112 STAT. 156 PUBLIC LAW 105-178-JUNE 9, 1998 " (A) NATIONWIDE PRIORITY PROGRAM. — The Secretary shall establish a nationwide priority program for improving deficient Indian reservation road bridges. "(B) RESERVATION.—Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for Indian reservation roads for each fiscal year, the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall reserve not less than $13,000,000 for projects to replace, rehabilitate, seismically retrofit, paint, apply calcium magnesium acetate to, apply sodium acetate/ formate de-icer to, or install scour countermeasures for deficient Indian reservation road bridges-, including multiple-pipe culverts. "(C) ELIGIBLE BRIDGES.—TO be eligible to receive funding under this subsection, a bridge described in subparagraph (A) must— "(i) have an opening of 20 feet or more; "(ii) be on an Indian reservation road; "(iii) be unsafe because of structural deficiencies, physical deterioration, or functional obsolescence; and "(iv) be recorded in the national bridge inventory administered by the Secretary under subsection (b). "(D) APPROVAL REQUIREMENT.— Funds to carry out Indian reservation road bridge projects under this subsection shall be made available only on approval of plans, specifications, and estimates by the Secretary."; and (5) by indenting paragraph (1) (as designated by paragraph (2) of this paragraph) and aligning paragraph (1) with paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) (as added by paragraph (4) of this paragraph). 23 USC 203. (c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. —Section 203 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authorization by the Secretary of engineering and related work for a Federal lands highways program project, or the approval by the Secretary of plans, specifications, and estimates for construction of a Federal lands highways program project, shall be deemed to constitute a contractual obligation of the Federal Government to pay the Federal share of the cost of the project.". (d) PLANNING AND AGENCY COORDINATION.—Section 204 of such title is amended— (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: " (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— Recognizing the need for all Federal roads that are public roads to be treated under uniform policies similar to the policies that apply to Federal-aid highways, there is established a coordinated Federal lands highways program that shall apply to public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and Indian reservation roads and bridges. "(2) TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCEDURES.—In consultation with the Secretary of each appropriate Federal land management agency, the Secretary shall develop, by rule, transportation planning procedures that are consistent with the metropolitan and statewide planning processes required under sections 134 and 135. " (3) APPROVAL OF TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PRO- GRAM.— The transportation improvement program developed as
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