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Sec. 2 · H.R. 8998

Innovative hull designs

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The Transportation Research Board shall evaluate innovative hull designs, as well as the use of alternative material construction technologies, to include the use of carbon fiber, hybrids, and other composite fiber-reinforced polymers to enhance operational fleet performance and payload capacity of waterborne transit systems.

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