BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS.

SEC. 5109. BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS. (a) In General.— Section 111 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (b)(4) by striking the second sentence; (2) in subsection (c)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) in subparagraph (J) by striking “and” at the end; (ii) in subparagraph (K) by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and 112 STAT. 438 (iii) by adding at the end the following: “(L) transportation-related variables that influence global competitiveness.”; (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) in the first sentence by striking “national transportation system” and inserting “transportation systems of the United States”; (ii) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: “(A) be coordinated with efforts to measure outputs and outcomes of the Department of Transportation and the transportation systems of the United States under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (107 Stat. 285 et seq.) and the amendments made by such Act; ”; and (iii) in subparagraph (C) by inserting “, made relevant to the States and metropolitan planning organizations,” after “accuracy”; (C) in paragraph (3) by adding at the end the following: “The Bureau shall review and report to the Secretary of Transportation on the sources and reliability of the statistics proposed by the heads of the operating administrations of the Department to measure outputs and outcomes as required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, and the amendments made by such Act, and shall carry out such other reviews of the sources and reliability of other data collected by the heads of the operating administrations of the Department as shall be requested by the Secretary.”; and (D) by adding at the end the following: (7) Supporting transportation decisionmaking.— Ensuring that the statistics compiled under paragraph (1) are relevant for transportation decisionmaking by the Federal Government, State and local governments, transportation-related associations, private businesses, and consumers. ”; (3) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as subsections (h), (i), and (j), respectively; (4) by striking subsection (g); (5) by inserting after subsection (c) the following: “(d) Intermodal Transportation Data Base.— “(1) In general.— In consultation with the Associate Deputy Secretary, the Assistant Secretaries, and the heads of the operating administrations of the Department of Transportation, the Director shall establish and maintain a transportation data base for all modes of transportation. “(2) Use.— The data base shall be suitable for analyses carried out by the Federal Government, the States, and metropolitan planning organizations. “(3) Contents.— The data base shall include— “(A) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of goods, including local, interregional, and international movement, by all modes of transportation and intermodal combinations, and by relevant classification; 112 STAT. 439 “(B) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of people, including local, interregional, and international movements, by all modes of transportation (including bicycle and pedestrian modes) and intermodal combinations, and by relevant classification; “(C) information on the location and connectivity of transportation facilities and services; and “(D) a national accounting of expenditures and capital stocks on each mode of transportation and intermodal combination. “(e) National Transportation Library.— “(1) In general.— The Director shall establish and maintain a National Transportation Library, which shall contain a collection of statistical and other information needed for transportation decision making at the Federal, State, and local levels. “(2) Access.— The Director shall facilitate and promote access to the Library, with the goal of improving the ability of the transportation community to share information and the ability of the Director to make statistics readily accessible under subsection (c)(5). “(3) Coordination.— The Director shall work with other transportation libraries and other transportation information providers, both public and private, to achieve the goal specified in paragraph (2). “(f) National Transportation Atlas Data Base.— “(1) In general.— The Director shall develop and maintain geospatial data bases that depict— “(A) transportation networks; “(B) flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft over the networks; and “(C) social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect or are affected by the networks. “(2) Intermodal network analysis.— The data bases shall be able to support intermodal network analysis. “(g) Research and Development Grants.— “(1) In general.— The Secretary may make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, public and nonprofit private entities (including State transportation departments, metropolitan planning organizations, and institutions of higher education) for— “(A) investigation of the subjects specified in subsection (c)(1) and research and development of new methods of data collection, management, integration, dissemination, interpretation, and analysis; “(B) development of electronic clearing houses of transportation data and related information, as part of the National Transportation Library under subsection (e); and “(C) development and improvement of methods for sharing geographic data, in support of the national transportation atlas data base under subsection (f) and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure developed under Executive Order No. 12906. “(2) Limitation.— Not more than $500,000 of the amounts made available to carry out this section in a fiscal year may be used to carry out this subsection.”; 112 STAT. 440 (6) by striking subsection (i) (as redesignated by paragraph (3) of this subsection) and inserting the following: “(i) Prohibition on Certain Disclosures.— “(1) In general.— An officer or employee of the Bureau may not— “(A) make any disclosure in which the data provided by an individual or organization under subsection (c)(2) can be identified; “(B) use the information provided under subsection (c)(2) for a nonstatistical purpose; or “(C) permit anyone other than an individual authorized by the Director to examine any individual report provided under subsection (c)(2). “(2) Prohibition on requests for certain data.— “(A) Government agencies.— No department, bureau, agency, officer, or employee of the United States (except the Director in carrying out this section) may require, for any reason, a copy of any report that has been filed under subsection (c)(2) with the Bureau or retained by an individual respondent. “(B) Courts.— Any copy of a report described in subparagraph (A) that has been retained by an individual respondent or filed with the Bureau or any of its employees, contractors, or agents— “(i) shall be immune from legal process; and “(ii) shall not, without the consent of the individual concerned, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any action, suit, or other judicial or administrative proceeding. “(C) Applicability.— This paragraph shall apply only to reports that permit information concerning an individual or organization to be reasonably inferred by direct or indirect means. “(3) Data collected for nonstatistical purposes.— In a case in which the Bureau is authorized by statute to collect data or information for a nonstatistical purpose, the Director shall clearly distinguish the collection of the data or information, by rule and on the collection instrument, so as to inform a respondent that is requested or required to supply the data or information of the nonstatistical purpose.”; (7) in subsection (j) (as redesignated by paragraph (3) of this subsection) by striking “On or before January 1, 1994, and annually thereafter, the” and inserting “The”; and (8) by adding at the end the following: “(k) Proceeds of Data Product Sales.— Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, funds received by the Bureau from the sale of data products, for necessary expenses incurred, may be credited to the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for the expenses.”. (b) Conforming Amendments.— Section 5503 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking subsection (d); and (2) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (d), (e), and (f), respectively.