[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 23, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 23CFR650.403]

[Page 235]
 
                           TITLE 23--HIGHWAYS
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 650_BRIDGES, STRUCTURES, AND HYDRAULICS--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart D_Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program
 
Sec. 650.403  Definition of terms.

    As used in this regulation:
    (a) Bridge. A structure, including supports, erected over a 
depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway, or a railway, 
having a track or passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads, 
and having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more 
than 20 feet between undercopings of abutments or spring lines of 
arches, or extreme ends of the openings for multiple boxes; it may 
include multiple pipes where the clear distance between openings is less 
than half of the smaller contiguous opening.
    (b) Sufficiency rating. The numerical rating of a bridge based on 
its structural adequacy and safety, essentiality for public use, and its 
serviceability and functional obsolescence.
    (c) Rehabilitation. The major work required to restore the 
structural integrity of a bridge as well as work necessary to correct 
major safety defects.