Consultants shall provide monthly submissions of files unless otherwise directed by the District Bridge Inspection Office.

All data included in the Bridge Record are prepared to meet the requirements of the National Bridge Inspection. Texas requires that updates to AssetWise, the Bridge Inspection Management System, be made within three (3) months for all bridges. This includes updating inspection findings, adding new bridges to the inventory, documenting modifications to existing bridges, and making changes to the status of bridges (load posting changes and closures).

All bridge inspections will be performed within, or before, the anniversary month of the previous inspection based on National Bridge Inventory Items 90 and 91 [SNBI Items B.IE.02 and B.IE.05]. If the inspection is performed, or planned to be performed, after the anniversary month of the previous inspection, the inspector shall provide an explanatory statement on a coversheet, to be added to the bridge inspection report, citing the reason (e.g., scheduling flexibility or weather delays). TxDOT will notify FHWA in advance of the anticipated delinquency when any type of bridge inspection (e.g. routine, underwater, or nonredundant steel tension member) will occur later than one month past the anniversary month.