H.R. 3684: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Bill · 117th Congress (2021–2022). Became law, 15 Nov 2021 · Public Law 117-58. Introduced 4 Jun 2021.

Official title: To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes.

Vote results

House, 5 Nov 2021: Passed, 228 Yea, 206 Nay, 0 Present, 0 Not voting. The House’s roll call
Senate, 10 Aug 2021: Bill Passed, 69 Yea, 30 Nay, 0 Present, 1 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
President: Signed 15 Nov 2021 · Public Law 117-58

How each member voted

White House

Signed (1): Joseph Biden (D, President).

Not in office (2): Donald Trump (R, President); Mike Pence (R, Vice President).

Senate

Yea (69): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT); Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Patty Murray (D-WA); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Richard Burr (R-NC); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Roy Blunt (R-MO); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Rob Portman (R-OH); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Jon Tester (D-MT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); James E. Risch (R-ID); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Joe Manchin, III (D-WV); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); John Hoeven (R-ND); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).

Nay (30): Richard C. Shelby (R-AL); James M. Inhofe (R-OK); Jerry Moran (R-KS); John Thune (R-SD); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA); John Barrasso (R-WY); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Tim Scott (R-SC); Todd Young (R-IN); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Ben Sasse (R-NE); John Kennedy (R-LA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

Not voting (1): Mike Rounds (R-SD).

Not in office (2): Kamala D. Harris (D-CA); Kelly Loeffler (R-GA).

House

Yea (228): Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR-4); Fred Upton (R-MI-6); Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); David E. Price (D-NC-4); Jim Cooper (D-TN-5); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-18); Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30); Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY-12); Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40); Bobby L. Rush (D-IL-1); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19); Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); Ron Kind (D-WI-3); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9); Brad Sherman (D-CA-30); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); Barbara Lee (D-CA-13); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-32); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Mike Thompson (D-CA-5); James R. Langevin (D-RI-2); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-28); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-3); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); Tim Ryan (D-OH-13); David Scott (D-GA-13); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-16); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Al Green (D-TX-9); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-6); Albio Sires (D-NJ-8); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); Jerry McNerney (D-CA-9); Ed Perlmutter (D-CO-7); John P. Sarbanes (D-MD-3); Peter Welch (D-VT-AL); John A. Yarmuth (D-KY-3); André Carson (D-IN-7); Jackie Speier (D-CA-14); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Kurt Schrader (D-OR-5); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Judy Chu (D-CA-27); John Garamendi (D-CA-3); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); Karen Bass (D-CA-37); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16); David B. McKinley (R-WV-1); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-7); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Cheri Bustos (D-IL-17); Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29); Lois Frankel (D-FL-21); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI-5); Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6); Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ-2); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); Alan S. Lowenthal (D-CA-47); Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY-18); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-52); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-36); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15); Mark Takano (D-CA-41); Juan Vargas (D-CA-51); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-31); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-11); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-12); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7); John Katko (R-NY-24); Brenda L. Lawrence (D-MI-14); Ted Lieu (D-CA-33); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Kathleen M. Rice (D-NY-4); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL); Anthony G. Brown (D-MD-4); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Val Butler Demings (D-FL-10); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-15); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); Al Lawson, Jr. (D-FL-5); Stephanie N. Murphy (D-FL-7); Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ-1); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); Conor Lamb (D-PA-17); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Susan Wild (D-PA-7); Colin Z. Allred (D-TX-32); Cynthia Axne (D-IA-3); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH-16); Josh Harder (D-CA-10); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Andy Levin (D-MI-9); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Elaine G. Luria (D-VA-2); Tom Malinowski (D-NJ-7); Lucy McBath (D-GA-6); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); Katie Porter (D-CA-45); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-8); Abigail Davis Spanberger (D-VA-7); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-9); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); David J. Trone (D-MD-6); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA-7); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53); Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17); Kaiali’i Kahele (D-HI-2); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Kathy E. Manning (D-NC-6); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Marie Newman (D-IL-3); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Don Young (R-AK-AL); Michael F. Doyle (D-PA-18); G. K. Butterfield (D-NC-1); Theodore E. Deutch (D-FL-22); Tom Reed (R-NY-23); Filemon Vela (D-TX-34); A. Donald McEachin (D-VA-4); Charlie Crist (D-FL-13); Antonio Delgado (D-NY-19).

Nay (206): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Ken Calvert (R-CA-42); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Steve Chabot (R-OH-1); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Kevin Brady (R-TX-8); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); Michael C. Burgess (R-TX-26); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-50); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Louie Gohmert (R-TX-1); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-5); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-7); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-3); Tom McClintock (R-CA-4); Bill Posey (R-FL-8); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Mo Brooks (R-AL-5); Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Bob Gibbs (R-OH-7); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-4); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-4); Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA-3); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-2); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); Billy Long (R-MO-7); Steven M. Palazzo (R-MS-4); David Schweikert (R-AZ-6); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Rodney Davis (R-IL-13); Richard Hudson (R-NC-8); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Markwayne Mullin (R-OK-2); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Tom Rice (R-SC-7); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH-2); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Garret Graves (R-LA-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); Jody B. Hice (R-GA-10); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-4); Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-2); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); Lee M. Zeldin (R-NY-1); David G. Valadao (R-CA-21); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Darin LaHood (R-IL-18); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Jim Banks (R-IN-3); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Ted Budd (R-NC-13); Liz Cheney (R-WY-AL); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); A. Drew Ferguson IV (R-GA-3); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN-9); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-18); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-4); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ron Estes (R-KS-4); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); John R. Curtis (R-UT-3); Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-3); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Greg Pence (R-IN-6); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); Van Taylor (R-TX-3); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-22); Fred Keller (R-PA-12); Dan Bishop (R-NC-9); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Mike Garcia (R-CA-25); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Chris Jacobs (R-NY-27); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-3); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Jerry L. Carl (R-AL-1); Madison Cawthorn (R-NC-11); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-15); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-26); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23); Bob Good (R-VA-5); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Yvette Herrell (R-NM-2); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-1); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Young Kim (R-CA-39); Jake LaTurner (R-KS-2); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-10); Peter Meijer (R-MI-3); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-2); Barry Moore (R-AL-2); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-8); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT-AL); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Michelle Steel (R-CA-48); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Devin Nunes (R-CA-22); Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE-1); Jackie Walorski (R-IN-2); Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-1).

Not in office (15): Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20); Connie Conway (R-CA-22); Mayra Flores (R-TX-34); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK-AL); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-19); Joseph Sempolinski (R-NY-23); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL-20); Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH-11); Steve Stivers (R-OH-15); Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-2); Debra A. Haaland (D-NM-1); Ron Wright (R-TX-6).

Summary

Main subject: Authorizes and funds federal highway, safety, rail, transit, energy, water, broadband and related infrastructure programs, makes Highway Trust Fund and tax changes, and provides fiscal year 2022 appropriations. Division A, Division B, Division C, Division D, Division E, Division F, Division G, Division H, Division J

Its core areas: Federal-aid highway authorizations and program rules; Highway, vehicle, and motor carrier safety; Passenger rail and rail safety; Public transit formula and capital grants; Transportation research, planning, and project delivery; Electric grid, energy supply chains, and carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, and hydropower programs; Abandoned mine, orphaned well, wildfire, and western water programs; Drinking water and wastewater infrastructure grants and loan funds; Broadband deployment, digital equity, and broadband affordability; Cybersecurity grants and Buy America sourcing requirements; Highway Trust Fund, excise tax, and bond provisions; Fiscal year 2022 appropriations and Minority Business Development Agency programs.

Unexpected Items: 215 provisions

These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.

Not related to the bill’s main subject (96)

Sec. 11318: Certain gathering lines located on Federal land and Indian land: Allows the Secretary of the Interior to treat the issuance of a sundry notice or right-of-way for oil and gas gathering lines on Federal land or Indian land as a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act, if listed conditions are met.
Sec. 11506: Appalachian Regional Commission: Adds named counties to the Appalachian Regional Commission region, authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and creates an energy hub initiative funded at $5,000,000 per year, with different cost-share limits for distressed and at-risk counties.
Sec. 12001: Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998 amendments: Amends TIFIA credit assistance to make airport-related projects eligible if the Secretary received a letter of interest and found eligibility by September 30, 2025, and caps their share of TIFIA funds at 15 percent.
Sec. 21203: National culvert removal, replacement, and restoration grant program: Creates an annual competitive grant program for replacing, removing, and repairing culverts or weirs to improve fish passage for anadromous fish, and authorizes $800,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($800,000,000)
Sec. 23007: Promoting women in the trucking workforce: Directs the FMCSA Administrator to set up a Women of Trucking Advisory Board to review and report on policies for recruiting, retaining and advancing women in the trucking industry. It contains no dollar amount.
Sec. 23009: Truck Leasing Task Force: Requires the Secretary to set up a Truck Leasing Task Force of up to 10 members to examine truck leasing and lease-purchase agreements and driver compensation, and to report recommendations.
Sec. 23013: Amendments to regulations relating to transportation of household goods in interstate commerce: Requires the Secretary to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking on interstate household goods moving regulations, covering estimates, shipper publications and invoice terminology. These are consumer-facing rules rather than safety rules.
Sec. 23016: National Consumer Complaint Database: Requires the Comptroller General to report on the FMCSA National Consumer Complaint Database, including how complaints are reviewed, the top complaint categories and how usable the website is.
Sec. 25018: National travel and tourism infrastructure strategic plan: Requires an updated national travel and tourism infrastructure strategic plan focused on reviving the travel and tourism industry after the COVID-19 pandemic, and creates a Chief Travel and Tourism Officer position in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.
Sec. 27003: Department of Transportation spectrum audit: Requires the Department of Transportation and the Commerce Department's telecommunications office to audit the electromagnetic spectrum assigned to the Department of Transportation and report the results to Congress within 18 months.
Sec. 27004: Study and reports on the travel and tourism activities of the Department: Requires a Department of Transportation study, and a GAO assessment, of how the Department considers travel and tourism needs when evaluating grant applications, with reports due in 1 year and 18 months.
Sec. 28001: Sport fish restoration and recreational boating safety: Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act and the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act on fund amounts and administrative expenses, including available amounts of $979,500 and $12,786,434 and a change from $900,000 to $1,300,000, and sets up a GAO report and an advisory council.
Sec. 40211: 21st Century Energy Workforce Advisory Board: Establishes a 10-to-15-member advisory board at the Department of Energy to develop an energy workforce strategy, with a term ending September 30, 2026 unless renewed by the Secretary.
Sec. 40413: Expansion of energy consumption surveys: Directs the Energy Information Administration to expand the manufacturing, commercial building, and residential energy consumption surveys to cover energy end use, including household energy burden by demographic group.
Sec. 40416: Expansion of international energy data: Directs the Energy Information Administration to expand its international energy data, covering energy production, use, cost, and emissions intensity in other countries.
Sec. 40433: Digital climate solutions report: Requires the Secretary of Energy to submit a report within 1 year assessing digital tools and platforms, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, as climate solutions.
Sec. 40434: Study and report by the Secretary of Energy on job loss and impacts on consumer energy costs due to the revocation of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline: Requires the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on estimated job losses and consumer energy cost impacts tied to section 6 of Executive Order 13990, which relates to the Keystone XL pipeline permit.
Sec. 40435: Study on impact of electric vehicles: Requires the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study and report to Congress within 120 days on the cradle to grave environmental impact of electric vehicles.
Sec. 40436: Study on impact of forced labor in China on the electric vehicle supply chain: Requires the Secretary of Energy, with the Secretaries of State and Commerce, to study the impact of forced labor in China on the electric vehicle supply chain within 120 days.
Sec. 40501: Definitions: Defines 'priority State' as a State among the 15 highest in per-capita energy consumption or the 15 highest in per-capita energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, for the energy efficiency revolving loan fund program.
Sec. 40502: Energy efficiency revolving loan fund capitalization grant program: Creates an energy efficiency revolving loan fund capitalization grant program; 60 percent of funds go to priority States, with supplemental grants capped at $15,000,000 each, and authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40503: Energy auditor training grant program: Creates a competitive grant program for States to train energy auditors, capped at $2,000,000 per State, and authorizes $40,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($40,000,000)
Sec. 40511: Cost-effective codes implementation for efficiency and resilience: Establishes a competitive grant program for State and partnership entities to implement updated building energy codes and authorizes $225,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($225,000,000)
Sec. 40512: Building, training, and assessment centers: Provides grants to institutions of higher education and Tribal Colleges or Universities to establish building training and assessment centers, with $10,000,000 authorized for fiscal year 2022. ($10,000,000)
Sec. 40513: Career skills training: Awards grants to nonprofit partnerships for career skills training programs to install energy efficient building technologies, at a 50 percent Federal share, with $10,000,000 authorized for fiscal year 2022. ($10,000,000)
Sec. 40514: Commercial building energy consumption information sharing: Requires the Energy Information Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an information sharing agreement on commercial building energy consumption data within 120 days.
Sec. 40521: Future of industry program and industrial research and assessment centers: Amends the Future of Industry program and creates industrial research and assessment centers and implementation grants of up to $300,000, authorizing $150,000,000 and $400,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40522: Sustainable manufacturing initiative: Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out onsite technical assessments for manufacturers on request and a joint industry-government research program on sustainable manufacturing.
Sec. 40531: Definitions: Defines terms for the smart manufacturing part, including small and medium manufacturers as firms with gross annual sales under $100,000,000, fewer than 500 plant-site employees, and annual energy bills between $100,000 and $3,500,000.
Sec. 40532: Leveraging existing agency programs to assist small and medium manufacturers: Directs the Secretary to expand the technologies covered by the Department's industrial research and assessment centers to include smart manufacturing and to train center directors to give technical assistance to manufacturers.
Sec. 40533: Leveraging smart manufacturing infrastructure at National Laboratories: Requires a study and report on increasing access to National Laboratories' high-performance computing, and directs the Secretary to facilitate that access for small and medium manufacturers.
Sec. 40534: State manufacturing leadership: Authorizes competitive financial assistance to States for model smart manufacturing programs, with awards up to $2,000,000 and a 30 percent State match, and authorizes $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($50,000,000)
Sec. 40535: Report: Requires the Secretary to submit and publish an annual report on progress in advancing smart manufacturing in the United States.
Sec. 40541: Grants for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy improvements at public school facilities: Establishes competitive grants for energy improvements at public school facilities, including renewable energy, alternative fueled vehicles and charging infrastructure, and authorizes $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($500,000,000)
Sec. 40542: Energy efficiency materials pilot program: Creates a pilot program of grants of up to $200,000 each to nonprofit organizations for energy-efficiency materials in their buildings, and authorizes $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($50,000,000)
Sec. 40551: Weatherization assistance program: Authorizes $3,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for the weatherization assistance program and limits the section 41101 wage rate requirements to work on multifamily buildings with at least 5 units. ($3,500,000,000)
Sec. 40552: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program: Adds financing and incentive programs for energy efficiency, renewable energy and zero-emission transportation as permitted uses of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funds, and authorizes $550,000,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($550,000,000)
Sec. 40553: Survey, analysis, and report on employment and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the United States: Establishes an Energy Jobs Council to survey employers and publish an annual report on employment and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency and motor vehicle sectors, including hours spent on regulatory compliance.
Sec. 40554: Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies grant program: Authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for grants to assist Federal facilities with energy conservation technologies. ($250,000,000)
Sec. 40555: Rebates: Authorizes $10,000,000 each for an extended product system rebate program and an energy efficient transformer rebate program for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Sec. 40556: Model guidance for combined heat and power systems and waste heat to power systems: Directs the Secretary to review interconnection and additional-service rules and issue model guidance to State regulators and utilities on combined heat and power and waste heat to power systems.
Sec. 40801: Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program: Establishes the Forest Service Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program for fish passage, road decommissioning and road and trail relocation, with $250,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($250,000,000)
Sec. 40804: Ecosystem restoration: Authorizes $2,130,000,000 for ecosystem restoration activities, including invasive species work, recreation site restoration, revegetation and sawmill financial assistance. ($2,130,000,000)
Sec. 41202: Extension of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000: Extends Secure Rural Schools Act payments to States and counties containing Federal land through fiscal year 2023, extends related authorities, and creates two pilot programs for appointing resource advisory committee members, one limited to Montana and Arizona.
Sec. 50221: Water Resources Research Act amendments: Amends the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to change research grant terms and evaluation, set authorizations for fiscal years 2022 through 2025, and lower the interstate water research amount from $6,000,000 to $3,000,000 per year.
Sec. 60602: Telecommunications interagency working group: Creates an interagency working group within the Federal Communications Commission to develop recommendations on the workforce needs and worker safety of the telecommunications industry, including 5G infrastructure, and report to Congress.
Sec. 60603: Telecommunications workforce guidance: Directs the Secretary of Labor, with the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, to issue guidance to States on addressing telecommunications industry workforce needs and worker safety.
Sec. 60604: GAO assessment of workforce needs of the telecommunications industry: Requires the Comptroller General to report on the number of skilled telecommunications workers needed to build and maintain rural broadband and 5G wireless infrastructure.
Sec. 70401: Best practices for battery recycling and labeling guidelines: Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to develop best practices for collecting batteries for recycling and voluntary battery labeling guidelines, authorizing $10,000,000 and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 70402: Consumer recycling education and outreach grant program; Federal procurement: Creates an EPA competitive grant program for recycling education and outreach, amends federal recycled-product procurement rules, and authorizes $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with at least 20 percent allocated to named community types. ($15,000,000)
Sec. 70501: Pilot program on use of agricultural commodities in construction and consumer products: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to run a pilot program with at least one qualified bioproducts research facility to study agricultural materials in construction and consumer products, and authorizes $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023. ($2,000,000)
Sec. 70953: Requirement of long-term contracts for domestically manufactured personal protective equipment: Requires long-term domestic contracts for personal protective equipment by three departments, and also authorizes transfers of equipment to the Strategic National Stockpile and sales of stockpile drugs, vaccines, devices and supplies.
Sec. 71101: Clean school bus program: Rewrites the Environmental Protection Agency clean school bus program for grants and rebates to replace school buses, and authorizes $1,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($1,000,000,000)
Sec. 71104: Expanding the funding authority for renovating, constructing, and expanding certain facilities: Amends section 509 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to remove the word "minor" before "renovations" and strike a clause on facility standards.
Sec. 80301: Extension of customs user fees: Extends the sunset date of certain customs user fees and the Korea trade agreement merchandise processing fee rate from September 30, 2030 to September 30, 2031.
Sec. 80501: Modification of automatic extension of certain deadlines in the case of taxpayers affected by Federally declared disasters: Changes how tax filing and payment deadlines are postponed for taxpayers in federally declared disaster areas, including a separate period for each of multiple declarations within 60 days.
Sec. 80502: Modifications of rules for postponing certain acts by reason of service in combat zone or contingency operation: Changes the list of acts whose deadlines are postponed for service in a combat zone or contingency operation, adding Tax Court petitions and notices of appeal and tax in respect of erroneous refunds.
Sec. 80503: Tolling of time for filing a petition with the tax court: Tolls the time for filing a Tax Court petition when the filing location is inaccessible, for the days of inaccessibility plus 14 days.
Sec. 80504: Authority to postpone certain tax deadlines by reason of significant fires: Allows the postponement of certain tax deadlines because of a significant fire, defined as a fire for which assistance is provided under section 420 of the Stafford Act.
Sec. 80601: Modification of tax treatment of contributions to the capital of a corporation: Changes income tax treatment so that contributions in aid of construction and certain governmental contributions to regulated public water or sewerage utilities count as capital contributions.
Sec. 80602: Extension of interest rate stabilization: Replaces the pension funding interest rate stabilization percentage tables in the tax code and ERISA, extending the 95%/105% band through 2030 and phasing out afterward.
Sec. 80603: Information reporting for brokers and digital assets: Expands the tax definition of broker to include persons providing services that transfer digital assets, and adds information reporting requirements for digital assets.
Sec. 80604: Termination of employee retention credit for employers subject to closure due to COVID–19: Ends the employee retention credit for wages paid after September 30, 2021, except for employers that are recovery startup businesses, for which it ends January 1, 2022.
Sec. 90001: Extension of direct spending reductions through fiscal year 2031: Extends the direct spending reductions under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act through fiscal year 2031 and changes the percentages for the final period.
Sec. 90002: Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown and sale: Directs the Secretary of Energy to draw down and sell 87,600,000 barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in fiscal years 2028 through 2031, with sales capped once $6,100,000,000 is deposited, and lowers a minimum volume figure.
Sec. 90003: Findings regarding unused unemployment insurance funds: States congressional findings about Congressional Budget Office projections of lower unemployment compensation costs and approximately $53,000,000,000 in unused unemployment insurance funds. ($53,000,000,000)
Sec. 90004: Requiring manufacturers of certain single-dose container or single-use package drugs payable under part B of the Medicare program to provide refunds with respect to discarded amounts of such drugs: Requires manufacturers of certain single-dose or single-use drugs paid under Medicare Part B to refund the Secretary for discarded amounts, starting with calendar quarters on or after January 1, 2023.
Sec. 90005: Extension of enterprise guarantee fees: Extends the enterprise guarantee fees under the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 by changing the year "2021" to "2032".
Sec. 90006: Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eliminating the anti-kickback statute safe harbor protection for prescription drug rebates: Bars the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing, administering, or enforcing a specific final rule on prescription drug rebates and the anti-kickback safe harbor before January 1, 2026.
Sec. 90007: Rescission of COVID–19 appropriations: Permanently rescinds unobligated balances of several COVID-19 appropriations, including $13,500,000,000 from Small Business Administration disaster loans, $17,578,000,000 from the Targeted EIDL Advance, and $353,400,000 from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund.
Sec. 90008: Spectrum auctions: Directs transfer of $50,000,000 to the Department of Defense for spectrum planning, and sets identification, auction and sharing steps for the 3100–3450 megahertz band, plus FCC auction authority changes. ($50,000,000)
Sec. 101: Appropriates $10,000,000, split $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, to carry out section 70501 of division G, the pilot program on agricultural commodities in construction and consumer products. ($10,000,000)
Title IV, “EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT”: Appropriates $3,418,008,000 to the Federal Buildings Fund for construction, acquisition, repairs and alterations of border stations and land ports of entry, and says the funds are not subject to section 3307 of title 40, United States Code. ($3,418,008,000)
Title V, “U.S. Customs and border protection — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates $330,000,000 for furniture, fixtures, and equipment for land ports of entry modernized with funds provided to the General Services Administration in this Act. ($330,000,000)
Title V, “U.S. Customs and border protection — PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS”: Appropriates $100,000,000 for land port of entry construction, modernization, and sustainment. ($100,000,000)
Title V, “Coast guard — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates $5,000,000 for Coast Guard personnel and administrative expenses. ($5,000,000)
Title V, “Coast guard — PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS”: Appropriates $429,000,000 for Coast Guard housing, family support, safety, training and shore facilities, and childcare development centers, including $120,000,000 for childcare development centers. ($429,000,000)
Title V, “Federal emergency management agency — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates $67,000,000 for Federal agency dam safety activities and assistance to States under the National Dam Safety Program Act. ($67,000,000)
Title V, “Federal assistance”: Appropriates $2,233,000,000 in three parts: $500,000,000 for Stafford Act section 205 grants, $733,000,000 for National Dam Safety Program grants (including at least $75,000,000 for dam removal), and $1,000,000,000 for state and local cybersecurity grants.
Title V, “Disaster relief fund”: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 to the Disaster Relief Fund for grants under section 203 of the Stafford Act, with $200,000,000 made available in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($1,000,000,000)
Title V, “NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND”: Appropriates $3,500,000,000 for flood mitigation assistance and allows assistance of up to 90 percent of eligible costs for properties in census tracts with a Social Vulnerability Index score of at least 0.5001 or serving as primary residences of households at or below 100 percent of area median income. ($3,500,000,000)
Title V, “RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT”: Appropriates $157,500,000 for critical infrastructure security and resilience research, which may be used for event risk assessment tools, electromagnetic pulse resilience, positioning and timing, soft target security, and security testing. ($157,500,000)
Title VI, “RESOURCE MANAGEMENT”: Appropriates $455,000,000 for resource management, setting amounts for named regional ecosystem restoration purposes including $162,000,000 for Klamath Basin restoration activities, plus $200,000,000 for the National Fish Passage Program.
Title VI, “OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $216,000,000 for tribal climate resilience, adaptation, and community relocation projects, of which $130,000,000 is for community relocation and $86,000,000 for resilience and adaptation, and treats awards to Tribes as non-recurring under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. ($216,000,000)
Title VI, “CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $250,000,000 for construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation and power systems, safety of dams, water sanitation, and other facilities, with Safety of Dams funds provided on a nonreimbursable basis. ($250,000,000)
Title VI, “Hazardous substance superfund”: Appropriates up to $3,500,000,000 from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for remedial activities, in addition to available Trust Fund sums, without the Superfund cost-share requirement. ($3,500,000,000)
Title VI, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Appropriates $55,426,000,000 in total, including revolving fund capitalization grants and also amounts for brownfields, pollution prevention, Save Our Seas grants, recycling grants, and $5,000,000,000 for the Clean School Bus Program.
Sec. 613: Makes sums available in the Hazardous Substance Superfund from certain taxes available each fiscal year without further appropriation to carry out CERCLA.
Title VII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates an additional $500,000,000 for Low Income Home Energy Assistance payments, paid out at $100,000,000 per fiscal year for 2022 through 2026. ($500,000,000)
Title VIII, “FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT”: Appropriates an additional $5,000,000,000 for air traffic control facilities and related items, including not less than $200,000,000 for contract-program air traffic control towers. ($5,000,000,000)
Title VIII, “AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS”: Appropriates an additional $15,000,000,000 for airport grants, with set amounts by airport category and $20,000,000 for competitive contract-tower grants. ($15,000,000,000)
Title VIII, “AIRPORT TERMINAL PROGRAM”: Appropriates an additional $5,000,000,000 for competitive airport terminal grants, with a Federal share of 80 percent for large and medium hub airports and 95 percent for small hub, nonhub, and nonprimary airports. ($5,000,000,000)
Sec. 11522: Invasive plant elimination program: Creates a grant program for States to eliminate or control invasive plants along transportation corridor rights-of-way, and authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($50,000,000)
Sec. 41007: Renewable energy projects: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for geothermal, wind, and solar energy activities under the Energy Act of 2020 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
Sec. 41008: Industrial emissions demonstration projects: Authorizes appropriations for industrial emissions demonstration projects, $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 and $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
Sec. 501: Transfers one-quarter of one percent of amounts under each heading in the Homeland Security title to that department's Inspector General for oversight.

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Sec. 11514: High priority corridors on the National Highway System: Designates specific named highway routes in several states as high priority corridors, makes some of them future Interstate routes with assigned route numbers, and calls for a GAO report on one North Carolina segment.
Sec. 13006: Research and technology development and deployment: Among broader research amendments, directs the Secretary to seek an agreement for a study of natural and synthetic calcined bauxite as a high-friction surface treatment on pavement, with a report due 18 months after enactment.
Sec. 22412: Research and development: Authorizes the Secretary to build, repair, lease and contract for facilities, collect fees and rents, and enter energy contracts of up to 20 years at one named railroad research site in Pueblo, Colorado.
Sec. 24111: Motorcyclist Advisory Council: Creates a 13-member Motorcyclist Advisory Council, with one seat reserved for a representative of a motorcycle manufacturing company headquartered in the United States.
Sec. 25023: Volpe oversight: Directs the Secretary to implement Inspector General recommendations on oversight of intraagency agreements with the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center and requires a GAO review of that center's surface transportation activities.
Sec. 26002: Assistance for local emergency response training grant program: Creates a grant program for hazardous materials response training, open only to nonprofit organizations that represent first responders or public officials and can provide direct or web-based training, funded from recovered grant amounts.
Sec. 40322: Property interests relating to certain projects and protection of information relating to certain agreements: Lets the Secretary assign fee title or other property interests in advanced nuclear reactor projects funded under a named Department announcement and other listed programs, vesting retroactively, and allows information protection for up to 30 years.
Sec. 40334: Pumped storage hydropower wind and solar integration and system reliability initiative: Directs the Secretary to fund design, studies and permitting for a pumped storage hydropower project meeting set criteria (at least 1,000 megawatts, more than one electricity market, Tribal-land renewable storage, FERC preliminary permit), authorizing $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($2,000,000)
Sec. 40336: Limitations on issuance of certain leases of power privilege: Bars the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease of power privilege for a defined pumped storage project unless the proposed lessee and two named Tribes have a study plan agreement or a final determination is made, and sets lease conditions including annual charges paid to the Tribes.
Sec. 40904: Critical maintenance and repair: Limits funding under section 40901(2)(A) to reserved or transferred works begun on or before January 1, 1915 that had a critical failure in the prior 2 years, and directs funding under 40901(2)(B) to a dam meeting listed Carey Act, Governor, and cost conditions.
Sec. 40905: Competitive grant program for large-scale water recycling and reuse program: Creates a competitive grant program for large-scale water recycling and reuse projects, limited to projects with a total estimated cost of $500,000,000 or more located in a Reclamation State, with a 25 percent Federal share and no total dollar cap. ($500,000,000)
Sec. 70101: Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund: Creates the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund with a $2,500,000,000 deposit, for transfers or payments under Indian water settlements already approved by an Act of Congress before enactment. ($2,500,000,000)
Sec. 70203: Establishment of Commission: Establishes a wildland fire commission and gives membership preference to representatives of States and Indian tribal governments that met a fire-assistance or fire-disaster test in at least 4 of the 5 preceding years.
Sec. 71102: Electric or low-emitting ferry pilot program: Creates a pilot grant program for electric or low-emitting ferries, authorizing $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and requires at least one grant for a ferry service in the State with the most Marine Highway System miles and one for a bi-State ferry service with an aging fleet. ($50,000,000)
Sec. 71103: Ferry service for rural communities: Creates a program funding States to provide ferry service, limited to services that ran on a regular schedule in the 5 years ending March 1, 2020 and served at least 2 rural areas more than 50 sailing miles apart.
Sec. 22303: Consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements: Among other amendments to the consolidated rail grant program, adds an eligible use for research, development, and testing of rail projects using electromagnetic guideways in an enclosure in a very low-pressure environment.
Sec. 30007: Public transportation innovation: Directs the Secretary to fund at least one institution of higher education to run a low or no emission vehicle component testing facility, with capacity and access criteria, and bars those institutions from new bus model testing.
Sec. 50208: Grants for construction and refurbishing of individual household decentralized wastewater systems for individuals with low or moderate income: Creates a grant program for private nonprofit organizations to help low- or moderate-income households build, repair or replace individual household decentralized wastewater systems, and authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($50,000,000)
Title VIII, “ALL STATIONS ACCESSIBILITY PROGRAM”: Appropriates $1,750,000,000 in competitive grants limited to accessibility upgrades at legacy rail fixed guideway public transportation systems. ($1,750,000,000)
Sec. 100302: Business centers: Lets the Under Secretary establish rural business centers with minority-serving institutions, and gives priority to applicants that, in the Under Secretary's determination, have not received an equitable allocation under the First or Second Morrill Acts.

