OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.

SEC. 4127. OUTREACH AND EDUCATION.(a) In General.—The Secretary shall conduct, through any combination of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, an outreach and education program to be administered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.(b) Program Elements.—The program shall include, at a minimum, the following:(1) A program to promote a more comprehensive and national effort to educate commercial motor vehicle drivers and passenger vehicle drivers about how commercial motor vehicle drivers and passenger vehicle drivers can more safely share the road with each other.(2) A program to promote enhanced traffic enforcement efforts aimed at reducing the incidence of the most common unsafe driving behaviors that cause or contribute to crashes involving commercial motor vehicles and passenger vehicles.(3) A program to establish a public-private partnership to provide resources and expertise for the development and dissemination of information relating to sharing the road referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) to each partner’s constituents and to the general public through the use of brochures, videos, paid and public advertisements, the Internet, and other media.(c) Federal Share.—The Federal share of a program or activity for which a grant is made under this section shall be 100 percent of the cost of such program or activity.(d) Annual Report.—The Secretary shall prepare and transmit to Congress an annual report on the programs and activities carried out under this section. The final annual report shall be submitted not later than September 30, 2009.(e) Funding.—From amounts made available under section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary shall make available $1,000,000 to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and $3,000,000 to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, for each of fiscal years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 to carry out this section (other than subsection (f)).119 STAT. 1742(f) Study.—The Comptroller General shall update the Government Accountability Office’s evaluation of the “Share the Road Safely” program to determine if it has achieved reductions in the number and severity of commercial motor vehicle crashes, including reductions in the number of deaths and the severity of injuries sustained in these crashes and shall report its updated evaluation to Congress no later than June 30, 2006.