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6. How long will the States have to obligate their highway safety funds before they lapse? <br /> States will have the remainder of the fiscal year during which funds are apportioned plus 3 fiscal <br /> years to obligate their highway safety funds before they lapse. For example, FY 2006 HSIP <br /> funds apportioned to the States would lapse if not obligated by September 30, 2009. <br /> 7. What projects are eligible under the new HSIP? <br /> To qualify as a highway safety improvement project eligible for funding under the new HSIP <br /> (23USC148), a project must be described in the State strategic highway safety plan and correct <br /> or improve a hazardous road location or feature, or address a highway safety problem. Projects <br /> eligible under the previous Section 152 and Section 130 remain eligible under the new HSIP. In <br /> addition, the following have been specifically included as eligible highway safety improvement <br /> projects and are, therefore, eligible for HSIP funding: <br /> 1) The conduct of a model traffic enforcement activity at arailway-highway grade <br /> crossing; <br /> 2) Safety-conscious planning; <br /> 3) Improvement in the collection and analysis of crash data; <br /> 4) Planning, integrated interoperable emergency communications equipment, <br /> operational activities, or traffic enforcement activities (including police <br /> assistance) relating to workzone safety; <br /> 5) The addition or retrofitting of structures or other measures to eliminate or reduce <br /> accidents involving vehicles and wildlife; <br /> 6) Construction and operational improvements on high-risk rural xoads; <br /> 7) Improvements for safety of the disabled; <br /> 8) Installation and maintenance of signs atpedestrian-bicycle crossings and in school <br /> zones. <br /> 8. Section 1401 states that "other funds" can be used for safety improvements. To what "other <br /> funds" does this refer? Does this mean that IM, STP and NHS fiznds can be used on local <br /> and rural minor collectors, as HSIP funds can? <br /> HSIP funds can be used on any public road or publicly owned bicycle or pedestrian pathway or <br /> trail, except for those funds specifically set-aside for high risk rural roads and railway-highway <br /> crossings. This provision of SAFETEA-LU encourages States to address the full scope of their <br /> safety needs and opportunities on all roadway categories by using funding sources such as <br /> Interstate Maintenance (IM), Surface Transportation Program (STP) and National Highway <br /> System (NHS) funds, in addition to HSIP funds. However, the basic eligibility requirements of <br /> these funding sources do not change; e.g., NHS funds can be used for safety-related construction <br /> projects on National Highway System routes, but not on local roads or on rural minor collectors. <br /> Similar eligibility requirements for STP & IM funds also must be recognized. In addition, safety <br /> <br /> belt performance grants under section 2005 maybe used for infrastructure safety projects after <br /> the State has met the $1 million threshold for behavioral safety expenditures. <br /> <br /> FHWA Office of Safety; 9/14/05 Page 3 of 8 <br /> <br />