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Sec. 11116: Alaska Highway: Authorizes reconstruction of the Alaska Highway (Beaver Creek to Haines Junction) and the Haines Cutoff Highway using competitive grant funds, and allows Federal-aid highway funds apportioned to Alaska to be spent on that highway or the Alaska Marine Highway System at a 100 per centum Federal share.
Sec. 11507: Denali Commission: Authorizes $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the Denali access system program, and treats funds transferred to the Denali Commission as directly appropriated and free of earlier requirements. ($20,000,000)
Sec. 14007: Maintenance of certain Indian reservation roads: Lets the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection transfer funds to the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to maintain, repair, or reconstruct roads whose primary user is U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Sec. 22101: Grants to Amtrak: Authorizes grants to Amtrak and lets the Secretary withhold up to $6,000,000 per year for the Northeast Corridor Commission and up to $3,000,000 per year for the State-Supported Route Committee. ($6,000,000)
Sec. 22102: Federal Railroad Administration: Lets the Secretary withhold up to $3,000,000 per year of railroad research and development funds for activities authorized under section 20108(d), under the heading Transportation technology center. ($3,000,000)
Sec. 30019: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority safety, accountability, and investment: Sets grants for capital and preventive maintenance to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority at $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2030, and directs $5,000,000 of that to its Office of Inspector General, with reform and planning conditions. ($150,000,000)
Sec. 40110: Power marketing administration transmission borrowing authority: Makes an additional $10,000,000,000 in borrowing authority available for the Federal Columbia River Power System and the Bonneville Power Administration, with new obligations not to exceed $6,000,000,000 by fiscal year 2028. ($10,000,000,000)
Sec. 40113: Columbia Basin power management: Directs rehabilitation of the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant and authorizes $100,000,000, nonreimbursable, for it; also creates an account tied to the Canadian Entitlement and authorizes $10,000,000 for a power coordination study. ($100,000,000)
Sec. 40204: USGS energy and minerals research facility: Directs the U.S. Geological Survey to fund the design, construction, and build-out of one energy and minerals research facility through a cooperative agreement with an academic partner, and authorizes $167,000,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($167,000,000)
Sec. 40205: Rare earth elements demonstration facility: Directs the Secretary of Energy to fund the design, construction, and build-out of a rare earth element extraction, separation, and refining demonstration facility through an agreement with an academic partner, and authorizes $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2022. ($140,000,000)
Sec. 40207: Battery processing and manufacturing: Among broader battery grant programs, authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for Phase III of the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize Competition, an existing named Department of Energy competition. ($10,000,000)
Sec. 40601: Orphaned well site plugging, remediation, and restoration: Rewrites the orphaned well program; authorizes $2,000,000 to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and sets initial grants of up to $25,000,000 for States in that Commission with documented orphaned wells versus up to $5,000,000 for other States. ($2,000,000)
Sec. 40803: Wildfire risk reduction: Authorizes $3,369,200,000 for wildfire risk reduction, including $20,000,000 for an agreement with a Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute; community wildfire defense grants are barred for continental U.S. communities without certain roof-standard ordinances. ($20,000,000)
Sec. 40902: Water storage, groundwater storage, and conveyance projects: Sets eligibility rules for feasibility study and construction funding under section 40901(1) and authorizes the Secretary to carry out feasibility studies for two named projects in Arizona and Oregon.
Sec. 41002: Advanced reactor demonstration program: Authorizes appropriations of $511,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and amounts through fiscal year 2027 for activities under a specific Department funding opportunity announcement, Pathway 1, Advanced Reactor Demonstrations, and makes technical corrections.
Title II, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”: Within a $2,611,000,000 appropriation, sets aside $1,000,000 for a study of a soil moisture and snowpack monitoring network in a named river basin. ($1,000,000)
Title III, “CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT”: Appropriates $50,000,000 for the Central Utah Project Completion Account, of which $10,000,000 is deposited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account for the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission. ($50,000,000)
Title III, “WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES”: Within an $8,300,000,000 Bureau of Reclamation appropriation, directs $300,000,000 to implement the drought contingency plan under the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act, of which $50,000,000 is for the Upper Colorado River Basin plan. ($300,000,000)
Title III, “Fossil Energy and Carbon Management”: Within a $7,497,140,781 appropriation, directs $140,000,000 for a Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility and $75,000,000 for the Critical Material Supply Chain Research Facility.
Title III, “Appalachian Regional Commission”: Appropriates an additional $1,000,000,000 for the Appalachian Regional Commission, with $200,000,000 made available in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($1,000,000,000)
Title III, “Delta regional authority”: Appropriates an additional $150,000,000 for the Delta Regional Authority. ($150,000,000)
Title III, “Denali commission”: Appropriates an additional $75,000,000 for the Denali Commission. ($75,000,000)
Title III, “Northern border regional commission”: Appropriates an additional $150,000,000 for the Northern Border Regional Commission. ($150,000,000)
Title III, “Southeast crescent regional commission”: Appropriates an additional $5,000,000 for the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission. ($5,000,000)
Title III, “Southwest border regional commission”: Appropriates an additional $1,250,000 for the Southwest Border Regional Commission. ($1,250,000)
Title VI, “Energy Community Revitalization Program”: Within the $4,677,000,000 for orphaned well site work, directs $2,000,000 to be provided through a cooperative agreement with the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission for consultations. ($2,000,000)
Title VI, “Environmental Programs and Management”: Appropriates $1,959,000,000, including set amounts for named geographic programs such as Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound and Long Island Sound, and equal annual funds to twelve named states for the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan.
Title VIII, “HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM”: Within a $47,272,000,000 highway appropriation, sets $1,250,000,000 for construction of the Appalachian Development Highway System, apportioned among Appalachian States with a 30 percent cap and a $10,000,000 minimum per State. ($1,250,000,000)
Title VIII, “NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Appropriates an additional $6,000,000,000 in grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for Northeast Corridor capital projects, with up to $5,000,000 per fiscal year for the Northeast Corridor Commission. ($6,000,000,000)
Title VIII, “NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Appropriates an additional $16,000,000,000 in grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for National Network capital projects, including not less than $50,000,000 per fiscal year for grants under section 22908. ($16,000,000,000)
Sec. 40901: Authorizations of appropriations: Authorizes appropriations for Bureau of Reclamation water programs for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, including $300,000,000 for implementing the Colorado River Basin Drought Contingency Plan. ($300,000,000)
Title III, “Construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance, western area power administration”: Appropriates $500,000,000 to a named power marketing administration for the purchase of power and transmission services, reimbursable from amounts it collects, with transfer authority to a named fund. ($500,000,000)
Title VIII, “OPERATIONS AND TRAINING”: Appropriates an additional $25,000,000 for the America's Marine Highway Program to make grants for purposes authorized under 46 U.S.C. 55601(b)(1) and (3). ($25,000,000)

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Sec. 11118: Bridge investment program: Creates the bridge investment program and sets aside fixed yearly amounts of Highway Trust Fund money for Tribal transportation facility bridges, from $16,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 to $24,000,000 in fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 11126: Territorial and Puerto Rico highway program: Sets separate yearly funding amounts for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the Puerto Rico highway program and for the territorial highway program, starting at $173,010,000 and $45,990,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 11127: Nationally significant Federal lands and Tribal projects program: Sets the Federal share at 100 percent for projects on tribal transportation facilities, splits program funds 50/50 between Federal lands and tribal facilities, and requires at least one project in a National Park System unit with at least 3,000,000 annual visitors.
Sec. 11128: Tribal high priority projects program: Sets aside $9,000,000 each year from the tribal transportation program and authorizes an added $30,000,000 each year from the general fund for the Tribal high priority projects program for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 11132: Rural surface transportation grant program: Creates a rural surface transportation grant program with an 80 percent Federal share, but allows up to 100 percent for projects on the Appalachian Development Highway System or the Denali access system program, and reserves 25 percent of program funds for Appalachian Development Highway System projects.
Sec. 24102: Highway safety programs: Sets a minimum annual highway safety apportionment of 1/4 of 1 percent for four named territories, compared with 3/4 of 1 percent for each State and 2 percent for the Secretary of the Interior. It also excludes those territories from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System participation requirement.
Sec. 25024: Modifications to grant program: Amends the SAFETEA-LU section 1906 grant program to cap each State's yearly total at 10 percent of the funds for one group of States and 5 percent for another group, and raises the authorization to $11,500,000 each fiscal year.
Sec. 30004: Planning programs: Sets the Government share of transportation planning activity costs at not less than 90 percent for activities that assist parts of areas with lower population density or lower average income, while other activities are capped at 80 percent.
Sec. 30006: Formula grants for rural areas: Sets aside 5 percent of rural area formula grant funds for grants to Indian tribes and 3 percent for another purpose, with the tribal share split 20 percent competitive and 80 percent formula.
Sec. 30017: Authorizations: Authorizes public transit funding for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 and sets separate dollar amounts each year for growing States and for high density States under section 5340, among many other program amounts.
Sec. 50212: Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages: Changes the Federal share for Alaska rural and Native village sanitation grants from 50 percent to 75 percent and authorizes $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 60102: Grants for broadband deployment: Sets a minimum initial allocation of $100,000,000 to each State, and a separate $100,000,000 pool divided equally among four named territories.
Sec. 60304: State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program: Within the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program, reserves not less than 5 percent of program amounts for Tribal and Native entities and not less than 1 percent for named territories, separate from the State formula.
Sec. 60305: Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program: Sets aside shares of the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program funds for named groups: 5 percent for Indian Tribes, Alaska Native entities and Native Hawaiian organizations, and 1 percent for named territories. Also authorizes $250,000,000 per year for the first 5 fiscal years.
Sec. 70612: State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program: Sets the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program apportionment at 0.25 percent each for four named territories, 1 percent each for the remaining States, and 3 percent for Tribal governments. It also exempts the District of Columbia, named territories and Tribal governments from the local pass-through requirement.
Title VIII, “FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL GRANTS”: Of $36,000,000,000 for intercity passenger rail partnership grants, allows up to $24,000,000,000 for Northeast Corridor projects, notwithstanding the existing limit in section 24911(d)(3). ($24,000,000,000)

Exception or delay for a subset (39)

Sec. 11110: Nationally significant freight and highway projects: Sets the maximum share of total Federal assistance for a project grant at the applicable share under section 120(b) for States with a population density of not more than 80 persons per square mile; other States fall under a separate subparagraph.
Sec. 11114: National highway freight program: Lets a State with a population per square mile below the national average designate up to 600 miles of highway, or 25 percent of primary highway freight system mileage if greater, as critical rural freight corridors.
Sec. 11117: Toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries: Allows a Federal share of up to 85 percent for projects to replace or retrofit a diesel fuel ferry vessel that provides substantial emissions reductions, with the authority ending September 30, 2025.
Sec. 11313: Surface transportation project delivery program written agreements: Amends the surface transportation project delivery program so that agreements with States that have participated for at least 10 years have a 10-year term, while other agreements have a term of not more than 5 years.
Sec. 11314: State assumption of responsibility for categorical exclusions: Sets a 5-year term, instead of the general term of not more than 3 years, for categorical exclusion assumption agreements with States that have held that responsibility for at least 10 years.
Sec. 11515: Interstate weight limits: Lets vehicles that could legally operate on listed North Carolina and Oklahoma highway segments, and a Kentucky expressway, keep operating there if the segments become Interstate routes, without regard to Interstate weight-limit requirements.
Sec. 11527: Blood transport vehicles: Allows a public authority to let blood transport vehicles carrying blood between a collection point and a hospital or storage center use HOV facilities, if the authority sets requirements for identifying those vehicles.
Sec. 11529: Active transportation infrastructure investment program: Within the active transportation grant program, lets the Secretary raise the Federal share above the 80 percent cap, up to 100 percent, for projects serving communities with a poverty rate over 40 percent.
Sec. 22203: Station agents: Requires Amtrak to employ at least 1 ticket agent at stations meeting set criteria, but exempts station buildings where a commuter rail ticket agent can sell Amtrak tickets.
Sec. 22423: High-speed train noise emissions: Lets the Secretary set separate noise emission rules for trains running above 160 miles per hour, while existing rules continue to govern trains at or below that speed.
Sec. 23012: Providers of recreational activities: Adds to the list of transportation covered by section 13506(b) of title 49 a motor vehicle carrying 9 to 15 passengers that is operated by a person providing recreational activities, within a 150 air-mile radius of where passengers boarded.
Sec. 23018: Transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies: Adds drivers transporting livestock within a 150 air-mile radius of the livestock's final destination to the list of drivers in section 229(a)(1) of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999.
Sec. 23019: Modification of restrictions on certain commercial driver’s licenses: Directs FMCSA to revise its rule so a restricted commercial driver's license for an employee in a farm-related service industry is limited to State-defined seasonal periods, with no more than 210 valid days per calendar year.
Sec. 25019: Local hiring preference for construction jobs: Allows grant recipients under titles 23 or 49 to use local or other geographical or economic hiring preferences for construction labor, and provides that such a preference is not considered to unduly limit competition in bids.
Sec. 30010: General provisions: Excludes from the rolling stock relationship restriction any minority relationship or investment, and any relationship with an entity in a covered country that does not export rolling stock for use in the United States.
Sec. 40104: Utility demand response: Adds a utility demand-response standard and its deadlines, but exempts electric utilities in States that already implemented, considered, or voted on the standard or a comparable one before enactment.
Sec. 40335: Authority for pumped storage hydropower development using multiple Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs: Reserves to the Secretary exclusive authority over small conduit and pumped storage hydropower development at Bureau of Reclamation facilities, and limits a related provision to applications filed with FERC before August 9, 2013 that are still pending.
Sec. 40906: Drought contingency plan funding requirements: Bars use of the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan funds for operating one named facility, the Yuma Desalting Plant.
Sec. 40909: Clarification of authority to use coronavirus fiscal recovery funds to meet a non-Federal matching requirement for authorized Bureau of Reclamation water projects: Amends the Social Security Act so coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds provided for an authorized Bureau of Reclamation project may satisfy a non-Federal matching requirement, effective as if included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Sec. 50111: Indian reservation drinking water program: Directs half of program funds to 10 eligible projects in each of five named river basins, if sufficient projects exist, and sets a 100 percent federal share; authorizes $50,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 60401: Enabling middle mile broadband infrastructure: Lets the Assistant Secretary waive or replace any requirement of the middle mile grant program's subsections (c) through (f) for Tribal governments or for projects on trust land. The section also authorizes $1,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 60502: Broadband affordability: Amends the Affordable Connectivity benefit rules. It lets the Commission set a mechanism under which providers in high-cost areas may give the higher benefit amount on Tribal land when the lower limit would cause the provider economic hardship. It also changes the benefit figure from "$50" to "$30" effective on a set date, with a 60-day carryover for current households.
Sec. 70914: Application of Buy America preference: Requires domestic content for iron, steel, manufactured products and construction materials in federal infrastructure assistance, but exempts product-specific general waivers issued more than 180 days before enactment from the 5-year review for 5 years.
Sec. 70917: Application: Limits the Buy America part so it applies only where no domestic preference already applies, and excludes cement, cementitious materials, aggregates and binding agents or additives from the term construction materials.
Title I, “DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND PROGRAM”: Appropriates $2,000,000,000 for rural broadband loans and a pilot program, and requires waiver of matching funds for pilot projects for certain listed groups and areas.
Title III, “construction”: Within an $11,615,000,000 Corps of Engineers construction appropriation, directs $2,550,000,000 for coastal storm risk management and related work targeting States affected by federally declared disasters over the last six years. ($2,550,000,000)
Title VIII, “CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS”: Keeps funds allocated to projects in fiscal years 2015 or 2017 under section 5309 allocated to those projects through fiscal year 2023.
Sec. 11115: Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program: Allows CMAQ funds to cover operating costs on systems that had CMAQ funding in fiscal year 2012 and on certain State-supported Amtrak routes, with no time limit for those routes and for transit in non-urbanized areas or urbanized areas of 200,000 or fewer.
Sec. 40806: Establishment of fuel breaks in forests and other wildland vegetation: Designates certain linear fuel break activities on Bureau of Land Management and National Forest System land as categorically excluded from preparing an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.
Sec. 40807: Emergency actions: Lets the Secretary of Agriculture declare an emergency situation on National Forest System land, exempts those determinations and actions from predecisional objection processes, and limits court injunctions.
Sec. 11102: Obligation ceiling: Sets the annual obligation limit for Federal-aid highway programs, and lists named laws and programs whose obligations are exempt from that limit, including section 119 amounts of $639,000,000 per fiscal year. ($639,000,000)
Sec. 22305: Railroad crossing elimination program: Creates the Railroad Crossing Elimination grant program. It exempts commuter rail passenger projects from the section 22905(f) requirement, and reserves shares of grant funds for rural areas and Tribal lands and for low-density counties.
Sec. 22415: Speed limit action plans: Requires passenger railroads to survey track and file speed limit action plans, and lets the Secretary exempt track segments governed by a certified positive train control system or equivalent safety technology.
Sec. 40431: Consideration of measures to promote greater electrification of the transportation sector: Requires States and utilities to consider electric vehicle charging rate measures within set deadlines, but exempts utilities in States that already implemented, considered, or voted on the standard or a comparable one before enactment.
Sec. 40701: Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund authorization of appropriations: Authorizes $11,293,000,000 for the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, allocated to States and Tribes by historical coal tonnage produced before August 3, 1977, with a $20,000,000 minimum grant. It also makes section 401(f)(3)(B) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act inapplicable to these grants.
Sec. 70922: Amendments relating to Buy American Act: Amends the Buy American Act iron and steel rules and the annual reporting requirement, and exempts acquisitions by intelligence community elements from the report requirement.
Sec. 70937: Waiver Transparency and Streamlining for contracts: Requires Buy American waiver requests to be posted for public comment for at least 15 days, but exempts requests for urgent contracting needs in unforeseen and exigent circumstances, and nonavailability explanations for products whose nonavailability is set by law or regulation.
Sec. 80402: Carbon dioxide capture facilities: Adds qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities to the exempt facility bond categories. It provides that a governmental unit's sale of carbon dioxide from such a facility is not private business use, and sets a volume cap treatment of 75 percent.
Title III, “Mississippi river and tributaries”: Appropriates an additional $808,000,000 for Mississippi River and Tributaries, and provides that the section 902 Water Resources Development Act project cost limit does not apply to any project receiving these funds.

Delays or blocks a specific regulation (1)

Sec. 26003: Real-time emergency response information: Replaces the 1-year-after-enactment deadline in FAST Act section 7302 with a fixed date of December 5, 2022, for the real-time train consist information requirement, and removes some paragraphs of that section.

Changes a government process (7)

Sec. 22418: Civil penalty enforcement authority: Replaces the civil penalty procedure for rail safety violations, setting notice and hearing, settlement, and Attorney General collection actions in which the penalty amount is not subject to review.
Sec. 40432: Office of public participation: Amends section 319 of the Federal Power Act on the Office of Public Participation by striking certain sentences, setting a pay cap for the Director, and striking subsection (b)(4).
Sec. 70801: Federal permitting improvement: Amends the FAST Act federal permitting process: changes Council and review procedures, sets timelines, and lets the Executive Director issue regulations creating a fee structure for project sponsors to reimburse environmental review costs.
Sec. 70924: Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership activities: Requires federal agencies to work with the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership on contracting awareness, and requires automatic enrollment of its participating businesses in GSA Advantage!.
Sec. 300: Requires the Secretary of the Army and the OMB Director to consider factors besides the benefit-cost ratio when determining the economic benefits of Corps projects that benefit disadvantaged communities.
Sec. 301: Lets the Secretary of Energy directly appoint individuals into the competitive service for Department of Energy activities funded under this title, without the usual competitive hiring rules, when a shortage or critical hiring need is determined; the authority ends September 30, 2027.
Sec. 905: Directs that the budgetary effects of Division J and of amounts rescinded in section 90007 of division I are not entered on the Statutory PAYGO or Senate PAYGO scorecards, and sets how those effects are classified for budget scorekeeping.

Condition defined by a narrow set of criteria (2)

Sec. 22425: Requirements for railroad freight cars placed into service in the United States: Bars new railroad freight cars from operating on the U.S. rail system unless built by a manufacturer not owned or controlled by a state-owned enterprise of a 'country of concern' defined by trade-list criteria; penalties of $100,000 to $250,000 per car.
Sec. 50222: Enhanced aquifer use and recharge: Directs funding for groundwater research on enhanced aquifer use and recharge in support of sole-source aquifers, with at least half going to 1 grant to a State, local government, or Tribe and the rest to 1 research center; authorizes $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. ($5,000,000)

Program name includes a political figure’s name (1)

Sec. 100203: Educational development relating to management and entrepreneurship: Directs the Under Secretary to award grants to eligible institutions of higher education to develop and implement entrepreneurship curricula under a program named for an individual.

What it does

Sec. 11101: Authorizes $52,488,065,375 for fiscal year 2022 from the Highway Trust Fund for the Federal-aid highway program, with amounts for each year through fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 11118: Establishes the bridge investment program, which makes competitive grants to replace, rehabilitate, preserve, or protect bridges on the National Bridge Inventory.
Sec. 22101: Authorizes $2,300,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for grants to Amtrak for activities associated with the National Network.
Sec. 30017: Authorizes $13,355,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for transit formula and related grants.
Sec. 40101: Authorizes $5,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for a Department of Energy grant program to reduce the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events on the electric grid.
Sec. 40701: Authorizes $11,293,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for deposit into the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, for grants to States and Indian Tribes for abandoned mine land reclamation.
Sec. 50102: Authorizes $2,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, $2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2024, and $3,250,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for Safe Drinking Water Act state revolving fund grants.
Sec. 60102: Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce to establish the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, with $42,450,000,000 authorized for grants to States.
Sec. 60502: Renames the Emergency Broadband Benefit the Affordable Connectivity Program, removes its emergency-period limits, and adds consumer protection and complaint requirements.
Sec. 70612: Establishes a State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program, authorizing $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, $400,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2024, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2025.
Sec. 70914: Requires each federal agency head to ensure that infrastructure assistance funds are obligated only for projects using iron, steel, manufactured products and construction materials produced in the United States, subject to waivers.
Sec. 71101: Authorizes $1,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the Clean School Bus program, split between $500,000,000 for clean and zero-emission buses and $500,000,000 for zero-emission buses.
Sec. 80103: Appropriates $90,000,000,000 to the Highway Account and $28,000,000,000 to the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund.

