Title: Transportation Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Transportation Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish and maintain on a public website a fixed guideway capital investment grant program dashboard.
The website must contain project-specific pages, including

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5731 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5731

    To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a program 
  dashboard for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2020

 Mr. Malinowski (for himself, Mr. Sires, and Mr. Payne) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a program 
  dashboard for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program.

    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 ``Transportation Funding 
Accountability and Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT PROGRAM DASHBOARD.

    Section 5309(o) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Program dashboard.--
                    ``(A) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish 
                and maintain on a publicly available website a capital 
                investment grant program dashboard.
                    ``(B) Requirements.--The dashboard established 
                under subparagraph (A) shall contain--
                            ``(i) an overview of the program under this 
                        section;
                            ``(ii) the amount of funding appropriated 
                        to the program under this section in each 
                        fiscal year;
                            ``(iii) the amount of funding allocated 
                        from the program under this section in each 
                        fiscal year to each program component, 
                        including core capacity improvement projects, 
                        small start projects, and fixed guideway 
                        capital projects;
                            ``(iv) the amount of funding obligated from 
                        the program under this section to each program 
                        component, including core capacity improvement 
                        projects, small start projects, and fixed 
                        guideway capital projects.
                    ``(C) Project-specific pages.--The website 
                established under this paragraph shall contain a 
                webpage for each project under the program that 
                contains, for each such project--
                            ``(i) a comprehensive tracker of the status 
                        of the project in the approval process, 
                        including--
                                    ``(I) whether the project is in 
                                project development, the engineering 
                                phase, or the construction phase; and
                                    ``(II) an identification of all the 
                                offices required to review each phase 
                                of the approval process, and whether 
                                such office has completed such review;
                            ``(ii) a letter of no prejudice tracker 
                        that includes--
                                    ``(I) the date any such letter was 
                                requested; and
                                    ``(II) the review process by which 
                                the Secretary grants such a letter 
                                (including each office that must review 
                                the letter) and an up-to-date status of 
                                such review;
                            ``(iii) the date on which a full funding 
                        grant agreement is executed;
                            ``(iv) the status of the project sponsor in 
                        securing the required non-Federal cost share, 
                        based on information provided by the project 
                        sponsor; and
                            ``(v) a comprehensive tracker of the 
                        environmental review process for the project, 
                        including the specific offices required to sign 
                        off on the review, that--
                                    ``(I) is up to date (within 30 
                                days) of what office is reviewing an 
                                environmental impact statement, when 
                                such office received the statement, and 
                                the date on which such department or 
                                that office approves the statement; and
                                    ``(II) displays the information in 
                                subclause (I) until the project is 
                                completed.''.
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