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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3822 
To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require metropolitan 
planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long- 
range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 18, 2019 
Mr. DOGGETT
(for himself, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. GARCI´A 
of Illinois, and Mr. TONKO) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require 
metropolitan planning organizations to consider green-
house gas emissions in long-range transportation plans 
and transportation improvement programs, 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 ‘‘Green Transportation 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN LONG-RANGE 
TRANSPORTATION PLANS. 
(a) HIGHWAY PLANNING.—Section 134(c)(2) of title 
23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘Such plans and TIPs shall be developed 
after consideration of direct and indirect emissions of 
greenhouse gases (as defined in section 211(o)(1) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall provide 
for reductions in such emissions.’’ 
(b) PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.—Section 
5303(c)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Such plans and TIPs 
shall be developed after consideration of direct and indi-
rect emissions of greenhouse gases (as defined in section 
211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) 
and shall provide for reductions in such emissions.’’ 
(c) STATEWIDE AND NONMETROPOLITAN HIGHWAY 
PLANNING.—Section 135(a)(2) of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Such plans and TIPs shall be developed after consider-
ation of direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases 
(as defined in section 211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 
U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall provide for reductions in 
such emissions.’’ 
(d) STATEWIDE
AND NONMETROPOLITAN PUBLIC 
TRANSPORTATION
PLANNING.—Section 5304(a)(2) of 
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title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ‘‘Such plans and TIPs shall be devel-
oped after consideration of direct and indirect emissions 
of greenhouse gases (as defined in section 211(o)(1) of 
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall pro-
vide for reductions in such emissions.’’ 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect— 
(1) with respect to a metropolitan planning or-
ganization that operate within a metropolitan plan-
ning area with a population of not less than 
200,000, on the date of enactment of this section; 
and 
(2) with respect to a metropolitan planning or-
ganization other than a metropolitan planning orga-
nization described in paragraph (1), on the date that 
is 4 years after the date of enactment of this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 3. CONSIDERATION OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE 
GASES. 
(a) TITLE 23.—Title 23, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in section 134(a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘fuel consumption and air 
pollution’’ and inserting ‘‘fuel consumption and 
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air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘minimizing’’ and inserting 
‘‘reducing’’; 
(2) in section 134(i)(2)(H), by striking ‘‘play in 
reducing congestion, pollution,’’ and inserting ‘‘play 
in reducing congestion, pollution, greenhouse gas 
emissions,’’; 
(3) in section 134(g)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘dis-
aster risk reduction, environmental protection,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘disaster risk reduction, environmental 
protection, climate change adaptation and resil-
ience,’’; 
(4) in section 134(h)(1)(E)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘promote energy conserva-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘promote energy conserva-
tion, reduce greenhouse gas emissions’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘and public health’’ after 
‘‘quality of life’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘, including housing and 
land use patterns’’ after ‘‘development pat-
terns’’; 
(5) in section 134(i)(2)(D)(i), by striking 
‘‘greatest potential to’’ and inserting ‘‘greatest po-
tential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and’’; 
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(6) in section 5303(i)(2)(D), by striking ‘‘may 
have the greatest potential to’’ and inserting ‘‘may 
have the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions and’’; 
(7) in section 5304(d)(1)(E), by striking ‘‘pro-
mote energy conservation,’’ and inserting ‘‘promote 
energy conservation, reduce greenhouse gas emis-
sions,’’; 
(8) in section 5304(f)(2)(D)(i), by striking ‘‘re-
sources, environmental protection,’’ and inserting 
‘‘resources, environmental protection, climate change 
adaptation and resilience,’’; and 
(9) in section 5304(f)(4)(A), by striking ‘‘have 
the greatest potential to’’ and inserting ‘‘have the 
greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emis-
sions and’’. 
SEC. 4. USE OF FUNDS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING 
TRANSPORTATION-RELATED 
GREENHOUSE 
GAS EMISSIONS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State 
or metropolitan planning organization may use amounts 
authorized pursuant to section 1101 of the FAST Act to 
develop standardized models and methodologies for meas-
uring and monitoring transportation-related greenhouse 
gas emissions. 
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SEC. 5. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS. 
(a) STATES.—Section 150(e) of title 23, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) the standardized models and methodologies 
the State uses to measure and monitor transpor-
tation-related greenhouse gas emissions.’’. 
(b) MPOS.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this section, and biennially thereafter, 
each metropolitan planning organization (as such term is 
defined in section 134 of title 23, United States Code) 
shall submit to the Secretary of Transportation the stand-
ardized models and methodologies the metropolitan plan-
ning organization uses to measure and monitor transpor-
tation-related greenhouse gas emissions. 
(c) ANALYSIS.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall collect and organize the models and methodologies 
that are submitted pursuant to section 150(e)(5) of title 
23, United States Code, and subsection (b) of this section, 
in a publicly available clearinghouse. 
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