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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 5090 

To make the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation eligible to receive 

certain grants, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 

Mr. VAN HOLLEN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To make the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation 

eligible to receive certain grants, and for other purposes. 

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 TITLES. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Union Station Redevel5 opment Corporation Funding Eligibility Act’’ or the 

6 ‘‘USRC Funding Eligibility Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF UNION STATION REDEVELOPMENT 

2 CORPORATION TO RECEIVE CERTAIN 

3 GRANTS. 

4 (a) REBUILDING AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH

5 SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUITY (RAISE) GRANTS.— 

6 (1) ELIGIBILITY.—The Union Station Redevel7 opment Corporation shall be eligible to receive 

8 grants under the program for national infrastructure 

9 investments (commonly known as the ‘‘Rebuilding 

10 American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Eq11 uity (RAISE) grant program’’ and formerly known 

12 as the ‘‘Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage 

13 Development (BUILD) grant program’’) carried out 

14 by the Department of Transportation. 

15 (2) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a 

16 grant under the program described in paragraph (1) 

17 to the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation 

18 shall be 100 percent. 

19 (b) NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT ASSIST20 ANCE GRANTS.—Section 6701 of title 49, United States 

21 Code, is amended— 

22 (1) in subsection (a)(2)— 

23 (A) in subparagraph (G) by striking ‘‘and’’ 

24 at the end; 

25 (B) in subparagraph (H), by striking 

26 ‘‘(G)’’ and inserting ‘‘(H)’’; 


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1 (C) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as 

2 subparagraph (I); and 

3 (D) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 

4 the following: 

5 ‘‘(H) Union Station Redevelopment Cor6 poration; and’’; and 

7 (2) in subsection (i) by adding at the end the 

8 following: 

9 ‘‘(4) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 

10 (1), the total amount awarded for a project under 

11 the program awarded to the entity described in sub12 section (a)(2)(H) shall be 100 percent of the total 

13 eligible project costs described in subsection (h).’’. 

14 (c) CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND

15 SAFETY IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.—Section 22907 of title 

16 49, United States Code, is amended— 

17 (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 

18 following: 

19 ‘‘(14) The Union Station Redevelopment Cor20 poration.’’; and 

21 (2) in subsection (h)(2), by inserting ‘‘, except 

22 that with respect to the entity described in sub23 section (b)(14), the Federal share shall be 100 per24 cent’’ before the period. 


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1 (d) FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY

2 PASSENGER RAIL GRANTS.—Section 24911 of title 49, 

3 United States Code, is amended— 

4 (1) in subsection (a)(1)— 

5 (A) in subparagraph (G) by striking ‘‘or’’ 

6 at the end; 

7 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as 

8 subparagraph (I); 

9 (C) in subparagraph (I), as redesignated, 

10 by striking ‘‘(G)’’ and inserting ‘‘(H)’’; and 

11 (D) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 

12 the following: 

13 ‘‘(H) the Union Station Redevelopment 

14 Corporation; or’’; and 

15 (2) in subsection (f), by adding at the end the 

16 following: 

17 ‘‘(4) EXCEPTION.—The total amount awarded 

18 for a project under the program awarded to the enti19 ty described in subsection (a)(1)(H) shall be 100 

20 percent.’’. 

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