DEFINITIONS.

SEC. 1005. DEFINITIONS. (a) Highway Safety Improvement Project.— The undesignated paragraph of section 101(a) of title 23, United States Code, relating to highway safety improvement project is amended by inserting after “marking,” the following: “installs priority control systems for emergency vehicles at signalized intersections,”. (b) Urbanized Area.— Such section is amended by striking the undesignated paragraph relating to urbanized area and inserting the following new undesignated paragraph: “The term ‘urbanized area’ means an area with a population of 50,000 or more designated by the Bureau of the Census, within boundaries to be fixed by responsible State and local officials in cooperation with each other, subject to approval by the Secretary. Boundaries shall, at a minimum, encompass the entire urbanized area within a State as designated by the Bureau of the Census.”. (c) National Highway System.— Such section is further amended by striking the undesignated paragraph relating to the Federal-aid primary system and inserting the following new undesignated paragraph: “The term ‘National Highway System’ means the Federal-aid highway system described in subsection (b) of section 103 of this title.”. (d) Conforming Amendments.— Such section is amended— (1) by striking the undesignated paragraph relating to the Federal-aid secondary system; (2) by striking the undesignated paragraph relating to the Federal-aid urban system; (3) in the undesignated paragraph relating to Indian reservation roads by striking “, including roads on the Federal-aid systems,”; and (4) in the undesignated paragraph relating to park road by inserting “, including a bridge built primarily for pedestrian use, but with capacity for use by emergency vehicles,” before “that is located within”. (e) Interstate System.— The undesignated paragraph of such section relating to the Interstate System is amended by inserting “Dwight D. Eisenhower” before “National”. 105 STAT. 1923 (f) Operational Improvement.— Such section is further amended by inserting after the undesignated paragraph relating to Interstate System the following new undesignated paragraph: “The term ‘operational improvement’ means a capital improvement for installation of traffic surveillance and control equipment, computerized signal systems, motorist information systems, integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and transportation demand management facilities, strategies, and programs and such other capital improvements to public roads as the Secretary may designate, by regulation; except that such term does not include resurfacing, restoring, or rehabilitating improvements, construction of additional lanes, interchanges, and grade separations, and construction of a new facility on a new location.”. (g) Startup Costs for Traffic Management and Control; Carpool Project; Public Authority; Public Lands Highway; Reconstruction.— Such section is further amended by inserting after the undesignated paragraph relating to Interstate System the following new undesignated paragraphs: “The term ‘startup costs for traffic management and control’ means initial costs (including labor costs, administration costs, cost of utilities, and rent) for integrated traffic control systems, incident management programs, and traffic control centers. “The term ‘carpool project’ means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including but not limited to provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and handicapped, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, and designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools. “The term ‘public authority’ means a Federal, State, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal or other local government or instrumentality with authority to finance, build, operate, or maintain toll or toll-free facilities. “The term ‘public lands highway’ means a forest road under the jurisdiction of and maintained by a public authority and open to public travel or any highway through unappropriated or unreserved public lands, nontaxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations under the jurisdiction of and maintained by a public authority and open to public travel.”.