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Appendix D Legislation Establishing the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Appendix D Legislation Establishing the Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Pages 127-136
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Providing data, statistics, and analysis to transportation decision makers. -- Ensuring that the statistics compiled under paragraph (5) are designed to support transportation decision making by the Federal Government, State and local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, transportation-related asso ciations, the private sector (including the freight community)
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(4) Encouraging data standardization. -- Encouraging the standard ization of data, data collection methods, and data management and storage technologies for data collected by the Bureau, the operating administrations of the Department of Transportation, States, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, and private sector entities.
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12906, including coordinat ing the development of transportation geospatial data standards, compiling intermodal geospatial data, and collecting geospatial data that is not being collected by others.
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(3) Consultation. -- In developing the assessment, the National Research Council shall consult with the Department's Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics and a representative cross section of transportation community stakeholders as well as other Federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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information on the volumes and patterns of movement of goods, including local, interregional, and international movement, by all modes of transportation and intermodal combinations and by relevant classification; (B) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of people, including local, interregional, and international movements, by all modes of transportation (including bicycle and pedestrian modes)
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(h) Mandatory Response Authority for Freight Data Collection. -- Whoever, being the owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the person in charge of any freight corporation, company, business, institution, establishment, or organization of any nature whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Director or other autho rized officer, employee, or contractor of the Bureau, to answer com pletely and correctly to the best of the individual's knowledge all questions relating to the corporation, company, business, institution, establishment, or other organization, or to make available records or statistics in the individual's official custody, contained in a data collection request prepared and submitted under the authority of subsection (c)
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for a nonstatistical purpose; or (C) permit anyone other than an individual authorized by the Director to examine any individual report provided under subsection (c)
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(n) Proceeds of Data Product Sales. -- Notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, funds received by the Bureau from the sale of data products, for necessary expenses incurred, may be credited to the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account)
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; and (C) advise the Director on methods to encourage cooperation and interoperability of transportation data collected by the Bureau, the operating administrations of the Department, States, local governments, metropolitan planning organiza tions, and private sector entities.
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