[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1734 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1734

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to waive the state of good 
repair certification requirement for participants in the pilot program 
                    for expedited project delivery.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 9, 2015

   Mr. Kirk introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to waive the state of good 
repair certification requirement for participants in the pilot program 
                    for expedited project delivery.

    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 ``Expedite Transit Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF STATE OF GOOD REPAIR CERTIFICATION FOR PILOT PROGRAM 
              FOR EXPEDITED PROJECT DELIVERY.

    Section 20008(b) of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 
Century Act (49 U.S.C. 5309 note; Public Law 112-141) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5)(D), by inserting before ``a 
        certification'' the following: ``except as provided in 
        paragraph (8),''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) Waiver of state of good repair certification.--The 
        Secretary may waive the requirement under paragraph (5)(D) for 
        a recipient that seeks to carry out a core capacity improvement 
        project if the Secretary determines that the project will allow 
        the recipient to make substantial progress in achieving a state 
        of good repair for the recipient's public transportation 
        system.''.
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