Title: A bill to provide technical and financial support for the completion of the Interstate 11 environmental impact statement, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to provide technical and financial assistance to metropolitan planning organizations and states for the completion of Tier II environmental impact statements for the development of Interstate 11 in Arizona.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3077 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3077

 To provide technical and financial support for the completion of the 
 Interstate 11 environmental impact statement, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 17, 2019

Ms. McSally (for herself and Ms. Sinema) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide technical and financial support for the completion of the 
 Interstate 11 environmental impact statement, 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. ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN ROUTES.

    (a) In General.--In the case of a segment described in subsection 
(b), the Secretary of Transportation shall provide technical and 
financial assistance, in accordance with subsection (c), required to 
complete a Tier II environmental impact statement for the segment.
    (b) Segments Described.--A segment referred to in subsection (a) is 
a segment of a route described in clause (ii) or (iii) of section 
1105(c)(26)(A) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act 
of 1991 (Public Law 102-240; 105 Stat. 2032; 109 Stat. 597) (except for 
a segment of a route located between Wickenburg, Arizona, and the 
Nevada border) for which an environmental impact statement or 
preliminary engineering has been included in--
            (1) the transportation improvement program and the 
        transportation plan under section 134 of title 23, United 
        States Code, of the applicable metropolitan planning 
        organization; and
            (2) the statewide transportation improvement program under 
        section 135 of title 23, United States Code, of the applicable 
        State.
    (c) Timing.--
            (1) Inclusion in planning.--To be eligible to receive 
        technical and financial assistance under this section, not 
        later than 2 years after the date on which the record of 
        decision is published for the Tier I environmental impact 
        statement for a segment described in subsection (b), the 
        applicable metropolitan planning organization or State shall 
        include the portion of the segment that is under the 
        jurisdiction of the metropolitan planning organization or State 
        in, as applicable--
                    (A) the transportation improvement plan of the 
                metropolitan planning organization under section 134 of 
                title 23, United States Code; or
                    (B) the statewide transportation improvement 
                program under section 135 of title 23, United States 
                Code, of the State.
            (2) Assistance.--Not later than 120 days after the date on 
        which a metropolitan planning organization or State includes 
        the applicable portion of a segment described in subsection (b) 
        in the transportation improvement plan of the metropolitan 
        planning organization or the statewide transportation 
        improvement program of the State, as applicable, pursuant to 
        paragraph (1), the Secretary of Transportation shall provide 
        technical and financial assistance under subsection (a) to the 
        applicable metropolitan planning organization or State.
    (d) Supplement, Not Supplant.--Funds made available to carry out 
this section shall supplement, and not supplant, funds made available 
to the applicable metropolitan planning organization or State under 
title 23, United States Code.
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