit to the Secretary of Transportation a record about rail carrier transportation, that...

A person required to make a report to the Secretary of Transportation, or make, prepare, or preserve a record, under section 504 of this title about transportation by rail carrier, ...

(a) A motor carrier, or an officer, receiver, trustee, lessee, or employee of that carrier, or another person authorized by that carrier to receive information from that carrier,...

A person, or an officer, employee, or agent of that person, that by any means knowingly and willfully tries to evade regulation of motor carriers under this chapter shall be fined...

A motor carrier, motor carrier of migrant workers, or motor private carrier not obeying a subpena or requirement of the Secretary of Transportation under this chapter to appear and ...

When another criminal penalty is not provided under a provision of this chapter, subchapter III of chapter 311 (except sections 31138 and 31139), or section 31502 of this title,...

(a) Establishment. - There is hereby established within the Department of Transportation the Surface Transportation Board. (b) Membership. - (1) The Board shall consist of...

Except as otherwise provided in the ICC Termination Act of 1995, or the amendments made thereby, the Board shall perform all functions that, immediately before January 1, 1996,...

(a) Executive Reorganization. - Chapter 9 of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to the Board in the same manner as it does to an independent regulatory agency, and the...

The Board shall annually transmit to the Congress a report on its activities. ...

There are authorized to be appropriated for the activities of the Board - (1) $8,421,000 for fiscal year 1996; (2) $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1997; and ...

(a) Reports on Proceedings. - The Board shall make a written report of each proceeding conducted on complaint or on its own initiative and furnish a copy to each party to...

(a) In General. - The Board shall carry out this chapter and subtitle IV. Enumeration of a power of the Board in this chapter or subtitle IV does not exclude another power the...

(a) Effective Date of Actions. - Unless otherwise provided in subtitle IV, the Board may determine, within a reasonable time, when its actions, other than an action ordering...

(a) Designation of Agent. - A carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under subtitle IV shall designate an agent in the District of Columbia, on...

(a) Designation of Agent. - A carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under subtitle IV shall designate an agent in the District of Columbia on...

The Secretary of Transportation shall provide administrative support for the Board. ...

(a) Establishment; Membership. - There is established the Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council (in this section referred to as the ''Council'') to be composed of...

All terms used in this chapter that are defined in subtitle IV shall have the meaning given those terms in that subtitle. ...

Section 2101(17a) of title 46 and section 40102(a) of this title apply to this chapter. In this chapter, the term ''accident'' includes damage to or destruction of vehicles...

(a) Organization. - The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent establishment of the United States Government. (b) Appointment of Members. - The Board is composed...

(a) Establishment. - If an accident involves a substantial question about public safety in air transportation, the National Transportation Safety Board may establish a special...

(a) General Authority. - (1) The National Transportation Safety Board, and when authorized by it, a member of the Board, an administrative law judge employed by or assigned to...

(a) General. - (1) Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (f) of this section, a copy of a record, information, or investigation submitted or received by the...

(a) Definition. - In this section, ''Institute'' means the Transportation Safety Institute of the Department of Transportation and any successor organization of the Institute. ...

(a) Periodic Reports. - The National Transportation Safety Board shall report periodically to Congress, departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States...

The National Transportation Safety Board shall submit a report to Congress on July 1 of each year. The report shall include - (1) a statistical and analytical summary of...

(a) In General. - There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this chapter $57,000,000 for fiscal year 2000, $65,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, and $72,000,000...

(a) In General. - Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the National Transportation Safety Board shall, in consultation and coordination with...

(a) General. - (1) The National Transportation Safety Board shall investigate or have investigated (in detail the Board prescribes) and establish the facts, circumstances, and...

(a) General Authority. - (1) The National Transportation Safety Board shall investigate - (A) each accident involving civil aircraft; and (B) with the participation...

The National Transportation Safety Board shall review on appeal - (1) the denial, amendment, modification, suspension, or revocation of a certificate issued by the Secretary...