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Sec. 1: Short title: Gives the Act the short title "Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act" or the "INVEST in America Act".
Sec. 101: Definitions: Defines terms for Division A, including Highway Account, Mass Transit Account, member designated project, Secretary, State (the 50 States and the District of Columbia) and territory.
Sec. 102: Extension of Federal Surface Transportation programs: Continues the covered surface transportation laws through September 30, 2022, authorizes fiscal year 2022 appropriations, sets a $46,400,294,311 obligation limit for Federal-aid highway programs, and raises a freight project amount from $600,000,000 to $700,000,000.
Sec. 103: Additional amounts for the Federal-aid highway program and member designated projects: Authorizes $14,742,808,640 from the Highway Account for fiscal year 2022 on top of section 102, caps obligations, splits the money among States, Tribes, Puerto Rico, territories and Federal land agencies, and reserves funds for member designated projects.
Sec. 104: Federal Transit Administration: Creates an all stations accessibility grant program with $1,000,000,000 from the Mass Transit Account, a bus service grant program with $1,000,000,000, and authorizes sums to raise the Federal share for certain transit projects.
Sec. 105: National highway traffic safety administration: Authorizes $244,514,000 from the Highway Account for fiscal year 2022, sets an obligation limit of $247,783,000, splits it among sections 402 through 405 of title 23, and sets aside $2,500,000 for cooperative highway safety research.
Sec. 107: Member designated project authorizations: Makes the amount listed for each member designated project in a table available for fiscal year 2022, sets rules on subsequent phases and repurposing of funds, and lists the projects with amounts.
Sec. 1103: Definitions and declaration of policy: Amends section 101 of title 23, United States Code, adding definitions such as adaptation, climate change, resilience, natural infrastructure and protective feature, and amending the declaration of policy findings.
Sec. 1104: Apportionment: Amends section 104 of title 23 to set administrative amounts from $530,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 to $572,000,000 for fiscal year 2026, divide each State's base apportionment among covered programs, and reserve $500,000,000 a year for a safe streets set-aside.
Sec. 1105: Additional deposits into Highway Trust Fund: Amends section 105 of title 23 to replace "FAST Act" with "INVEST in America Act", adds a special rule for adjusting certain allocations, reservations and set-asides, and changes subsections (c) through (f).
Sec. 1107: Complete and context sensitive street design: Amends section 109 of title 23 to add context sensitive design principles to highway design standards, lets local jurisdictions choose design publications, and requires guidance and State policies on context sensitive design.
Sec. 1108: Federal share: Amends section 120 of title 23 to add innovative materials, equipment and safety contingency funds to the list of activities with a Federal share adjustment, and allows up to a 10 percent Federal share increase for environmental justice communities.
Sec. 1109: Transferability of Federal-aid highway funds: Amends section 126(b) of title 23 to add sections 130, 133(h), 148(m), 149, 151(f) and 171 to the transferable programs, and limits transfers between the apportionments under section 104(b)(4) and (9) to 50 percent.
Sec. 1110: Tolling: Amends section 129 of title 23, United States Code, to set conditions for Federal participation in toll facilities, including agreements to toll, congestion pricing, performance monitoring, use of toll revenues, and annual audits.
Sec. 1111: HOV facilities: Amends section 166 of title 23, United States Code, on HOV facilities: changes a date from 2019 to 2025, adds emergency and blood transport vehicles, lowers a speed threshold, and revises other HOV requirements.
Sec. 1112: Buy America: Amends section 313 of title 23, United States Code, to add construction materials to the domestic preference, sets waiver and public comment procedures, requires waiver reviews and a report, and requires a supply chain study.
Sec. 1116: Corrosion prevention for bridges: Requires certified contractors for surface preparation, coating work, and removal of hazardous coatings on bridge projects receiving title 23 assistance, and requires State transportation departments to implement a corrosion management system.
Sec. 1117: Sense of Congress: States the sense of Congress that States should use life-cycle cost analysis to evaluate the total economic cost of a transportation project over its expected lifetime.
Sec. 1118: Accommodation of certain facilities in right-of-way: Treats electric vehicle charging, renewable energy generation, electrical transmission and distribution, and broadband infrastructure as facilities under part 645 of title 23 CFR, and lets a State approve their placement in Federal-aid highway rights-of-way.
Sec. 1119: Federal grants for pedestrian and bike safety improvements: Exempts a public authority over a toll facility located in both a National Scenic Area and the National Trail System from section 129(a)(3) of title 23 for 10 years when it receives funding for pedestrian and bike safety improvements, and bars tolls on those improvements.
Sec. 1201: National highway performance program: Amends section 119 of title 23 to rewrite the national highway performance program purposes, add eligible project types, set conditions for new single-occupancy vehicle capacity, and require a Secretary-established benefit-cost analysis process.
Sec. 1203: Emergency relief: Amends section 125 of title 23 to add wildfire to the emergency relief program, set application and cost rules, bar funding for certain bridges, create a hazard mitigation pilot program ending October 1, 2025, and direct revision of the emergency relief manual.
Sec. 1204: Railway crossings: Amends section 130 of title 23 to rename it "Railway crossings," set railroad cost-share classification and noncash contribution limits, list eligible activities, set a 90 percent Federal share, require State and Departmental reports, and order a GAO study.
Sec. 1205: Surface transportation program: Amends section 133 of title 23 to remove "block grant" from the program name, add eligible project types, set State suballocation percentages by area population, revise off-system bridge rules, and make conforming changes.
Sec. 1207: Bridge investment: Amends section 144 of title 23 to retitle it "Bridges and tunnels," change bridge condition terms, and add a requirement that States obligate not less than 20 percent of certain apportioned funds for bridge projects in fiscal years 2023 to 2026.
Sec. 1210: Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program: Amends section 149 of title 23, United States Code, to add eligible project types for the congestion mitigation and air quality program, add hydrogen charging, rewrite operating assistance rules, and define hyperlocal air quality mobile monitoring systems.
Sec. 1212: National highway freight program: Amends section 167 of title 23 on the national highway freight program, changing its purposes, corridor mileage limits (150 miles to 300 miles, 75 miles to 150 miles), planning and project eligibility, and addresses future Interstates in the freight network.
Sec. 1218: Safe streets for all: Adds a safe streets program to 23 U.S.C. 148 that reserves a total of $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026 from funds apportioned under section 104(b)(3), and lists the permitted uses of those funds.
Sec. 1219: Youth service and conservation corps: Adds section 212 to title 23, which lets the Secretary allow and encourage project sponsors to contract with qualified youth service or conservation corps and sets living allowance or pay rules for corps participants.
Sec. 1221: Funding for border infrastructure: Amends section 1437(a) of the FAST Act by striking "5 percent" and inserting "7 percent".
Sec. 1304: Community climate innovation grants: Adds section 172 to title 23, establishing a competitive community climate innovation grant program for locally selected projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a maximum grant of $25,000,000 and a 10 percent rural set-aside.
Sec. 1305: Metro performance program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a metro performance program that designates high-performing metropolitan planning organizations and local governments as direct recipients, with each receiving $10,000,000 to $50,000,000 per fiscal year.
Sec. 1306: Gridlock reduction grant program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a competitive grant program for projects that reduce traffic congestion, with grants of $10,000,000 to $50,000,000 and a set-aside of not less than 50 percent for freight projects.
Sec. 1308: Parking for commercial motor vehicles: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make competitive grants to address the shortage of commercial motor vehicle parking, sets eligible projects, selection criteria, a Federal share, and a ban on fees, and requires a survey update and report.
Sec. 1312: Apprenticeship utilization: Requires grant applicants under listed title 23 sections and section 1311 to certify that contractors meet an apprenticeship goal of 15 percent of labor hours, and sets regulations, a report to Congress, and public reporting.
Sec. 1314: Sense of Congress: Expresses the sense of Congress that contractors and subcontractors on activities funded under title 23 should adopt respectful workplace policies and training, and that the Department of Transportation should coordinate with the Department of Labor.
Sec. 1401: Metropolitan transportation planning: Amends section 134 of title 23, United States Code, on metropolitan transportation planning, adding greenhouse gas, climate and housing planning considerations, MPO representation and coordination rules, and public involvement methods.
Sec. 1403: National goals and performance management measures: Amends section 150 of title 23 to add a climate change goal, greenhouse gas measures, a bar on regressive State targets, and transportation system access measures, with matching planning amendments to titles 23 and 49.
Sec. 1404: Transportation demand data and modeling study: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study transportation demand data and forecasting models, report to Congress within 2 years, support State and metropolitan planning, and repeat the study every 2 years.
Sec. 1501: Territorial and Puerto Rico highway program: Amends section 165 of title 23 to set annual amounts, including $340,000,000 a year for the Puerto Rico highway program for fiscal years 2023 through 2026, and to change territorial program rules.
Sec. 1502: Tribal transportation program: Amends section 202 of title 23 to change the tribal transportation bridge terms from deficient to poor condition and to add construction, and changes the safety set-aside from 2 percent to 4 percent with added safety project types.
Sec. 1503: Tribal High Priority Projects program: Sets aside $50,000,000 each fiscal year from tribal transportation program funds for the Tribal High Priority Projects program and amends section 1123 of MAP–21, including raising $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 in subsection (f).
Sec. 1504: Federal lands transportation program: Lets the head of a Federal agency ask a State to transfer funds for high-commuter corridors with average annual daily traffic of at least 20,000 vehicles, and requires a GAO study of National Park Service maintenance.
Sec. 1508: Divestiture of federally owned bridges: Lets the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation transfer ownership of a Bureau-owned bridge to a State that concurs and agrees to operate and maintain it, subject to federal requirements, notice to the Secretary of Transportation, and access arrangements.
Sec. 1509: Study on Federal funding available to Indian Tribes: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress by January 31 each year on the number of Indian Tribes receiving federal highway, transit, or highway safety funds directly and indirectly, and the total amounts.
Sec. 1601: Vision zero: Allows local governments and planning organizations to develop and implement vision zero plans with a timeframe of up to 20 years, allows use of certain apportioned funds, sets plan contents, and directs the Secretary to develop safe system approach guidance.
Sec. 1602: Speed limits: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to revise the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to provide for a safe system approach to setting speed limits, lists factors to consider, and requires a progress report within 1 year and a study of speed limit methods within 2 years.
Sec. 1603: Dig Once for broadband infrastructure deployment: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations within 12 months so that each State receiving title 23 highway funds plans for broadband coordination and installs broadband conduit as part of covered highway construction projects, subject to listed conditions.
Sec. 1605: Pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way: Requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to publish accessibility guidelines for pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way, including shared use paths, within 180 days, then the Secretary and Attorney General to adopt them by regulation.
Sec. 1606: Highway formula modernization report: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a highway formula modernization study and a CMAQ formula modernization study, and to report the results to congressional committees within 2 years of enactment.
Sec. 1609: Task force on developing a 21st century surface transportation workforce: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a task force on developing a 21st century surface transportation workforce, which develops recommendations and strategies, is reported to Congress, and ends after the report.
Sec. 1610: On-the-job training and supportive services: Rewrites section 140(b) of title 23 to authorize surface transportation training programs, set State workforce plan and outcome duties, and deduct up to $10,000,000 each fiscal year from administrative funds.
Sec. 1614: Numbering system of highway interchanges: Bars the Secretary of Transportation from penalizing a State that does not comply with section 2E.31 of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices on interchange numbering, for methods in effect on the date of enactment.
Sec. 1617: Nationwide road safety assessment: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct on-the-ground pedestrian and bicycle safety assessments in each State every 2 years, issue public reports, and maintain a national pedestrian and bicycle safety database.
Sec. 1618: Climate resilient transportation infrastructure study: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to seek an agreement with the Transportation Research Board to study actions needed for Federal agencies to account for climate conditions in federally funded transportation infrastructure, with a report due 3 years after enactment.
Sec. 1619: Natural gas, electric battery, and zero emission vehicles: Amends section 127(s) of title 23 so a vehicle fueled primarily by natural gas, electric battery power, or other zero emission fuel may exceed the power unit weight limit by up to 2,000 pounds, to a maximum gross vehicle weight of 82,000 pounds.
Sec. 1622: Guidance on inundated and submerged roads: Directs the Federal Highway Administration to review and revise or issue guidance on repairing, restoring and replacing inundated and submerged roads damaged by a declared major disaster, considering resistance to hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces and long-term cost savings.
Sec. 1623: Dry bulk weight tolerance: Amends section 127 of title 23 to define dry bulk goods and to cap a commercial motor vehicle carrying them at 110 percent of the maximum weight on any axle or axle group, including any enforcement tolerance, except for the gross vehicle weight limit.
Sec. 1625: Labor standards: States the policy that funds under this Act should not be used to buy products made in whole or in part with child labor, as defined in Article 3 of the ILO worst forms of child labor convention, or in violation of human rights.
Sec. 1626: Climate resiliency report by GAO: Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress within 1 year, then every 5 years, on the economic benefits of building codes and standards supporting resilience to flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, heat, drought, sea level rise and extreme weather, with FEMA recommendations.
Sec. 1627: Designation of John R. Lewis Voting Rights Highway: Designates the portion of United States Route 80 from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama as the "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Highway" and treats any legal or official reference to that portion as a reference to that name.
Sec. 1629: Use of modeling and simulation technology: Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Transportation should use modeling and simulation technology to analyze projects authorized by this Act so they increase capacity and safety, reduce congestion and travel time, and are cost effective.
Sec. 1631: GAO review of equity considerations at State DOTs: Directs the Comptroller General to review State transportation departments' practices on equity considerations within 1 year, and to publish a report with findings and recommendations within 2 years of enactment.
Sec. 1633: Transportation planning activities: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make reasonable efforts to assist Olympic, Paralympic, and Special Olympics International events, including planning, intermodal plans, expedited review of submittals, and technical assistance.
Sec. 1634: Better Utilizing Infrastructure for Lasting Development of Veterans Businesses: Sets a minimum of 3 percent of amounts under certain programs to be spent through veteran owned small business concerns, unless the Secretary determines otherwise, with uniform State certification criteria and reporting requirements.
Sec. 1637: GAO study on nature-based solutions for coastal highway resilience: Directs the Comptroller General to study nature-based solutions for the resilience of coastal highways and bridges and to report to Congress within 1 year, including recommendations for the Federal Highway Administration.
Sec. 1640: Credit adjustments for paycheck protection program loan forgiveness under highway and public transportation project cost reimbursement contracts: Limits credit adjustments to the indirect cost rate of a covered contractor on Federal-aid highway cost reimbursement contracts to the part of paycheck protection program loan forgiveness attributable to Federal funds, and ends credits once fully recovered.
Sec. 1641: Establishment of western riverside county national wildlife refuge: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Western Riverside County National Wildlife Refuge, sets its purposes and acquisition boundaries, and provides for land acquisition, Federal property transfers, administration and cooperative agreements.
Sec. 1646: Extension of NHA authorizations: Extends authorizations of appropriations for National Heritage Areas expiring in 2021 through September 30, 2023, defines the term, and changes management plan deadlines in the John D. Dingell, Jr. Act to September 30, 2023.
Sec. 1648: Sense of the Congress on soil and erosion control for highway projects: States the sense of Congress that federally funded construction projects should seek environmentally sustainable, wildlife-safe, recycled or biobased products and that State transportation departments should support sustainability in procurement.
Sec. 1649: Local project delivery improvements: Lets the Secretary designate high-performing local public agencies to use certain project delivery methods and assume State responsibilities under title 23, through agreements, with reporting and technical assistance.
Sec. 1651: GAO study on the impact of drunk driving child endangerment laws: Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress within 1 year on drunk driving child endangerment laws, comparing State laws and making recommendations to improve them.
Sec. 1652: Regional infrastructure accelerator deomonstration program: Amends section 1441 of the FAST Act to add a consideration for projects addressing air quality in nonattainment and maintenance areas, and replaces "$12,000,000" with "$13,600,000 out of the general fund of the Treasury for each fiscal year".
Sec. 1653: Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group to examine use of climate change data in federally funded infrastructure, with public input and draft and final reports.
Sec. 1655: DBE Report: Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress within 18 months on Department of Transportation performance against the 8 objectives of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Program, listing recipients, their goals, and 5 years of report data.
Sec. 1658: Comptroller General report on high-speed internet connectivity in Federally-assisted housing: Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress within 1 year on broadband service in Federally-assisted housing, including access, retrofit costs, challenges, the ConnectHome pilot program, and recommendations.
Sec. 1659: Historic Preservation Fund: Amends section 303102 of title 54, United States Code, by striking "of fiscal years 2012 to 2023" and inserting "fiscal year", and by striking "$150,000,000" and inserting "$300,000,000".
Sec. 1660: HOV facility review: Adds a subsection to section 166 of title 23 allowing a State, if the Secretary determines appropriate, to review an HOV facility 10 years after construction and to remove it and repay associated funds.
Sec. 2102: Chapter 53 definitions: Amends section 5302 of title 49 to add electric micromobility charging and bikeshare projects, change the joint development revenue term, add a ransomware expense, and define resilience and assault on a transit worker.
Sec. 2103: General provisions: Amends section 5323 of title 49: adds charter service exceptions and guidelines, replaces the accessibility complaint process, requires rolling stock preaward and postdelivery review, and rewrites private operator access rules.
Sec. 2104: Miscellaneous provisions: Amends several parts of chapter 53 of title 49, including a 90 percent Federal share for accessibility projects, transit database reporting, urbanized area grants, transportation development credits as local match, and incidental use.
Sec. 2105: Policies and purposes: Amends section 5301(b) of title 49 to add two policy purposes: reducing the surface transportation system's contribution to carbon pollution and improving public transportation resiliency to weather events and natural disasters.
Sec. 2106: Fiscal years 2022 and 2023 formulas: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion and distribute chapter 53 formula funds for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 using data submitted to the 2019 National Transit Database.
Sec. 2107: Metropolitan transportation planning: Amends section 5303 of title 49 on metropolitan transportation planning, adding greenhouse gas, climate, emergency management, housing and public involvement requirements, and rules on representation and coordination between planning organizations.
Sec. 2108: Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning: Amends section 5304 of title 49 on statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning, adding greenhouse gas, climate, housing, emergency and public involvement provisions and replacing program terms with "STIP".
Sec. 2110: Public transportation emergency relief funds: Amends section 5324 of title 49 to bar the Secretary from requiring emergency relief projects to reach the construction obligation stage before the end of the sixth fiscal year after the emergency or disaster declaration, with extensions of up to 1 year.
Sec. 2113: Study on accessibility of public transportation: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress within 1 year on challenges faced by pregnant women, people in areas of persistent poverty, and unbanked or underbanked people riding public transportation, with recommendations.
Sec. 2114: Formula funds for rural areas: Amends section 5311(a)(1) of title 49 so the term for a State also covers a State or local governmental entity that operates public transportation and administers Federal transit grant funds for both rural and urban areas.
Sec. 2201: Multi-jurisdictional bus frequency and ridership competitive grants: Adds section 5308 to title 49, creating competitive grants for recipients in urbanized areas over 500,000 people to increase bus service frequency, ridership and person throughput, with an 80 percent Federal share cap.
Sec. 2202: Incentivizing frequency in the urban formula: Amends section 5336 of title 49 to change the urban formula percentages, base the incentive portion on the highest 25 percent of routes by ridership, set special rules for fiscal years 2023 and 2024, and define peak revenue service.
Sec. 2203: Mobility innovation: Adds a new section 5316 to chapter 53 of title 49 that lets transit funds under sections 5307, 5310 and 5311 finance mobility as a service and mobility on demand, with a 70 percent Federal share, guidance, waivers and open data standards.
Sec. 2204: Formula grants for rural areas: Amends section 5311 of title 49: changes rural formula apportionments, raises an Indian tribe set-aside from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, adds intercity bus and volunteer-hour in-kind rules, and lets States use 5 percent of apportionment for redesignated areas.
Sec. 2205: One-stop paratransit program: Adds subsection (j) to section 5310 of title 49 requiring the Secretary to set up a one-stop paratransit competitive grant program for an extra stop in non-fixed route ADA service, with application, selection, data-sharing and annual report rules.
Sec. 2206: New municipal transit services to better connect communities: Adds subsection (l) to section 5336 of title 49 requiring designated recipients, on request, to pass through not less than 80 percent of certain apportioned funding to providers of new transit service, with conditions and a metropolitan planning organization opt-out.
Sec. 2301: Buy America: Adds section 5320 to title 49 requiring steel, iron and manufactured goods in chapter 53 transit projects to be produced in the United States, with waiver, rolling stock content, certification, labeling penalty and review rules.
Sec. 2302: Bus procurement streamlining: Adds subsection (x) to section 5323 of title 49: bus acquisition funds go only to recipients whose open-market request for proposals uses performance specifications, and the Secretary must run a negotiated rulemaking to list the permitted bus components.
Sec. 2305: Definition of urbanized areas following a major disaster: Adds subsection (y) to section 5323 of title 49: an area designated urbanized whose population fell below 50,000 because of a declared major disaster is still treated as an urbanized area for a set period, using its earlier population.
Sec. 2306: Special rule for certain rolling stock procurements: Amends section 5323(u) of title 49 to require recipients of section 5339 assistance to certify they will not award nonrail rolling stock contracts to a described manufacturer, and rewrites the special rule for existing rail rolling stock contracts as of December 20, 2019.
Sec. 2307: Spare ratio waiver: Adds subsection (z) to section 5323 of title 49 requiring the Federal Transit Administration to waive its spare ratio policies for rolling stock, in named circulars and other guidance, for 2 years from enactment.
Sec. 2401: Formula grants for buses: Amends section 5339(a) of title 49: replaces “low or no emission vehicle” with “zero emission vehicle”, changes the funding amounts from $90,500,000 to $156,750,000, sets a 90 percent Federal share for certain bus projects, and strikes paragraph (9).
Sec. 2402: Bus facilities and fleet expansion competitive grants: Amends section 5339(b) of title 49 to retitle the program as bus facilities and fleet expansion competitive grants, limit eligible projects, set grant considerations, and set an 80 percent Government share, or 90 percent for zero emission and hybrid electric buses.
Sec. 2403: Zero emission bus grants: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5339(c) to rename the low or no emission grants as zero emission grants, define zero emission vehicles and priority areas, set grant eligibility, a 15 percent low-income set-aside and a priority set-aside, and define maintenance area.
Sec. 2404: Restoration to state of good repair formula subgrant: Adds a restoration to state of good repair formula subgrant to 49 U.S.C. 5339, covering the 20 percent of recipients with the highest share of bus asset vehicle miles beyond the useful life benchmark, with urban and rural allocations and a prohibition on grants in both fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
Sec. 2501: Low-income urban formula funds: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5336(j) to change 75 percent to 50 percent and 25 percent to 12.5 percent, and adds apportionments of 30 percent and 7.5 percent of funds by the number of residents in urban census tracts with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent.
Sec. 2502: Rural persistent poverty formula: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5311 to define persistent poverty county and to create a persistent poverty public transportation assistance program, with funds apportioned by the number of residents of rural areas living in persistent poverty counties.
Sec. 2503: Demonstration grants to support reduced fare transit: Adds a reduced fare transit demonstration grant program, called Access to Jobs Grants, to section 5312 of title 49; grants run 2 years, no more than 20 percent go to rural entities, and the section defines low-income individual.
Sec. 2504: Equity in transit service planning: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue nonbinding best practices for setting the threshold for a major transit service change and requires a National Academy of Sciences report on how providers define that threshold.
Sec. 2506: Transit to trails grant program: Creates the Transit to Trails Grant Program for projects that improve transportation access to public land and parkland for critically underserved communities, with grants of $25,000 to $500,000 and an 80 percent Federal share.
Sec. 2601: National transit frontline workforce training center: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5314(b) to have the Secretary establish a national transit frontline workforce training center through a cooperative agreement with a nonprofit, sets its training duties and funding limits, and defines key terms.
Sec. 2603: Innovation workforce standards: Bars chapter 53 assistance for automated vehicle public transportation or mobility on demand service unless certifications are made and a workforce development plan is approved and published, and requires employee notice 60 days before a contract.
Sec. 2605: U.S. Employment Plan: Adds 49 U.S.C. 5341, requiring a U.S. Employment Plan for rolling stock contracts of $10,000,000 or more, with preference for registered apprenticeship programs, best-value contracting encouragement, hiring priorities and an annual report.
Sec. 2606: Technical assistance and workforce development: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5314(a) to add innovation and capacity-building for rural and tribal public transportation recipients, and makes $1,500,000 of section 5314 amounts available for it.
Sec. 2608: Sense of Congress regarding electric vehicle transition strategy: States congressional findings on the transit fleet transition to electric vehicles and its workforce effects, and expresses the sense of Congress that the transit industry needs a workforce development strategy.
Sec. 2701: Transit-supportive communities: Creates 49 U.S.C. 5328, an Office of Transit-Supportive Communities with a transit-oriented development planning grant program, technical assistance, value capture standards, equity strategies, and annual reports.
Sec. 2702: Property disposition for affordable housing: Rewrites 49 U.S.C. 5334(h)(1) so the Secretary may authorize transfer of an unneeded transit asset to a local authority for public use or for transit-oriented development with affordable housing conditions.
Sec. 2703: Affordable housing incentives in capital investment grants: Amends section 5309 of title 49 to let applicants who show efforts to preserve or encourage affordable housing near a project receive adjusted project-justification weighting, and to allow certain housing grant funds to be used near a new station.
Sec. 2802: Transit bus operator compartment redesign program: Adds a paragraph to section 5312(d) of title 49 allowing the Secretary to fund research on redesigning transit bus operator compartments, with listed objectives, eligible activities, and consortia eligible to receive funding.
Sec. 2803: Federal Transit Administration Every Day Counts initiative: Adds subsection (k) to section 5312 of title 49, directing the Federal Transit Administration to adopt the Every Day Counts initiative, identify new innovations at least every 2 years, publish each collection, and not waive other federal law.
Sec. 2804: Technical corrections: Amends section 5312 of title 49, United States Code, to replace "low or no emission" terms with "zero emission", define zero emission vehicle, and redesignate the first subsection (g) as subsection (f).
Sec. 2805: National advanced technology transit bus development program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to set up a national advanced technology transit bus development program, with $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, competitive grants, consortia conditions and an 80 percent Federal share cap.
Sec. 2807: Transit vehicle battery recycling and reuse: Requires the Secretary of Transportation, within 1 year, to issue regulations letting chapter 53 funding recipients repurpose, recycle, reuse, sell, or lease transit vehicle batteries beyond their useful service life.
Sec. 2901: Reauthorization for capital and preventive maintenance projects for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Amends section 601 of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 to authorize Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority grants of $150,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 up to $200,000,000 for 2031, with a 7 percent Inspector General set-aside.
Sec. 2902: Other apportionments: Amends section 5336 of title 49, United States Code, to set aside $60,906,000 in fiscal year 2023 for section 5307(h), raise a percentage from 3.07 to 6, apportion 3 percent to small urbanized areas, and add a 3-year census phase-out.
Sec. 2911: Fixed guideway capital investment grants: Amends section 5309 of title 49 on fixed guideway capital investment grants: changes dollar thresholds in subsection (a), extends periods from 2 to 3 years, adds a lower cost-share election, interrelated projects rules, and a monthly CIG dashboard.
Sec. 2914: Innovative coordinated access and mobility: Adds subsection (k) to section 5310 of title 49 creating start up grants and incentive grants (up to 20) for projects coordinating transportation and non-emergency medical transportation, with an 80 percent Federal share, an annual report, and a Comptroller General study.
Sec. 2915: Passenger ferry grants: Adds a competitive grant program under 49 U.S.C. 5307(h) for zero- or reduced-emission passenger ferries and related facilities and charging infrastructure, with a Federal share of up to 80 percent and in-kind non-Federal contributions allowed.
Sec. 2916: Evaluation of benefits and Federal investment: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5309(h)(4) to add, to the project evaluation, the extent to which a project improves transportation options to economically distressed areas.
Sec. 2918: Capital investment grant streamlining: Repeals section 3005(b) of the FAST Act and requires the Secretary to keep administering projects already applied or under evaluation under that section, funding them from 49 U.S.C. 5338(b) and division A amounts.
Sec. 2919: Disposition of rolling stock to improve air quality goals: Adds 49 U.S.C. 5334(m), letting the Secretary allow a recipient that disposes of rolling stock early, in a particulate matter nonattainment area and replacing it with cleaner stock, to reuse the Federal share of proceeds without repayment.
Sec. 3001: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes Highway Trust Fund amounts for fiscal years 2023 through 2026 for highway safety programs under sections 402, 403, 404 and 405, the National Driver Register and NHTSA administration, limits their use, and sets grant rules.
Sec. 3005: Grant program to prohibit racial profiling: Adds subsection (j) to section 403 of title 23 directing grants to States that keep public data on the race and ethnicity of drivers stopped, sets allowed uses, caps grants at 10 percent or 5 percent, and sets aside $15,000,000 each year.
Sec. 3006: National safety campaigns: Rewrites section 404 of title 23 as National safety campaigns, requiring at least 3 high-visibility enforcement campaigns and 3 public awareness campaigns in each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026, with advertising, State coordination and use-of-funds rules.
Sec. 3007: National priority safety programs: Amends 23 U.S.C. 405 to change the percentage shares of national priority safety program funds, add a driver and officer safety education allocation, and revise the traffic safety information, ignition interlock, distracted driving and graduated licensing provisions.
Sec. 3010: Implicit bias research and training grants: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to institutions of higher education for research and training on implicit bias as it relates to racial profiling at traffic stops, with a report and $20,000,000 authorized each fiscal year.
Sec. 3012: Electronic driver’s license: Amends the REAL ID Act of 2005 and section 1028(d)(7)(A) of title 18, United States Code, so that references to a driver's license or identification card cover a physical or digital one.
Sec. 4101: Motor carrier safety grants: Amends section 31104 of title 49 to authorize Highway Trust Fund appropriations for motor carrier safety grant programs for fiscal years 2023 through 2026, starting with $388,950,000 for fiscal year 2023 for the motor carrier safety assistance program, and amends the related funding rules.
Sec. 4102: Motor carrier safety operations and programs: Amends section 31110 of title 49 to authorize Highway Trust Fund appropriations for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration administrative expenses, from $380,500,000 for fiscal year 2023 to $384,500,000 for fiscal year 2026, and lists uses of the funds.
Sec. 4104: Operation of small commercial vehicles study: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to start a review within 1 year of commercial vehicles under 10,000 pounds used in interstate package delivery, set study factors, and report findings and recommendations to congressional committees.
Sec. 4105: Motor carrier safety grants maintenance of effort: Amends section 31102(f)(2) of title 49, United States Code, by striking the words "after fiscal year 2017" and by striking a clause about the baseline after a new allocation formula under section 5106 of the FAST Act.
Sec. 4202: Compliance, safety, accountability: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to implement a revised Compliance, Safety, Accountability methodology within 1 year, restore public safety data, file progress reports every 90 days, issue safety fitness regulations, and repeal section 5223 of the FAST Act.
Sec. 4203: Terms and conditions for exemptions: Amends section 31315 of title 49, United States Code, to require terms and conditions for each exemption, including accident data submission, crash notification, and documentation of authority to operate, and to require monitoring of compliance.
Sec. 4204: Safety fitness of motor carriers of passengers: Amends section 31144(i) of title 49, United States Code, so safety fitness rules apply to motor carriers of passengers, and defines the term to include offerors of motorcoach services that sell scheduled transportation.
Sec. 4208: Review of labor laws: Adds labor and employment laws to the registration requirements in section 13902(a)(1)(A) of title 49, United States Code, and directs the Secretaries of Transportation and Labor to review them and report to Congress within 18 months.
Sec. 4301: Commercial driver’s license for passenger carriers: Amends section 31301 of title 49, United States Code, to include a vehicle designed or used as a stretch limousine in the commercial motor vehicle definition, and defines stretch limousine as a modified sedan or sports utility vehicle seating more than 8 passengers.
Sec. 4303: Entry-level driver training: Requires the Secretary to report to House and Senate committees, 30 days after enactment and every 90 days after, on implementing the December 8, 2016 entry-level commercial motor vehicle operator training rule.
Sec. 4304: Driver detention time: Requires the Secretary to collect and publish data on commercial motor vehicle driver detention delays and to begin a rulemaking on limits for uncompensated detention time by shippers or receivers.
Sec. 4306: Hours of service: Requires the Secretary to review hours of service rules and their waivers and exemptions, run safety and driver impact analyses, publish findings, report to Congress, and begin a rulemaking on personal conveyance limits.
Sec. 4307: Driver recruitment: Requires the Department of Transportation inspector general to report within 1 year on commercial motor vehicle operation in the United States by drivers admitted under temporary business visas.
Sec. 4308: Screening for obstructive sleep apnea: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to assess untreated obstructive sleep apnea in commercial drivers and to propose and issue a final rule setting screening criteria within 2 years of enactment.
Sec. 4310: Application of commercial motor vehicle safety: Adds Puerto Rico to the definition of State in section 31301(14) of title 49, directs work with Puerto Rico toward compliance with chapter 313, and bars withholding of its highway funds for 5 years.
Sec. 4311: Use of data: Amends section 31137(e) of title 49, United States Code, to allow data from electronic logging devices to be used for transportation research, and requires privacy protections when that research is made public.
Sec. 4401: Schoolbus safety standards: Directs the Secretary to propose a rule on safety belts for large schoolbuses, to set standards requiring automatic emergency braking and electronic stability control on schoolbuses, to research schoolbus fires, and to study and report on schoolbus temperatures.
Sec. 4403: State inspection of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to review State and Federal inspection practices for commercial motor vehicles carrying passengers and to report to Congress within 1 year with findings and recommended changes to inspection program regulations.
Sec. 4406: Transportation of horses: Amends section 80502 of title 49, United States Code, to prohibit transporting equines in motor vehicles with 2 or more stacked levels or with reason to believe they may be slaughtered for human consumption, with a civil penalty of at least $100 and not more than $500 per violation.
Sec. 4407: Additional State authority: Lets a State that had a length limit on 3-trailer longer combination vehicles by June 1, 1991 allow added tractor length for a longer energy efficient truck tractor, if cargo capacity does not increase and no trailer length is added.
Sec. 4409: Universal electronic identifier: Requires the Secretary of Transportation, within 2 years of enactment, to issue a safety standard that equips new commercial motor vehicles with a universal electronic vehicle identifier that sends no operator personal information.
Sec. 4410: Length limitations: Amends section 31111 of title 49 to define covered heavy-duty tow and recovery vehicle, and bars States from imposing length or vehicle-number limits on wrecked or disabled vehicles they transport that were compliant when disabled.
Sec. 5101: Highway research and development program: Amends section 503 of title 23 to add greenhouse gas and climate purposes, authorizes highway analysis tools and a performance management data support program with up to $15,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2023 through 2026, and repeals FAST Act section 6028.
Sec. 5103: Transportation research and development 5-year strategic plan: Amends section 6503 of title 49 so the research strategic plan is issued for each 5-year period, adds security, existing-system, greenhouse gas and workforce items to the plan's content, and moves a date to December 31, 2022.
Sec. 5104: University transportation centers program: Amends section 5505 of title 49 for the university transportation centers program: sets research priorities and focus areas, changes grant limits and matching shares, and extends funding to fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Sec. 5109: Transportation equity research program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a transportation equity research program on how surface transportation affects low-income, minority, and other underserved populations, and authorizes $8,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Sec. 5110: Surface transportation research, development, and technology: Amends section 502(b)(3)(C) of title 23, United States Code, by inserting "entities that represent the needs of metropolitan planning organizations," after "Officials,".
Sec. 5111: Metropolitan planning research pilot program: Directs the Secretary to seek an agreement with a nonprofit entity serving metropolitan planning organizations to run a pilot program of research awards, with $1,000,000 from section 503(b) amounts for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Sec. 5112: Integrated project delivery: Directs the Secretary to seek an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a study of how effective integrated project delivery is for large infrastructure projects, and to publish a report within 1 year after the study is completed.
Sec. 5114: Innovative material innovation hubs: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to run a program awarding grants to consortia to establish Innovative Material Innovation Hubs for research, development, demonstration and commercial application of innovative materials, with a 50 percent match and such sums as may be necessary authorized.
Sec. 5116: Advanced transportation research and innovation program: Establishes an advanced transportation research and innovation program under the Assistant Secretary of Research and Technology, with research grants and centers of excellence, and authorizes $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Sec. 5117: Interagency innovative materials standards task force: Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish an interagency task force within 180 days to coordinate standards, guidelines and regulations for innovative materials in infrastructure, and to report within 18 months.
Sec. 5118: Vehicular data analytics pilot program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to set up a pilot program that integrates vehicle on-board sensor data with public and private data sets, makes awards to research institutions, requires a report within 3 years, and authorizes $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
