Safe Routes Act of 2023

Safe Routes Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles.

The term covered logging vehicle means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance not greater than 150 air miles from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2493 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2493

 To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to vehicle weight 
   limitations for certain logging vehicles, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2023

  Mr. Gallagher (for himself and Mr. Golden of Maine) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to vehicle weight 
   limitations for certain logging vehicles, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Routes Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. VEHICLE WEIGHT EXEMPTIONS.

    Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(x) Certain Logging Vehicles.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall waive, with respect 
        to a covered logging vehicle, the application of any vehicle 
        weight limit established under this section.
            ``(2) Covered logging vehicle defined.--In this subsection, 
        the term `covered logging vehicle' means a vehicle that--
                    ``(A) is transporting raw or unfinished forest 
                products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood 
                chips;
                    ``(B) is traveling a distance not greater than 150 
                air miles on the Interstate from origin to a storage or 
                processing facility; and
                    ``(C) meets State legal weight tolerances and 
                vehicle configurations for transporting raw or 
                unfinished forest products within the State boundaries 
                in which the vehicle is operating.
            ``(3) Application of weight tolerances.--The waiver in this 
        subsection shall only apply with respect to a State legal 
        weight tolerance in effect on the date of enactment of this 
        subsection.''.
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