(a) Entry and Inspection. - An officer or employee of the National Transportation Safety Board - (1) on display of appropriate credentials and written notice of ...

(a) General. - When the National Transportation Safety Board submits a recommendation about transportation safety to the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary shall give...

(a) In General. - As soon as practicable after being notified of an aircraft accident within the United States involving an air carrier or foreign air carrier and resulting in a...

(a) In General. - The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation, in accordance with the mission of the Inspector General to prevent and detect fraud and abuse, shall...

(a) Civil Actions by Board. - The National Transportation Safety Board may bring a civil action in a district court of the United States against a person to enforce section...

A person interested in or affected by a matter under consideration in a proceeding or a civil action to enforce section 1132, 1134(b) or (f)(1) (related to an aircraft accident), or ...

(a) General. - The appropriate court of appeals of the United States or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit may review a final order of...

(a) Transcripts and Recordings. - (1) Except as provided by this subsection, a party in a judicial proceeding may not use discovery to obtain - (A) any part of a cockpit...

(a) Civil Penalty. - (1) A person violating section 1132, section 1134(b), section 1134(f)(1), or section 1136(g) (related to an aircraft accident) of this title or a...

The purpose of this chapter is to provide adequate protection against the risks to life and property inherent in the transportation of hazardous material in commerce by improving...

In this chapter - (1) ''commerce'' means trade or transportation in the jurisdiction of the United States - (A) between a place in a State and a place outside of the ...

(a) Designating Material as Hazardous. - The Secretary of Transportation shall designate material (including an explosive, radioactive material, etiologic agent, flammable...

(a) Representation. - A person may represent, by marking or otherwise, that - (1) a container, package, or packaging (or a component of a container, package, or...

(a) Definitions. - In this section, ''high-level radioactive waste'' and ''spent nuclear fuel'' have the same meanings given those terms in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy...

The Secretary of Transportation may prescribe criteria for handling hazardous material, including - (1) a minimum number of personnel; (2) minimum levels of training...

(a) Training Requirements. - The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe by regulation requirements for training that a hazmat employer must give hazmat employees of the...

(a) Persons Required to File. - (1) A person shall file a registration statement with the Secretary of Transportation under this subsection if the person is transporting or causing...

(a) Requirement. - A motor carrier may transport or cause to be transported by motor vehicle in commerce hazardous material only if the carrier holds a safety permit the Secretary...

(a) Providing Shipping Papers. - Each person offering for transportation in commerce hazardous material to which the shipping paper requirements of the Secretary of...

A rail tank car built before January 1, 1971, may be used to transport hazardous material in commerce only if the air brake equipment support attachments of the car comply with...

(a) Application. - (1) This section applies to a motor vehicle only if the vehicle is transporting hazardous material in commerce for which placarding of the vehicle is required...

See section 31144. ...

(a) Transporting in Air Commerce. - Material that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously may be transported on a passenger-carrying aircraft in air commerce (as defined in...

(a) Development and Updating. - Not later than November 16, 1992, in coordination with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Chairman of the Nuclear...

(a) Planning Grants. - (1) The Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to States and Indian tribes - (A) to develop, improve, and carry out emergency plans under ...

(a) Authority To Exempt. - (1) As provided under procedures prescribed by regulation, the Secretary of Transportation may issue an exemption from this chapter or a...

(a) General Requirement. - The Secretary of Transportation shall maintain the employment of 30 hazardous material safety inspectors more than the total number of safety...

(a) Working Group. - The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a working group of State and local government officials, including representatives of the National...

(a) Participation in International Forums. - Subject to guidance and direction from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Transportation shall participate in international...

(a) General Authority. - To carry out this chapter, the Secretary of Transportation may investigate, make reports, issue subpenas, conduct hearings, require the production of...

(a) General. - At the request of the Secretary of Transportation, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in an appropriate district court of the United States to enforce...

(a) Penalty. - (1) A person that knowingly violates this chapter or a regulation prescribed or order issued under this chapter is liable to the United States Government for a...