Sec. 5119: Resilient transportation infrastructure Centers of Excellence: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to award grants to establish 5 Centers of Excellence for research on the resilience of surface transportation infrastructure, with a 50 percent match, competitive selection, and an authorization of such sums as necessary.
Sec. 5301: Mobility through advanced technologies: Amends section 503(c)(4) of title 23, renaming the advanced technologies grant program and changing its goals, application and award criteria, reporting, funding set-aside, Federal share (not to exceed 80 percent) and grant flexibility.
Sec. 5302: Intelligent transportation systems program: Amends sections 513 to 516 of title 23 on intelligent transportation systems: adds greenhouse gas emissions reduction to funding uses, goals and research priorities, and changes the advisory committee's size, membership and meetings.
Sec. 5304: Study on safe interactions between automated vehicles and road users: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to study how automated vehicles safely interact with other road users, form a working group, take public comment, and report with recommendations within 2 years of enactment.
Sec. 5306: Third-party data integration pilot program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to set up a pilot program using anonymous crowdsourced data from third parties to manage traffic on Federal-aid highways, with a report each year and a 5-year sunset.
Sec. 5307: Third-party data planning integration pilot program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish, within 180 days of enactment, a pilot program that uses anonymous crowdsourced data from third parties to improve transportation management on Federal-aid highways, ending 5 years after enactment.
Sec. 5308: Automated commercial vehicle reporting: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to set up a repository where entities report operations and collisions of automated commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce, with public data release, a rulemaking on safety incidents, and civil and criminal penalties.
Sec. 5309: Task Force to Promote American Vehicle Competitiveness: Creates a Task Force to Promote American Vehicle Competitiveness, chaired by the Secretary of Transportation, to address domestic sourcing and production of electric vehicle batteries and critical minerals, with annual reports to committees.
Sec. 5311: Heavy freight automated trucking research corridor: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to set up a heavy freight automated trucking research initiative and testing corridor, with grants to higher education, a 50 percent match, and $6,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2023 through 2026.
Sec. 5501: Ergonomic seating working group: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to convene a working group on seating standards for commercial drivers and to report on its findings within 18 months, with the group subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
Sec. 5502: Repeal of section 6314 of title 49, United States Code: Repeals section 6314 of title 49, United States Code, and makes conforming changes to the chapter 63 analysis and to section 6307(b) by striking references to section 6314(b).
Sec. 5504: Advisory council on transportation statistics: Amends section 6305 of title 49 to require the Director to establish and consult an advisory council on transportation statistics within 6 months of enactment, and strikes subsection (d)(3).
Sec. 6001: National multimodal freight policy: Amends the national multimodal freight policy in section 70101(b) of title 49 to add rural and urban areas, travel within population centers, environmental impacts including emissions and stormwater, and impacts on communities near freight facilities.
Sec. 6002: National freight strategic plan: Amends section 70102(c) of title 49 to require the national freight strategic plan to be updated and published on the Department of Transportation's public website, with best practices to reduce freight-related environmental impacts.
Sec. 6003: National multimodal freight network: Amends section 70103 of title 49: adds ports with at least $1,000,000,000 annual cargo value to the network criteria, sets a 30-day report and 60-day designation deadline, and lets metropolitan planning organizations designate critical urban freight facilities.
Sec. 6005: State freight plans: Amends section 70202(b) of title 49 so State freight plans include strategies and goals to decrease freight-related emissions, air pollution, stormwater runoff, habitat loss and impacts on communities near freight facilities.
Sec. 6008: Transportation equity advisory committee: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish, within 120 days, a Transportation Equity Committee of 9 to 15 members to advise on transportation equity, and sets its duties, membership, meetings, terms and support.
Sec. 6009: Sense of Congress: States the sense of Congress that walking, bicycling and public transportation are complementary modes, and that pedestrian and bicycle pathways within public transportation right-of-way are an appropriate use of it.
Sec. 7002: Transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act of 1998 temporary loan relief due to COVID–19: Lets the Secretary of Transportation reset interest rates to no less than the Treasury yield, and allow other loan modifications, for eligible borrowers impacted by COVID–19; the reset authority ends on September 30, 2022.
Sec. 8202: Transportation of liquefied natural gas by rail tank car: Stays existing regulations on transporting liquefied natural gas by rail tank car, requires an evaluation, testing, a report and a GAO review, and directs $4,000,000 to $6,000,000 of fiscal year 2022 hazardous materials funds to the evaluation.
Sec. 8204: Lithium battery approval: Adds section 5129 to title 49, barring transport in commerce of a specified lithium battery found to be a high safety or security risk unless the manufacturer holds a Secretary approval of up to 5 years, and requires regulations within 2 years.
Sec. 8205: Transportation of carbon dioxide: Bars the Secretary of Transportation from proposing, issuing, or enforcing any rule, regulation, or guidance that prohibits bulk transportation of captured carbon dioxide by pipeline, rail, or ship.
Sec. 8206: Seismicity: Directs the Secretary of Transportation, within 90 days, to enter an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a report on pipeline facility requirements relating to seismicity and other dynamic geologic conditions, with recommendations.
Sec. 9001: Short title: Provides that this division may be cited as the “Transforming Rail by Accelerating Investment Nationwide Act” or the “TRAIN Act”.
Sec. 9101: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for Amtrak (including $2,500,000,000 for the Northeast Corridor in 2022), federal passenger and freight rail grant programs, and the Federal Railroad Administration.
Sec. 9102: Passenger rail improvement, modernization, and expansion grants: Replaces 49 U.S.C. 22906 with a grant program for capital projects and corridor planning for high-speed and intercity passenger rail, with eligibility, selection criteria, a 90 percent Federal share cap, letters of intent, and a new definition.
Sec. 9103: Consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvement grants: Amends 49 U.S.C. 22907 to add eligible recipients and project types, change selection preferences, set a large-project reserve, add commuter rail grant conditions, and define capital project.
Sec. 9105: Bridges, stations, and tunnels (BeST) grant program: Adds a section to title 49 creating a BeST grant program, in which the Secretary of Transportation awards grants to eligible entities for rail bridge, station, and tunnel projects costing at least $500,000,000 that are listed in a BeST Inventory, with a Federal share of not more than 90 percent.
Sec. 9106: Buy America: Amends section 22905(a) of title 49 to remove one waiver ground, require 30 days of public notice and comment before a waiver finding, change the annual waiver reporting year, and apply the requirements to all contracts of a project if at least 1 contract uses covered funds.
Sec. 9201: Amtrak findings, mission, and goals: Amends section 24101 of title 49 to revise Amtrak's findings, mission statement, and goals, add findings on long-distance routes and the Northeast Corridor, add goals on accessibility and jobs, and strike subsection (d).
Sec. 9203: Board of Directors: Amends section 24302 of title 49 to change the Amtrak Board: the President of Amtrak is replaced by the Chief Executive Officer, 8 appointed directors have listed backgrounds, directors have added duties, and the rules apply to appointments on or after enactment.
Sec. 9204: Amtrak preference enforcement: Amends sections 24308(c) and 24103 of title 49 so that Amtrak may bring an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce its preference rights.
Sec. 9205: Use of facilities and providing services to Amtrak: Amends 49 U.S.C. 24308(e) so Amtrak may apply to the Board for an order requiring a rail carrier to allow additional trains, sets a 90-day Board determination, and adds a presumption for resuming trains run in the prior 5 years.
Sec. 9206: Prohibition on mandatory arbitration: Amends 49 U.S.C. 28103 to bar Amtrak from imposing a choice-of-forum clause that precludes passenger claims in a court of competent jurisdiction, which may not include an arbitration forum, for claims arising on or after enactment.
Sec. 9207: Amtrak ADA assessment: Requires Amtrak to assess its policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines for compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, report to committees within 180 days, engage disability advocates, and re-review at least every 2 years.
Sec. 9210: Amtrak Police Department: Requires Amtrak to identify the mission of the Amtrak Police Department within 180 days, develop a workforce planning process within 120 days after that, consult named groups, and report to two congressional committees.
Sec. 9211: Amtrak food and beverage: Rewrites section 24321 of title 49 on Amtrak food and beverage service, adds an Amtrak-employee requirement, amends related laws, and creates a food and beverage working group with reports and a limit on service changes.
Sec. 9213: Amtrak staffing: Amends section 24312 of title 49 to bar Amtrak from outsourcing call center work, require call center training, and require a ticket agent at certain station buildings, with an effective date.
Sec. 9214: Special transportation: Amends section 24307(a) of title 49 to require a discount of at least 10 percent on full-price coach class rail fares for children 12 or younger, people with disabilities, active-duty military and families, veterans, and students.
Sec. 9215: Disaster and emergency relief program: Adds section 24324 to title 49, letting the Secretary of Transportation make grants to Amtrak for capital repairs, lost revenue, and continued operations after emergency events, with grant conditions and a definition.
Sec. 9217: Amtrak cybersecurity enhancement and resiliency grant program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to Amtrak for information technology improvements, including cyber resiliency, and sets best-practice, funding-coordination and grant-condition rules, with a clerical amendment to the chapter analysis.
Sec. 9218: Amtrak and private cars: States the sense of Congress on private cars and charter trains and requires Amtrak to review policy changes since January 1, 2018 affecting private car owners and charter train services.
Sec. 9219: Amtrak Office of Community Outreach: Requires Amtrak to set up an Office of Community Outreach within 180 days to engage communities affected by its operations, and to report to Congress on that work after 1 year and annually after that.
Sec. 9220: Long-distance customer enhancement program: Requires Amtrak to spend at least 2.5 percent of certain yearly appropriations on customer experience projects on long-distance routes, sets eligible uses, a consultation duty and a reporting rule for repurposed funds.
Sec. 9221: Amtrak carbon-free and renewable energy initiatives: Requires Amtrak to develop and publish a net-zero emissions plan within 1 year, and to require 25 percent carbon-free or renewable electricity in new or renewed power contracts within 180 days, with exceptions and a report.
Sec. 9301: Northeast Corridor Commission: Amends 49 U.S.C. 24905 on the Northeast Corridor Commission: sets member counts and career appointee requirements, adds reporting items, revises the cost allocation policy and its timetables, and strikes subsection (d).
Sec. 9303: Protective arrangements: Amends section 22905 of title 49 to require the Federal Railroad Administrator, within 90 days, to establish employee protective arrangements equivalent to those under section 504 of the 1976 Act, and to publish them on a website.
Sec. 9305: High-speed rail updates: Amends sections 26101, 26105 and 26106 of title 49 to change high-speed rail corridor planning activities and selection criteria, redefine high-speed rail by speed thresholds, and change corridor development criteria.
Sec. 9306: State rail planning formula funds: Adds a section to chapter 229 of title 49 for grants to States for intercity passenger rail planning, using an appropriate portion of 1.5 percent of chapter funds, shared by route miles, population and Amtrak ridership for fiscal year 2019.
Sec. 9307: North Atlantic Rail Interstate Compact: Creates the North Atlantic Rail Interstate Compact with a board of directors and the purpose of building a North Atlantic Rail Network, sets its authorities, and dissolves it at the earlier of completion or 20 years, with assets going to Amtrak.
Sec. 9401: Sense of Congress regarding commuter rail liability insurance: States findings on commuter rail liability insurance availability and cost, and expresses the sense of Congress that Congress should address the issues and consider a commuter rail insurance program within the Department of Transportation.
Sec. 9402: Surface Transportation Board mediation of trackage use requests: Rewrites section 28502 of title 49 so rail carriers must give good faith consideration to commuter rail trackage requests, and lets either party apply to the Surface Transportation Board for nonbinding mediation if no agreement is reached.
Sec. 9403: Surface Transportation Board mediation of rights-of-way use requests: Rewrites section 28503 of title 49 so rail carriers must give good faith consideration to commuter rail right-of-way requests for a segregated fixed guideway, and lets either party apply to the Surface Transportation Board for nonbinding mediation.
Sec. 9502: FRA safety reporting: Adds train length, crew count in the controlling locomotive cab and crew duties to reported accident data, requires regulations within 1 year, adds an annual trend analysis of railroad safety reports, and widens accident reporting under the 2008 Act.
Sec. 9504: Notice of FRA comprehensive safety compliance assessments: Requires the Federal Railroad Administration to notify two congressional committees within 10 business days after field investigation begins in a comprehensive safety compliance assessment of a passenger rail entity, to report findings within 180 days after completion, and defines the term.
Sec. 9506: Freight train crew size safety standards: Adds a title 49 section barring operation of a freight train without a 2-person crew of a certified conductor and a certified locomotive engineer, lists exceptions and trains ineligible for them, and allows a waiver under section 20103(d).
Sec. 9508: Yardmasters hours of service: Amends title 49 to apply the duty-hour limits for train employees to yardmaster employees, adds yardmaster employees to a definition, and defines a yardmaster employee as someone supervising and coordinating train and engine control within a rail yard.
Sec. 9509: Leaking brakes: Directs the Federal Railroad Administrator to prohibit use of air brake control valves north of the 37th parallel from November 1 to March 31 when more than 15 years have passed since manufacture or recondition, with phase-in dates, annual reports, and a path for alternative rulemaking.
Sec. 9511: Fatigue reduction management plans: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to issue final fatigue management plan regulations within 1 year of enactment, based on the December 22, 2020 proposed rule, and sets when the Secretary may or shall reopen a railroad's fatigue management plan.
Sec. 9512: Assault prevention and response plans: Adds a section to title 49 requiring intercity and commuter rail passenger entities to submit assault prevention and response plans to the Secretary of Transportation within 180 days, with passenger notices, training, incident reports and public data.
Sec. 9514: Crewmember certification and qualification: Requires the Secretary to audit the locomotive engineer and conductor qualification and certification programs of each Class I railroad at least every 5 years, and to review parts 240 and 242 of title 49 for needed updates.
Sec. 9515: Safety management team communication: Requires the Federal Railroad Administration Administrator to set up a process for communication between the agency's safety management teams and railroad employees, including a reasonable timeframe for the teams to respond.
Sec. 9516: GAO study on reorganization of Office of Railroad Safety: Directs the Comptroller General to study the Office of Railroad Safety before and after its reorganization that took effect on June 8, 2020, and to report to Congress within 1 year of enactment.
Sec. 9517: Open-top rail car public input: Requires the Federal Railroad Administration Administrator, within 1 year, to start a public process seeking input on safety risks, spills, emissions and odors from open-top rail cars, including the feasibility of requiring them to be covered.
Sec. 9519: Safety oversight of nontraditional and emerging rail technologies: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to review Federal Railroad Administration safety regulations for nontraditional and emerging rail technologies, take public comment for at least 60 days, and report to Congress within 18 months.
Sec. 9520: FRA safety inspector and specialist review: Directs the Federal Railroad Administration to review the position descriptions and pay grades of railroad safety inspectors and specialists, and to report on the findings within 180 days.
Sec. 9553: Establishment of 10-minute time limit for blocking public highway-rail grade crossings: Adds a title 49 section barring a railroad carrier from blocking a public highway-rail grade crossing for more than 10 minutes, with listed exceptions, investigation of frequently blocked crossings, recordkeeping, and civil penalties.
Sec. 9554: National blocked crossing database: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a national blocked crossings database for public reports within 45 days of enactment of the TRAIN Act, and to require each railroad carrier to post the reporting link on its home page within 60 days.
Sec. 9555: Railroad point of contact for blocked crossing matters: Amends section 20152 of title 49 to add blocked crossing reports to the railroad telephone reporting system, requires railroads to verify reports within 14 days, and requires the Secretary to publish the telephone numbers on the Department of Transportation website.
Sec. 9556: National highway-rail crossing inventory review: Requires the Secretary of Transportation, within 180 days of enactment, to review the national highway-rail crossing inventory, verify its location data, and have railroads and State agencies correct errors within 30 days, then report to Congress.
Sec. 9557: Railroad trespassing enforcement grants: Allows the Secretary to make grants under section 22907 of title 49 to public law enforcement agencies to pay wages of personnel patrolling railroad right-of-way, gives priority to the 10 States with the most rail trespass casualties, and limits an entity to 3 annual grants.
Sec. 9558: Railroad trespassing suicide prevention grants: Allows the Secretary to make grants under section 22907 of title 49 to nonprofit mental health organizations, working with a railroad carrier, to run public outreach campaigns to reduce railroad suicides.
Sec. 9559: Including railroad suicides: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to revise regulations and guidance so that suicides on a railroad crossing or right-of-way are counted in the annual total of rail fatalities, and exempts the change from section 553 of title 5 rulemaking requirements.
Sec. 9560: Report on safety measures required for Quiet Zones: Requires the Federal Railroad Administrator, within 180 days of enactment, to report to Congress on safety measures outside part 222 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, that can qualify for a Quiet Zone, and on requested measures that were not approved.
Sec. 9601: Rail network climate change vulnerability assessment: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to seek an agreement with the National Academies to assess climate change impacts on the national rail network, report within 18 months, and spend not less than $1,500,000 from fiscal year 2022 funds.
Sec. 9602: Advance acquisition: Amends title 49 to let the Secretary of Transportation assist recipients of intercity passenger rail grants in acquiring right-of-way and adjacent property before environmental reviews finish, subject to certification, with non-Federal funds counted toward the non-Federal share.
Sec. 9603: University Rail Climate Innovation Institute: Authorizes a grant of up to 5 years to an institution of higher education to establish a University Rail Climate Innovation Institute for research on low- and zero-emission rail technologies, with a Federal share of up to 50 percent.
Sec. 9604: Workforce diversity and development: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to carry out at least one workforce development pilot program with a railroad carrier, requires a report to Congress, and allows up to $1,300,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Sec. 9607: Freight railroad locomotive requirements: Allows a Class I railroad to operate a locomotive on the freight interchange system on or after January 1, 2030, only if it was built on or after January 1, 2008, meets cleanest emission standards, or is under 89,100 MWhs of operation; requires certification.
Sec. 9608: Extension: Amends section 1246 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 by replacing "3 years" with "4 1/2 years" and adding a requirement that the Administrator act every 3 months thereafter.
Sec. 9609: GAO study on cost allocation of rail passenger transportation liability: Directs the Comptroller General to study how liability is apportioned among right-of-way owners and passenger rail operators on the Northeast Corridor and to issue recommendations on equitable liability allocation.
Sec. 9610: GAO study on economic benefits of one-seat ride commuter rail: Directs the Comptroller General, with the Federal Transit Administration, to study the economic benefits of one-seat ride commuter rail connecting urban and suburban areas and to report to Congress within 1 year.
Sec. 9701: Short title: Gives this division the short title "Sport Fish Restoration, Recreational Boating Safety, and Wildlife Restoration Act of 2021".
Sec. 10101: Safety warning for occupants of hot cars: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue a rule requiring new passenger motor vehicles of 10,000 pounds or less to have a system that detects an unattended occupant and warns, and requires a study on retrofit technologies.
Sec. 10103: 21st Century Smart Cars: Requires rules setting safety standards for crash avoidance systems and headlamps in new passenger motor vehicles, point-of-sale information, and research on further advanced crash systems with later rulemaking.
Sec. 10107: Study to evaluate the performance of crash avoidance systems: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study how well crash avoidance systems detect and classify pedestrians, bicyclists and other vulnerable road users, report within 2 years, and allows research contracts with nonprofits and universities.
Sec. 10108: Study and report on motor vehicle lamps: Requires a study by a selected research entity, within 18 months, of how non-uniform luminance from LED and LASER motor vehicle lamps affects elderly drivers' vision and roadway safety, with a report and public comment.
Sec. 10110: Sense of House of Representatives on regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles: States the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should begin establishing a Federal regulatory framework for the deployment of autonomous vehicles, in consultation with labor, safety groups, industry and other stakeholders.
Sec. 10111: Motor vehicle pedestrian and cyclist protection: Requires a final rule within 2 years setting minimum hood and bumper performance standards for vehicles of 10,000 pounds or less to reduce injuries to pedestrians and cyclists, with full compliance 2 years after the rule.
Sec. 10112: Child restraint systems: Directs revisions to child restraint labeling in section 571.213, requires side-impact crash testing standards and a 6-year-old test dummy for booster seats, and requires a study of tether systems.
Sec. 12002: Wastewater infrastructure workforce investment: Amends section 104(g) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to replace "manpower" with "workforce" and requires the Administrator to report to Congress within 2 years on workforce needs of publicly owned treatment works.
Sec. 12004: State management assistance: Amends section 106(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1991 through 2021 and $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and makes a technical change to section 106(e).
Sec. 12005: Watershed, wet weather, and resiliency projects: Rewrites section 122 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to fund projects that assess risks to and increase the resilience of treatment works, applies section 608 requirements, sets a 15 percent assistance share, and authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 12006: Waiver of matching requirement for grants to District of Columbia: Amends section 202(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make treatment works projects in the District of Columbia eligible for grants at 100 percent of the cost of construction.
Sec. 12007: Pilot program for alternative water source projects: Amends section 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act on alternative water source projects: changes eligibility, adds a 15 percent assistance share, applies section 608, adds stormwater to definitions, and authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 12008: Sewer overflow and stormwater reuse municipal grants: Amends section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: Federal share of at least 75 percent for financially distressed communities, section 608 requirements, $400,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and 20 percent for municipalities under 20,000.
Sec. 12011: Smart wastewater infrastructure technology grant program: Adds section 224 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, creating a grant program for municipal smart wastewater and stormwater technology projects, with a 25 percent non-Federal share, a Buy America requirement, and $500,000,000 authorized.
Sec. 12012: Reports to Congress: Revises the biennial estimate of treatment works construction costs to cover planned works plus rehabilitation and conveyance pipe replacement costs, and requires an annual report from the Administrator on projects funded under section 221 or title VI.
Sec. 12013: Indian Tribes: Reserves the greater of 2 percent or $30,000,000 of title VI funds for Tribal entities, authorizes $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for Tribal grants, and authorizes $2,600,000,000 for Indian Health Service sanitation facilities.
Sec. 12014: Capitalization grants: Requires States to use at least 20 percent of capitalization grant funds for green infrastructure, efficiency, innovative or resiliency projects, and directs the Administrator to encourage corrosion prevention activities in funded projects.
Sec. 12015: Water pollution control revolving loan funds: Amends section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add cybersecurity measures to eligible projects, widen the forms of additional subsidization, and set maximum and minimum shares of capitalization grants for that subsidization.
Sec. 12016: Allotment of funds: Applies the section 604(a) allotment formula to each fiscal year, lets States reserve up to 1 percent for workforce development and 0.5 percent for needs surveys, and bars counting Puerto Rico's allotted funds as income or using them for debt restructuring.
Sec. 12017: Reservation of funds for territories of the United States: Replaces section 607 with a requirement to reserve 1.5 percent of available title VI funds each fiscal year for grants to American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, which may not receive section 604(a) allotments.
Sec. 12019: Technical assistance by Municipal Ombudsman: Rewrites section 4(b)(1) of the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act so the Municipal Ombudsman provides technical and planning assistance to municipalities, including rural, small, disadvantaged, and Tribal communities, for meeting Federal Water Pollution Control Act requirements.
Sec. 12022: Disclosure of introductions of PFAS: Makes it unlawful for an industrial source owner or operator to introduce a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance into treatment works without first notifying the treatment works owner of its identity, quantity, treatability, and effect on operations.
Sec. 12023: Clean Water Act effluent limitations guidelines and standards and water quality criteria for PFAS: Sets deadlines for the Administrator to publish human health water quality criteria within 3 years and effluent limitations guidelines within 4 years for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for treatment works grants.
Sec. 12024: Nonpoint source management programs: Amends section 319(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for nonpoint source management programs.
Sec. 12025: Wastewater assistance to colonias: Amends section 307 of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to add local governments as covered entities, change the cost share from not exceeding 50 percent to not less than 80 percent, and raise the authorization from $25,000,000 to $100,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 12026: Household well water testing website: Requires the Administrator to establish within one year a website with information on testing household well water, and authorizes $1,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 12028: Effluent limitations for wastewater, spills, and runoff from facilities associated with the transport and packaging of pre-production plastic materials: Requires the Administrator to issue regulations within 180 days prohibiting the discharge of plastic pellets and other pre-production plastic materials from regulated facilities and point sources, and reflecting that prohibition in permits and standards of performance.
Sec. 12030: Management of International Transboundary Water Pollution: Allows the Administrator to use certain United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act funds to give the International Boundary and Water Commission grants for treatment works projects addressing transboundary wastewater flows in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Sec. 12031: California new river restoration: Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a California New River restoration program within 180 days, with grants and technical assistance at a Federal share of no more than 55 percent, and annual reports to Congress.
Sec. 12032: Rulemaking on climate resiliency: Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue regulations within 18 months requiring wastewater infrastructure fund applicants to assess climate change impacts and, where appropriate, build in measures to avoid, minimize, or mitigate them.
Sec. 13101: Drinking water system resilience funding: Amends section 1433(g) of the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend its years through 2031 and to raise the paragraph (6) amount from 25,000,000 to 50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
Sec. 13102: Grants for State programs: Amends section 1443(a)(7) of the Safe Drinking Water Act by striking "and 2021" and inserting "through 2031".
Sec. 13104: Assistance for disadvantaged communities: Amends section 1452(d)(2)(A) of the Safe Drinking Water Act by striking "35 percent" and inserting "40 percent".
Sec. 13105: Allotments for territories: Amends section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act by striking "0.33 percent" and inserting "1.5 percent".
Sec. 13108: Drinking water assistance to colonias: Amends section 1456 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to add a "covered entity" definition, change the Federal share from not exceeding 50 percent to not less than 80 percent, and raise the authorization from $25,000,000 to $100,000,000 for 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 13109: PFAS treatment grants: Adds Safe Drinking Water Act section 1459E, directing the Administrator to set up a grant program for community water systems' capital costs of PFAS treatment technology, and authorizes $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
Sec. 13111: Grant program for installation of filtration stations at schools and child care programs: Adds section 1464(e) to the Safe Drinking Water Act, directing the Administrator to make grants to States for installing and maintaining filtration stations at schools and child care programs, and authorizes $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2031.
Sec. 13112: Drinking water fountain replacement for schools: Changes section 1465(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act by replacing "2021" with "2031".
Sec. 13114: Assistance for areas affected by natural disasters: Amends section 2020 of America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to let the Administrator make grants to Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands to help eligible systems restore or increase compliance with national primary drinking water regulations.
Sec. 13115: Water main break data clearinghouse: Adds a new Safe Drinking Water Act section requiring a public website with a national clearinghouse on reported water main breaks, a rule requiring systems serving more than 10,000 persons to submit break and repair data, and an annual report.
Sec. 13201: Enabling EPA to set standards for new drinking water contaminants: Repeals Section 1412(b)(6) of the Safe Drinking Water Act and amends paragraphs (3)(C)(i) and (4)(B) of Section 1412(b) to remove cross-references to it.
Sec. 13202: National primary drinking water regulations for PFAS: Adds Section 1412(b)(16) of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring a national primary drinking water regulation for PFAS within 2 years, including PFOA and PFOS, with provisions on testing procedures, monitoring, additional substances and health advisories.
Sec. 13203: National primary drinking water regulations for microcystin toxin: Adds Section 1412(b)(17) of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring the Administrator to publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for microcystin toxin within 2 years.
Sec. 13204: National primary drinking water regulations for 1,4–dioxane: Adds Section 1412(b)(18) of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring the Administrator to publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for 1,4-dioxane within 2 years.
Sec. 13205: National primary drinking water regulation for chromium-6: Adds Section 1412(b)(19) of the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring the Administrator to publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for chromium-6 within 2 years.
Sec. 13206: Elimination of small system variances: Strikes subsection (e) of Section 1415 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, which covers small system variances, and makes conforming amendments to Sections 1412, 1414, 1416 and 1445.
Sec. 13301: Emergency relief program: Adds a Safe Drinking Water Act section directing the Administrator to run a residential emergency relief program that pays public water systems to reimburse forgiven customer arrearages and fees, and authorizes $4,000,000,000 to remain available until expended.
Sec. 13302: Low-income drinking water assistance program: Adds a Safe Drinking Water Act section establishing a federal low-income drinking water assistance program with one-year grants to eligible entities for local access programs, and authorizes $4,000,000,000 to remain available until expended.
Sec. 13303: Low-income wastewater assistance program: Adds a Federal Water Pollution Control Act section establishing a federal low-income wastewater assistance program with one-year grants to eligible entities for local wastewater access programs, and authorizes $4,000,000,000 to remain available until expended.
Sec. 13304: Needs assessment for nationwide rural and urban low-income community water assistance program: Directs the EPA Administrator to study and report annually on low-income households lacking affordable water, wastewater or stormwater services, defines key terms, and authorizes $150,000,000 to remain available until expended.
Sec. 13305: Natural hazard education and response grant program: Amends section 1433 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to create a grant program for community water systems to educate and assist people in responding to malevolent acts and natural hazards, and authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 13401: Small urban and rural water system consolidation report: Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress within one year on consolidating distressed small water systems, covering their debt, budgets, deferred upgrades, compliance and affordability, and defines related terms.
Sec. 13402: Study on contamination of Coldwater Creek, Missouri: Directs the EPA Administrator to review efforts to remediate radiological contamination near Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County, Missouri, report to Congress within 180 days, and install signage about exposure risks.
Sec. 13403: Report on affordability, discrimination and civil rights violations, and data collection: Directs the Comptroller General to study water and sewer affordability, discriminatory practices and civil rights violations by service providers, and data on people without service, and to report to Congress within 1 year.
Sec. 14101: Outdoors for all: Establishes an Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program under which the Secretary of the Interior may award grants for acquiring land and water and building or renovating outdoor recreation facilities in qualifying urban areas, with a match of not less than 100 percent.
Sec. 15001: Short title; table of contents: Gives this division the short title "Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2021".
Sec. 15002: Definitions: Defines terms used in the division, including corridor, habitat, native species, National Wildlife Corridor System, regional wildlife movement council, Secretaries, and wildlife movement, and lists the appropriate committees of Congress.
Sec. 15101: National wildlife corridors: Establishes the National Wildlife Corridor System on Federal land and water, made up of designated National Wildlife Corridors, and requires the Secretary to develop a strategy for it within 18 months of enactment.
Sec. 15102: Administrative designation of national wildlife corridors: Directs the Secretary, within 2 years of enactment, to set up by regulation a process for designating and managing National Wildlife Corridors on Federal land or water, with designation criteria and a nomination procedure.
Sec. 15103: Management of national wildlife corridors: Requires the Secretaries to manage each National Wildlife Corridor for native species connectivity, coordinate across jurisdictions and with transportation agencies on road mitigation, and allow compatible existing uses to continue.
Sec. 15201: Collaboration and coordination: Allows the Secretaries to partner with and fund States, local governments, Indian Tribes, landowners and councils, and requires consultation with listed agencies and groups when developing the strategy and designating and managing National Wildlife Corridors.
Sec. 15202: Effect: States that the title does not amend or affect other laws on conserving native species, nor State or Tribal jurisdiction over fish and wildlife management, including hunting, fishing and trapping, in a National Wildlife Corridor or Tribal Wildlife Corridor.
Sec. 15203: Tribal wildlife corridors: Lets an Indian Tribe nominate a corridor on its Indian land as a Tribal Wildlife Corridor, sets criteria and a 90-day determination, amends land use planning law, and provides technical assistance and grant eligibility for Tribes.
Sec. 15204: Protection of indian tribes: States that the title does not change the Federal trust responsibility to Indian Tribes, and exempts certain Tribal human remains, cultural item, and traditional-site information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act if the agency head so determines.
Sec. 15205: Wildlife movements grant program: Directs the Secretary to set up a wildlife movements grant program and to make grants to projects that are regional priorities, serve the stated purposes, and increase connectivity for native species, to the listed eligible recipients.
Sec. 15206: National coordination committee: Requires the Secretary to establish a National Coordination Committee within 18 months of enactment, sets its membership and chairperson selection, and assigns it duties on wildlife movement plan standards and the wildlife movements grant program.
Sec. 15207: Regional wildlife movement councils: Requires the Secretary to establish at least 4 regional wildlife movement councils within 1 year, sets their membership, and requires each to prepare a regional wildlife movement plan, solicit grant applications, and submit annual reports.
Sec. 15208: National wildlife corridors database: Directs the Director of the United States Geological Survey to establish a National Wildlife Corridors Database of habitat, wildlife movement and corridor data, sets its contents, requirements, 5-year reports and protections for proprietary and species information.
Sec. 15301: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes appropriations for the national wildlife corridor system, Tribal wildlife corridors, the wildlife movements grant program at $50,000,000 per year, regional wildlife movement councils, and the National Wildlife Corridors Database.
Sec. 16101: Definitions: Defines terms for Division L, including eligible entity, eligible projects and activities, Foundation, Fund, Indian Tribe, restoration and resilience lands, public lands, Secretary and State.
Sec. 16102: Establishment of Fund: Requires the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation within 180 days to establish the Community Resilience and Restoration Fund, and lists six purposes for the Fund.
Sec. 16103: Management of the Fund: Requires the Foundation to manage the Fund under the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act, with access for underserved communities and avoidance of overlap with coastal fund projects.
Sec. 16104: Competitive grants: Directs the Foundation to award competitive grants from the Fund to eligible entities for eligible projects and activities, and to set proposal requirements in coordination with the Secretary.
Sec. 16105: Use of Amounts in the Fund: Allows at least 8 percent of amounts appropriated annually to the Fund to be used for planning and capacity building, caps administrative costs at 4 percent, and requires at least $10,000,000 annually for projects and activities for Indian Tribes.
Sec. 16106: Reports: Requires the Foundation to submit annual reports and 5-year reports to the Secretary on the operation and results of the Fund, and requires the Secretary to send each report to congressional committees within 10 days.
Sec. 16107: Authorization of Appropriations: Authorizes $100,000,000 to be appropriated to the Fund for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2027 to carry out the division.
Sec. 17101: Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator: Amends Title XVI of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a nonprofit Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator, with a finance and investment division, a start-up division for green banks, a 40 percent investment target for climate-impacted communities, and labor wage rules.
Sec. 18101: Centers of excellence for domestic maritime workforce training and education: Amends section 54102 of title 46 to let the Secretary of Transportation award maritime career training grants of no more than $20,000,000 each to eligible 2-year and vocational institutions, and authorizes $200,000,000 for them.
Sec. 19101: Efficient and effective NEPA implementation: Authorizes $150,000,000 for fiscal years 2023 through 2031 for the Council on Environmental Quality to allocate to agencies for National Environmental Policy Act reviews, sets up a Task Force to Revitalize NEPA Implementation, and requires annual reports.
Sec. 20101: Definitions: Defines electric vehicle supply equipment, Secretary (the Secretary of Energy) and underserved or disadvantaged community for use in this subtitle.
Sec. 20102: Electric vehicle supply equipment rebate program: Requires the Secretary to set up a rebate program for covered expenses of publicly accessible electric vehicle supply equipment, with per-unit rebate limits up to $100,000, and authorizes $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 20103: Model building code for electric vehicle supply equipment: Directs the Secretary to review model building codes for integrating electric vehicle supply equipment, onsite renewable power and electric storage into buildings, and to give technical assistance to stakeholders on the model code.
Sec. 20107: Transportation electrification: Amends section 131 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to add charging and vehicle activities, sets grant authorizations of $2,000,000,000 and $2,500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and adds a priority for applications assuring prevailing wages.
Sec. 20108: Federal fleets: Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to set percentage requirements for Federal fleet acquisition of alternative fueled and zero emission vehicles, and amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to set Federal fleet emissions and alternative fuel goals.
Sec. 20112: Electric vehicle charging equity program: Directs the Secretary to set up an EV Charging Equity Program within 90 days, giving technical assistance and competitive grants for charging projects in underserved or disadvantaged communities, with an 80 percent cost cap and $96,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 20113: Ensuring program benefits for underserved and disadvantaged communities: Directs the Secretary, in administering a relevant program and to the extent practicable, to direct resources so the program promotes electric vehicle charging, supports clean and multi-modal transportation, improves air quality, and prioritizes underserved or disadvantaged communities.
Sec. 20114: Definitions: Defines electric vehicle charging infrastructure, publicly accessible, relevant program, Secretary, and underserved or disadvantaged community for this subtitle.

