[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3173 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3173

    To improve the implementation of the environmental streamlining 
   provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 5 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

 Mr. Smith of New Hampshire (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. 
Thomas, Mr. Bond, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Crapo, Mr. L. Chafee, Mr. Baucus, 
Mr. Moynihan, and Mr. Graham) introduced the following bill; which was 
                          read the first time

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                                 A BILL


 
    To improve the implementation of the environmental streamlining 
   provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Environmental Streamlining 
Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. RULEMAKING.

    (a) Publication of Revised Notices of Proposed Rulemaking.--Taking 
into consideration the comments submitted concerning the proposed 
rulemaking entitled ``Statewide Transportation Planning; Metropolitan 
Transportation Planning'', and the proposed rulemaking entitled ``NEPA 
and Related Procedures for Transportation Decisonmaking, Protection of 
Public Parks, Wildlife and Waterfowl Refuges, and Historic Sites'', 
notice of which was published on May 25, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 33922, 
33960), the Secretary of Transportation shall publish in the Federal 
Register for a period of public comment of not less than 120 days 
revised notices of proposed rulemaking--
            (1) to implement the planning and environmental 
        streamlining provisions of sections 1203 and 1204 (and the 
        amendments made by those sections) and 1308 and 1309 of the 
        Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 170, 
        231); and
            (2) to address the other matters covered by the notices of 
        proposed rulemaking published on May 25, 2000.
    (b) Promulgation of Final Rules.--The Secretary of Transportation 
shall not promulgate final rules (including interim final rules) to 
implement the planning and environmental streamlining provisions and 
address the other matters described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
subsection (a) until on or after May 1, 2001.
    (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than the date on which the 
revised notices of proposed rulemaking under subsection (a) are 
published in the Federal Register, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the 
Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives--
            (1) a summary of each revised proposed rulemaking; and
            (2) a detailed description of the differences between the 
        revised notices of proposed rulemaking and the notices of 
        proposed rulemaking published on May 25, 2000.
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