Title: BUILD UP Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development for Underfunded Projects Act or the BUILD UP Act
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to set aside at least 30% of funds from its BUILD Transportation Discretionary Grant program for cities with populations of between 10,000 and 75,000, whether or not one or more of such cities are considered part of an urbanized area as designated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5812 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5812

To require the Secretary of Transportation to set aside certain amounts 
    provided under the BUILD program for rural areas, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2020

  Mr. Larsen of Washington (for himself, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. 
  Jayapal, and Ms. Schrier) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Transportation to set aside certain amounts 
    provided under the BUILD program for rural areas, 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 ``Better Utilizing Investments to 
Leverage Development for Underfunded Projects Act'' or the ``BUILD UP 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SET-ASIDE FOR BUILD GRANT AMOUNTS.

    (a) In General.--With respect to grant amounts provided under the 
heading ``Office of the Secretary--National Infrastructure 
Investments'' in title I of division H of the Further Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94) for eligible projects, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that not less than 30 percent 
of the amount provided under such heading shall be provided to cities 
with populations of between 10,000 and 75,000, whether or not 1 or more 
of such cities are considered part of an urbanized area as designated 
by the United States Census Bureau.
    (b) Eligible Project Defined.--In this section, the term ``eligible 
project'' means a project eligible for funding under title I of 
division H of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116-94), including--
            (1) a highway or bridge project eligible under title 23, 
        United States Code;
            (2) a public transportation project eligible under chapter 
        53 of title 49, United States Code;
            (3) a passenger and freight rail transportation project 
        eligible under title 23 or title 49, United States Code;
            (4) a port infrastructure investment (including inland port 
        infrastructure and land ports of entry) eligible under title 
        23, United States Code, chapter 503 of title 46, United States 
        Code, or title 49, United States Code; and
            (5) a project investing in a surface transportation 
        facility that is located on tribal land and for which title or 
        maintenance responsibility is vested in the Federal Government 
        under title 23, United States Code.
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