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Sec. 10002: Definitions: Defines Department as the Department of Transportation and Secretary as the Secretary of Transportation for this division.
Sec. 11105: National highway performance program: Amends section 119 of title 23 to add National Highway System resiliency as a program purpose, add undergrounding, resiliency and cybersecurity activities as eligible, and let a State use up to 15 percent of section 104(b)(1) funds for protective features.
Sec. 11107: Federal share payable: Amends section 120 of title 23 to add vehicle-to-infrastructure equipment and work-zone safety contingency funds, allow waiver of the non-Federal share for pooled funding, change 180 days to 270 days, and create a Federal share flexibility pilot program.
Sec. 11110: Nationally significant freight and highway projects: Amends section 117 of title 23 on nationally significant freight and highway projects: changes eligible projects, grant set-asides, selection factors, Federal share, non-Federal funds crediting, applicant notices and reporting requirements.
Sec. 11114: National highway freight program: Amends section 167 of title 23 to raise the corridor mileage limits from 150 to 300 miles and 75 to 150 miles, let rural States designate more corridors, and raise a project cap from 10 to 30 percent.
Sec. 11115: Congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program: Amends section 149 of title 23 on the congestion mitigation and air quality program, covering eligible projects, diesel replacement or retrofit, lock and dam and marine highway projects, and operating assistance.
Sec. 11116: Alaska Highway: Rewrites section 218 of title 23 on the Alaska Highway, allowing reconstruction of the highway and the Haines Cutoff Highway, Federal-aid funds at a 100 percent Federal share, and conditions on Canada's agreement.
Sec. 11117: Toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries: Amends section 129(c) of title 23 to cover ferry maintenance facilities and transit vehicles used in an intermodal ferry trip, and allows a Federal share up to 85 percent for diesel ferry vessel replacement or retrofit until September 30, 2025.
Sec. 11118: Bridge investment program: Adds section 124 to title 23, establishing a bridge investment program of competitive grants for projects to replace, rehabilitate, preserve, or protect bridges, with large projects above $100,000,000 and set grant minimums and federal-share caps.
Sec. 11122: Vulnerable road user research: Requires the Federal Highway Administrator to establish a research plan on roadway designs and safety countermeasures for vulnerable road users, review State assessments, and submit the plan and progress updates to congressional committees.
Sec. 11125: GAO report: Repeals section 1433 of the FAST Act and strikes the item for that section from the FAST Act's table of contents.
Sec. 11126: Territorial and Puerto Rico highway program: Amends section 165 of title 23 to set yearly amounts for the Puerto Rico highway program and the territorial highway program for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, such as $173,010,000 for Puerto Rico in fiscal year 2022, and to change two cross-references.
Sec. 11129: Standards: Amends section 109 of title 23 to require updates to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices every 4 years, let local jurisdictions use their own roadway design guide, and set standards for electric vehicle charging infrastructure funded under title 23.
Sec. 11131: Reservation of certain funds: Amends sections 154(c)(2) and 164(b)(2) of title 23 so that each October 1, starting October 1, 2021, the Secretary reserves 2.5 percent of certain apportioned funds from States lacking open container or repeat intoxicated driver laws.
Sec. 11132: Rural surface transportation grant program: Adds section 173 to title 23, establishing a competitive rural surface transportation grant program with a $25,000,000 minimum grant, set-asides, an 80 percent Federal share, congressional review, and reports.
Sec. 11135: Updates to Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Directs the Secretary, in the first update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, to include updates on vulnerable road users, automated vehicle testing, variable message signs, retroreflectivity, and committee recommendations.
Sec. 11203: State human capital plans: Adds section 174 to title 23, directing the Secretary to encourage each State to develop a voluntary human capital plan on its transportation workforce needs, with plan contents, a 5-year forecast, updates every 5 years, public posting and a savings provision.
Sec. 11204: Prioritization process pilot program: Directs the Secretary to set up a prioritization process pilot program for metropolitan planning organizations serving areas over 200,000 and States, with project scoring, ranked project lists, public explanation of exceptions, and grants of up to $2,000,000.
Sec. 11206: Increasing safe and accessible transportation options: Requires each State and metropolitan planning organization to use not less than 2.5 percent of specified planning funds on activities that increase safe and accessible travel options, with an 80 percent Federal share and an opt-out for those with Complete Streets policies and plans.
Sec. 11301: Codification of One Federal Decision: Amends section 139 of title 23, United States Code, to add One Federal Decision provisions: definitions of authorization and major project, a 90-day deadline for authorization decisions on major projects, schedule rules, a 200-page limit on environmental impact statements, and reporting duties.
Sec. 11302: Work zone process reviews: Directs the Secretary to amend section 630.1008(e) of title 23, Code of Federal Regulations, so that the work zone process review is required not more than once every 5 years.
Sec. 11303: Transportation management plans: Directs the Secretary to amend 23 CFR 630.1010(c) so only projects with a lane closure of 3 or more consecutive days are significant, and excuses States from transportation management plans for non-Interstate projects with up to 3 consecutive days of lane closures.
Sec. 11306: Flexibility for projects: Amends section 1420 of the FAST Act so the Secretary, on a State's request and if in the public interest, shall exercise all existing flexibilities under title 23 and other requirements, and adds "(including regulations)" after "environmental law" in subsection (b)(2)(A).
Sec. 11307: Improved Federal-State stewardship and oversight agreements: Requires the Secretary to publish a Federal-State stewardship and oversight agreement template for public comment, revise it and update State agreements, bars enforcing non-statutory approval requirements, and sets State reviews at least every 2 years.
Sec. 11308: Geomatic data: Requires the Secretary to develop guidance, with public notice and comment, on accepting and using information from non-Federal entities obtained through geomatic techniques such as remote sensing, surveying and photogrammetry.
Sec. 11309: Evaluation of projects within an operational right-of-way: Adds section 331 to title 23, requiring a relevant Federal agency to make a preliminary evaluation of a State application within 45 days for eligible projects in an existing operational right-of-way, with a 30-day extension and reports on missed deadlines.
Sec. 11310: Preliminary engineering: Strikes subsection (b) of section 102 of title 23, United States Code, redesignates the savings provision as subsection (b), and strikes paragraph (6) of section 144(j) of title 23.
Sec. 11311: Efficient implementation of NEPA for Federal land management projects: Adds a subsection to section 203 of title 23 letting the Federal Highway Administration prepare NEPA environmental documents for Federal land management agency projects, and sets rules for adopting them and for using its categorical exclusions.
Sec. 11316: Streamlining of section 4(f) reviews: Amends section 138(a) of title 23 on section 4(f) reviews, adding a 30-day comment period for other Secretaries, with the Secretary assuming no objection if no comments arrive 15 days after the deadline.
Sec. 11317: Categorical exclusion for projects of limited Federal assistance: Amends section 1317(1) of MAP–21 by changing "$5,000,000" to "$6,000,000" in subparagraph (A) and "$30,000,000" to "$35,000,000" in subparagraph (B).
Sec. 11318: Certain gathering lines located on Federal land and Indian land: Allows the Secretary of the Interior to treat a sundry notice or right-of-way for certain gathering lines on Federal land or Indian land as a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, if listed conditions are met.
Sec. 11319: Annual report: Requires the Secretary to report to Congress each year on Department projects more than 5 years behind schedule or at least $1,000,000,000 over the original cost estimate, with listed details for each project.
Sec. 11402: Reduction of truck emissions at port facilities: Directs the Secretary to set up a program to reduce idling at port facilities, with studies, grants of up to 80 percent of project cost for port emission-reduction projects, and a report to Congress.
Sec. 11403: Carbon reduction program: Adds section 175 to title 23, establishing a carbon reduction program with eligible projects, a State carbon reduction strategy, suballocation of funds by area population, a Federal share under section 120, and treatment as Federal-aid highway projects.
Sec. 11404: Congestion relief program: Establishes a congestion relief discretionary grant program for eligible entities in urbanized areas over 1,000,000 population, allows tolls on the Interstate System for grant projects in up to 10 urbanized areas, and sets rules for high occupancy vehicle use of new Interstate toll facilities.
Sec. 11405: Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) program: Adds section 176 to title 23, establishing the PROTECT program, which gives formula funds to States and competitive planning and resilience improvement grants for resilience improvements to surface transportation assets.
Sec. 11406: Healthy Streets program: Establishes the Healthy Streets discretionary grant program for eligible entities to deploy cool and porous pavements and expand tree cover, with a Federal share of 80 percent and a maximum grant of $15,000,000.
Sec. 11502: Stopping threats on pedestrians: Creates a competitive grant pilot program for State and local bollard installation projects to prevent pedestrian injuries and acts of terrorism, authorizes $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and allows up to a 100 percent Federal share.
Sec. 11503: Transfer and sale of toll credits: Establishes a toll credit exchange pilot program under which up to 10 selected States may transfer or sell unused toll credits to other States, with a public website, notifications, reports to Congress, and termination authority.
Sec. 11504: Study of impacts on roads from self-driving vehicles: Requires the Secretary to start a study within 60 days on the impacts of self-driving vehicles on infrastructure, mobility, the environment, and safety, consult an expert panel, and report to Congress within 1 year after the study begins.
Sec. 11505: Disaster relief mobilization study: Directs the Secretary to study using bicycles in the disaster preparedness and response plans of local communities, and to report the results and any recommendations to House and Senate committees within 2 years.
Sec. 11508: Requirements for transportation projects carried out through public-private partnerships: Sets conditions on Federal assistance for public-private partnership projects costing $100,000,000 or more: a review and certification by the public partner, notice to committees, and value for money analyses in title 23 programs.
Sec. 11510: Cybersecurity tool; cyber coordinator: Directs the Federal Highway Administration Administrator to develop a cybersecurity tool for transportation authorities within 2 years and to designate a cyber coordinator office to monitor, alert and advise on cyber incidents.
Sec. 11511: Report on emerging alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure: Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress, within 1 year, a public report on emerging alternative fuel vehicles (hydrogen, natural gas, propane) and the fueling infrastructure needed to support them.
Sec. 11512: Nonhighway recreational fuel study: Requires the Secretary to assess, at least every 5 years, nonhighway recreational fuel taxes transferred to the Highway Trust Fund, and to report to Congress on whether recreational trails program funding reflects that amount.
Sec. 11515: Interstate weight limits: Amends section 127 of title 23 to add a Kentucky expressway to the listed routes, and lets vehicles that could legally operate on certain North Carolina and Oklahoma highway segments keep operating there if the segments become Interstate routes.
Sec. 11516: Report on air quality improvements: Requires the Comptroller General to report within 3 years evaluating the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program, including emissions reductions, cost-effectiveness, effects on certain communities, and eligible project types.
Sec. 11517: Roadside highway safety hardware: Directs the Secretary to develop a third-party verification process for crash testing of roadside safety hardware, allows continued eligibility letters in the meantime, and requires a report 1 year before the letters stop.
Sec. 11522: Invasive plant elimination program: Creates a grant program for States to eliminate or control invasive plants along transportation corridor rights-of-way, with a 50 or 75 percent Federal share and $50,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 11523: Over-the-road bus tolling equity: Amends 23 U.S.C. 129(a) to extend the over-the-road bus toll access provision to public transportation vehicles, require toll authorities to report differing access terms, and require annual audits of toll facility records.
Sec. 11530: Highway cost allocation study: Requires the Secretary, within 4 years of enactment, to carry out a highway cost allocation study of the direct costs of highway use by various user types, with annual interim reports, a final report, and revenue recommendations.
Sec. 13001: Strategic innovation for revenue collection: Establishes a program of grants to States, local governments and metropolitan planning organizations for pilot projects testing road usage fees and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms, with $15,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and repeals section 6020 of the FAST Act.
Sec. 13002: National motor vehicle per-mile user fee pilot: Directs the Secretary, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to set up a pilot program for a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee with volunteer participants, an advisory board, fee collection into the Highway Trust Fund, and $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 13004: Data integration pilot program: Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to build models that integrate near-real-time weather, roadway, incident and emergency responder data, and authorizes $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 13005: Emerging technology research pilot program: Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program for emerging technology research on advanced and additive manufacturing and on automated vehicle impacts on pavement, and authorizes $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 13007: Workforce development, training, and education: Amends section 504 of title 23, United States Code, to add apprenticeship and workforce training activities, set up a grant program for transportation education and training curricula with reporting requirements, and allow use of funds for workforce development and technical assistance.
Sec. 13008: Wildlife-vehicle collision research: Amends section 515(h)(2) of title 23, United States Code, to add wildlife agency, academic researcher and public interest group representatives to an advisory committee, and amends section 516(b)(6) to include animal detection systems to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.
Sec. 13010: Transportation access pilot program: Requires the Secretary to establish a transportation pilot program that develops or procures an accessibility data set measuring access to destinations by surface transportation modes, for States and planning organizations, ending 8 years after implementation.
Sec. 14002: Environmental reviews for certain tribal transportation facilities: Requires the Secretary and other Federal agencies to complete environmental reviews of tribal transportation safety projects using the shortest existing process, with 45-day deadlines extendable by 30 days, and notice to committees when a deadline is missed.
Sec. 14003: Programmatic agreements for tribal categorical exclusions: Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation to enter into programmatic agreements with Indian tribes on environmental reviews for projects under section 202 of title 23, including tribal categorical exclusion determinations, with terms of up to 5 years.
Sec. 14005: Bureau of Indian Affairs road maintenance program: Authorizes appropriations to the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the Bureau's road maintenance program: $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, rising to $58,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 14006: Study of road maintenance on Indian land: Requires a study within 2 years of the viability, deferred maintenance backlog, and maintenance programs of roads on Indian land managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with tribal consultation, a report, and status reports every 2 years.
Sec. 14007: Maintenance of certain Indian reservation roads: Allows the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to transfer funds to the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to maintain, repair, or reconstruct roads whose primary user is U.S. Customs and Border Protection, by mutual agreement.
Sec. 14008: Tribal transportation safety needs: Requires best practices and a standardized crash report form for crash data on Indian reservations and in Alaska Native communities, directs Bureau law enforcement to use IMARS, and changes a Tribal Transportation Program safety percentage from 2 percent to 4 percent.
Sec. 21101: Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy: Adds section 118 to title 49, United States Code, establishing an Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy in the Department of Transportation under an Assistant Secretary for Multimodal Freight, and orders a GAO review.
Sec. 21102: Updates to National Freight Plan: Amends section 70102(b) of title 49 to add six items to the national freight plan: environmental best practices, system resilience, economic growth, community impacts, decarbonization strategies and e-commerce impacts.
Sec. 21103: State collaboration with National Multimodal Freight Network: Amends section 70103(b) of title 49 on State proposals to the National Multimodal Freight Network, changing the 20 percent limit to 30 percent and adding a condition for accepting State designations.
Sec. 21104: Improving State freight plans: Amends section 70202 of title 49 to add State freight plan contents, require parking facility assessments, set a priority and approval rule, order a study, and change planning periods from 5 to 8 and 5 to 4 years.
Sec. 21106: Multi-State freight corridor planning: Adds section 70204 to title 49 recognizing multi-State freight compacts, allowing financing and advisory committees, and creating grants of up to $2,000,000 and $1,000,000 with $5,000,000 authorized each fiscal year.
Sec. 21107: State freight advisory committees: Amends section 70201 of title 49 to list the groups State freight advisory committees must include, to add advice on the freight investment plan, and to set qualifications for committee members.
Sec. 21201: National infrastructure project assistance: Establishes a competitive grant program for eligible entities for highway, bridge, freight, rail and transit projects with costs of $500,000,000 or more, or $100,000,000 to $500,000,000 under a set-aside, with selection criteria, ratings and data reports.
Sec. 21204: National multimodal cooperative freight research program: Establishes a national multimodal cooperative freight research program run with the National Academy of Sciences, sets a Federal share of up to 100 percent, and authorizes $3,750,000 for each fiscal year.
Sec. 21205: Rural and Tribal infrastructure advancement: Establishes a Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program in the Build America Bureau, with application, notice and reporting steps, funding limits of $1,600,000 to $2,400,000 a year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and a 5-year sunset.
Sec. 21301: RRIF codification and reforms: Moves the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program into chapter 224 of title 49, repeals the original sections, and amends loan eligibility, interest rate, collateral, credit risk premium and repayment terms.
Sec. 22001: Short title: Provides that Title II of Division B may be cited as the "Passenger Rail Expansion and Rail Safety Act of 2021".
Sec. 22101: Grants to Amtrak: Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for grants to Amtrak for the Northeast Corridor and National Network for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with set-asides for oversight, committees, accessibility upgrades and corridor development.
Sec. 22202: Composition of Amtrak’s Board of Directors: Amends section 24302 of title 49 on Amtrak's Board of Directors: replaces President with Chief Executive Officer, requires a director with a disability, sets residence allocations, provides for electing a chair, and requires annual meetings with employees, persons with disabilities and the public.
Sec. 22204: Increasing oversight of changes to Amtrak long-distance routes and other intercity services: Amends title 49 to add any change to a route's or service's frequency or station stops to Amtrak's annual operations report, and to require 5-year business line plans to describe plans to permanently change frequency or station stops.
Sec. 22207: Increasing service line and asset line plan transparency: Amends section 24320 of title 49 to change Amtrak's business line and asset plans into 5-year service line and asset line plans, submitted 2020 and biennially thereafter, with new plan contents, consultation processes and Secretary approval of updates.
Sec. 22210: Protecting Amtrak routes through rural communities: Amends section 24706 of title 49 to bar Amtrak from discontinuing, reducing the frequency of, suspending or substantially altering long-distance route service in years of adequate Federal funding, and to require 210 days' written notice to members of Congress before discontinuing a route.
Sec. 22211: State-Supported Route Committee: Amends section 24712 of title 49, United States Code, on the State-Supported Route Committee: sets its voting and cost methodology policy rules, invoices and reports, new-route commitments, and requires an economic analysis report within 3 years.
Sec. 22212: Enhancing cross border service: Requires Amtrak to submit a report within 1 year on Amtrak passenger rail service between the United States and Canada, covering border inspection delays and recommendations including preclearance facilities.
Sec. 22214: Amtrak daily long-distance service study: Requires the Secretary to study restoring daily intercity rail passenger service on discontinued and nondaily Amtrak long-distance routes, to report within 2 years, and authorizes $7,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Sec. 22303: Consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements: Amends section 22907 of title 49 to add eligible applicants and eligible project uses, adds a non-Federal share rule for grade crossing and trespassing projects, and includes a rule of construction and a technical correction.
Sec. 22304: Restoration and enhancement grants: Amends section 22908 of title 49 to redefine applicant and operating assistance, extend assistance from 3 years to 6 years, add routes selected under the Corridor Identification and Development Program, and set the cost share from 90 percent in year one to 30 percent in year six.
Sec. 22308: Corridor identification and development program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish, within 180 days, a Corridor Identification and Development Program with proposal, selection and service development plan processes, and a project pipeline report, for intercity passenger rail corridors.
Sec. 22309: Surface Transportation Board passenger rail program: Requires the Surface Transportation Board to establish a passenger rail program responsible for its passenger rail duties and to hire up to 10 additional full-time employees to help carry them out.
Sec. 22401: Railway-highway crossings program evaluation: Requires the Secretary to evaluate the section 130 railway-highway crossings program of title 23 within 3 years of enactment, and to report the results and any recommended statutory changes to committees within 4 years.
Sec. 22403: Periodic updates to highway-rail crossing reports and plans: Strikes subsection (c) of section 11401 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, adds 49 U.S.C. 20167 requiring a Federal Railroad Administration report on State crossing plans, and rewrites the State annual report in 23 U.S.C. 130(g).
Sec. 22404: Blocked crossing portal: Directs the Federal Railroad Administration to establish a 3-year blocked crossing portal for public complaints, sets how the information is used and shared, and requires annual and congressional reports, with a sunset after 3 years.
Sec. 22405: Data accessibility: Requires the Department's Chief Information Officer to review the Office of Safety Analysis website of the Federal Railroad Administration and recommend improvements, and requires the Secretary to update the website within 1 year of receiving the recommendations.
Sec. 22406: Emergency lighting: Requires the Secretary to start a rulemaking within 1 year requiring intercity and commuter passenger rail carriers to adopt periodic inspection plans, including adequate emergency lighting in the event of a loss of power.
Sec. 22407: Comprehensive rail safety review of Amtrak: Requires the Secretary to conduct a focused review of Amtrak's safety processes, compliance and safety culture within 1 year and report findings, and requires Amtrak to submit a plan and annual progress updates.
Sec. 22408: Completion of hours of service and fatigue studies: Requires the Federal Railroad Administration to begin the hours of service pilot programs under section 21109(e)(1) of title 49 within 90 days, to consult affected employees, and to report if the programs have not begun after 1 year and 120 days.
Sec. 22410: Operating crew member training, qualification, and certification: Requires the Secretary to audit the training, qualification, and certification programs for locomotive engineers and conductors, schedule the audits, require railroads to fix deficiencies, review parts 240 and 242 every three years, and publish an annual report.
Sec. 22411: Transparency and safety: Rewrites section 20103(d) of title 49 so that nonemergency railroad safety waivers and suspensions require public notice, comment, and published reasons, and adds a review of waivers in effect for 6 years.
Sec. 22412: Research and development: Amends section 20108 of title 49 to let the Secretary build and repair facilities at the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, collect fees and rents into a revolving fund, and enter leases and contracts of up to 20 years.
Sec. 22415: Speed limit action plans: Adds section 20169 to title 49 requiring intercity and commuter passenger railroads to survey main track locations with speed reductions of more than 20 miles per hour and submit action plans to the Secretary for approval.
Sec. 22418: Civil penalty enforcement authority: Replaces paragraph (3) of section 21301(a) of title 49 with rules for finding violations after notice and hearing, compromising civil penalties, and adds paragraph (4) letting the Attorney General sue to collect penalties.
Sec. 22420: Passenger rail vehicle occupant protection systems: Requires the Federal Railroad Administrator to study occupant protection systems in new passenger rail rolling stock, report to Congress within 2 years, and permits a rule setting standards after the study.
Sec. 22421: Federal Railroad Administration reporting requirements: Requires a Federal Railroad Administration review of duplicative or unnecessary reporting requirements, with a report within 1 year, and an update of Form FRA F 6180.54 to collect train length, car count and crew numbers.
Sec. 22426: Railroad point of contact for public safety issues: Requires all railroads to give railroad contact information for public safety issues, including a telephone number, to Federal, State, and local oversight agencies and to post it on a publicly accessible website.
Sec. 22427: Controlled substances testing for mechanical employees: Requires the Secretary, within 180 days, to amend 49 CFR part 219 so all railroad mechanical employees are subject to the breath and body fluid testing in subparts C, D, and E, including random and pre-employment testing.
Sec. 23001: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes Highway Trust Fund amounts for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration administrative expenses, from $360,000,000 to $390,000,000, and for motor carrier safety grant programs, and amends related grant provisions.
Sec. 23003: Combating human trafficking: Amends 49 U.S.C. 31102(l) to add support for recognizing, preventing, reporting, detecting, and enforcing laws on human trafficking, including in commercial motor vehicles, as an allowed use of high priority program funds.
Sec. 23004: Immobilization grant program: Adds an immobilization grant program under 49 U.S.C. 31102(l) with discretionary State grants to immobilize or impound unsafe passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles, with eligibility rules and allowed uses of funds.
Sec. 23006: Study of commercial motor vehicle crash causation: Directs the Secretary to carry out a comprehensive study of the causes of and contributing factors to commercial motor vehicle crashes, sets consultation and public comment steps, and requires a report to Congress.
Sec. 23008: State inspection of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles: Requires the Secretary to seek more comment on the 2016 advance notice on State inspection programs for passenger-carrier vehicles, and to issue a final rule if data support it, considering self-inspection's safety impact.
Sec. 23014: Improving Federal-State motor carrier safety enforcement coordination: Requires the Secretary to publish processes for reviewing State out-of-service orders within 30 days of submission and State imminent hazard determinations, and to pursue enforcement under section 521 of title 49 as appropriate.
Sec. 23016: National Consumer Complaint Database: Requires the Comptroller General to report within 18 months on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's National Consumer Complaint Database, covering complaint review, top categories, website use and recommendations.
Sec. 23018: Transportation of agricultural commodities and farm supplies: Amends section 229(a)(1) of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 to add drivers transporting livestock, including insects, within a 150 air-mile radius of the livestock's final destination.
Sec. 23019: Modification of restrictions on certain commercial driver’s licenses: Directs the FMCSA Administrator to revise 49 CFR 383.3(f)(3)(ii) so restricted commercial driver's licenses for farm-related service employees follow State seasonal periods, not exceeding 210 days in a calendar year.
Sec. 23020: Report on human trafficking violations involving commercial motor vehicles: Requires the Secretary, through the Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking and with the Attorney General, to report to Congress every 3 years on human trafficking violations involving commercial motor vehicles, with recommendations.
Sec. 24102: Highway safety programs: Amends section 402 of title 23 to replace "accident" with "crash", require approved triennial highway safety plans, add program areas, set an apportionment formula and penalties, and allow automated traffic enforcement in work and school zones.
Sec. 24103: Highway safety research and development: Amends section 403 of title 23 to replace "accident" with "crash", raise $2,500,000 to $3,500,000, add training and education, and add a child heatstroke campaign, a recall grant program and innovative countermeasure research.
Sec. 24105: National priority safety programs: Amends section 405 of title 23, United States Code, changing grant allocation percentages and adding allocations for roadside deaths and driver and officer safety education, and changing child restraint, traffic records, impaired driving and interlock grant rules.
Sec. 24108: Crash data: Directs the Secretary to revise the crash data collection system to distinguish personal conveyance vehicles, adds vulnerable road user data elements, creates State electronic data grants, and authorizes $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 24109: Review of Move Over or Slow Down Law public awareness: Directs the Comptroller General to study Move Over or Slow Down Laws and related public awareness campaigns, and to report findings and recommendations to the Senate and House committees.
Sec. 24201: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out chapter 301 and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code: $200,294,333 for fiscal year 2022, rising to $216,805,027 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 24202: Recall completion: Requires manufacturers running recall notification campaigns to file quarterly and annual reports with NHTSA, and requires NHTSA to publish an annual list of recall completion rates by campaign and manufacturer.
Sec. 24203: Recall engagement: Directs the Comptroller General to study why owners skip open-recall repairs and how many ridesharing vehicles have open recalls, and directs NHTSA to study recall notices, each with a report to Congress.
Sec. 24206: Petitions by interested persons for standards and enforcement: Amends section 30162 of title 49, United States Code, to restate how petitions are handled: the Secretary determines whether to approve or deny a petition, and the provisions on approval and denial are numbered and reworded.
Sec. 24207: Child safety seat accessibility study: Directs the Secretary to study motor vehicle child safety seat accessibility for low-income families and underserved populations, examine funding under section 405 of title 23, and develop a plan to address needs found.
Sec. 24210: Rulemaking report: Requires the Secretary to send the Senate and House committees a written notification, first within 180 days and at least twice a year after, on each listed pending rulemaking, with expected completion dates, reasons for missed deadlines, timelines and delay factors.
Sec. 24211: Global harmonization: Directs the Secretary to cooperate, to the maximum extent practicable, with foreign governments, stakeholder groups, the motor vehicle industry, and consumer groups on global harmonization of vehicle regulations.
Sec. 24215: Emergency medical services and 9–1–1: Amends section 158(a) of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 942(a)) by striking paragraph (4).
Sec. 24217: Improved vehicle safety databases: Requires the Secretary, within 3 years of enactment and after consulting frequent users, to revise the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's public vehicle safety databases to improve organization, searchability, downloading and timely public access to nonconfidential documents.
Sec. 24219: Research on connected vehicle technology: Directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, with two other offices, to expand vehicle-to-pedestrian research within 180 days and to report findings to Congress within 2 years, including on spectrum for vulnerable road user applications.
Sec. 24221: GAO report on crash dummies: Requires the Comptroller General to report within 1 year on how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studies and uses crash test dummies, and requires the Administration to submit an interim report within 90 days.
Sec. 24222: Child safety: Requires a final rule within 2 years for an alert in new passenger vehicles under 10,000 pounds to check rear seating positions, requires State public education on unattended passengers, and requires a study of retrofit technologies.
Sec. 25001: Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Advisory Committee: Amends section 515(h) of title 23 to raise the Intelligent Transportation Systems Advisory Committee from 20 to 25 members, revise its membership categories, set a 3-year member term, and require meetings at least twice a year.
