RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM.

SEC. 5101. RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM. Title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the table of chapters by adding at the end the following: “5. Research and Technology 501”; and (2) by adding at the end the following: “CHAPTER 5— RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY “Sec. “501. Definitions “502. Surface transportation research. “503. Technology deployment program. “504. Training and education. “505. State planning and research. “506. International highway transportation outreach program. “507. Surface transportation-environment cooperative research program. “508. Surface transportation research strategic planning. “§501. Definitions “In this chapter, the following definitions apply: “(1) Federal laboratory.— The term ‘Federal laboratory’ includes a Government-owned, Government-operated laboratory and a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory. “(2) Safety.— The term ‘safety’ includes highway and traffic safety systems, research, and development relating to vehicle, highway, driver, passenger, bicyclist, and pedestrian characteristics, accident investigations, communications, emergency medical care, and transportation of the injured. ”