[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR650.311]

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                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 650--BRIDGES, STRUCTURES, AND HYDRAULICS--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C--National Bridge Inspection Standards
 
Sec. 650.311  Inventory.

    (a) Each State shall prepare and maintain an inventory of all bridge 
structures subject to the Standards. Under these Standards, certain 
structure inventory and appraisal data must be collected and retained 
within the various departments of the State organization for collection 
by the Federal Highway Administration as needed. A tabulation of this 
data is contained in the structure inventory and appraisal sheet 
distributed by the Federal Highway Administration as part of the 
Recording and Coding Guide for the Structure Inventory and Appraisal of 
the Nation's Bridges (Coding Guide) in January of 1979. Reporting 
procedures have been developed by the Federal Highway Administration.
    (b) Newly completed structures, modification of existing structures 
which would alter previously recorded data on the inventory forms or 
placement of load restriction signs on the approaches to or at the 
structure itself

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shall be entered in the State's inspection reports and the computer 
inventory file as promptly as practical, but no later than 90 days after 
the change in the status of the structure for bridges directly under the 
State's jurisdiction and no later than 180 days after the change in 
status of the structure for all other bridges on public roads within the 
State.

[44 FR 25435, May 1, 1979, as amended at 53 FR 32617, Aug. 26, 1988]