A person knowingly violating section 5104(b) of this title or willfully violating this chapter or a regulation prescribed or order issued under this chapter shall be fined under...

(a) General. - Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of this section and unless authorized by another law of the United States, a requirement of a State,...

(a) Contracts. - A person under contract with a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government that transports or causes to be transported hazardous...

(a) General. - Not more than $18,000,000 may be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation for fiscal year 1993, $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, $18,540,000 for fiscal...

(a) Development of Transportation Systems. - It is in the interest of the United States to encourage and promote the development of transportation systems that embrace various...

(a) In General. - In this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) Capital project. - The term ''capital project'' means a project for - (A)...

(a) General Requirements. - (1) Development of plans and programs. - To carry out section 5301(a), metropolitan planning organizations designated under subsection (c),...

(a) Development and Update. - (1) In general. - In cooperation with the State and affected mass transportation operators, a metropolitan planning organization...

(a) Designation. - The Secretary of Transportation shall designate as a transportation management area - (1) each urbanized area with a population of more than 200,000; ...

(a) Private Enterprise Participation. - A plan or program required by section 5303, 5304, or 5305 of this title shall encourage to the maximum extent feasible the participation of ...

(a) Definitions. - In this section, the following definitions apply: (1) Associated capital maintenance items. - The term ''associated capital maintenance items''...

(a) Definitions. - In this section - (1) the term ''clean fuel vehicle'' means a vehicle that - (A) is powered by - (i) compressed natural gas; ...

(a) General Authority. - (1) The Secretary of Transportation may make grants and loans under this section to assist State and local governmental authorities in financing - ...

(a) General Authority. - The Secretary of Transportation may make grants and loans to - (1) State and local governmental authorities to help them provide mass...

(a) Definition. - In this section, ''recipient'' includes a State authority, a local governmental authority, a nonprofit organization, and an operator of mass transportation...

(a) Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects. - The Secretary of Transportation (or the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development when required by section 5334(i) of...

(a) Cooperative Research Program. - (1) The amounts made available under paragraphs (1) and (2)(C)(ii) of section 5338(d) of this title are available for a mass...

(a) Program. - (1) The amounts made available under subsections (d) and (h)(7) of section 5338 of this title are available to the Secretary of Transportation for grants and...

(a) Establishment and Duties. - The Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to Rutgers University to establish a national transit institute. In cooperation with the...

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(a) Establishment. - The Secretary of Transportation shall establish one facility for testing a new bus model for maintainability, reliability, safety, performance (including ...

A project to provide access for bicycles to mass transportation facilities, to provide shelters and parking facilities for bicycles in or around mass transportation facilities, or...

(a) Purpose. - The purpose of this section is to provide for the construction by a public entity of a suspended light rail system technology pilot project - (1) to assess...

The Secretary of Transportation may make capital grants from amounts available under section 5338 of this title to mass transportation systems for crime prevention and security....

The Secretary of Transportation may undertake, or make grants and contracts for, programs that address human resource needs as they apply to mass transportation activities. A...

(a) Interests in Property. - (1) Financial assistance provided under this chapter to a State or a local governmental authority may be used to acquire an interest in, or buy...

(a) Relocation Program Requirements. - Financial assistance may be provided under section 5309 of this title only if the Secretary of Transportation decides that - (1)...

(a) Noncompetitive Bidding. - A capital project or improvement contract for which a grant or loan is made under this chapter, if the contract is not made through competitive...

(a) Turnkey System Projects. - (1) Turnkey system project defined. - In this subsection, the term ''turnkey system project'' means a project under which a recipient...

(a) Project Management Plan Requirements. - To receive United States Government financial assistance for a major capital project under this chapter or the National...

(a) Schedule. - (1) When the Secretary of Transportation allows a new fixed guideway project to advance into the alternatives analysis stage of project review, the Secretary...

(a) General. - The Secretary of Transportation may investigate a condition in equipment, a facility, or an operation financed under this chapter that the Secretary believes causes...

(a) Application. - This section applies only to States that have rail fixed guideway mass transportation systems not subject to regulation by the Federal Railroad Administration. ...

