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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5908 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit certain revenues of private 
vanpool contractors received from providing public transportation to be 
used for the purpose of acquiring rolling stock that is not funded, 
in part, by Federal, State, or local government assistance, and to permit 
certain expenditures of private vanpool contractors to be credited toward 
the local matching share of the costs of public transportation projects. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 26, 2006 
Mr. ROGERS of Michigan (for himself and Mr. EHLERS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to permit certain 
revenues of private vanpool contractors received from 
providing public transportation to be used for the pur-
pose of acquiring rolling stock that is not funded, in 
part, by Federal, State, or local government assistance, 
and to permit certain expenditures of private vanpool 
contractors to be credited toward the local matching 
share of the costs of public transportation projects. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. GOVERNMENT’S SHARE OF COSTS FOR PUBLIC 
TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. 
Section 5323(i) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) COSTS INCURRED BY PRIVATE VANPOOL 
CONTRACTORS.— 
‘‘(A) LOCAL MATCHING SHARE.—The local 
matching share provided by a recipient of as-
sistance for a capital project under this chapter 
may include amounts expended by a private 
vanpool contractor of the recipient, without 
Federal, State, or local governmental assist-
ance, for the acquisition of rolling stock to be 
used by the contractor to provide turnkey public 
transportation on the recipient’s behalf. 
‘‘(B) USE OF REVENUES.—A private van-
pool contractor may use revenues that the con-
tractor receives in providing public transpor-
tation that are in excess of the operating costs 
of the contractor for purposes of acquiring roll-
ing stock. 
‘‘(C) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph, 
the following definitions apply: 
‘‘(i) 
PRIVATE
VANPOOL
CON-
TRACTOR.—The term ‘private vanpool con-
tractor’ means a private entity providing 
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public transportation pursuant to a con-
tract with a recipient of assistance under 
this chapter using a commuter highway ve-
hicle or vanpool. 
‘‘(ii) COMMUTER HIGHWAY VEHICLE; 
VANPOOL.—The term ‘commuter highway 
vehicle’ or ‘vanpool’ means any vehicle— 
‘‘(I) the seating capacity of which 
is at least 6 adults (not including the 
driver); and 
‘‘(II) at least 80 percent of the 
mileage use of which can be reason-
ably expected to be for the purposes 
of transporting commuters in connec-
tion with travel between their resi-
dences and their place of employ-
ment.’’. 
Æ 
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