[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2746 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2746

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional 
                   transportation assistance grants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2009

  Mr. Carnahan (for himself and Ms. Matsui) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional 
                   transportation assistance grants.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF TRANSIT OPERATING ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 5307(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amended as 
follows:
            (1) In paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ``, or an 
                urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 if 
                the State or regional authority providing public 
                transportation for the area operates less than 100 
                buses in fixed-route service in the area during peak 
                service hours'' after ``200,000'';
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as 
                subparagraphs (J) and (K), respectively; and
                    (C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the 
                following new subparagraphs:
                    ``(E) operating costs of equipment and facilities 
                for use in public transportation in an urbanized area 
                with a population of 200,000 or more, but not more than 
                400,000, if the State or regional authority providing 
                public transportation for the area operates at least 
                100 buses in fixed-route service in the area during 
                peak service hours;
                    ``(F) operating costs of equipment and facilities 
                for use in public transportation in an urbanized area 
                with a population of 400,000 or more, but not more than 
                600,000;
                    ``(G) operating costs of equipment and facilities 
                for use in public transportation in an urbanized area 
                with a population of 600,000 or more, but not more than 
                800,000;
                    ``(H) operating costs of equipment and facilities 
                for use in public transportation in an urbanized area 
                with a population of 800,000 or more, but not more than 
                1,000,000;
                    ``(I) operating costs of equipment and facilities 
                for use in public transportation in an urbanized area 
                with a population of 1,000,000 or more;''.
            (2) By redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3).
            (3) By inserting the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Limitations on certain grants established under 
        paragraph (1).--
                    ``(A) With respect to a grant made under paragraph 
                (1)(E), not more than 50 percent of the funds available 
                to carry out this section shall be made available for 
                such grant.
                    ``(B) With respect to a grant made under paragraph 
                (1)(F), not more than 45 percent of the funds available 
                to carry out this section shall be made available for 
                such grant.
                    ``(C) With respect to a grant made under paragraph 
                (1)(G), not more than 40 percent of the funds available 
                to carry out this section shall be made available for 
                such grant.
                    ``(D) With respect to a grant made under paragraph 
                (1)(H), not more than 35 percent of the funds available 
                to carry out this section shall be made available for 
                such grant.
                    ``(E) With respect to a grant made under paragraph 
                (1)(I), not more than 30 percent of the funds available 
                to carry out this section shall be made available for 
                such grant.''.
            (4) By amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
            ``(3) Conditional use of funds in an urbanized area with a 
        population of at least 200,000.--
                    ``(A) In addition to the grants available under 
                subparagraphs (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), and 
                (K) of paragraph (1), the Secretary may award grants, 
                from funds made available to carry out this section for 
                each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2015, to finance 
                the operating cost of equipment and facilities for use 
                in public transportation in an urbanized area with a 
                population of at least 200,000, if the designated 
                recipient's percentage of revenue for the operating 
                cost of equipment and facilities for use in public 
                transportation from non-Federal sources, excluding 
                farebox revenue, is greater than such revenue from the 
                previous fiscal year. The amount available for a grant 
                under this paragraph shall not exceed the percentage of 
                such increase.
                    ``(B) In addition to the grants made available 
                under subparagraphs (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), 
                and (K) of paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A) of this 
                paragraph, the Secretary may award grants, from funds 
                made available to carry out this section for each of 
                the fiscal years 2010 through 2015, to finance the 
                operating cost of equipment and facilities for use in 
                public transportation in an urbanized area with a 
                population of 200,000 or more, if the designated 
                recipient was awarded a grant under the Transit 
                Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction 
                program, authorized under the American Recovery and 
                Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-105; 123 Stat. 
                209), and demonstrates that such recipient has 
                achieved--
                            ``(i) a minimum 10 percent total energy 
                        savings as a result of the project funded by 
                        the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and 
                        Energy Reduction grant;
                            ``(ii) a minimum 10 percent energy savings 
                        as a percentage of the total energy usage of 
                        the public transit agency as a result of the 
                        project; or
                            ``(iii) a minimum 10 percent total 
                        greenhouse gas emission reduction as a result 
                        of the project.
                    ``(C) Not less than 10 percent of the funds 
                available to carry out this section shall be made 
                available for the grants under subparagraph (B).''.
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