Amendments to Highway Safety Program Guidelines

Section 2002 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), Highway Safety Programs, requires that the uniform guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs include six critical programs. This notice amends the contents of existing Part 1204 by adopting guidelines on three of these programs: Speed Control; Occupant Protection and Roadway Safety. This notice also revises six of the existing guidelines to reflect new issues and to emphasize program methodology and approaches that have proven to be successful in these program areas. Finally, this notice removes the guidelines from the Code of Federal Regulations. The guidelines, as revised here, will be published in a separate document made available to the states.