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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6688 

To amend title 23 and title 49, United States Code, to remove transitoriented development projects as projects eligible for assistance under 

the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program and 

the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 9, 2022 

Mr. PERRY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend title 23 and title 49, United States Code, to 

remove transit-oriented development projects as projects 

eligible for assistance under the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program and the railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program, 

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 TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Negating Obligations 

5 for Transit-Oriented Developments Act’’ or the ‘‘NO TOD 

6 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND 

2 INNOVATION PROGRAM. 

3 (a) GENERALLY APPLICABLE PROVISIONS.—Section 

4 601(a)(12) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— 

5 (1) by striking subparagraph (E); and 

6 (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) 

7 through (H) as subparagraphs (E) through (G), re8 spectively. 

9 (b) DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY AND PROJECT

10 SELECTION.—Section 602(a) of title 23, United States 

11 Code, is amended— 

12 (1) in paragraph (5)(B)— 

13 (A) by striking clause (ii); and 

14 (B) by redesignating clauses (iii) and (iv) 

15 as clauses (ii) and (iii), respectively; and 

16 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(12) INELIGIBLE PROJECTS.— 

18 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 

19 other provision of law, a transit-oriented devel20 opment project shall not be eligible to receive 

21 assistance under the TIFIA program. 

22 ‘‘(B) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 

23 term ‘transit-oriented development project’ 

24 means a project or components of a project de25 signed for commercial or residential use.’’. 


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1 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 608(a)(4) 

2 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking 

3 ‘‘(A) TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.—’’ 

4 and all that follows through ‘‘(B) AIRPORT-RELATED

5 PROJECTS.—’’. 

6 (d) APPLICABILITY.—This section and the amend7 ments made by this section shall apply to project applica8 tions submitted on or after the date of enactment of this 

9 Act. 

10 SEC. 3. RAILROAD REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT 

11 FINANCING. 

12 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 22402 of title 49, United 

13 States Code, is amended— 

14 (1) in subsection (b)(1)— 

15 (A) in subparagraph (D) by inserting ‘‘or’’ 

16 at the end; 

17 (B) in subparagraph (E) by striking ‘‘; or’’ 

18 and inserting a period at the end; and 

19 (C) by striking subparagraph (F); and 

20 (2) in subsection (c)(6) by striking ‘‘and in21 crease transit-oriented development’’. 

22 (b) APPLICABILITY.—This section and the amend23 ments made by this section shall apply to applications for 

24 direct loans or guaranteed loans submitted on or after the 

25 date of enactment of this Act. 


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1 SEC. 4. ELIMINATION OF TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOP2 MENT PLANNING PILOT PROGRAM. 

3 Section 20005 of MAP–21 (49 U.S.C. 5303 note; 

4 Public Law 112–141) is amended by striking subsection 

5 (b). 

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