---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 U.S.C. § 318"
title: "23"
title_heading: "Highways"
number: "318"
heading: "Highway relocation due to airport"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/23/318"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — General Provisions"
---

# §318. Highway relocation due to airport


Federal [highway](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-11) funds shall not be used for the reconstruction or relocation of any [highway](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-11) giving access to an airport constructed or extended after December 20, 1944, or for the reconstruction or relocation of any [highway](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-11) which has been or may be closed or the usefulness of which has been may be impaired by the location or [construction](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-4) of any airport constructed or extended after December 20, 1944, unless, prior to such [construction](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-4) or extension, as the case may be, the [State transportation department](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-31) and the [Secretary](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-27) have concurred with the officials in charge of the airport that the location of such airport or extension thereof and the consequent reconstruction or relocation of the [highway](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-11) are in the public interest.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–767, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 916; Pub. L. 105–178, title I, § 1212(a)(2)(A)(i), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 193.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–178 substituted “State transportation department” for “State highway department”.