[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1818 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1818

      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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 8, 2011

 Ms. Stabenow introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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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) assists in the establishment of an 
                        aerotropolis transportation system; and
                            ``(ii) meets the eligibility requirement 
                        set forth in subsection (d).''.
    (b) Aerotropolis Transportation System Defined.--Section 1301(c) of 
SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (1) as paragraph (3); and
            (3) by inserting before paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(1) Aerotropolis transportation system.--The term 
        `aerotropolis transportation system' means a planned and 
        coordinated multimodal freight and passenger transportation 
        network that the Secretary determines will provide efficient, 
        cost-effective, sustainable, and intermodal connectivity to a 
        defined region of economic significance centered around a major 
        airport.''.
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