Sec. 25002: Smart Community Resource Center: Directs the Secretary to establish, within 1 year of enactment, a public website called the Smart Community Resource Center, which compiles resources and links for States and communities developing intelligent transportation system or smart community transportation programs.
Sec. 25003: Federal support for local decisionmaking: Directs the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to do outreach to local officials, submit a work plan on data analysis tools for local infrastructure decisions, and sets goals for those tools.
Sec. 25004: Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for Bureau of Transportation Statistics data collection and analysis, and amends section 6302(b)(3)(B)(vi) of title 49 by adding two subclauses.
Sec. 25005: Strengthening mobility and revolutionizing transportation grant program: Establishes the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant Program for grants to eligible entities for smart city or community technology demonstration projects, with selection criteria, permitted uses and reports.
Sec. 25008: Coordination on emerging transportation technology: Amends title 49 to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation Technology Council within 180 days, with set members, duties, guidelines, meetings and annual public reports through December 31, 2026.
Sec. 25009: Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center: Amends section 102 of title 49 to establish an Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center in the Office of the Secretary, with an Executive Director, set duties, and NEPA technical assistance, and makes a conforming change to section 116(f)(2).
Sec. 25011: Safety data initiative: Establishes a Safety Data Initiative to promote data integration, visualization and analytics for surface transportation safety, with applied research, data sharing, a joint plan, and a termination date.
Sec. 25012: Advanced transportation research: Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Infrastructure within the Department of Transportation, with a Director appointed by the President, program directors, research proposal review, forms of assistance, and reports.
Sec. 25015: Research planning modifications: Amends sections 6501 and 6502 of title 49 to require annual modal research plans, set review criteria for them, and require a public research project database with annual submissions from each modal administration.
Sec. 25016: Incorporation of Department of Transportation research: Adds section 6504 to title 49, requiring the Secretary of Transportation to review Department research by December 31, 2021 and every 5 years after, identify needed changes to laws and rules, and report to Congress.
Sec. 25017: University transportation centers program: Amends section 5505 of title 49 on university transportation centers: assigns the program to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, ties research focus to section 6503(c)(1), changes review to biennial, and sets funding years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 25018: National travel and tourism infrastructure strategic plan: Amends section 1431(e) of the FAST Act to require the national travel and tourism infrastructure strategic plan within 180 days, adds a COVID-19 recovery strategy and new plan elements, and establishes a Chief Travel and Tourism Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.
Sec. 25019: Local hiring preference for construction jobs: Lets recipients of title 23 or 49 grants use a local or other geographical or economic hiring preference for construction labor, requires a workforce diversity report to Congress within 1 year, and requires a published model plan.
Sec. 25020: Transportation workforce development: Requires a National Academy of Sciences workforce needs assessment for intelligent transportation industries, creates a working group and implementation plan, and establishes an outreach program of public service campaigns, up to $5,000,000 a year.
Sec. 25022: GAO cybersecurity recommendations: Requires the Secretary to implement two Comptroller General cybersecurity recommendations for the Department within 3 years, and requires a Comptroller General report within 18 months on the Department's management of cybersecurity.
Sec. 25024: Modifications to grant program: Amends the SAFETEA-LU section 1906 traffic stop grant program: adds programs, outreach and training on traffic stops as an eligible use, sets State maximums of 10 and 5 percent, authorizes $11,500,000 each fiscal year, and allows technical assistance.
Sec. 26002: Assistance for local emergency response training grant program: Amends section 5116 of title 49 to add an alert grant program in which the Secretary makes grants to nonprofit organizations to develop hazardous materials response training for emergency responders and offer it electronically.
Sec. 26003: Real-time emergency response information: Amends section 7302 of the FAST Act to set a December 5, 2022 date, change who receives electronic train consist information, and strike and renumber certain paragraphs on real-time emergency response information.
Sec. 27001: Performance measurement, transparency, and accountability: Lets the Secretary develop metrics and performance standards for each grant awarded under this Act, and assess each grant's activity 4 years after the initial award and every 2 years thereafter.
Sec. 27002: Coordination regarding forced labor: Directs the Secretary to coordinate with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection so that no illegal products or materials produced with forced labor are procured with funding made available under this Act.
Sec. 27003: Department of Transportation spectrum audit: Requires an audit within 18 months of the electromagnetic spectrum assigned to the Department, and a report to Congress listing bands in use, their purposes, locations, exclusive or shared use, and unused portions.
Sec. 27004: Study and reports on the travel and tourism activities of the Department: Requires the Secretary to study how the Department evaluates travel and tourism needs in grant applications and report within 1 year, and requires the Comptroller General to assess Department travel and tourism resources and report within 18 months.
Sec. 30004: Planning programs: Amends section 5305 of title 49 to set the Government share of planning activity costs at no more than 80 percent, with exceptions, and at not less than 90 percent for certain lower-density or lower-income areas, with reporting.
Sec. 30006: Formula grants for rural areas: Amends section 5311 of title 49 so that 5 percent of rural area formula amounts go to grants for Indian tribes (20 percent competitive, 80 percent by formula) and 3 percent to a second set-aside, and updates a cross-reference.
Sec. 30009: Transit-oriented development: Amends section 20005(b) of MAP–21 to allow transit-oriented development planning to use a site-specific plan as well as a comprehensive plan.
Sec. 30011: Public transportation emergency relief program: Adds subsection (f) to section 5324 of title 49 requiring an emergency relief grant applicant to submit proof of insurance required under Federal law and certify insurance required under State law for all structures related to the application.
Sec. 30012: Public transportation safety program: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5329 on public transportation safety: national safety plan contents, agency safety plans, a risk reduction program, safety committees, a 0.75 percent safety set-aside for larger urbanized areas, and State safety oversight inspections.
Sec. 30013: Administrative provisions: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5334(h)(4) to set rules for retaining or selling rolling stock, equipment and supplies at the end of service life, with a $5,000 threshold for reimbursing the Federal Transit Administration.
Sec. 30014: National transit database: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5335 to add geographic service area coverage to the national transit database and to require grant recipients to report transit asset inventory, assault on transit worker, and bus-impact fatality data.
Sec. 30015: Apportionment of appropriations for formula grants: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5336(h) to set the small urbanized area share at 3 percent and raises the State safety oversight program grant share from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent from fiscal year 2022 onward.
Sec. 30018: Grants for buses and bus facilities: Amends 49 U.S.C. 5339 to set bus formula grants at $206,000,000 each fiscal year, set a 15 percent rural share, require a zero emission transition plan, and direct 5 percent of zero emission grants to workforce training.
Sec. 30019: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority safety, accountability, and investment: Reauthorizes WMATA capital and preventive maintenance grants at $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2030, provides $5,000,000 for its Inspector General with a matching requirement, and sets Inspector General and capital planning conditions.
Sec. 40101: Preventing outages and enhancing the resilience of the electric grid: Requires the Secretary to set up a grant program within 180 days for eligible entities, States and Indian Tribes to reduce wildfire risk and the effects of disruptive events on the electric grid, with set-asides and matching requirements.
Sec. 40102: Hazard mitigation using disaster assistance: Amends section 404(f)(12) of the Stafford Act to add wildfire and the installation of fire-resistant wires and infrastructure and the undergrounding of wires to the hazard mitigation measures listed there.
Sec. 40103: Electric grid reliability and resilience research, development, and demonstration: Creates a competitive grid resilience assistance program authorized at $5,000,000,000, a rural or remote energy program authorized at $1,000,000,000, and a framework to assess energy infrastructure resilience, including a high-voltage transformer inventory.
Sec. 40105: Siting of interstate electric transmission facilities: Amends section 216 of the Federal Power Act on national interest electric transmission corridors, construction permits, rights-of-way and interstate compacts, including triennial reports, a 1-year deadline for State action, and Tribal consultation.
Sec. 40106: Transmission facilitation program: Establishes the Transmission Facilitation Program and Fund, letting the Secretary enter capacity contracts, issue loans, or join eligible transmission projects, with borrowing authority up to $2,500,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40107: Deployment of technologies to enhance grid flexibility: Amends section 1306 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to add smart grid cost and capability categories, and authorizes $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program, available through September 30, 2026.
Sec. 40108: State energy security plans: Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to let federal State energy program funds support State energy security plans covering physical and cybersecurity threats, sets plan contents and eligibility conditions, protects certain information, and expires October 31, 2025.
Sec. 40109: State energy program: Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to add transmission and distribution planning activities, revise transportation energy efficiency programs in State plans, and authorize $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for the State energy program.
Sec. 40110: Power marketing administration transmission borrowing authority: Makes an additional $10,000,000,000 in borrowing authority available for the Federal Columbia River Power System, limits obligations to $6,000,000,000 by fiscal year 2028, requires an updated financial plan by the end of fiscal year 2022, and requires repayment to the Treasury.
Sec. 40111: Study of codes and standards for use of energy storage systems across sectors: Requires the Secretary to study codes and standards applied to stationary, mobile, and moving energy storage systems, consult standards-developing organizations, and report the results to Congress within 18 months of enactment.
Sec. 40112: Demonstration of electric vehicle battery second-life applications for grid services: Amends section 3201(c) of the Energy Act of 2020 to require the Secretary to enter into an agreement for one project demonstrating second-life electric vehicle batteries as aggregated energy storage providing grid services, with priority for certain facilities.
Sec. 40113: Columbia Basin power management: Sets up a Treasury account for transmission to increase electric power transfers between the western United States and Canada, directs rehabilitation of the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant ($100,000,000 authorized), and requires a power coordination study ($10,000,000 authorized).
Sec. 40121: Enhancing grid security through public-private partnerships: Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a program on physical security and cybersecurity of electric utilities, requires a report within 1 year on distribution system cybersecurity, and exempts certain security information from public disclosure.
Sec. 40122: Energy Cyber Sense program: Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a voluntary Energy Cyber Sense program to test the cybersecurity of products and technologies for the energy sector, with vulnerability reporting, technical assistance, information protection, and a liability limit.
Sec. 40124: Rural and municipal utility advanced cybersecurity grant and technical assistance program: Establishes the Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program for rural, municipal and small investor-owned electric utilities, sets award priorities, and authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40125: Enhanced grid security: Directs the Secretary to carry out energy-sector cybersecurity research, operational support and infrastructure risk modeling programs, with authorizations of $250,000,000, $50,000,000 and $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40126: Cybersecurity plan: Allows the Secretary to require recipients of awards under this division to submit a cybersecurity plan, sets the plan's contents, calls for review by the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, and protects certain information from disclosure.
Sec. 40127: Savings provision: States that nothing in this subtitle affects the existing authority of any other Federal department or agency, including that of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under title XXII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Sec. 40202: National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program: Amends the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992 to add an abandoned mine land and mine waste mapping component, with priority on land where multiple critical minerals and metals are expected, and changes the appropriations end year from 2023 to 2031.
Sec. 40204: USGS energy and minerals research facility: Directs the USGS Director to fund, through a cooperative agreement with an academic partner, an energy and minerals research facility that USGS keeps owning, and authorizes $167,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, to remain available until expended.
Sec. 40205: Rare earth elements demonstration facility: Amends Section 7001 of the Energy Act of 2020 to have the Secretary fund, through an academic partner, a rare earth element extraction, separation and refining demonstration facility, and authorizes $140,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40206: Critical minerals supply chains and reliability: Directs the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to improve the timeliness of Federal permitting and review for critical mineral production on Federal land, with reports, a performance metric, and annual reporting to Congress.
Sec. 40208: Electric drive vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications program: Amends section 641 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to set up an electric drive vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications program of research, development and demonstration, with grants, a study and report, and $200,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40209: Advanced energy manufacturing and recycling grant program: Directs the Secretary to establish, within 180 days, a grant program for manufacturing firms to re-equip, expand or establish facilities producing or recycling advanced energy property in covered census tracts, with $750,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40211: 21st Century Energy Workforce Advisory Board: Directs the Secretary to establish the 21st Century Energy Workforce Advisory Board of 10 to 15 members to develop a Department strategy for a skilled energy workforce, with reports, a Secretary response, and a term ending September 30, 2026.
Sec. 40301: Findings: States congressional findings on the industrial sector, carbon capture, removal, transport and storage technologies, and that each State should consider treating carbon dioxide transport infrastructure as pollution control devices and waiving taxes for at least 10 years.
Sec. 40302: Carbon utilization program: Amends Section 969A of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to add a standards and certifications goal and a grant program for States, local governments and public utilities to procure carbon-derived products, and authorizes $41,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $69,387,656 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 40303: Carbon capture technology program: Amends Section 962 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to add a front-end engineering and design program for carbon dioxide transport infrastructure and authorizes $100,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40304: Carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation: Adds a subtitle to Title IX of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that sets up a carbon dioxide transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program offering federal credit instruments or grants, with definitions, eligibility rules and a $100,000,000 minimum project cost.
Sec. 40305: Carbon storage validation and testing: Amends section 963 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to create a large-scale carbon storage commercialization program and authorizes $2,500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40306: Secure geologic storage permitting: Authorizes $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 for EPA permitting of Class VI wells, and directs EPA to award grants to States with approved Class VI well programs, with $50,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40307: Geologic carbon sequestration on the outer Continental Shelf: Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to define carbon dioxide stream and carbon sequestration and to cover leases for injecting carbon dioxide into sub-seabed formations, and requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations within 1 year.
Sec. 40308: Carbon removal: Amends section 969D of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to set up a program funding projects toward 4 regional direct air capture hubs, with selection criteria, and authorizes $3,500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40311: Findings; purpose: States congressional findings on hydrogen and states the purpose of the subtitle: to accelerate hydrogen research, development, demonstration and deployment through a clean hydrogen definition, strategy and roadmap, a clearinghouse, demonstration projects and regional hubs.
Sec. 40312: Definitions: Amends section 803 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to add a definition of clean hydrogen and hydrogen, meaning hydrogen produced in compliance with the emissions standard under section 822(a), and renumbers the other paragraphs.
Sec. 40313: Clean hydrogen research and development program: Amends section 805 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to create a clean hydrogen research and development program, with goals through 2040, listed activities, and targets the Secretary must set within 180 days.
Sec. 40314: Additional clean hydrogen programs: Amends Title VIII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to add a regional clean hydrogen hubs program of at least 4 hubs, a national clean hydrogen strategy and roadmap, and clean hydrogen manufacturing and recycling grants, with $8,000,000,000 authorized for hubs for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40315: Clean hydrogen production qualifications: Adds section 822 to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 directing the Secretary to develop a carbon-intensity standard for clean hydrogen production, defining clean hydrogen as 2 kilograms of carbon dioxide-equivalent or less per kilogram of hydrogen, and updates the table of contents.
Sec. 40321: Infrastructure planning for micro and small modular nuclear reactors: Defines terms and requires a Department of Energy report on using micro-reactors and small modular reactors for energy resilience and carbon reduction, and directs financial and technical assistance for siting feasibility studies in isolated communities.
Sec. 40322: Property interests relating to certain projects and protection of information relating to certain agreements: Allows the Secretary to assign fee title or other property interests in certain advanced nuclear reactor projects, with retroactive vesting, and allows protection of information from dissemination for up to 30 years in cooperative research agreements and Department of Energy contracts.
Sec. 40323: Civil nuclear credit program: Establishes a civil nuclear credit program in which the Secretary certifies nuclear reactors projected to cease operations for economic reasons and allocates credits by sealed-bid auction, and authorizes $6,000,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40331: Hydroelectric production incentives: Amends section 242 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to update date references, raise a limit from $750,000 to $1,000,000, and authorize $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for hydroelectric production incentives.
Sec. 40332: Hydroelectric efficiency improvement incentives: Amends section 243 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to change 10 percent to 30 percent and $750,000 to $5,000,000 per fiscal year, and authorizes $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for hydroelectric efficiency improvement incentives.
Sec. 40333: Maintaining and enhancing hydroelectricity incentives: Adds section 247 to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 requiring incentive payments to owners of qualified hydroelectric facilities for grid resiliency, dam safety and environmental improvements, capped at 30 percent of costs, and authorizes $553,600,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40334: Pumped storage hydropower wind and solar integration and system reliability initiative: Amends section 3201 of the Energy Policy Act of 2020 to add a pumped storage hydropower wind and solar integration and system reliability initiative, with eligible entities, project requirements, a matching requirement, and $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40335: Authority for pumped storage hydropower development using multiple Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs: Amends section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to reserve to the Secretary exclusive authority over small conduit hydropower and pumped storage hydropower using Bureau of Reclamation facilities, and changes a pending-filing reference.
Sec. 40336: Limitations on issuance of certain leases of power privilege: Bars the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease of power privilege for a defined pumped storage project unless a study plan agreement with the Tribes or a final determination exists, and sets study plan, lease condition, deadline and judicial review rules.
Sec. 40341: Solar energy technologies on current and former mine land: Amends section 3004 of the Energy Act of 2020 to define mine land and to add to a required description the technical and economic viability of siting solar energy technologies on current and former mine land, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior and the EPA Administrator.
Sec. 40342: Clean energy demonstration program on current and former mine land: Directs the Secretary to set up a program demonstrating clean energy projects on current and former mine land, to select not more than 5 projects, to provide technical assistance, and authorizes $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40343: Leases, easements, and rights-of-way for energy and related purposes on the outer Continental Shelf: Amends section 8(p)(1)(C) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act by inserting "storage," before "or transmission".
Sec. 40411: Definitions: Defines terms for this subtitle, including Administrator, Annual Critical Minerals Outlook, critical mineral, household energy burden, large manufacturing facility, load-serving entity, miscellaneous electric load and rural area.
Sec. 40412: Data collection in the electricity sector: Directs the Administrator to establish an online Dashboard tracking operation of the bulk power system within 90 days, expand it with hourly operating data within 1 year, harmonize generation data with emissions data, and publish data on grid resource integration and load-serving entities.
Sec. 40413: Expansion of energy consumption surveys: Directs the Administrator, within 2 years, to expand the Manufacturing, Commercial Buildings, and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys to include energy end-use data, with added data collection, reporting and presentation requirements for each survey.
Sec. 40414: Data collection on electric vehicle integration with the electricity grids: Directs the Administrator, within 1 year, to develop and implement measures to expand data collection on electric vehicle integration with the electricity grids, lists possible data sources, and allows consultation and agreements with other institutions.
Sec. 40415: Plan for the modeling and forecasting of demand for minerals used in the energy sector: Directs the Administrator, with the United States Geological Survey, to develop within 180 days a plan for modeling and forecasting demand for energy technologies using minerals that are or could be designated critical minerals, with forecasts over 1-year, 5-year, and 10-year periods.
Sec. 40416: Expansion of international energy data: Directs the Administrator, within 1 year of enactment, to expand and improve the international energy data resources of the Energy Information Administration, working with the International Energy Agency and providing country-to-country comparison tools.
Sec. 40417: Plan for the National Energy Modeling System: Requires the Administrator, within 180 days of enactment, to develop a plan to identify needs or opportunities to update the capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System, across 14 listed topics.
Sec. 40418: Report on costs of carbon abatement in the electricity sector: Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress, within 270 days of enactment, a report on using levelized cost of carbon abatement in analyzing electricity generators and forecasts, and on measuring carbon dioxide emissions intensity.
Sec. 40419: Harmonization of efforts and data: Requires the Administrator, within 1 year of enactment, to set up a system to harmonize its data collection and reporting efforts with those of the Environmental Protection Agency, other Federal agencies, and State or regional energy credit registries.
Sec. 40432: Office of public participation: Amends section 319 of the Federal Power Act to strike certain sentences about the Office of Public Participation's Director and to set the Director's pay at no more than the Senior Executive Service maximum, and strikes subsection (b)(4).
Sec. 40433: Digital climate solutions report: Requires the Secretary to submit to committees, within 1 year of enactment, a report assessing digital tools and platforms as climate solutions, including an inventory, private-sector analysis, and a summary on climate disclosure standardization.
Sec. 40434: Study and report by the Secretary of Energy on job loss and impacts on consumer energy costs due to the revocation of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline: Requires the Secretary to study jobs lost and projected consumer energy cost impacts from section 6 of Executive Order 13990 over 10 years, and to report findings to Congress within 90 days of enactment.
Sec. 40501: Definitions: Defines 'priority State', 'program', 'State' and 'State Energy Program' for the subtitle, including a priority State test based on per-capita energy consumption or carbon dioxide emissions among the top 15 States.
Sec. 40502: Energy efficiency revolving loan fund capitalization grant program: Directs the Secretary to set up, under the State Energy Program, capitalization grants to States for revolving loan funds that make loans and grants for energy audits and building upgrades, with a 40 percent and 60 percent split and a $15,000,000 cap on supplemental grants.
Sec. 40503: Energy auditor training grant program: Directs the Secretary to set up a competitive grant program under the State Energy Program for States to train energy auditors, with grants of up to $2,000,000 per State and $40,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40511: Cost-effective codes implementation for efficiency and resilience: Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to add a competitive grant program for State and partnership implementation of updated building energy codes, with $225,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40512: Building, training, and assessment centers: Directs the Secretary to give grants to institutions of higher education and Tribal Colleges or Universities to set up building training and assessment centers, and authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40513: Career skills training: Directs the Secretary to award grants to nonprofit partnerships to pay the 50 percent Federal share of career skills training programs for energy efficient buildings technologies, and authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40514: Commercial building energy consumption information sharing: Requires the Energy Information Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an agreement within 120 days to share commercial building energy consumption data, and sets rules for protecting that information.
Sec. 40522: Sustainable manufacturing initiative: Adds a sustainable manufacturing initiative to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, directing the Secretary of Energy to carry out onsite technical assessments for manufacturers on request, coordinate with Department offices, and run a research partnership program.
Sec. 40531: Definitions: Defines terms for this part, including energy management system, industrial research and assessment center, smart manufacturing, and small and medium manufacturers (gross annual sales under $100,000,000, fewer than 500 employees).
Sec. 40532: Leveraging existing agency programs to assist small and medium manufacturers: Directs the Secretary to expand the technologies covered by the Department's industrial research and assessment centers to include smart manufacturing, and to train center directors to give technical assistance in it.
Sec. 40534: State manufacturing leadership: Lets the Secretary give competitive financial assistance to States for model smart manufacturing programs, with awards up to $2,000,000 over at most 3 years, a 30 percent match, and $50,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40535: Report: Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress each year, and make publicly available, a report on progress made in advancing smart manufacturing in the United States.
Sec. 40541: Grants for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy improvements at public school facilities: Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to consortia of a local educational agency and partners for energy improvements at schools, sets application, priority, use and reporting rules, and authorizes $500,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40542: Energy efficiency materials pilot program: Directs the Secretary to set up a pilot program of grants, up to $200,000 each, to provide nonprofit buildings with energy-efficiency materials, and authorizes $50,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 40551: Weatherization assistance program: Authorizes $3,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for the weatherization assistance program and applies the section 41101 wage rate requirements only to work on multifamily buildings with not fewer than 5 units.
Sec. 40552: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program: Amends section 544 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to add financing programs for energy efficiency, renewable energy and zero-emission transportation as a use of funds, and authorizes $550,000,000 for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 40553: Survey, analysis, and report on employment and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the United States: Establishes an Energy Jobs Council to survey employers and analyze employment figures and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors, and requires an annual public "U.S. Energy and Employment Report".
Sec. 40554: Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies grant program: Authorizes $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, to remain available until expended, for grants under section 546(b) of the National Energy Conservation Policy Act.
Sec. 40555: Rebates: Authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 for the extended product system rebate program and $10,000,000 for the energy efficient transformer rebate program under the Energy Act of 2020.
Sec. 40556: Model guidance for combined heat and power systems and waste heat to power systems: Requires the Secretary to review interconnection and additional-service rules within 180 days and to issue model guidance within 18 months to reduce barriers to combined heat and power and waste heat to power systems.
Sec. 40601: Orphaned well site plugging, remediation, and restoration: Rewrites section 349 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to set up a Federal program to plug, remediate and reclaim orphaned wells on Federal land, and to provide initial, formula and performance grants to States for orphaned wells on State and private land.
Sec. 40701: Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund authorization of appropriations: Authorizes $11,293,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for deposit into the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, to be given as annual grants to States and Indian Tribes for abandoned mine land and water reclamation, with a $20,000,000 minimum grant and a $25,000,000 reservation.
Sec. 40702: Abandoned mine reclamation fee: Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to lower the reclamation fee rates from 28, 12 and 8 cents to 22.4, 9.6 and 6.4 cents, and to extend the fee's end date from September 30, 2021 to September 30, 2034.
Sec. 40703: Amounts distributed from Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: Amends section 401(f)(2) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, changing the years 2022 and 2023 to 2035 and 2036 in the provisions on amounts distributed from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund.
Sec. 40802: Study and report on feasibility of revegetating reclaimed mine sites: Requires the Secretary of the Interior, through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, to study the feasibility of revegetating reclaimed mined sites and report to Congress within 1 year of enactment.
Sec. 40804: Ecosystem restoration: Authorizes $2,130,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture for ecosystem restoration activities, with set amounts for contracts, grants, invasive species, recreation sites, mined land and revegetation.
Sec. 40805: GAO study: Directs the Comptroller General to study, within 6 years, whether this title has reduced wildfire risk and restored ecosystems, and to report to Congress; authorizes $800,000 for the study.
Sec. 40806: Establishment of fuel breaks in forests and other wildland vegetation: Designates forest management activities that establish linear fuel breaks up to 1,000 feet wide on National Forest System land and Bureau of Land Management public lands as categorically excluded from NEPA review, with acreage, location, road and collaboration conditions.
Sec. 40807: Emergency actions: Lets the Secretary of Agriculture determine that an emergency situation exists on National Forest System land and carry out listed actions such as salvage harvest and hazardous fuel removal, with set rules on environmental analysis, administrative review and court injunctions.
