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GAO-16-72R 1 (2015-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaajjr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 29, 2015 The Honorable Bill Shuster Chairman The Honorable Peter A. DeFazio Ranking Member Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives The Honorable Sam Graves Chairman The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton Ranking Member Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Transportation Infrastructure: Information on Bridge Conditions Bridge safety remains a high-priority issue for our transportation system. Despite recent progress in improving bridge conditions, 10 percent of the nation's 610,000 bridges were considered structurally deficient as of December 2014, according to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) National Bridge Inventory (NBI). FHWA, within the federal Department of Transportation (DOT), provides funding for the design, construction, maintenance, inspection, evaluation, protection, and preservation of the nation's bridges and oversees the implementation of the National Bridge Inspection Standards, among other duties. State-level DOTs are responsible for ensuring bridge inspections are completed and for inventorying bridges within their states according to federal standards. The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century Act (MAP-21)1 made some substantial changes in how bridge projects can be managed, funded, and prioritized by states.2 You asked us to determine what available federal bridge data indicate about the condition of bridges throughout the United States. This report examines the current conditions of the nation's bridges, as well as changes in bridge conditions that have occurred over the last 10 years. On September 22, 2015, we briefed committee staff on our preliminary findings, and this report transmits a final version of those briefing slides (see enclosure I for briefing slides). To conduct this work, we reviewed applicable laws, including MAP-21, and relevant FHWA program guidance and documents. We reviewed and analyzed FHWA's NBI data 1Pub. L. No. 112-141, § 1106,126 Stat. 405,432 (2012). 2MAP-21 authorizes funding, through the National Highway Performance Program and the Surface Transportation Program, to assist states in replacing and rehabilitating bridges. GAO-16-72R Highway Bridge Conditions Page 1

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