Title: Green Transportation Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Green Transportation Act
This bill requires states and metropolitan planning organizations to include greenhouse gas reductions in their long-range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs.
Each metropolitan planning organization must biennially submit to the Department of Transportation (DOT) the standardized models and methodologies it uses to measure and monitor transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.
DOT must create a public clearinghouse of such models and methodologies.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3822 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3822

To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require metropolitan 
  planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long-
range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2019

 Mr. Doggett (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Lowenthal, 
 Ms. Escobar, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, and 
  Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to require metropolitan 
  planning organizations to consider greenhouse gas emissions in long-
range transportation plans and transportation improvement programs, 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 ``Green Transportation Act''.

SEC. 2. GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANS.

    (a) Highway Planning.--Section 134(c)(2) of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``Such plans and 
TIPs shall be developed after consideration of direct and indirect 
emissions of greenhouse gases (as defined in section 211(o)(1) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall provide for reductions 
in such emissions.''
    (b) Public Transportation Planning.--Section 5303(c)(2) of title 
49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
``Such plans and TIPs shall be developed after consideration of direct 
and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases (as defined in section 
211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall 
provide for reductions in such emissions.''
    (c) Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Highway Planning.--Section 
135(a)(2) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following: ``Such plans and TIPs shall be developed after 
consideration of direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases (as 
defined in section 211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7545(o)(1))) and shall provide for reductions in such emissions.''
    (d) Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Public Transportation Planning.--
Section 5304(a)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Such plans and TIPs shall be 
developed after consideration of direct and indirect emissions of 
greenhouse gases (as defined in section 211(o)(1) of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7545(o)(1))) and shall provide for reductions in such 
emissions.''
    (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect--
            (1) with respect to a metropolitan planning organization 
        that operate within a metropolitan planning area with a 
        population of not less than 200,000, on the date of enactment 
        of this section; and
            (2) with respect to a metropolitan planning organization 
        other than a metropolitan planning organization described in 
        paragraph (1), on the date that is 4 years after the date of 
        enactment of this section.

SEC. 3. CONSIDERATION OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES.

    (a) Title 23.--Title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 134(a)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``fuel consumption and air 
                pollution'' and inserting ``fuel consumption and air 
                pollution and greenhouse gas emissions''; and
                    (B) by striking ``minimizing'' and inserting 
                ``reducing'';
            (2) in section 134(i)(2)(H), by striking ``play in reducing 
        congestion, pollution,'' and inserting ``play in reducing 
        congestion, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions,'';
            (3) in section 134(g)(3)(A), by striking ``disaster risk 
        reduction, environmental protection,'' and inserting ``disaster 
        risk reduction, environmental protection, climate change 
        adaptation and resilience,'';
            (4) in section 134(h)(1)(E)--
                    (A) by striking ``promote energy conservation'' and 
                inserting ``promote energy conservation, reduce 
                greenhouse gas emissions'';
                    (B) by inserting ``and public health'' after 
                ``quality of life''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``, including housing and land use 
                patterns'' after ``development patterns'';
            (5) in section 134(i)(2)(D)(i), by striking ``greatest 
        potential to'' and inserting ``greatest potential to reduce 
        greenhouse gas emissions and'';
            (6) in section 134(i)(5)(A), by inserting ``air quality, 
        public health, housing, transportation,'' after 
        ``conservation,'';
            (7) in section 135(d)(1)(E)--
                    (A) by striking ``promote energy conservation'' and 
                inserting ``promote energy conservation, reduce 
                greenhouse gas emissions'';
                    (B) by inserting ``and public health'' after 
                ``quality of life''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``, including housing and land use 
                patterns'' after ``development patterns'';
            (8) in section 135(d)(1)(I), by striking ``mitigate 
        stormwater'' and inserting ``mitigate stormwater and climate 
        change'';
            (9) in section 135(f)(2)(D)(i), by inserting ``air quality, 
        public health, housing, transportation,'' after 
        ``conservation,'';
            (10) in section 135(f)(4)(A), by striking ``have the 
        greatest potential to'' and inserting ``have the greatest 
        potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and''; and
            (11) in section 135(f)(8), by striking ``play in reducing 
        congestion, pollution,'' and inserting ``play in reducing 
        congestion, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions,''.
    (b) Title 49.--Title 49, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 5303(a)(1), by striking ``fuel consumption 
        and air pollution'' and inserting ``fuel consumption and air 
        pollution and greenhouse gas emissions'';
            (2) in section 5303(i)(2)(H), by striking ``reducing 
        congestion, pollution,'' and inserting ``reducing congestion, 
        pollution, greenhouse gas emissions'';
            (3) in section 5303(g)(3)(A), by striking ``reduction, 
        environmental protection,'' and inserting ``reduction, 
        environmental protection, climate change adaptation and 
        resilience,'';
            (4) in section 5303(h)(1)(E), by striking ``promote energy 
        conservation'' and inserting ``promote energy conservation, 
        reduce greenhouse gas emissions'';
            (5) in section 5303(h)(1)(I), by striking ``reliability of 
        the transportation system'' and inserting ``reliability of the 
        transportation system and reduce or mitigate stormwater and 
        climate change impacts of surface transportation'';
            (6) in section 5303(i)(2)(D), by striking ``may have the 
        greatest potential to'' and inserting ``may have the greatest 
        potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and'';
            (7) in section 5304(d)(1)(E), by striking ``promote energy 
        conservation,'' and inserting ``promote energy conservation, 
        reduce greenhouse gas emissions,'';
            (8) in section 5304(f)(2)(D)(i), by striking ``resources, 
        environmental protection,'' and inserting ``resources, 
        environmental protection, climate change adaptation and 
        resilience,''; and
            (9) in section 5304(f)(4)(A), by striking ``have the 
        greatest potential to'' and inserting ``have the greatest 
        potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and''.

SEC. 4. USE OF FUNDS FOR MEASURING AND MONITORING TRANSPORTATION-
              RELATED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State or metropolitan 
planning organization may use amounts authorized pursuant to section 
1101 of the FAST Act to develop standardized models and methodologies 
for measuring and monitoring transportation-related greenhouse gas 
emissions.

SEC. 5. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS.

    (a) States.--Section 150(e) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) the standardized models and methodologies the State 
        uses to measure and monitor transportation-related greenhouse 
        gas emissions.''.
    (b) MPOs.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this section, and biennially thereafter, each metropolitan planning 
organization (as such term is defined in section 134 of title 23, 
United States Code) shall submit to the Secretary of Transportation the 
standardized models and methodologies the metropolitan planning 
organization uses to measure and monitor transportation-related 
greenhouse gas emissions.
    (c) Analysis.--The Secretary of Transportation shall collect and 
organize the models and methodologies that are submitted pursuant to 
section 150(e)(5) of title 23, United States Code, and subsection (b) 
of this section, in a publicly available clearinghouse.
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