Title: Expanding Resources to Establish Rail Quiet Zones Act of 2018
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Expanding Resources to Establish Rail Quiet Zones Act of 2018
This bill requires a set aside of 10% of the funding under the consolidated rail infrastructure and safety improvements grant program for supplementary and alternative safety measures (i.e., substitutes for the locomotive horn at railway-highway grade crossings).
The bill also includes such measures as projects eligible for funding under the surface transportation block grant program.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5033 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5033

   To set aside certain funds for supplementary safety measures and 
 alternative safety measures for railway-highway grade crossings, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2018

 Mr. Lipinski introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To set aside certain funds for supplementary safety measures and 
 alternative safety measures for railway-highway grade crossings, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expanding Resources to Establish 
Rail Quiet Zones Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. RAIL IMPROVEMENT SET-ASIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE 
              SAFETY MEASURES.

    (a) In General.--Section 24407 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Supplementary and Alternative Safety Measures.--Of the 
amounts appropriated under this section, 10 percent shall be available 
for supplementary safety measures and alternative safety measures, as 
those terms are defined in section 222.9 of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 11102 of the FAST Act 
(Public Law 114-94) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4) by striking ``$255,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$330,000,000''; and
            (2) in subsection (a)(5) by striking ``$330,000,000'' and 
        inserting ``$350,000,000''.

SEC. 3. RAILWAY-HIGHWAY CROSSINGS.

    Section 130 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and projects at grade crossings'' 
                and inserting ``projects at grade crossings''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``and supplementary safety 
                measures and alternative safety measures, as those 
                terms are defined in section 222.9 of title 49, Code of 
                Federal Regulations,'' after ``idling trains,''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)(3) by inserting ``, except that the 
        Federal share for supplementary safety measures and alternative 
        safety measures described under subsection (a) shall be 100 
        percent'' before the period at the end.

SEC. 4. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 133(b)(4) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting ``and supplementary safety measures and alternative safety 
measures, as those terms are defined in section 222.9 of title 49, Code 
of Federal Regulations'' after ``grade crossings''.
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