有史以来第一次可以建造或重建联邦道路，桥梁和相关基础设施，以更好地承受高速公路法案下的气候变化影响approved参议院环境和公共工程委员会7月30日。

这项2870亿美元的高速公路法案将在五年内为弹性项目提供49亿美元的赔偿，这些项目将减少经常造成的损害的风险或由于海平面上升，洪水和其他自然灾害而导致的未来维修成本。新利18备用网址该法案的气候变化标题还包括50亿美元，以供各州降低与高速公路相关的碳排放，建立替代车辆充电站，减少交通拥堵并减少港口闲置的卡车。

“We have to deal with the resilience and adaptation, it’s our responsibility,” Sen. Ben Cardin, (D-Del.) said before the 21-0 vote.

包括弹性措施在内的总法案得到了工程和环境团体的认可。

“与我们的公司合作，运输机构的任务是应对并从洪水，飓风，滑坡和野火等危害中恢复并恢复，这些危害威胁着人类生命并破坏社区和州的关键服务。[此表面运输重新授权法案提供了提高弹性和耐用性所需的资源，以便结构可以更好地抵抗损害，灾难后可以更准确地评估基础设施，并且系统可以更快地恢复服务，”美国工程公司理事会。在一份声明中说。

The Natural Resources Defense Council praised the pro-climate policies in the bill, but criticized other provisions in the highway bill, such as ending review of gas-gathering pipelines on federal lands, as “giveaways” to industry.

The title defines resilience as “the ability to anticipate, prepare for, or adapt to conditions or withstand, respond to and recover rapidly from disruptions.”

弹力measures that could be funded through the bill include: relocating roadways to a higher elevation, stabilizing slopes, replacing culverts with bridges or upsizing culverts, tide gates, and even improving natural features, such as marshes adjacent to highways, to increase water storage. The highway bill would also fund resilience measures for highway infrastructure that could be affected by drought, wildfires, rockslides, levee and dam failure, and earthquakes. Priority will be given to highways that are evacuation routes.

标题下，将根据公式将39亿美元的资金分发给各州，而10亿美元的资金将用于竞争赠款。

弹性测量受到Portlan的欢迎d Cement Association, which has been suggesting a life-cycle cost analysis as a way to ensure that resilience is a palatable concept for everyone involved.

“A life cycle analysis … allows the people making the decisions to, to take an engineering and economic analysis of the long-term costs or the overall cost of our project,” Mike Ireland, president and CEO of PCA said in a conversation with ENR early this month. “Oftentimes the cheapest solution may not be the best long-term solution. If you've got an asset like a highway, you want that to last 60, 70 a hundred years.”

Under the bill, a life-cycle analysis isn’t required for resilience projects. Following the Senate committee vote the PCA said it will be closely tracking the resiliency provisions in the bill.