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‘‘(m) PREAWARD AND POSTDELIVERY REVIEW OF 
ROLLING STOCK PURCHASES.—The Secretary shall pre-
scribe regulations requiring a preaward and postdelivery 
review of a grant under this chapter to buy rolling stock 
to ensure compliance with bid specifications requirements 
of grant recipients under this chapter. Under this sub-
section, grantee inspections and review are required, and 
a manufacturer certification is not sufficient.’’; and 
(5) by amending subsection (r) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(r) REASONABLE ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSPOR-
TATION FACILITIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A recipient of assistance 
under this chapter— 
‘‘(A) may not deny reasonable access for a 
private intercity or charter transportation oper-
ator to federally funded public transportation 
facilities, including intermodal facilities, park 
and ride lots, and bus-only highway lanes; and 
‘‘(B) shall respond to any request for rea-
sonable access within 75 days of the receipt of 
the request and, if a recipient of assistance 
under this chapter denies access to a private 
intercity or charter transportation operator 
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based on the reasonable access standards, pro-
vide, in writing, the reasons for the denial. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINING REASONABLE ACCESS.—In 
determining reasonable access under paragraph 
(1)(A), capacity requirements of the recipient of as-
sistance and the extent to which access would be 
detrimental or beneficial to existing public transpor-
tation services must be considered and demographic 
makeup of the riders of a private intercity or charter 
transportation operator may not be cited as a det-
riment to the provision of access. 
‘‘(3) NOTIFICATION.—If a private intercity or 
charter transportation operator requesting access 
under this subsection is denied such access by a re-
cipient of assistance under this chapter or does not 
receive a written response within 75 days of submit-
ting the request, such operator may notify the Sec-
retary for purposes of inclusion in the report under 
paragraph (4). 
‘‘(4) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary 
shall annually submit to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Banking, Hous-
ing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report listing 
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each instance reported under paragraph (3) in 
which— 
‘‘(A) a private intercity or charter trans-
portation operator requested reasonable access 
and was denied, and the reasons provided by 
the recipient of assistance under this chapter 
for the denial; and 
‘‘(B) a recipient of assistance under this 
chapter did not respond to a request for reason-
able access within 75 days.’’. 
SEC. 2104. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
(a) STATE
OF GOOD REPAIR GRANTS.—Section 
5337(e) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) ACCESSIBILITY
COSTS.—Notwithstanding 
paragraph (1), the Federal share of the net project 
cost of a project to provide accessibility improve-
ments consistent with standards in compliance with 
the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) shall be 90 percent.’’. 
(b) APPORTIONMENTS BASED ON GROWING STATES 
AND HIGH DENSITY STATES FORMULA FACTORS.—Sec-
tion 5340(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting ‘‘and the District of Columbia’’ after ‘‘United 
States’’. 
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(c) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND WORKFORCE DE-
VELOPMENT.—Section 5314 of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(B)— 
(A) in clause (i) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 
inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in clause (ii) by striking ‘‘and vehicle 
electronics.’’ and inserting ‘‘cybersecurity and 
mitigating the threat of ransomware, and vehi-
cle electronics; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) technical assistance to assist re-
cipients with the impacts of a new census 
count.’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(2)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (H) 
and (I) as subparagraphs (J) and (K), respec-
tively; and 
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (G) 
the following: 
‘‘(H) cybersecurity and mitigating the 
threat of ransomware;’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘fe-
males’’ and inserting ‘‘women’’; and 
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(4) in subsection (c)(4)(A) by inserting ‘‘, and 
not more than 2 percent of amounts under 5311,’’ 
after ‘‘5339’’. 
(d) NATIONAL TRANSIT DATABASE.—Section 5335 
of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by inserting ‘‘, including 
information on transit routes and ridership on those 
routes’’ after ‘‘public sector investment decision’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (c) by inserting ‘‘, any data on 
each assault on a transit worker, and pedestrian in-
juries and fatalities as a result of an impact with a 
bus. Each of the data sets shall be publicly reported 
without aggregating the data with other safety data’’ 
after ‘‘by the recipient’’. 
