I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8253 
To establish a green transportation infrastructure grant program, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2024 
Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California (for himself, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. 
HUFFMAN, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. BARRAGA´N, 
Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
TLAIB, Ms. BUSH, Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Mr. BOWMAN, Mr. POCAN, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
MULLIN, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. OMAR, Mr. COHEN, and Mrs. RAMIREZ) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To establish a green transportation infrastructure grant 
program, 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 ‘‘Better Utilizing Invest-
ments to Leverage Development and Generating Renew-
able Energy to Electrify the Nation’s Infrastructure and 
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Jobs Act’’ or the ‘‘BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and 
Jobs Act’’. 
SEC. 
2. 
GREEN 
TRANSPORTATION 
INFRASTRUCTURE 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ELECTRIC
VEHICLE.—The term ‘‘electric 
vehicle’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
523.2 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or 
successor regulations). 
(2) FRONTLINE, VULNERABLE, OR DISADVAN-
TAGED COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘frontline, vulner-
able, or disadvantaged community’’ means a commu-
nity— 
(A) in an area described in section 301(a) 
of the Public Works and Economic Develop-
ment Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3161(a)); 
(B) in which climate change, pollution, or 
environmental destruction has exacerbated sys-
temic racial, regional, social, environmental, 
gender, and economic injustices by dispropor-
tionately affecting Black, Brown, and Indige-
nous peoples, other communities of color, mi-
grant communities, deindustrialized commu-
nities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, 
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low-income workers, women, the elderly, the 
unhoused, people with disabilities, or youth; 
(C) eligible for assistance under the 
Justice40 Initiative described in section 223 of 
Executive Order 14008 (42 U.S.C. 4321 note; 
relating to tackling the climate crisis at home 
and abroad); or 
(D) located in a census tract that has a 
high energy burden. 
(3) 
GREEN
PROJECT.—The 
term 
‘‘green 
project’’ means a project that— 
(A) deeply reduces transportation green-
house gas emissions and local air pollution; and 
(B) results in a reduction in overall energy 
use, maximization of energy efficiency, imple-
mentation and use of energy recovery, and an 
offset of the remaining demand for energy with 
production of energy from renewable energy 
sources, such that the project produces as much 
energy or energy savings as the project uses 
over the course of a year. 
(4) GREEN SPACE.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘green 
space’’ means publicly accessible land or water 
that— 
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(i) is partly or completely covered with 
grass, trees, shrubs, or other vegetation; 
and 
(ii) provides floodwater alleviation, 
storm 
water 
mitigation, 
green 
travel 
routes, water purification, cooling tempera-
tures, pollution management, public health 
benefits, enhancements to biodiversity, eco-
logical resilience, or greenhouse gas emis-
sions sequestration. 
(B) 
INCLUSIONS.—The 
term 
‘‘green 
space’’ includes parks, gardens, playing fields, 
children’s play areas, woods, grassed areas, 
bodies of water, and trails. 
(5) GREENHOUSE GAS.—The term ‘‘greenhouse 
gas’’ means— 
(A) carbon dioxide; 
(B) hydrofluorocarbons; 
(C) methane; 
(D) nitrous oxide; 
(E) perfluorocarbons; 
(F) sulfur hexafluoride; 
(G) nitrogen triflouride; 
(H) chlorofluorocarbons; 
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