To require the Secretary of Transportation to develop and implement an environmental review process for safety emergency highway projects.

H.R. 1086 aims to speed up the repair and improvement of dangerous sections of highways by streamlining the environmental review process. Under this bill, the Department of Transportation would create an expedited approval system for safety projects in areas where the accident rate is at least 50 percent higher than the state average.

For citizens, this legislation is intended to reduce the time it takes to implement safety measures—such as fixing hazardous intersections or road curves—by allowing agencies to bypass certain lengthy procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). By accelerating these specific construction and maintenance projects, the bill seeks to more quickly reduce motor vehicle accidents and improve overall road safety in high-risk locations.