(a) Definitions. - In this section - (1) ''controlled substance'' means any substance under section 102 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of ...

(a) Definition. - In this section, ''person'' includes a governmental authority, political subdivision, authority, legal representative, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee, ...

(a) Prevailing Wages Requirement. - The Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors in construction work...

(a) General Authority. - In carrying out this chapter, the Secretary of Transportation may - (1) prescribe terms for a project under sections 5307 and 5309-5311 of...

(a) National Transit Database. - (1) To help meet the needs of individual mass transportation systems, the United States Government, State and local governments, and the public for ...

(a) Based on Urbanized Area Population. - Of the amount made available or appropriated under section 5338(a) of this title - (1) 9.32 percent shall be apportioned each fiscal...

(a) Distribution. - The Secretary shall apportion amounts made available for fixed guideway modernization under section 5309 for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 as follows: ...

(a) Formula Grants. - (1) Fiscal year 1998. - (A) From the trust fund. - There shall be available from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to...

(a) General. - It is the policy of the United States Government to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System that is economically efficient and environmentally...

(a) Organization. - The Intermodal Transportation Advisory Board is a board in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. (b) Membership. - The Board consists of the...

(a) Establishment. - The Secretary of Transportation shall establish in the Office of the Secretary an Office of Intermodalism. (b) Director. - The head of the Office is...

(a) Grants. - The Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to States to develop model State intermodal transportation plans that are consistent with the policy set forth...

(a) Regional Centers. - The Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to nonprofit institutions of higher learning to establish and operate 1 university transportation center...

(a) Purposes. - The Secretary of Transportation, in coordination with other government agencies and private consortia, shall encourage and promote the research, development,...

In this chapter, ''civic and cultural activities'' includes libraries, musical and dramatic presentations, art exhibits, adult education programs, public meeting places, and...

(a) Requirements To Provide Assistance. - The Secretary of Transportation shall provide financial, technical, and advisory assistance under this chapter to - (1) promote, on...

(a) Authority To Provide Assistance. - The Secretary of Transportation may provide financial assistance to convert a rail passenger terminal to an intermodal transportation...

(a) General Grant Authority. - Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary of Transportation may make a grant of financial assistance to a responsible person...

(a) General Grant Authority. - The Secretary of Transportation may make a grant of financial assistance to a qualified person (including a governmental authority) to encourage...

(a) Record Requirements. - Each recipient of financial assistance under this chapter shall keep records required by the Secretary of Transportation. The records shall disclose - ...

Amtrak shall give preference to the use of rail passenger terminal facilities that will preserve buildings of historic or architectural significance. ...

(a) General. - The following amounts may be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation: (1) not more than $15,000,000 to carry out section 5562(a)(1) and (3) of...

Congress finds that - (1) the United States public is entitled to receive food and other consumer products that are not made unsafe because of certain...

In this chapter - (1) ''cosmetic'', ''device'', ''drug'', ''food'', and ''food additive'' have the same meanings given those terms in section 201 of the Federal...

(a) General Requirements. - (1) Not later than July 31, 1991, the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation required by section 5709 of this title, shall prescribe...

(a) Prohibitions. - The regulations prescribed under section 5703(a)(1) of this title shall include provisions prohibiting a person from - (1) using, offering for use,...

(a) Prohibitions. - The regulations prescribed under section 5703(a)(1) of this title shall include provisions prohibiting a person from using, offering for use, or arranging for...

(a) Prohibitions. - The regulations prescribed under section 5703(a)(1) of this title shall include provisions prohibiting a person from using, offering for use, or arranging for...

(a) General Authority. - After consultation required by section 5709 of this title, the Secretary of Transportation may waive any part of this chapter or regulations prescribed...

(a) General Authority. - For commercial motor vehicles, the Secretary of Transportation may carry out this chapter and assist in carrying out compatible State laws and...

As provided by sections 5703-5708 of this title, the Secretary of Transportation shall consult with the Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services and the...

