[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6534 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6534

To rescind certain earmark projects under SAFETEA-LU for the purpose of 
  eliminating the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2008

  Mr. Flake introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To rescind certain earmark projects under SAFETEA-LU for the purpose of 
  eliminating the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Resist Offsetting with Additional 
Debt Act'' or the ``ROAD Act''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSIONS.

    (a) SAFETEA-LU Rescissions.--Subject to subsection (b), the 
unobligated balances of funds made available for the following 
provisions of SAFETEA-LU (Public Law 109-59), or made available by 
amendments made by the following provisions of SAFETEA-LU, are hereby 
rescinded:
            (1) Section 1114 (highway bridge program).
            (2) Section 1301 (projects of national and regional 
        significance).
            (3) Section 1302 (national corridor infrastructure 
        improvement program).
            (4) Section 1306 (freight intermodal distribution pilot 
        grant program).
            (5) Section 1702 (high priority projects).
            (6) Section 1801 (construction of ferry boats and ferry 
        terminal facilities).
            (7) Section 1807 (nonmotorized transportation pilot 
        program).
            (8) Section 1934 (transportation improvements).
            (9) Section 1937 (roads in closed basins).
            (10) Section 1940 (Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National 
        Park, Montana).
            (11) Section 1943 (Great Lakes ITS implementation).
            (12) Section 1944 (transportation construction and 
        remediation, Ottawa County, Oklahoma).
            (13) Section 1945 (infrastructure awareness program).
            (14) Section 1957 (traffic circle construction, Clarendon, 
        Vermont).
            (15) Section 1960 (Denali access system program).
            (16) Section 1961 (I-95/Contee Road interchange study).
            (17) Section 1962 (multimodal facility improvements).
            (18) Section 3011 (capital investment grants).
            (19) Section 3044 (bus and bus facilities).
            (20) Section 5203 (technology deployment).
            (21) Section 5309 (centers for surface transportation 
        excellence).
            (22) Section 5505 (transportation scholarship opportunities 
        program).
            (23) Section 5513 (research grants).
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) applies to the unobligated 
balances that are--
            (1) available on the date of enactment of this Act; and
            (2) the result of a congressional earmark.
    (c) Limitation on Recalculation of Equity Bonus Program.--
            (1) No recalculation.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, the amounts determined, and the amounts allocated, 
        under section 105 of title 23, United States Code, for a fiscal 
        year shall not be recalculated to take into account a 
        rescission made by this section.
            (2) Obligation limitation.--Any unobligated balances of 
        obligation limitation made available for the projects rescinded 
        by section 2 of this Act in the Consolidated Appropriations 
        Act, 2005, the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban 
        Development, the District of Columbia, and other Independent 
        Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, the Department of Defense 
        Appropriations Act, 2007, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
        2008, and any other appropriations acts, are hereby rescinded.
    (d) Definition.--The term ``congressional earmark'' has the meaning 
given such term in clause 9(d) of Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. NO TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

    Except as provided by section 9503(b) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986, amounts in the General Fund of the Treasury shall not be made 
available for the purpose of alleviating a deficit in the Highway Trust 
Fund.

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that State departments of 
transportation should consider implementing those projects described in 
section 144(g)(1)(A) of title 23, United States Code, and in the tables 
contained in sections 1301, 1302, 1702, 1934, and 3044 of the SAFETEA-
LU (Public Law 109-59) if such projects involve improving 
transportation safety.
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