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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2746 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for additional transportation 

assistance grants. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 8, 2009 

Mr. CARNAHAN (for himself and Ms. MATSUI) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for 

additional transportation assistance grants. 

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

3 SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF TRANSIT OPERATING ASSIST4 ANCE GRANT PROGRAM. 

5 Section 5307(b) of title 49, United States Code, is 

6 amended as follows: 

7 (1) In paragraph (1)— 

8 (A) in subparagraph (D), by inserting ‘‘, 

9 or an urbanized area with a population of at 

10 least 200,000 if the State or regional authority 

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1 providing public transportation for the area op2 erates less than 100 buses in fixed-route service 

3 in the area during peak service hours’’ after 

4 ‘‘200,000’’; 

5 (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) 

6 and (F) as subparagraphs (J) and (K), respec7 tively; and 

8 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (D) 

9 the following new subparagraphs: 

10 ‘‘(E) operating costs of equipment and fa11 cilities for use in public transportation in an ur12 banized area with a population of 200,000 or 

13 more, but not more than 400,000, if the State 

14 or regional authority providing public transpor15 tation for the area operates at least 100 buses 

16 in fixed-route service in the area during peak 

17 service hours; 

18 ‘‘(F) operating costs of equipment and fa19 cilities for use in public transportation in an ur20 banized area with a population of 400,000 or 

21 more, but not more than 600,000; 

22 ‘‘(G) operating costs of equipment and fa23 cilities for use in public transportation in an ur24 banized area with a population of 600,000 or 

25 more, but not more than 800,000; 

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1 ‘‘(H) operating costs of equipment and fa2 cilities for use in public transportation in an ur3 banized area with a population of 800,000 or 

4 more, but not more than 1,000,000; 

5 ‘‘(I) operating costs of equipment and fa6 cilities for use in public transportation in an ur7 banized area with a population of 1,000,000 or 

8 more;’’. 

9 (2) By redesignating paragraph (2) as para10 graph (3). 

11 (3) By inserting the following new paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(2) LIMITATIONS ON CERTAIN GRANTS ESTAB13 LISHED UNDER PARAGRAPH (1).— 

14 ‘‘(A) With respect to a grant made under 

15 paragraph (1)(E), not more than 50 percent of 

16 the funds available to carry out this section 

17 shall be made available for such grant. 

18 ‘‘(B) With respect to a grant made under 

19 paragraph (1)(F), not more than 45 percent of 

20 the funds available to carry out this section 

21 shall be made available for such grant. 

22 ‘‘(C) With respect to a grant made under 

23 paragraph (1)(G), not more than 40 percent of 

24 the funds available to carry out this section 

25 shall be made available for such grant. 

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1 ‘‘(D) With respect to a grant made under 

2 paragraph (1)(H), not more than 35 percent of 

3 the funds available to carry out this section 

4 shall be made available for such grant. 

5 ‘‘(E) With respect to a grant made under 

6 paragraph (1)(I), not more than 30 percent of 

7 the funds available to carry out this section 

8 shall be made available for such grant.’’. 

9 (4) By amending paragraph (3) to read as fol10 lows: 

11 ‘‘(3) CONDITIONAL USE OF FUNDS IN AN UR12 BANIZED AREA WITH A POPULATION OF AT LEAST

13 200,000.— 

14 ‘‘(A) In addition to the grants available 

15 under subparagraphs (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), 

16 (I), (J), and (K) of paragraph (1), the Sec17 retary may award grants, from funds made 

18 available to carry out this section for each of 

19 the fiscal years 2010 through 2015, to finance 

20 the operating cost of equipment and facilities 

21 for use in public transportation in an urbanized 

22 area with a population of at least 200,000, if 

23 the designated recipient’s percentage of revenue 

24 for the operating cost of equipment and facili25 ties for use in public transportation from nonmstockstill on PROD1PC66 with BILLS

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1 Federal sources, excluding farebox revenue, is 

2 greater than such revenue from the previous 

3 fiscal year. The amount available for a grant 

4 under this paragraph shall not exceed the per5 centage of such increase. 

6 ‘‘(B) In addition to the grants made avail7 able under subparagraphs (D), (E), (F), (G), 

8 (H), (I), (J), and (K) of paragraph (1) and 

9 subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the Sec10 retary may award grants, from funds made 

11 available to carry out this section for each of 

12 the fiscal years 2010 through 2015, to finance 

13 the operating cost of equipment and facilities 

14 for use in public transportation in an urbanized 

15 area with a population of 200,000 or more, if 

16 the designated recipient was awarded a grant 

17 under the Transit Investments for Greenhouse 

18 Gas and Energy Reduction program, authorized 

19 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment 

20 Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–105; 123 Stat. 

21 209), and demonstrates that such recipient has 

22 achieved— 

23 ‘‘(i) a minimum 10 percent total en24 ergy savings as a result of the project 

25 funded by the Transit Investments for 

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1 Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction 

2 grant; 

3 ‘‘(ii) a minimum 10 percent energy 

4 savings as a percentage of the total energy 

5 usage of the public transit agency as a re6 sult of the project; or 

7 ‘‘(iii) a minimum 10 percent total 

8 greenhouse gas emission reduction as a re9 sult of the project. 

10 ‘‘(C) Not less than 10 percent of the funds 

11 available to carry out this section shall be made 

12 available for the grants under subparagraph 

13 (B).’’. 

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