I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9661 
To make the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation eligible to receive 
certain grants, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To make the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation 
eligible to receive certain grants, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Union Station Redevel-
opment Corporation Funding Eligibility Act’’ or the 
‘‘USRC Funding Eligibility Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF UNION STATION REDEVELOPMENT 
CORPORATION 
TO 
RECEIVE 
CERTAIN 
GRANTS. 
(a) REBUILDING AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE WITH 
SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUITY (RAISE) GRANTS.— 
(1) ELIGIBILITY.—The Union Station Redevel-
opment Corporation shall be eligible to receive 
grants under the program for national infrastructure 
investments (commonly known as the ‘‘Rebuilding 
American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Eq-
uity (RAISE) grant program’’ and formerly known 
as the ‘‘Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage 
Development (BUILD) grant program’’) carried out 
by the Department of Transportation. 
(2) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a 
grant under a program described in paragraph (1) 
to the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation 
shall be 100 percent. 
(b) NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT ASSIST-
ANCE GRANTS.—Section 6701 of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G) by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (H) by striking ‘‘(G)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(H)’’; 
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(C) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as 
subparagraph (I); and 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 
the following: 
‘‘(H) Union Station Redevelopment Cor-
poration; and’’; and 
(2) in subsection (i) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 
(1), the total amount awarded for a project under 
the program awarded to the entity described in sub-
section (a)(2)(H) shall be 100 percent of the total 
eligible project costs described in subsection (h).’’. 
(c) CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE
AND 
SAFETY IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.—Section 22907 of title 
49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(14) The Union Station Redevelopment Cor-
poration.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (h)(2) by inserting ‘‘, except 
that with respect to the entity described in sub-
section (b)(14) the Federal share shall be 100 per-
cent’’ before the period. 
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(d) FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERCITY 
PASSENGER RAIL GRANTS.—Section 24911 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G) by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (H) by striking ‘‘(G)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(H)’’; 
(C) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as 
subparagraph (I); and 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 
the following: 
‘‘(H) the Union Station Redevelopment 
Corporation; or’’; and 
(2) in subsection (f) by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4) EXCEPTION.—The total amount awarded 
for a project under the program awarded to the enti-
ty described in subsection (a)(1)(H) shall be 100 
percent.’’. 
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