[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1371 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1371

      To amend SAFETEA-LU to ensure that projects that assist the 
 establishment of aerotropolis transportation systems are eligible for 
                certain grants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 5, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend SAFETEA-LU to ensure that projects that assist the 
 establishment of aerotropolis transportation systems are eligible for 
                certain grants, 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 ``Aerotropolis Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PROJECTS OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.

    (a) Eligible Project Defined.--Section 1301(c)(2) of SAFETEA-LU (23 
U.S.C. 101 note) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) Eligible project.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The term `eligible project' 
                means any surface transportation project eligible for 
                Federal assistance under title 23, United States Code, 
                including freight railroad projects and activities 
                eligible under such title.
                    ``(B) Inclusion of aerotropolis transportation 
                system projects.--The term `eligible project' includes 
                a combination of projects described in subparagraph (A) 
                that, as a group--
                            ``(i) assist the establishment of an 
                        aerotropolis transportation system; and
                            ``(ii) satisfy the requirement under 
                        subsection (d).''.
    (b) Aerotropolis Transportation System Defined.--Section 1301(c) of 
SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(4) Aerotropolis transportation system.--The term 
        `aerotropolis transportation system' means a planned and 
        coordinated multimodal freight and passenger transportation 
        network that, as determined by the Secretary, provides 
        efficient, cost-effective, sustainable, and intermodal 
        connectivity to a defined region of economic significance 
        centered around a major airport.''.
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