[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 145 (Thursday, August 13, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5412-S5413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2651. Ms. McSALLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end, add the following:

     SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION GRANTS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the Secretary of Transportation shall use any amounts 
     made available to the Secretary for grant programs for 
     covered projects, and not otherwise obligated, to provide 
     additional funds to covered projects.
       (b) Amount.--In providing additional funds for a covered 
     project under subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation 
     shall provide an amount equal to not less than 10 percent of 
     the total project costs.
       (c) Federal Share.--Amounts made available for a covered 
     project under subsection (a) shall not be counted toward the 
     Federal share of the project.
       (d) Modifications to Agreements.--The Secretary of 
     Transportation shall modify a grant agreement for a covered 
     project as necessary to provide additional funds under 
     subsection (a) in accordance with the amount determined under 
     subsection (b).
       (e) Definition of Covered Project.--In this section, the 
     term ``covered project'' means a highway project, a public 
     transportation project, a rural transportation project, or a 
     tribal transportation project that--
       (1) during the period beginning on January 1, 2017, and 
     ending on the date of enactment of this Act--
       (A) has been awarded a grant under a competitive grant 
     program of the Secretary of Transportation; or

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       (B) in the case of a new fixed guideway capital project 
     proposed to be carried out using a grant under section 5309 
     of title 49, United States Code, advanced to the engineering 
     phase under subsection (g) of that section; and
       (2) requires additional funding to complete the project due 
     to the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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