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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5731 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a program dashboard 

for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 30, 2020 

Mr. MALINOWSKI (for himself, Mr. SIRES, and Mr. PAYNE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a 

program dashboard for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation Fund5 ing Accountability and Transparency Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT PROGRAM DASH7 BOARD. 

8 Section 5309(o) of title 49, United States Code, is 

9 amended by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(4) PROGRAM DASHBOARD.— 

2 ‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary 

3 shall establish and maintain on a publicly avail4 able website a capital investment grant program 

5 dashboard. 

6 ‘‘(B) REQUIREMENTS.—The dashboard es7 tablished under subparagraph (A) shall con8 tain— 

9 ‘‘(i) an overview of the program under 

10 this section; 

11 ‘‘(ii) the amount of funding appro12 priated to the program under this section 

13 in each fiscal year; 

14 ‘‘(iii) the amount of funding allocated 

15 from the program under this section in 

16 each fiscal year to each program compo17 nent, including core capacity improvement 

18 projects, small start projects, and fixed 

19 guideway capital projects; 

20 ‘‘(iv) the amount of funding obligated 

21 from the program under this section to 

22 each program component, including core 

23 capacity improvement projects, small start 

24 projects, and fixed guideway capital 

25 projects. 


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1 ‘‘(C) PROJECT-SPECIFIC PAGES.—The 

2 website established under this paragraph shall 

3 contain a webpage for each project under the 

4 program that contains, for each such project— 

5 ‘‘(i) a comprehensive tracker of the 

6 status of the project in the approval proc7 ess, including— 

8 ‘‘(I) whether the project is in 

9 project development, the engineering 

10 phase, or the construction phase; and 

11 ‘‘(II) an identification of all the 

12 offices required to review each phase 

13 of the approval process, and whether 

14 such office has completed such review; 

15 ‘‘(ii) a letter of no prejudice tracker 

16 that includes— 

17 ‘‘(I) the date any such letter was 

18 requested; and 

19 ‘‘(II) the review process by which 

20 the Secretary grants such a letter (in21 cluding each office that must review 

22 the letter) and an up-to-date status of 

23 such review; 

24 ‘‘(iii) the date on which a full funding 

25 grant agreement is executed; 


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1 ‘‘(iv) the status of the project sponsor 

2 in securing the required non-Federal cost 

3 share, based on information provided by 

4 the project sponsor; and 

5 ‘‘(v) a comprehensive tracker of the 

6 environmental review process for the 

7 project, including the specific offices re8 quired to sign off on the review, that— 

9 ‘‘(I) is up to date (within 30 

10 days) of what office is reviewing an 

11 environmental impact statement, when 

12 such office received the statement, 

13 and the date on which such depart14 ment or that office approves the state15 ment; and 

16 ‘‘(II) displays the information in 

17 subclause (I) until the project is com18 pleted.’’. 

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