The Secretary of Transportation has the same duties and powers in regulating transportation under this chapter as the Secretary has under section 5121(a)-(c) (except...

(a) Actions. - The Secretary of Transportation shall request that a civil action be brought and take action to eliminate or ameliorate an imminent hazard related to a violation of a ...

Section 5125 of this title applies to the relationship between this chapter and a requirement of a State, a political subdivision of a State, or an Indian tribe. ...

Sections 5711 and 5712 of this title apply only to transportation occurring on or after the date that regulations prescribed under section 5703(a)(1) of this title are effective. ...

Not later than November 3, 1991, the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation with appropriate State officials, shall establish procedures to promote more...

In this chapter - (1) except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the definitions in sections 10102 and 13102 of this title apply. (2) ''beneficial owner'' means...

(a) Prior Notification. - If the first carrier to which any loaded container or trailer having a projected gross cargo weight of more than 29,000 pounds is tendered for intermodal ...

(a) Providing Erroneous Information. - A person, To (FOOTNOTE 1) whom section 5902(b) applies, tendering a loaded container or trailer may not provide erroneous information in...

(a) General. - A State may enact a law to permit the State or a political subdivision of the State - (1) to impose a fine or penalty, for a violation of a State ...

(a) General. - If a person involved in the intermodal transportation of a loaded container or trailer for which a certification is required by section 5902(b) of this title is ...

Section 5905 of this title does not apply to a container or trailer the contents of which are perishable agricultural commodities (as defined in the Perishable...

This chapter shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of the Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Amendments Act of 1996. ...

Nothing in this chapter affects - (1) chapter 51 (relating to transportation of hazardous material) or the regulations promulgated under that chapter; or (2) any...

The purposes of this chapter are - (1) to enhance public safety; (2) to protect the environment; (3) to minimize risks to excavators; and (4) to...

In this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) One-call notification system. - The term ''one-call notification system'' means a system operated by an organization ...

(a) Minimum Standards. - In order to qualify for a grant under section 6106, a State one-call notification program shall, at a minimum, provide for - (1)...

(a) Requirement. - In order to qualify for a grant under section 6106, each State shall submit to the Secretary a grant application under subsection (b). The State shall submit...

(a) Study of Existing One-Call Systems. - Except as provided in subsection (d), the Secretary, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies, State agencies,...

(a) In General. - The Secretary may make a grant of financial assistance to a State that qualifies under section 6104(b) to assist in improving - (1) the overall quality...

(a) For Grants to States. - There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to provide grants to States under section 6106 $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2000 and $5,000,000...

Nothing in this chapter preempts State law or shall impose a new requirement on any State or mandate revisions to a one-call system. ...

(a) In General. - To ensure the development, coordination, and preservation of a transportation system that meets the transportation needs of the United States, including the United ...

In this part, the following definitions shall apply: (1) Board. - The term ''Board'' means the Surface Transportation Board. (2) Broker. - The term ''broker'' means...

Except as otherwise provided in this part, the remedies provided under this part are in addition to remedies existing under another law or common law. ...

(a) General Powers of Secretary. - Except as otherwise specified, the Secretary shall carry out this part. Enumeration of a power of the Secretary in this part does not...

Under regulations of the Secretary, reasonable notice of, and an opportunity to intervene and participate in, a proceeding under this part related to transportation subject...

(a) Agents for Service of Process. - A carrier, a broker, or a freight forwarder providing transportation or service subject to jurisdiction under chapter 135 shall designate,...

(a) Designation of Agent. - A motor carrier or broker providing transportation subject to jurisdiction under chapter 135, including a motor carrier or broker operating within...

The Secretary and the Board have jurisdiction, as specified in this part, over transportation by motor carrier and the procurement of that transportation, to the extent...

To the extent that transportation by a motor carrier between a place in Alaska and a place in another State under section 13501 is provided in a foreign country - (1)...

(a) Transportation by Carriers. - (1) In general. - Neither the Secretary nor the Board has jurisdiction under this subchapter over transportation by motor ...

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