[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5626]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2226. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, 
Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 
3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety 
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Beginning on page 2639, strike line 6 and all that follows 
     through page 2642, line 16, and insert the following:
       (1) $27,500,000,000 shall be for a bridge replacement, 
     rehabilitation, preservation, protection, and construction 
     program, Provided further, That, except as otherwise provided 
     under this paragraph, the funds made available under this 
     paragraph shall be administered as if apportioned under 
     chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further, 
     That a project funded with funds made available under this 
     paragraph shall be treated as a project on a Federal-aid 
     highway: Provided further, That, of the funds made available 
     under this paragraph for a fiscal year, 3 percent shall be 
     set aside to carry out section 202(d) of title 23, United 
     States Code: Provided further, That funds set aside under the 
     preceding proviso to carry out section 202(d) of that title 
     shall be in addition to funds otherwise made available to 
     carry out that section and shall be administered as if made 
     available under that section: Provided further, That for 
     funds set aside under this paragraph to carry out section 
     202(d) of title 23, United States Code, the Federal share of 
     the costs shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That up to 
     \1/2\ of 1 percent of the amounts made available under this 
     paragraph in each fiscal year shall be for the administration 
     and operations of the Federal Highway Administration: 
     Provided further, That for the purposes of funds made 
     available under this heading for a bridge replacement and 
     rehabilitation program, (A) the term ``State'' means any of 
     the 50 States or the District of Columbia; and (B) the term 
     ``qualifying State'' means any State in which the percentage 
     of total deck area of bridges classified as in poor condition 
     in such State is at least 5 percent or in which the 
     percentage of total bridges classified as in poor condition 
     in such State is at least 5 percent: Provided further, That, 
     of the funds made available under this heading for a bridge 
     replacement and rehabilitation program, the Secretary shall 
     reserve $300,000,000 for each State that does not meet the 
     definition of a qualifying State: Provided further, That, 
     after making the reservations under the preceding proviso, 
     the Secretary shall distribute the remaining funds made 
     available under this heading for a bridge replacement and 
     rehabilitation program to each qualifying State by the 
     proportion that the percentage of total deck area of bridges 
     classified as in poor condition in such qualifying State 
     bears to the sum of the percentages of total deck area of 
     bridges classified as in poor condition in all qualifying 
     States: Provided further, That for the bridge replacement and 
     rehabilitation program, no qualifying State shall receive 
     more than $1,500,000,000, each State shall receive an amount 
     not less than $300,000,000, and after calculating the 
     distribution of funds pursuant to the preceding proviso, any 
     amount in excess of $1,500,000,000 shall be redistributed 
     equally among each State that does not meet the definition of 
     a qualifying State: Provided further, That funds provided to 
     States that do not meet the definition of a qualifying State 
     for the bridge replacement and rehabilitation program shall 
     be (A) merged with amounts made available to such State under 
     this paragraph; (B) available for activities eligible under 
     this paragraph; and (C) administered as if apportioned under 
     chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further, 
     That, except as provided in the preceding proviso, the funds 
     made available under this heading for a bridge replacement 
     and rehabilitation program shall be used for highway bridge 
     replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads: 
     Provided further, That for purposes of this heading for the 
     bridge replacement and rehabilitation program, the Secretary 
     shall calculate the percentages of total deck area of bridges 
     (including the percentages of total deck area classified as 
     in poor and the percentages of total bridge counts (including 
     the percentages of total bridges classified as in poor 
     condition) based on the National Bridge Inventory as of 
     December 31, 2018:
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