[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 349

To require the Secretary of Transportation to request nominations for, 
  and make determinations regarding, roads to be designated under the 
        national scenic byways program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 2019

Ms. Collins (for herself and Mr. Cardin) 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 require the Secretary of Transportation to request nominations for, 
  and make determinations regarding, roads to be designated under the 
        national scenic byways program, 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 ``Reviving America's Scenic Byways 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAYS PROGRAM.

    (a) Request for Nominations.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall publish 
in the Federal Register and on the appropriate website of the 
Department of Transportation a request for nominations for roads to be 
designated under the national scenic byways program under section 162 
of title 23, United States Code.
    (b) Designation Determinations.--Not earlier than 1 year, and not 
later than 1 year and 30 days, after the date on which a request for 
nominations is published under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
Transportation shall--
            (1) make a determination on each nomination received 
        pursuant to the request; and
            (2) publish in the Federal Register and on the appropriate 
        website of the Department of Transportation a list of the roads 
        that the Secretary has selected to be designated under the 
        national scenic byways program under section 162 of title 23, 
        United States Code.
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