[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5783]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2454. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself and Mr. Padilla) 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:

        At the end of section 30005 in division C, add the 
     following:
       (c) Federal Share Adjustments.--
       (1) In general.--In addition to amounts made available 
     under section 5338 of title 49, United States Code, there are 
     authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 such sums 
     as are necessary to increase the Federal share, at the 
     request of a project sponsor, of a new fixed guideway capital 
     project, a core capacity improvement project, or a small 
     start project (as those terms are defined in section 5309(a) 
     of that title) that--
       (A) is not open to revenue service; and
       (B) has received an allocation of funding in any of fiscal 
     years 2019, 2020, and 2021.
       (2) Criteria.--In allocating amounts made available under 
     paragraph (1) to projects described in that subsection, the 
     Secretary of Transportation shall take into consideration the 
     extent to which a project sponsor demonstrates a need for a 
     higher Federal share, including the extent to which--
       (A) the project sponsor made a local financial commitment 
     that exceeded 20 percent of the cost of the project; and
       (B) the project sponsor has experienced, as a result of the 
     public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health 
     Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with 
     respect to COVID-19, a loss of revenue that would otherwise 
     be used by the project sponsor to provide the non-Federal 
     share for the project.
       (3) Adjustment.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, if the project sponsor of a project described in 
     subsection (a) meets 1 or both of the criteria described in 
     subsection (b), the Secretary of Transportation shall 
     increase the Federal share of the project by not more than 30 
     percent, up to a maximum of Federal share of 80 percent.
       (4) Amount.--Amounts made available under this section 
     shall be provided to a project described in subsection (a) 
     notwithstanding the limitation of any calculation of the 
     maximum amount of Federal financial assistance that may be 
     provided to that project.
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