Sec. 40808: Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership program: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership program for forest landscapes, sets selection criteria, exclusions and reports, and authorizes $90,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Sec. 40901: Authorizations of appropriations: Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior, through the Commissioner of Reclamation, for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 across twelve water categories, including $1,150,000,000 for water storage and $3,200,000,000 for the Aging Infrastructure Account.
Sec. 40902: Water storage, groundwater storage, and conveyance projects: Sets eligibility rules for feasibility studies and construction funded under section 40901(1), sets Federal cost-share limits, requires a determination of Federal benefits, and requires compliance with environmental laws.
Sec. 40903: Small water storage and groundwater storage projects: Establishes a competitive grant program for small water storage and groundwater storage projects of 2,000 to 30,000 acre-feet, with Federal share capped at the lesser of 25 percent or $30,000,000, ending 5 years after enactment.
Sec. 40904: Critical maintenance and repair: Limits funding under section 40901(2)(A) to reserved or transferred works begun by January 1, 1915 that had a critical failure, makes it nonreimbursable, and directs funds under 40901(2)(B) to Carey Act dams costing over $50,000,000.
Sec. 40905: Competitive grant program for large-scale water recycling and reuse program: Directs the Secretary to set up a competitive grant program for large-scale water recycling and reuse projects costing $500,000,000 or more in Reclamation States, with a Federal share of up to 25 percent, ending 5 years after enactment.
Sec. 40906: Drought contingency plan funding requirements: Allows funds under section 40901(8) in the Lower Colorado River Basin to be used for projects that conserve Colorado River water or improve operating efficiency, and bars their use for operating the Yuma Desalting Plant.
Sec. 40907: Multi-benefit projects to improve watershed health: Directs the Secretary to set up a competitive grant program for habitat restoration projects that improve watershed health in river basins affected by a Bureau of Reclamation water project, with a Federal share of up to 50 or 75 percent.
Sec. 40908: Eligible desalination projects: Amends section 4(a) of the Water Desalination Act of 1996 by redesignating the second paragraph (1), which relates to eligible desalination projects, as paragraph (2).
Sec. 40909: Clarification of authority to use coronavirus fiscal recovery funds to meet a non-Federal matching requirement for authorized Bureau of Reclamation water projects: Amends sections 602(c) and 603(c) of the Social Security Act so coronavirus fiscal recovery funds may satisfy non-Federal matching requirements for authorized Bureau of Reclamation projects, effective as of the American Rescue Plan Act.
Sec. 40910: Federal assistance for groundwater recharge, aquifer storage, and water source substitution projects: Lets the Secretary, at the request of Tribes, States or public agencies, give technical or financial assistance for groundwater recharge, aquifer storage and recovery, and water source substitution projects, with limits, cost sharing and a $500,000,000 authorization threshold.
Sec. 41001: Energy storage demonstration projects: Authorizes $355,000,000 for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for energy storage demonstration projects and pilot grants, and $150,000,000 for the long-duration demonstration initiative, under section 3201 of the Energy Act of 2020.
Sec. 41002: Advanced reactor demonstration program: Authorizes yearly appropriations from $511,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 to $281,000,000 for fiscal year 2027 for the advanced reactor demonstration program, and makes two technical corrections to the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Sec. 41003: Mineral security projects: Authorizes appropriations for the geological and geophysical data preservation program, rare earth mineral security, critical material innovation and alternatives, and a critical material supply chain research facility, in amounts stated by year.
Sec. 41004: Carbon capture demonstration and pilot programs: Authorizes appropriations for carbon capture large-scale pilot projects ($387,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and later amounts) and carbon capture demonstration projects ($937,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and later amounts).
Sec. 41005: Direct air capture technologies prize competitions: Authorizes $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for precommercial and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for commercial direct air capture technology prize competitions under section 969D of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Sec. 41006: Water power projects: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for hydropower and marine energy activities ($36,000,000 and $70,400,000) and for national marine energy centers ($40,000,000).
Sec. 41007: Renewable energy projects: Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 2022 through 2025 for geothermal ($84,000,000), wind ($60,000,000 and $40,000,000) and solar energy activities ($40,000,000, $20,000,000 and $20,000,000), and states that the wind amounts are part of an existing authorization.
Sec. 41201: Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations: Directs the Secretary to set up a program with a named head to evaluate and oversee Department of Energy demonstration projects, with duties, hiring authority, coordination, and reports by the Secretary and the Comptroller General.
Sec. 41202: Extension of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000: Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend payments through 2023, set up two pilot programs for appointing resource advisory committee members, add broadband uses, and bar use of county funds for lobbying.
Sec. 50101: Technical assistance and grants for emergencies affecting public water systems: Amends Section 1442 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to require a compliance evaluation and report, add cybersecurity and lead emergencies, authorize $35,000,000 and $15,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and allow technical assistance to State-based nonprofits.
Sec. 50102: Drinking water State revolving loan funds: Amends Section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to authorize $2,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $3,250,000,000 for fiscal years 2025 and 2026, add forms of subsidy for disadvantaged communities, and set a 12 percent minimum for them.
Sec. 50103: Source water petition program: Amends Section 1454 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to let a county petition on behalf of an unincorporated area under the source water petition program, adds a savings provision, and extends the program from 2021 to 2026.
Sec. 50104: Assistance for small and disadvantaged communities: Amends Section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act to add eligible uses, change cost shares, authorize $70,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $140,000,000 for 2026, and create grant programs for connecting households to public water systems and for State competitive grants.
Sec. 50105: Reducing lead in drinking water: Amends Section 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act to change lead service line replacement grant rules, authorize $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and create a lead inventorying pilot program with $10,000,000.
Sec. 50106: Operational sustainability of small public water systems: Adds a Safe Drinking Water Act section for grants to improve the operational sustainability of small public water systems, such as leak detection, metering and asset mapping, with a 90 percent federal cost share and $50,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50107: Midsize and large drinking water system infrastructure resilience and sustainability program: Adds a Safe Drinking Water Act section creating a grant program for public water systems serving 10,000 or more people to increase resilience to natural hazards and extreme weather and reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with $50,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50110: Lead contamination in school drinking water: Amends Section 1464 of the Safe Drinking Water Act to widen the school and child care lead grant program and sets authorizations of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 rising to $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 50111: Indian reservation drinking water program: Amends Section 2001 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 on Indian reservation drinking water projects, and authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50113: Cybersecurity support for public water systems: Adds Section 1420A to the Safe Drinking Water Act, requiring the Administrator to develop a framework to prioritize public water systems and a voluntary Technical Cybersecurity Support Plan, with reports to Congress.
Sec. 50114: State response to contaminants: Amends Section 1459A(j)(1) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, replacing “an underserved community” with “a community described in subsection (c)(2)” and making a matching change in subparagraph (A)(i).
Sec. 50115: Annual study on boil water advisories: Requires the Administrator to study the prevalence of boil water advisories in the United States each year, beginning 1 year after enactment, and to report the results and the reasons for the advisories to Congress with the annual budget request.
Sec. 50202: Wastewater efficiency grant pilot program: Adds section 222 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, creating a pilot program of grants to treatment works owners or operators for waste-to-energy projects: up to 15 recipients, each grant not more than $4,000,000, $20,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50204: Sewer overflow and stormwater reuse municipal grants: Amends section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add overflow notification systems, address non-Federal share pass-through, set $280,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, set a 25 percent rural or distressed allocation, and add reports.
Sec. 50205: Clean water infrastructure resiliency and sustainability program: Adds section 223 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, creating a grant program for municipal and State entities to increase treatment works resilience to natural hazards or cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with $25,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50206: Small and medium publicly owned treatment works circuit rider program: Adds section 224 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, creating a circuit rider program of grants of not more than $75,000 to qualified nonprofit entities assisting small and medium treatment works, with $10,000,000 authorized for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50207: Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program: Adds section 225 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, creating a grant program for replacing or repairing equipment that improves water or energy efficiency at small treatment works, with at least 15 percent reserved for works serving fewer than 3,300 people.
Sec. 50209: Connection to publicly owned treatment works: Adds section 227 to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: a competitive grant program for entities helping low-income or moderate-income individuals pay to connect households to treatment works, authorized at $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50210: Clean water State revolving funds: Amends section 603 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to change the forms and limits of additional subsidization, allows an additional 2 percent for technical assistance, and authorizes $2,400,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 up to $3,250,000,000 for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
Sec. 50212: Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages: Amends section 303 of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to change "50 percent" to "75 percent" and to authorize $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2025, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.
Sec. 50213: Water data sharing pilot program: Directs the Administrator to establish a competitive grant pilot program for systems that improve the sharing of water quality, infrastructure and technology information, allows regional consortia of States, and authorizes $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 50214: Final rating opinion letters: Amends section 5028(a)(1)(D)(ii) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to replace final rating opinion letters from at least 2 rating agencies with a final rating opinion letter from at least 1 rating agency.
Sec. 50215: Water infrastructure financing reauthorization: Authorizes $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, changes related year references, and requires the Administrator to develop an outreach plan for small and rural communities within 180 days.
Sec. 50216: Small and disadvantaged community analysis: Requires the Administrator, within 2 years, to analyze past distribution of funds to small and disadvantaged communities under two State revolving fund programs, using Environmental Protection Agency environmental justice data, and to report results and criteria to Congress.
Sec. 50217: Stormwater infrastructure technology: Defines terms and directs the Administrator to fund 3 to 5 stormwater control centers of excellence ($5,000,000 a year, fiscal years 2022 through 2026), competitive project grants with set caps, a report to Congress, and $10,000,000 a year in appropriations.
Sec. 50221: Water Resources Research Act amendments: Amends the Water Resources Research Act of 1984: changes research wording, sets grant matching and an annual compliance report, requires evaluation of each institute every 5 years, and updates appropriations to fiscal years 2022 through 2025.
Sec. 60101: Findings: States congressional findings on access to affordable high-speed broadband, the digital divide, broadband competition, and the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic.
Sec. 60103: Broadband DATA maps: Requires broadband providers to give the Federal Communications Commission information to augment its broadband data collection, sets a 60-day notice before the initial filing deadline, requires census housing-unit counts, and requires publication of the maps on a public website.
Sec. 60105: Broadband deployment locations map: Requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish, within 18 months of enactment, an online Deployment Locations Map of federally funded broadband deployment projects, updated at least every 180 days, and makes $10,000,000 available.
Sec. 60201: Tribal connectivity technical amendments: Amends section 905 of division N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 to change Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grant deadlines, extensions and administrative expense limits, and sets rules for any additional appropriations.
Sec. 60301: Short title: Provides that Title III of Division F may be cited as the “Digital Equity Act of 2021”.
Sec. 60302: Definitions: Defines terms used in the title, including adoption of broadband, covered household (income not more than 150 percent of the poverty level), covered populations, digital equity, digital inclusion, and the covered programs.
Sec. 60303: Sense of Congress: States the sense of Congress on broadband connection and digital literacy, the costs of digital exclusion, the need for sustained investment toward digital equity, and government obligations on internet access and use.
Sec. 60304: State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program: Establishes the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program in the Department of Commerce, setting rules for administering entities, State Digital Equity Plans, planning grants, and annual State capacity grants.
Sec. 60305: Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program: Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish the Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program in the Department of Commerce, setting eligible entities, applications, award factors, uses of funds, a 90 percent Federal share cap, assurances, and grant termination rules.
Sec. 60306: Policy research, data collection, analysis and modeling, evaluation, and dissemination: Requires the Assistant Secretary to report annually to Congress on digital equity grants and evaluate the covered programs, allows contracts for evaluation, requires consultation, technical support, and authorizes such sums as necessary.
Sec. 60307: General provisions: Bars discrimination on listed grounds, including race, sex and disability, in programs funded under this title, sets enforcement and judicial review, requires technological neutrality, and authorizes $1,000,000 a year for audits.
Sec. 60502: Broadband affordability: Extends the Emergency Broadband Benefit, renames it the Affordable Connectivity Program, adds provider and Commission duties, changes eligibility and the benefit amount from $50 to $30, and sets broadband data rules.
Sec. 60503: Coordination with certain other Federal agencies: Amends section 804(b)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934 so the Commission coordinates with the Postmaster General, other agencies that operate delivery fleet vehicles, and the Census Bureau on broadband data collection.
Sec. 60504: Adoption of consumer broadband labels: Requires the Commission to issue regulations within 1 year requiring broadband consumer labels, including introductory rate information, and to hold public hearings when issuing the rule.
Sec. 60505: GAO report: Requires the Comptroller General to report to congressional committees within 1 year on how the Commission sets, reviews and updates upload and download speed thresholds for broadband internet access service.
Sec. 60506: Digital discrimination: Sets a policy of equal access to broadband internet access service, requires the Commission to adopt rules against digital discrimination within 2 years, develop model policies, and accept discrimination complaints.
Sec. 60601: Short title: Provides that this title may be cited as the "Telecommunications Skilled Workforce Act".
Sec. 60602: Telecommunications interagency working group: Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require an interagency working group within the Federal Communications Commission to develop recommendations on telecommunications industry workforce needs and safety, report to Congress within 1 year, and then sunset.
Sec. 60603: Telecommunications workforce guidance: Requires the Secretary of Labor, with the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, to issue guidance within 1 year on how States can address telecommunications industry workforce needs and safety, including through State workforce development boards.
Sec. 60604: GAO assessment of workforce needs of the telecommunications industry: Requires the Comptroller General to report within 180 days on the number of skilled telecommunications workers needed to build and maintain rural broadband infrastructure and the wireless infrastructure for 5G technology.
Sec. 70101: Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund: Establishes the Indian Water Rights Settlement Completion Fund in the Treasury, deposits $2,500,000,000 in it, and makes it available to the Secretary of the Interior for transfers and obligations under approved Indian water settlements.
Sec. 70201: Short title: Provides that this title may be cited as the "Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission Act of 2021".
Sec. 70202: Definitions: Defines terms used in the title, including appropriate committees of Congress, Commission, high-risk Indian tribal government, high-risk State, Secretaries, State, and wildland-urban interface.
Sec. 70203: Establishment of Commission: Requires the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security to establish within 30 days a commission on wildland fire policy, and sets its membership, appointment timing, vacancies and meeting rules.
Sec. 70204: Duties of Commission: Directs the Commission to report on recommendations to prevent, mitigate, suppress, and manage wildland fires, and on an aerial firefighting equipment strategy and inventory, with a two-thirds member approval requirement for recommendations.
Sec. 70205: Powers of Commission: Authorizes the Commission to hold hearings, obtain information from Federal agencies, use the mails, and accept gifts or donations of services or property to carry out the title.
Sec. 70206: Commission personnel matters: Sets Commission members to serve without compensation with travel expenses, and lets the Chairpersons appoint an executive director and staff, set pay up to level V of the Executive Schedule, accept detailed employees, and procure temporary services.
Sec. 70207: Termination of Commission: Ends the Commission 180 days after it has submitted the reports under subsections (a) and (b) of section 70204.
Sec. 70301: Short title: Gives this title the short title "Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act" or the "REPLANT Act".
Sec. 70302: Reforestation following wildfires and other unplanned events: Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to set reforestation requirements and a priority list for National Forest System land after unplanned events such as wildfires, and amends the Reforestation Trust Fund law.
Sec. 70303: Report: Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress each year, and post on the Forest Service website, on compliance with the reforestation amendments and on acres reforested and in need of reforestation.
Sec. 70401: Best practices for battery recycling and labeling guidelines: Directs the EPA Administrator to develop best practices for collecting batteries for recycling, with $10,000,000 authorized for fiscal year 2022, and sets up a voluntary battery labeling program with $15,000,000 authorized for fiscal year 2022.
Sec. 70402: Consumer recycling education and outreach grant program; Federal procurement: Creates an EPA competitive grant program for recycling education and outreach, amends Section 6002 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act on federal procurement, and authorizes $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 70501: Pilot program on use of agricultural commodities in construction and consumer products: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to run a pilot program with at least 1 qualified institution studying materials made from agricultural commodities in construction and consumer products, authorizing $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2023.
Sec. 70601: Short title: Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the "Cyber Response and Recovery Act".
Sec. 70602: Declaration of a significant incident: Adds a subtitle to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 letting the Secretary declare a significant incident, sets declaration duration, renewal and publication, creates the Cyber Response and Recovery Fund, and sets notification and reporting rules.
Sec. 70611: Short title: Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the "State and Local Cybersecurity Improvement Act".
Sec. 70612: State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program: Adds section 2218 to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, creating a State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program in the Department for States and Tribal governments, with cybersecurity plan requirements and multi-entity grants.
Sec. 70701: Value for money analysis: Requires entities carrying out transportation projects costing more than $750,000,000 and seeking TIFIA or railroad financing in States authorizing public-private partnerships to conduct a value for money analysis, report results, and requires Secretary guidance.
Sec. 70901: Short title: Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the “Build America, Buy America Act”.
Sec. 70911: Findings: Sets out 15 congressional findings on infrastructure investment, domestic content procurement preferences, Buy America laws, domestic manufacturing and consistency with international obligations.
Sec. 70912: Definitions: Defines terms for this part, including deficient program, domestic content procurement preference, Federal financial assistance, infrastructure, produced in the United States (with a 55 percent component cost test for manufactured products), and project.
Sec. 70913: Identification of deficient programs: Requires each Federal agency, within 60 days of enactment, to report and publish in the Federal Register its infrastructure assistance programs, their domestic content preferences and waivers, and a list of deficient programs.
Sec. 70914: Application of Buy America preference: Requires each Federal agency, within 180 days of enactment, to bar obligating infrastructure assistance funds unless iron, steel, manufactured products and construction materials are produced in the United States, with waivers, public comment and five-year waiver reviews.
Sec. 70915: OMB guidance and standards: Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance to Federal agencies on domestic content procurement preferences and to issue standards defining all manufacturing processes for construction materials within 180 days.
Sec. 70916: Technical assistance partnership and consultation supporting Department of Transportation Buy America requirements: Requires the Secretary of Transportation to enter a technical assistance partnership with the Secretary of Commerce through NIST, consult the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership before Buy America waivers, and report annually.
Sec. 70917: Application: Limits this part to programs where a domestic content procurement preference does not already apply, preserves existing preferences that meet section 70914, and excludes cement, cementitious materials and aggregates from construction materials.
Sec. 70921: Regulations relating to Buy American Act: Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue regulations or guidance within 1 year to standardize how Federal agencies comply with, report on and enforce the Buy American Act, including waiver publication and guidelines.
Sec. 70922: Amendments relating to Buy American Act: Amends title 41, United States Code, sections 8301, 8302, 8303 and 1908 to require iron and steel to be manufactured in the United States from initial melting through coatings, limit the off-the-shelf exception, add an annual report, and change waiver language.
Sec. 70923: Made in America Office: Establishes a Made in America Office within the Office of Management and Budget, sets its duties, requires a report on foreign-sourced procurement within 1 year, reviews of reciprocal defense agreements, and defines domestic preference statutes.
Sec. 70924: Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership activities: Directs each Federal agency head to work with the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership on contracting opportunities, and requires its participating businesses to be automatically enrolled in GSA Advantage!.
Sec. 70925: United States obligations under international agreements: Requires that this part and its amendments be applied consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.
Sec. 70926: Definitions: Defines Berry Amendment, Buy American Act, Federal agency, relevant congressional committees, and waiver for purposes of this part.
Sec. 70927: Prospective amendments to internal cross-references: Amends the specialty metals clause reference in section 70923(f)(5) to section 4863 and the Berry Amendment reference in section 70926(1) to section 4862, effective January 1, 2022.
Sec. 70931: Short title: Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the "BuyAmerican.gov Act of 2021".
Sec. 70932: Definitions: Defines "Buy American law," "executive agency," and "Buy American waiver" for use in Subtitle B of Division G, Title IX.
Sec. 70933: Sense of Congress on buying American: States the sense of Congress that executive agencies should maximize use of United States-produced goods, monitor and enforce Buy American laws, minimize waivers, and routinely audit their compliance.
Sec. 70934: Assessment of impact of free trade agreements: Requires the Secretary of Commerce, the United States Trade Representative, and the OMB Director to publish a report within 150 days assessing how free trade agreements, the WTO procurement agreement, and permitting processes affect Buy American laws.
Sec. 70939: Rules of construction: Provides that Subtitle B does not affect existing disclosure requirements or limit moving the BuyAmerican.gov data to a successor information system that references BuyAmerican.gov.
Sec. 70940: Consistency with international agreements: Requires that Subtitle B be applied consistently with United States obligations under international agreements.
Sec. 70941: Prospective amendments to internal cross-references: Amends section 70932(1) by replacing the citation "section 2533a" with "section 4862" in subparagraph (I) and "section 2533b" with "section 4863" in subparagraph (J), effective January 1, 2022.
Sec. 70951: Short title: Provides that this subtitle may be cited as the "Make PPE in America Act".
Sec. 70952: Findings: States congressional findings on the vulnerability of United States supply chains for personal protective equipment, the need for a domestic PPE supply chain, a three-year needs strategy, long-term contracts of at least three years, and international obligations.
Sec. 70953: Requirement of long-term contracts for domestically manufactured personal protective equipment: Requires contracts for personal protective equipment by the Secretaries of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs to run at least 2 years and be for domestically produced equipment, with exceptions, a report, equipment transfer authority, and trade-agreement steps.
Sec. 71001: Asset concessions: Adds section 611 to title 23 creating a program of technical assistance grants and expert services for eligible entities entering asset concessions, with a $2,000,000 maximum per grant, $20,000,000 transferred each October 1 from 2021 through 2025, and a report due by August 1, 2024.
Sec. 71101: Clean school bus program: Replaces section 741 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 with a clean school bus program: EPA grants, rebates and contracts to replace school buses, split 50/50, with a use requirement, an annual report, and $1,000,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 71102: Electric or low-emitting ferry pilot program: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to run a pilot program of grants for buying electric or low-emitting ferries and reducing emissions from existing ferries, with $50,000,000 authorized for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Sec. 71103: Ferry service for rural communities: Creates a Department of Transportation program to fund States in providing basic essential ferry service to rural areas, authorizes $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and allows operating-cost uses under title 23 sections 147 and 218(c).
Sec. 71104: Expanding the funding authority for renovating, constructing, and expanding certain facilities: Amends section 509 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act by striking "minor" before "renovations" and striking the text from ", to assist" through "standards".
Sec. 80102: Extension of highway-related taxes: Extends highway-related excise taxes, heavy vehicle use tax, floor stocks refund dates, certain exemptions and trust fund transfer dates from 2022 and 2023 to 2028 and 2029, effective October 1, 2021.
Sec. 80201: Extension and modification of certain superfund excise taxes: Extends the superfund excise taxes on certain chemicals and imported substances through December 31, 2031, sets new per-ton rates, changes related percentage rules, requires an initial list of taxable substances by January 1, 2022, and takes effect July 1, 2022.
Sec. 80301: Extension of customs user fees: Changes the end date of customs user fees and of the Korea Free Trade Agreement merchandise processing fee rate from September 30, 2030 to September 30, 2031.
Sec. 80401: Private activity bonds for qualified broadband projects: Adds qualified broadband projects to the exempt facility bonds under Internal Revenue Code section 142(a), defines them by service speed and area, requires notice to broadband providers, and counts 75 percent of such bonds toward the volume cap.
Sec. 80402: Carbon dioxide capture facilities: Adds qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities to the exempt facility bonds under Internal Revenue Code section 142(a), defines eligible components, sets a 75 percent volume cap rule, and reduces the section 45Q credit for projects financed with such bonds.
Sec. 80403: Increase in national limitation amount for qualified highway or surface freight transportation facilities: Raises the national limitation amount for qualified highway or surface freight transportation facility bonds in Internal Revenue Code section 142(m)(2)(A) from $15,000,000,000 to $30,000,000,000, for bonds issued after enactment.
Sec. 80501: Modification of automatic extension of certain deadlines in the case of taxpayers affected by Federally declared disasters: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 7508A(d) on automatic deadline extensions for taxpayers affected by federally declared disasters, redefining disaster area and setting separate periods for multiple declarations within 60 days.
Sec. 80502: Modifications of rules for postponing certain acts by reason of service in combat zone or contingency operation: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 7508(a)(1) so postponed acts for combat zone or contingency operation service include filing a Tax Court petition or notice of appeal, and cover erroneous refunds.
Sec. 80503: Tolling of time for filing a petition with the tax court: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 7451 to toll the time for filing a Tax Court petition, by the days of inaccessibility plus 14 days, when the clerk's office or online filing portal is unavailable to the public.
Sec. 80504: Authority to postpone certain tax deadlines by reason of significant fires: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 7508A to let the Treasury postpone tax deadlines because of a significant fire, defined as a fire receiving assistance under section 420 of the Stafford Act, for fires assisted after enactment.
Sec. 80601: Modification of tax treatment of contributions to the capital of a corporation: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 118 so contributions in aid of construction and certain governmental contributions to regulated water and sewerage utilities count as capital contributions, with an expenditure rule and a limitations period.
Sec. 80602: Extension of interest rate stabilization: Replaces the interest rate stabilization percentage tables in section 430(h)(2)(C)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code and section 303(h)(2)(C)(iv) of ERISA, with 95% and 105% for 2020 through 2030, applying to plan years beginning after December 31, 2021.
Sec. 80603: Information reporting for brokers and digital assets: Amends Internal Revenue Code sections 6045, 6045A, 6724 and 6050I to add digital asset service providers to the definition of broker, require reporting of digital assets and treat them as cash, applying to returns filed after December 31, 2023.
Sec. 80604: Termination of employee retention credit for employers subject to closure due to COVID–19: Amends Internal Revenue Code section 3134 to end the employee retention credit after September 30, 2021, except January 1, 2022 for recovery startup businesses, effective for calendar quarters beginning after September 30, 2021.
Sec. 90001: Extension of direct spending reductions through fiscal year 2031: Amends section 251A(6) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act to extend the Medicare sequestration period through fiscal year 2031, changing the percentages to 4.0 for the first period and 0 for the second.
Sec. 90002: Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown and sale: Directs the Secretary of Energy to draw down and sell 87,600,000 barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in fiscal years 2028 through 2031, deposits $43,500,000 in the SPR Petroleum Account, and caps sales once $6,100,000,000 is deposited.
Sec. 90003: Findings regarding unused unemployment insurance funds: States congressional findings on Congressional Budget Office reductions in the projected cost of expanded unemployment compensation, including $144,000,000,000 in 2021 and about $53,000,000,000 in unused unemployment insurance funds.
