Section 4
SEC. 4. Section nine of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 9. Fund for rehabilitation, betterment, and improvement. — The balance of the Highway Special Fund after deducting the amounts allocated in the preceding sections shall be allocated for the rehabilitation, betterment, and improvement of national highways, provincial, city and municipal roads. (a) Forty per centum of this amount shall be programmed for all national roads within the country in accordance with the following priorities. First priority shall be given to rehabilitation. If betterment works are required on a road section identified as needing rehabilitation, both shall be programmed simultaneously with equal priorities; Second priority shall be given to replacement of temporary bridges; Third priority shall be given to betterment of existing roads where rehabilitation is not required; and Fourth priority shall be given to the improvement of existing roads to a higher class. (b) Thirty per centum of this amount shall be allocated among the regional engineering divisions to be programmed using the same priorities as specified in subsection (a) above. In the event two or more projects are of the same priority, the regional director, in the exercise of his discretion, shall determine which of these projects should be given first priority. (c) An amount not exceeding fourteen per centum of the sums allotted in the preceding Subsections (a) and (b) shall be allotted for final design engineering and engineering supervision associated with work paid for from this fund. (d) Thirty per centum of this amount shall be programmed for all national aid, provincial or city roads or provincial, city and municipal roads funded partly or wholly by national funds within the country in accordance with the same priority as specified in subsection (a) above. For this purpose, every provincial engineer/city engineer shall from time to time submit programs for rehabilitation, betterment and improvement to the Commissioner of Public Highways for approval."