23 U.S.C. § 101
Definitions and declaration of policy
United States · Title 23 — HIGHWAYS · Status: effective
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- 23 U.S.C. § 101, Definitions and declaration of policy, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/458991
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In this title, the following definitions apply:
The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bond costs and other costs relating to the issuance in accordance with section 122 of bonds or other debt financing instruments and costs incurred by the State in performing Federal-aid project related audits that directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Such term includes—
The term “highway” includes—
The term “natural infrastructure” means infrastructure that uses, restores, or emulates natural ecological processes and—
The term “operational improvement”—
The term “resilience”, with respect to a project, means a project with the ability to anticipate, prepare for, or adapt to conditions or withstand, respond to, or recover rapidly from disruptions, including the ability—
The term “transportation systems management and operations” means integrated strategies to optimize the performance of existing infrastructure through—
The term “transportation systems management and operations” includes—
Congress declares that—
among the foremost needs that the surface transportation system must meet to provide for a strong and vigorous national economy are safe, efficient, resilient, and reliable—
Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to authorize appropriations for the construction of certain highways in accordance with title 23 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1074House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to authorize appropriations for the construction of certain highways in accordance with title 23 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An Act to redesignate "The National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways."House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
- National Highway System Designation Act of 1995House: no recorded tallySenate: 80–16
- Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
- SAFETEA-LU
- SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008House: no recorded tallySenate: 88–2
- MAP-21
- FAST Act
- Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act