Sec. 90004: Requiring manufacturers of certain single-dose container or single-use package drugs payable under part B of the Medicare program to provide refunds with respect to discarded amounts of such drugs: Amends section 1847A of the Social Security Act to require manufacturers of certain single-dose container or single-use package drugs under Medicare part B to refund amounts for discarded units, starting January 1, 2023, with audits and civil money penalties.
Sec. 90005: Extension of enterprise guarantee fees: Amends section 1327(f) of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 by striking "2021" and inserting "2032".
Sec. 90006: Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eliminating the anti-kickback statute safe harbor protection for prescription drug rebates: Bars the Secretary of Health and Human Services, before January 1, 2026, from implementing, administering, or enforcing the November 30, 2020 final rule on safe harbor protection for prescription drug rebates (85 Fed. Reg. 76666).
Sec. 90007: Rescission of COVID–19 appropriations: Permanently rescinds unobligated balances of several COVID-19 appropriations, including $13,500,000,000 for economic injury disaster loans, $17,578,000,000 for the Targeted EIDL Advance, and $1,366,100,000 for the economic stabilization program, among others.
Sec. 90008: Spectrum auctions: Directs a transfer of $50,000,000 to the Department of Defense for spectrum planning in the 3100 to 3450 megahertz band, sets identification and shared-use steps, and directs the FCC to begin competitive bidding not earlier than November 30, 2024.
Division J: Appropriations: Opens the appropriations division, appropriating sums out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes.
Title I, “Watershed and flood prevention operations”: Appropriates an additional $500,000,000 for Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations, available until expended, requires a spend plan to the Appropriations Committees within 90 days, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title I, “WATERSHED REHABILITATION PROGRAM”: Appropriates an additional $118,000,000 for the Watershed Rehabilitation Program, available until expended, requires a spend plan to the Appropriations Committees within 90 days, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title I, “EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION PROGRAM”: Appropriates an additional $300,000,000 for the Emergency Watershed Protection Program to repair damages to waterways and watersheds from natural disasters, available until expended, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title I, “DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEMEDICINE, AND BROADBAND PROGRAM”: Appropriates an additional $2,000,000,000 for the Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program, with $74,000,000 for broadband loans and $1,926,000,000 for the broadband loan and grant pilot program, plus conditions.
Sec. 101: Appropriates $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out section 70501 of division G, with $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2023, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title II, “Broadband equity, access, and deployment program”: Appropriates $42,450,000,000 for broadband equity, access, and deployment grants under section 60102 of division F, requires a fiscal year 2022 spend plan within 90 days, and sets aside up to 2 percent for administration and oversight.
Title II, “Broadband connectivity fund”: Appropriates $2,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, for Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grants under section 905(c) of division N of Public Law 116–260, as amended by section 60201 of division F.
Title II, “Digital equity”: Appropriates $2,750,000,000 for digital equity competitive grants under sections 60304 and 60305 of division F, at $550,000,000 per fiscal year for 2022 through 2026, with deadlines for funding notices and awards.
Title II, “Middle mile deployment”: Appropriates an additional $1,000,000,000 for Middle Mile Deployment competitive grants under section 60401 of division F, with deadlines for funding notices and awards, up to 2 percent for administration and oversight, and an emergency designation.
Title II, “OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES”: Appropriates an additional $2,611,000,000 for NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities through fiscal year 2026, divided among 14 purposes including coastal grants, habitat restoration, flood mapping, marine debris, and fish passage, with spend plan requirements.
Title II, “PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION — DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE”: Appropriates an additional $180,000,000 for NOAA procurement, acquisition and construction: $50,000,000 for wildfire observation infrastructure, $80,000,000 for research supercomputing, $50,000,000 for coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes observing systems.
Title II, “PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY — DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE”: Appropriates an additional $172,000,000 for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery, available through September 30, 2027 in yearly amounts of $34,400,000, with spend plan requirements and authority to waive or reduce the non-Federal share.
Title III, “investigations”: Appropriates an additional $150,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers “Investigations”, with set-asides of $30,000,000, $45,000,000 and $75,000,000 for named study authorities, spend plan and monthly report requirements, and an emergency designation.
Title III, “construction”: Appropriates an additional $11,615,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers “Construction”, with set-asides including $1,500,000,000 for rivers and harbors, $2,500,000,000 for inland waterways and $2,550,000,000 for coastal storm risk management, plus reporting and emergency terms.
Title III, “Mississippi river and tributaries”: Appropriates an additional $808,000,000 for “Mississippi River and Tributaries”, including $258,000,000 for emergency situations at Corps of Engineers projects caused by natural disasters, to be obligated within 90 days, with spend plan and monthly report requirements.
Title III, “Operation and maintenance”: Appropriates an additional $4,000,000,000 for “Operations and Maintenance”, split $2,000,000,000, $1,000,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 over fiscal years 2022 to 2024, with $626,000,000 for disaster dredging and repairs.
Title III, “Regulatory program”: Appropriates an additional $160,000,000 for the “Regulatory Program”, available until September 30, 2026, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Flood control and coastal emergencies”: Appropriates an additional $251,000,000 for “Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies”, available until expended, and requires shore protection projects funded from it to be restored to the full project profile at full Federal expense.
Title III, “expenses”: Appropriates an additional $40,000,000 for “Expenses”, available until expended, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “water infrastructure finance and innovation program account”: Appropriates an additional $75,000,000 for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account, with $64,000,000 for dam safety loan costs and $11,000,000 for administrative expenses.
Sec. 300: Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to consider factors besides the benefit-cost ratio when determining economic benefits of projects that benefit disadvantaged communities.
Title III, “CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT”: Appropriates an additional $50,000,000 for the Central Utah Project Completion Account, available until expended, of which $10,000,000 goes to the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account.
Title III, “WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES”: Appropriates an additional $8,300,000,000 for Water and Related Resources, available until expended, with $1,660,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 and set-asides for storage, rural water, recycling, desalination and dam safety.
Title III, “Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response”: Appropriates an additional $550,000,000 for Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, including $250,000,000 for energy sector cybersecurity research and $250,000,000 for rural and municipal utility cybersecurity grants.
Title III, “Electricity”: Appropriates an additional $8,100,000,000 for Electricity, including $5,000,000,000 for grants under section 40101, $50,000,000 for the Transmission Facilitation Program and $3,000,000,000 for the Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program.
Title III, “Construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance, western area power administration”: Appropriates an additional $500,000,000 for the Western Area Power Administration to purchase power and transmission services, reimbursable from collections, with transfer authority to the Colorado River Basins Power Marketing Fund.
Sec. 301: Lets the Secretary of Energy directly appoint highly qualified individuals into the competitive service for Department of Energy activities funded under this title, on a finding of a severe hiring shortage or critical hiring need, until September 30, 2027.
Sec. 302: Allows up to one-tenth of one percent of each amount appropriated to the Department of Energy in this title to be transferred to "Departmental Administration" for additional management and mission support.
Sec. 303: Requires one-tenth of one percent of amounts made available to the Department of Energy under each heading in this title in fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to be transferred to its Office of the Inspector General to oversee those funds.
Title III, “Appalachian Regional Commission”: Provides an additional $1,000,000,000 for the Appalachian Regional Commission, available until expended, with $200,000,000 made available in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Delta regional authority”: Provides an additional $150,000,000 for the Delta Regional Authority, available until expended, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Denali commission”: Provides an additional $75,000,000 for the Denali Commission, available until expended, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Northern border regional commission”: Provides an additional $150,000,000 for the Northern Border Regional Commission, available until expended, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Southeast crescent regional commission”: Provides an additional $5,000,000 for the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission, available until expended, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title III, “Southwest border regional commission”: Provides an additional $1,250,000 for the Southwest Border Regional Commission, available until expended, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title IV, “Salaries and expenses”: Provides an additional $21,000,000 for the Office of the National Cyber Director, available until September 30, 2022, to carry out section 1752 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title IV, “AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY FUND”: Provides an additional $14,200,000,000 for the Affordable Connectivity Fund, available until expended, for the Affordable Connectivity Program, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title IV, “ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW IMPROVEMENT FUND”: Provides an additional $3,000,000 for the Environmental Review Improvement Fund, available until September 30, 2026, split across fiscal years 2022 through 2026, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title IV, “EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT”: Deposits an additional $3,418,008,000 in the Federal Buildings Fund for construction, acquisition, repairs and alterations of border stations and land ports of entry, with set amounts for specified project groups and reporting conditions.
Title V, “U.S. Customs and border protection — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates an additional $330,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for furniture, fixtures, and equipment for land ports of entry modernized with funds provided to the General Services Administration in this Act, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title V, “U.S. Customs and border protection — PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS”: Appropriates an additional $100,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for land port of entry construction, modernization, and sustainment, requires a spend plan within 90 days, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Title V, “Coast guard — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates an additional $5,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for Coast Guard personnel and administrative expenses, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title V, “Coast guard — PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS”: Appropriates an additional $429,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for Coast Guard procurement, construction, and improvements, including $120,000,000 for childcare development centers, and requires an expenditure plan within 90 days.
Title V, “Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates an additional $35,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for risk management operations and stakeholder engagement and requirements, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title V, “CYBERSECURITY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY FUND”: Appropriates $100,000,000, available until September 30, 2028, for cyber response and recovery, in $20,000,000 amounts for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, usable only after a significant incident declaration, with monthly reports required.
Title V, “Federal emergency management agency — OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT”: Appropriates an additional $67,000,000, available until September 30, 2026, for Federal agency dam safety activities and assistance to States under sections 7 through 12 of the National Dam Safety Program Act, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title V, “Federal assistance”: Appropriates an additional $2,233,000,000 under “Federal Assistance”, allocated to Stafford Act section 205 grants ($500,000,000), National Dam Safety Program grants ($733,000,000) and cybersecurity and critical infrastructure grants ($1,000,000,000).
Title V, “Disaster relief fund”: Appropriates an additional $1,000,000,000 for the “Disaster Relief Fund”, for grants under section 203(i) of the Stafford Act, at $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Title V, “NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND”: Appropriates an additional $3,500,000,000 for flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, at $700,000,000 per fiscal year 2022 through 2026, with up to 90 percent of costs for certain properties.
Title V, “RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT”: Appropriates an additional $157,500,000, available until September 30, 2026, for critical infrastructure security and resilience research, development, test, and evaluation, and requires a spend plan within 90 days.
Sec. 501: Transfers one-quarter of one percent of amounts made available under each heading in Title V in each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General for oversight.
Title VI, “RESOURCE MANAGEMENT”: Appropriates an additional $455,000,000 for “Resource Management”, including $255,000,000 for regional ecosystem restoration and $200,000,000 for the National Fish Passage Program, with one-half of one percent transferred to the Interior Inspector General.
Title VI, “SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH”: Appropriates an additional $510,668,000 to the Secretary of the Interior for Surveys, Investigations, and Research, split $320,000,000 to section 40201, $167,000,000 to section 40204 and $23,668,000 to section 41003(a) of division D.
Title VI, “ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND”: Appropriates $11,293,000,000 to be deposited in the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to carry out section 40701 of division D, including $25,000,000 for section 40701(g) and up to 3 percent for salaries, expenses, and administration.
Title VI, “OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS”: Appropriates $216,000,000 for Operation of Indian Programs for tribal climate resilience, adaptation, and community relocation, with $130,000,000 for community relocation and $86,000,000 for resilience and adaptation projects, spread over fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Title VI, “CONSTRUCTION”: Appropriates $250,000,000 for construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of irrigation and power systems, safety of dams, water sanitation, and other facilities, at $50,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Title VI, “Departmental Operations”: Appropriates an additional $905,000,000, available until expended, to the Secretary of the Interior for activities authorized in section 40804 of division D, with amounts by fiscal year 2022 through 2026, transfer authority, and set-asides for administration and the Inspector General.
Title VI, “Department-Wide Programs — Wildland Fire Management”: Appropriates an additional $1,458,000,000 for Wildland Fire Management, with amounts by fiscal year 2022 through 2026, designated purposes including fuels management and burned area rehabilitation, transfer authority, and set-asides for administration and the Inspector General.
Title VI, “Energy Community Revitalization Program”: Appropriates an additional $4,677,000,000 for an Energy Community Revitalization program for orphaned well site plugging, remediation, and restoration under section 349 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, split among listed purposes, with transfer authority and set-asides.
Sec. 601: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a detailed spend plan for Title VI funds within 90 days, and again with each annual budget submission through fiscal year 2026.
Title VI, “Environmental Programs and Management”: Appropriates an additional $1,959,000,000 for Environmental Programs and Management, allocated to Geographic Programs, National Estuary Program grants, the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan, Class VI well permitting, and battery recycling and labeling guidelines.
Title VI, “Hazardous substance superfund”: Appropriates an additional $3,500,000,000 for the Hazardous Substance Superfund for Superfund remedial activities, with Tribal assistance, no cost share, annual reporting, and a transfer to the EPA Office of Inspector General.
Title VI, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Appropriates an additional $55,426,000,000 for State and Tribal Assistance Grants, allocated to Clean and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, lead service line replacement, and emerging contaminants grants, with subsidy and administrative conditions.
Sec. 611: Allows Environmental Protection Agency funds in this Act for salaries, expenses, and administration to be transferred to the “Environmental Programs and Management” or “Science and Technology” account as needed.
Sec. 612: Requires the EPA Administrator to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a detailed spend plan for Title VI funds within 90 days, and annually through 2026 with the President's budget submission.
Sec. 613: Makes sums in the Hazardous Substance Superfund from taxes under section 9507(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code available each fiscal year, without further appropriation, to carry out the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.
Title VI, “Forest and Rangeland Research”: Appropriates an additional $10,000,000, available until September 30, 2029, for the Forest Service's Joint Fire Science Program, in $2,000,000 amounts for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, designated as an emergency requirement.
Title VI, “State and Private Forestry”: Appropriates an additional $1,526,800,000 for State and Private Forestry, available until September 30, 2029, split across fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with set amounts for wildfire activities, State Fire Assistance and Volunteer Fire Assistance, and 0.5 percent to the Inspector General.
Title VI, “National Forest System”: Appropriates an additional $2,854,000,000 for the National Forest System, available until expended, split across fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with set amounts for wildfire activities, hazardous fuels management and burned area recovery, plus transfer authorities.
Title VI, “CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE”: Appropriates an additional $360,000,000 for Capital Improvement and Maintenance, available until September 30, 2029, including $250,000,000 for the Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program, $100,000,000 for roads, and $10,000,000 for dam removal.
Title VI, “Forest Service — Wildland Fire Management”: Appropriates an additional $696,200,000 for Forest Service Wildland Fire Management, available until expended and split across fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with transfer authority and one-half of one percent to the USDA Inspector General.
Title VI, “Administrative Provision—Forest Service”: Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a detailed spend plan for Forest Service funds in this title within 90 days, and annually through fiscal year 2026 with the President's budget.
Title VI, “INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES”: Appropriates an additional $3,500,000,000 for Indian Health Facilities sanitation facilities, split $700,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with set-asides for unit-cost projects, administration, and the HHS Inspector General, plus a spend plan.
Title VII, “LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE”: Appropriates an additional $500,000,000 for Low Income Home Energy Assistance payments under section 2602(b), available through September 30, 2026, at $100,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Title VIII, “NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS”: Appropriates an additional $12,500,000,000 for National Infrastructure Investments under chapter 67 of title 49, with $5,000,000,000 for section 6701 and $7,500,000,000 for section 6702, split across fiscal years 2022 through 2026.
Title VIII, “SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANTS”: Appropriates $5,000,000,000 for Safe Streets and Roads for All competitive grants, with $1,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and sets deadlines for notices of funding opportunity and awards.
Title VIII, “STRENGTHENING MOBILITY AND REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSPORTATION GRANT PROGRAM”: Appropriates $500,000,000 for the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation Grant Program, with $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, and designates the amount as an emergency requirement.
Sec. 801: Allows certain Department of Transportation funds to be transferred to an Office of Multimodal Infrastructure and Freight account, sends one-half of one percent of transfers to the Inspector General, and lists the programs that Office administers.
Title VIII, “FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT”: Appropriates an additional $5,000,000,000 for “Facilities and Equipment”, available until expended, at $1,000,000,000 per fiscal year for 2022 through 2026, for air traffic control facilities and related items, with not less than $200,000,000 for contract towers.
Title VIII, “AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS”: Appropriates an additional $15,000,000,000 for “Airport Infrastructure Grants”, $3,000,000,000 per fiscal year for 2022 through 2026, for airport-related projects, with set-asides for primary airports, non-primary airports, and contract tower grants.
Title VIII, “AIRPORT TERMINAL PROGRAM”: Appropriates $5,000,000,000 for competitive grants for airport terminal development projects, with $1,000,000,000 made available for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 and funds available until September 30, 2030.
Title VIII, “HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM”: Appropriates $47,272,000,000 for Highway Infrastructure Programs over fiscal years 2022 through 2026, including $27,500,000,000 for a bridge program and $5,000,000,000 for a National Electric Vehicle Formula Program.
Title VIII, “CRASH DATA”: Provides an additional $750,000,000, available until September 30, 2029, to carry out section 24108 of division B, with $150,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 and up to 3 percent for salaries, administration, and oversight.
Title VIII, “NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Appropriates an additional $6,000,000,000, at $1,200,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, for Amtrak activities on the Northeast Corridor, with capital project purposes, spend plan reports, and oversight and Commission set-asides.
Title VIII, “NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION”: Appropriates an additional $16,000,000,000, at $3,200,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026, for Amtrak activities on the National Network, with capital project purposes, spend plans, and set-asides for committees and grants.
Sec. 802: Lets amounts for Federal Railroad Administration award, administration and oversight be transferred to a "Financial Assistance Oversight and Technical Assistance" account, and sends one-quarter of one percent of transfers each to two Inspectors General.
Title VIII, “TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS”: Appropriates $10,250,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure Grants, $2,050,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, split among state of good repair, low or no emission and senior and disability mobility grants.
Title VIII, “CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS”: Appropriates $8,000,000,000 for Capital Investment Grants, $1,600,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with percentage caps by project type, a project list requirement and an emergency designation.
Title VIII, “ELECTRIC OR LOW-EMITTING FERRY PROGRAM”: Provides $250,000,000 for competitive electric or low-emitting ferry pilot program grants, with $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, drawn from the general fund of the Treasury.
Title VIII, “FERRY SERVICE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES”: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 for competitive grants to States for eligible essential ferry service, at $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with up to two percent for administrative and oversight expenses.
Title VIII, “OPERATIONS AND TRAINING”: Appropriates an additional $25,000,000, available until September 30, 2032, for the America's Marine Highway Program to make grants for purposes authorized under sections 55601(b)(1) and (3) of title 46, United States Code.
Title VIII, “PORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM”: Appropriates an additional $2,250,000,000 for the Port Infrastructure Development Program, $450,000,000 per fiscal year 2022 through 2026, and adds port resiliency and emissions-reduction projects to eligible projects.
Title VIII, “NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY AND MODERNIZATION GRANT PROGRAM”: Appropriates $1,000,000,000 for competitive grants to modernize natural gas distribution pipelines owned by municipalities or community-owned utilities, with a 12.5 percent cap per grantee and set deadlines for funding notices and awards.
Sec. 803: Provides that funds transferred to the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General from amounts made available in this division remain available until expended.
Division J, Title IX: GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS DIVISION: Provides that this division may be cited as the “Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Appropriations Act”.
Sec. 901: States that each amount appropriated or made available by this division is in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year involved.
Sec. 902: Provides that no part of any appropriation in this division remains available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided.
Sec. 903: Provides that, unless otherwise provided, additional amounts appropriated by this division to an account for a fiscal year are available under the authorities and conditions applicable to that account for that year.
Sec. 904: Provides that amounts appropriated by this division and designated as an emergency requirement under H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress) and section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 keep that designation when transferred.
Sec. 905: Directs that the budgetary effects of this division and the amounts rescinded in section 90007 of division I are not entered on the Statutory PAYGO or Senate PAYGO scorecards, and sets how they are classified for budget purposes.
Sec. 100002: Definitions: Defines terms used in this division, including Agency (the Minority Business Development Agency), minority business enterprise, socially or economically disadvantaged individual, MBDA Business Center, Native entity, and Under Secretary.
Sec. 100003: Minority Business Development Agency: Establishes the Minority Business Development Agency within the Department of Commerce, headed by an Under Secretary appointed by the President with Senate consent, and creates the Office of Business Centers and regional offices.
Sec. 100101: Private sector development: Directs the Under Secretary to assist minority business enterprises with management, technical, financial, legal, marketing and workforce resources, encourage joint ventures, and support private sector entities and Federal agencies in growing those enterprises.
Sec. 100102: Public sector development: Directs the Under Secretary to work with public sector entities on procurement, assistance and informational programs for minority business enterprises, meet with local leaders, and support public sector and Federal agency efforts to grow those enterprises.
Sec. 100111: Definition: Defines the term MBDA Business Center Program in this subtitle as the program established under section ___113.
Sec. 100113: Establishment: Establishes the MBDA Business Center Program in the Agency, separate from other efforts of the Under Secretary, with awards to eligible entities to operate MBDA Business Centers offering services to minority business enterprises in all regions of the United States.
Sec. 100114: Grants and cooperative agreements: Sets requirements for MBDA Business Centers, including services, fees, a term of not less than 3 years, financial assistance of not less than $250,000, a matching requirement, selection criteria, applications, examinations and regulations.
Sec. 100115: Minimizing disruptions to existing MBDA Business Center program: Directs the Under Secretary to carry out each existing Business Centers program award, as in effect the day before enactment, in a way that prevents disruption of its activities to the greatest extent practicable.
Sec. 100116: Publicity: Requires the Under Secretary to publicize the MBDA Business Center Program on the Agency website, through social media, and by sharing information with community-based organizations in the most common languages of the groups they serve.
Sec. 100201: Annual diverse business forum on capital formation: Requires the Under Secretary to hold an annual Government-business forum on capital formation by minority business enterprises, transmit a summary of its proceedings, and have Federal agencies issue public statements on its findings.
Sec. 100202: Agency study on alternative financing solutions: Requires the Under Secretary, within 1 year of enactment, to study alternative financing solutions for minority business enterprises and submit to Congress and publish a report on the findings.
Sec. 100203: Educational development relating to management and entrepreneurship: Directs the Under Secretary to promote business education and training for socially or economically disadvantaged individuals, and to award Parren J. Mitchell entrepreneurship education grants to certain institutions of higher education, with annual reports.
Sec. 100301: Definitions: Defines terms for this title, including appropriate congressional committees, eligible entity, MBDA Rural Business Center, minority-serving institution, rural area and rural minority business enterprise.
Sec. 100302: Business centers: Lets the Under Secretary establish MBDA Rural Business Centers through cooperative agreements with eligible entities with a 20 percent match, sets their functions, and requires a Notice of Funding Opportunity within 90 days.
Sec. 100303: Report to Congress: Requires the Under Secretary, within 1 year, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on services to minority business enterprises in States lacking an MBDA Business Center and on recommendations to extend outreach.
Sec. 100304: Study and report: Requires the Under Secretary to study how minority business enterprises can meet gaps in the United States supply chain, especially advanced manufacturing and essential goods and services, and to report within 1 year.
Sec. 100401: Grants to nonprofit organizations that support minority business enterprises: Establishes grants to certain nonprofit organizations that support minority business enterprises, with a designated administering office, application, priority and procedures, an Inspector General audit, and updates to Congress every 30 days.
Sec. 100501: Purpose: Requires the Under Secretary to establish the Minority Business Enterprises Advisory Council to advise and assist the Agency.
Sec. 100502: Composition and term: Sets the Council at 9 private sector members plus one representative from each of at least 10 Federal agencies, has the Under Secretary designate a private sector Chair for a 1-year term, and sets 2-year member terms with reappointment allowed.
Sec. 100503: Duties: Directs the Council to advise the Under Secretary on matters affecting socially or economically disadvantaged business concerns, bars pay for members while allowing travel expenses, and ends the Council 5 years after enactment.
Sec. 100601: General duties: Allows the Under Secretary to coordinate, as consistent with law, Federal plans, programs and operations that affect the establishment, preservation and strengthening of socially or economically disadvantaged business concerns.
Sec. 100602: Participation of Federal departments and agencies: Requires the Under Secretary to consult other Federal agencies on policies, goals, monitoring and evaluation, review proposed Federal training and technical assistance, and convene meetings of agency heads.
Sec. 100701: Administrative powers: Lets the Under Secretary adopt a seal, hold hearings, acquire property, enter agency agreements, evaluate recipient compliance, deobligate assistance, and bar certain recipients, and allows no-cost use of acquired property.
Sec. 100702: Federal assistance: Allows the Under Secretary to give grants or cooperative agreements to public and private sector entities, requires a published notice within 120 days of appropriation, consultation on amounts and types, and broad publicity.
Sec. 100703: Recordkeeping: Requires recipients of assistance to keep prescribed records on the assistance, its use, costs, other sources and return on investment, and gives the Under Secretary, Commerce Inspector General and Comptroller General access for audit.
Sec. 100704: Review and report by Comptroller General: Requires the Comptroller General, within 4 years of enactment, to review the programs under this division and report to Congress on effectiveness, recipient noncompliance, and recommended legislative or administrative action.
Sec. 100705: Biannual reports; recommendations: Requires the Under Secretary to submit to Congress and publish on the Agency's website a report of the Agency's activities under this division, and to periodically submit recommendations for legislation or other actions to Congress and the President.
Sec. 100706: Separability: Provides that if a court holds a provision of this division or its application invalid, the judgment does not affect other provisions or applications and is confined to the provision or circumstance directly involved.
Sec. 100707: Executive Order 11625: Provides that the powers and duties of the Agency are determined under this division, without regard to Executive Order 11625 (36 Fed. Reg. 19967) on arrangements for a national program for minority business enterprise.
Sec. 100708: Authorization of appropriations: Authorizes $110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 to the Under Secretary to carry out this division, with a majority for the MBDA Business Center Program and $20,000,000 each year for title III.