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原文传递 Assessment of FHWA Oversight of the Highway Bridge Program and the National Bridge Inspection Program.

题名：	Assessment of FHWA Oversight of the Highway Bridge Program and the National Bridge Inspection Program.
关键词：	oversight,performance audits,bridges (structures),federal funds,national bridge inspection program (nbip),federal highway administration (fhwa),highway bridge program (hbp);recommendations, assessments;structurally deficient bridges
摘要：	This report presents the results of our assessment of the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) oversight of the Highway Bridge Program (HBP) and the National Bridge Inspection Program (NBIP), and FHWAs efforts to monitor states use of Federal-aid for bridges. While some progress has been made in recent years to reduce the number of deficient bridges, maximizing Federal surface transportation investments to improve current bridge conditions is a major challenge for FHWA. According to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the average bridge in the United States is 43 years old and, according to FHWA, about one in four of the Nations more than 600,000 bridges are deficient. FHWA has estimated that as much as $65 billion would be needed to address current bridge deficiencies and other needed improvements.1 The collapse of the Interstate 35W (I-35W) Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 1, 2007, killing 13 people, underscored the importance of strong bridge safety programs and the need to maximize investments to improve bridge conditions. With the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 20092 comes an unprecedented opportunity to fund $27.5 billion worth of highway infrastructure projects, including those related to bridges. / Availability Note: Order this product from NTIS by: phone at 1-800-553-NTIS (U.S. customers); (703)605-6000 (other countries); fax at (703)605-6900; and email at orders@ntis.gov. NTIS is located at 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA, 22312, USA. / NTIS Prices: PC A03 / NTIS In-house Control Codes: dotfha;12091,1101
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