to have qualifications sufficient to represent the interests 
of their specific stakeholder group, including— 
‘‘(1) a general business and financial experi-
ence; 
‘‘(2) experience or qualifications in the areas of 
freight transportation and logistics; 
‘‘(3) experience in transportation planning; 
‘‘(4) experience representing employees of the 
freight industry; or 
‘‘(5) experience representing a State, local gov-
ernment, or metropolitan planning organization. 
‘‘(c) ROLES OF COMMITTEE.—The freight advisory 
committee shall— 
‘‘(1) advise the State on freight-related prior-
ities, issues, projects, and funding needs; 
‘‘(2) serve as a forum for discussion for State 
transportation decisions affecting freight mobility; 
‘‘(3) communicate and coordinate regional pri-
orities with other organizations; 
‘‘(4) promote the sharing of information be-
tween the private and public sectors on freight 
issues; 
‘‘(5) participate in the development of the State 
freight plan under section 1118, including advising 
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on the development of the freight investment plan; 
and 
‘‘(6) approve the State freight plan under sec-
tion 1118, including the freight investment plan. 
‘‘(d) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘State’ means any of the 50 States, the District of Colum-
bia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United 
States Virgin Islands.’’. 
SEC. 4. STATE FREIGHT PLANS. 
Section 1118 of MAP–21 (Public Law 112–141) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 1118. STATE FREIGHT PLANS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall encourage 
each State to develop a freight plan that provides a 
multimodal, comprehensive plan for the immediate and 
long-range planning activities and investments of the 
State with respect to freight. The freight plan shall include 
a strategic, long-term component and a tactical, short- 
term component. 
‘‘(b) PLAN CONTENTS.—The freight plan described 
in subsection (a) shall consider all modes of freight trans-
portation in the State and include, at a minimum— 
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‘‘(1) an identification of significant freight sys-
tem trends, needs, and issues with respect to a 
State; 
‘‘(2) a description of the freight policies, strate-
gies, and performance measures that will guide the 
freight-related transportation investment decisions of 
the State; 
‘‘(3) a description of how the plan will improve 
the ability of the State to meet the national freight 
goals established under section 5508 of title 49, 
United States Code; 
‘‘(4) evidence of consideration of innovative 
technologies and operational strategies, including in-
telligent transportation systems, that improve the 
safety and efficiency of freight movement; 
‘‘(5) in the case of routes on which travel of 
heavy vehicles (including mining, agricultural, en-
ergy cargo or equipment, and timber vehicles) is pro-
jected to substantially deteriorate the condition of 
the roadways, a description of improvements that 
may be required to reduce or impede the deteriora-
tion; 
‘‘(6) an inventory of facilities with freight mo-
bility issues, such as truck bottlenecks, within the 
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State, and a description of the strategies the State 
is employing to address those freight mobility issues; 
‘‘(7) strategies and goals to decrease— 
‘‘(A) greenhouse gas emissions; 
‘‘(B) local air pollution, including ozone 
and ozone precursors, nitrogen oxides, sulfur di-
oxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and 
lead; 
‘‘(C) water runoff and other adverse water 
impacts; and 
‘‘(D) wildlife habitat loss; 
‘‘(8) strategies and goals to decrease the ad-
verse impact of freight transportation on commu-
nities traversed by freight railroads; and 
‘‘(9) a freight investment plan that includes a 
list of projects in order of priority and describes how 
multimodal freight investment funds under the 
Economy in Motion: The National Multimodal and 
Sustainable Freight Infrastructure Act would be in-
vested and matched. 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENT OF ANTICIPATED FULL FUND-
ING.—The freight investment plan required under sub-
section (b)(8) may only include a project, or an identified 
phase of a project, if funding for completion of the project 
can reasonably be anticipated to be available for the 
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project within the time period identified in the freight in-
vestment plan. 
‘‘(d) RELATIONSHIP TO LONG-RANGE PLAN.—The 
freight plan described in subsection (a) may be developed 
separate from, or incorporated into, the long-range state-
wide transportation plan required under section 135(f) of 
title 23, United States Code. 
‘‘(e) CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall approve a 
freight plan if such plan meets the requirements of this 
section and is consistent with the National freight stra-
tegic plan described in section 5508 of title 49, United 
States Code. The Secretary, in consultation with the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
certify any environmental goal or strategy provisions of 
the plan. 
‘‘(f) FORECAST PERIOD.—The freight plan described 
in subsection (a) shall address a 10-year and 20-year fore-
cast period. 
‘‘(g) UPDATES.—A State shall update the freight 
plan at least every 5 years. 
‘‘(h) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘State’ means any of the 50 States, the District of Colum-
bia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the United 
States Virgin Islands.’’. 
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