92 STAT. 2702
PUBLIC LAW 95-599—NOV. 6, 1978
required by subsection (b) of this section; (3) the annual certification submitted by each State required by section 141(b) of title 23, United States Code. (d) Section 141 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§141. Enforcement of requirements. Certifications. "(a) Each State shall certify to the Secretary before January 1 of each year that it is enforcing all speed limits on public highways in 23 USC 154. accordance with section 154 of this title. The Secretary shall not 23 USC 106. approve any project under section 106 of this title in any State which has failed to certify in accordance with this subsection. " (b) Each State shall certify to the Secretary before January 1 of each year that it is enforcing all State laws respecting maximum vehicle size and weights permitted on the Federal-aid primary system, the Federal-aid urban system, and the Federal-aid secondary system, including the Interstate System in accordance with section 127 of this title. 23 USC 127. State verification "(c)(1) Each State shall submit to the Secretary such information information, as the Secretary shall, by regulation, require as necessary, in his opinregulations. ion, to verify the certification of such State under subsection (b) of this section. Funds, reduction "(2) If a State fails to certify as required by subsection (b) of this and witholding. section or if the Secretary determines that a State is not adequately enforcing all State laws respecting such maximum vehicle size and weights, notwithstanding such a certification, then Federal-aid highway funds apportioned to such State for such fiscal year shall be reduced by amounts equal to 10 per centum of the amount which would otherwise be apportioned to such State under section 104 of this title. 23 USC 104. "(3) If within one year from the date that the apportionment for any State is reduced in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection the Secretary determines that such State is enforcing all State laws respecting maximum size and weights, the apportionment of such State shall be increased by an amount equal to such reduction. If the Secretary does not make such a determination within such one-year period, the amounts so withheld shall be reapportioned to all other eligible States.". 23 USC 141 note. (e) Section 141(c)(2) and (3) of title 23, United States Code, shall be applicable to certifications required by such section 141 to be filed on or after January 1, 1980. H I G H W A Y BRIDGE REPLACEIMENT PROGRAM
SEC. 124. (a) Section 144 of title 23 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows:
- § 144. Highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program
"(a) Congress hereby finds and declares it to be in the vital interest of the Nation that a highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program be established to enable the several States to replace or rehabilitate highway bridges over waterways, other topographical barriers, other highways, or railroads when the States and the Secretary finds that a bridge is significantly important and is unsafe because of structural deficiencies, physical deterioration, or functional obsolescence.
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