(e) URBANIZED AREA FORMULA GRANTS.—Section 
5307 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(2)(A)— 
(A) in clause (i) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) operate a minimum of 101 buses 
and a maximum of 125 buses in fixed 
route service or demand response service, 
excluding ADA complementary paratransit 
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service, during peak service hours, in an 
amount not to exceed 25 percent of the 
share of the apportionment which is attrib-
utable to such systems within the urban-
ized area, as measured by vehicle revenue 
hours; or’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(2)(B)— 
(A) in clause (i) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 
end; 
(B) in clause (ii) by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) operate a minimum of 101 buses 
and a maximum of 125 buses in fixed 
route service or demand response service, 
excluding ADA complementary paratransit 
service, during peak service hours, in an 
amount not to exceed 25 percent of the 
share of the apportionment allocated to 
such systems within the urbanized area, as 
determined by the local planning process 
and included in the designated recipient’s 
final program of projects prepared under 
subsection (b).’’; and 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
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(A) in paragraph (6) by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (7) as 
paragraph (8); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (6) the 
following: 
‘‘(7) ensure that the proposed program of 
projects provides improved access to transit for the 
individuals described in section 5336(j); and’’. 
(f) 
TECHNICAL
CORRECTION.—Section 
5307(a)(2)(B)(ii) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘service during peak’’ and inserting 
‘‘service, during peak’’. 
(g) TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT CREDITS AS 
LOCAL MATCH.— 
(1) SECTION 5307.—Section 5307(d)(3) of title 
49, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (D) by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (E) by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) transportation development credits.’’. 
(2) SECTION 5309.—Section 5309 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended— 
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(A) in subsection (f) by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(3) TRANSPORTATION
DEVELOPMENT
CRED-
ITS.—For purposes of assessments and determina-
tions under this subsection or subsection (h), trans-
portation development credits that are included as a 
source of local financing or match shall be treated 
the same as other sources of local financing.’’; and 
(B) in subsection (l)(4)— 
(i) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘; 
or’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(ii) in subparagraph (C) by striking 
the period and inserting a semicolon; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) transportation development credits; 
or’’. 
(3) SECTION
5339.—Section 5339(a)(7)(B) of 
title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in clause (iv) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-
serting a semicolon; 
(B) in clause (v) by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(vi) transportation development cred-
its.’’. 
(h) CLARIFICATION OF INCIDENTAL USE.—Section 
5310(b)(7) of title 49, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the header by inserting ‘‘AND
INCI-
DENTAL USE’’ after ‘‘INDIVIDUALS’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘or providing other incidental 
services’’ after ‘‘individuals’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘delivery service does not con-
flict’’ and inserting ‘‘service does not conflict’’. 
SEC. 2105. POLICIES AND PURPOSES. 
Section 5301(b) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (7) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and in-
serting a semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (8) by striking the period and 
inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) reduce the contributions of the surface 
transportation system to the total carbon pollution 
of the United States; and 
‘‘(10) improve the resiliency of the public trans-
portation network to withstand weather events and 
other natural disasters.’’. 
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section in an amount up to 150 percent of the 
amount— 
‘‘(A) provided for such project under title 
23; and 
‘‘(B) provided for such project from non- 
Federal funds budgeted for roadways. 
‘‘(i) REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 5307.—Except as 
otherwise provided in this section, a grant under this sec-
tion shall be subject to the requirements of section 5307. 
‘‘(j) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Amounts made available to 
carry out this section shall remain available for 4 
fiscal years after the fiscal year for which the 
amount was made available. 
‘‘(2) UNOBLIGATED AMOUNTS.—After the expi-
ration of the period described in paragraph (1) for 
an amount made available to carry out this section, 
any unobligated amounts made available to carry out 
this section shall be added to the amounts made 
available for the following fiscal year. 
‘‘(k) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENTS.—In this section, the 
term ‘eligible recipient’ means a recipient of a grant under 
section 5307 in an urbanized area with a population great-
er than 500,000.’’. 
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-
ter 53 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 5307 the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘5308. Multi-jurisdictional bus frequency and ridership competitive grants.’’. 
SEC. 2202. INCENTIVIZING FREQUENCY IN THE URBAN FOR-
MULA. 
Section 5336 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i) by striking ‘‘95.61 percent’’ and 
inserting ‘‘95 percent’’; 
(II) in clause (i) by striking 
‘‘95.61 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘95 
percent’’; and 
(III) in clause (ii) by striking 
‘‘95.61 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘95 
percent’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i) by striking ‘‘4.39 percent’’ and in-
serting ‘‘5 percent’’; 
(II) in clause (i)— 
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