Title: A bill to provide relief to public transportation agencies with projects in the Full Funding Grant Agreement stage of the Capital Investment Grants Program.
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT), at the request of a project sponsor, to provide an additional 30% of total projects costs for any project in the full funding grant agreement stage of the fixed guideway capital investment grant program.
DOT must allow a project sponsor to defer payment of the non-federal share for projects that receive additionally funding in accordance with the bill. Additionally, the federal share payable of the costs of a project that receives additional funding may not exceed 80%.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 837 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 837

 To provide relief to public transportation agencies with projects in 
the Full Funding Grant Agreement stage of the Capital Investment Grants 
                                Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 18, 2021

 Mrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Cantwell, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Padilla, 
  Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, 
                       Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide relief to public transportation agencies with projects in 
the Full Funding Grant Agreement stage of the 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. RELIEF FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        Transportation; and
            (2) the term ``total project cost'', with respect to a 
        project that receives a grant under section 5309 of title 49, 
        United States Code, means the most recent total project cost 
        stipulated in the full funding grant agreement.
    (b) CIG COVID-19 Emergency Relief Program.--Notwithstanding 
subsection (k)(2)(C)(ii) or (l)(1)(B)(ii) of section 5309 of title 49, 
United States Code, at the request of a project sponsor, the Secretary 
shall provide an additional 30 percent of total project costs for any 
project under subsection (d) or (e) of section 5309 of title 49, United 
States Code, that has a full funding grant agreement entered into under 
such subsection (d) or (e) on or after January 1, 2017.
    (c) Deferred Non-Federal Share.--The Secretary shall allow a 
project sponsor to defer payment of the non-Federal share for any 
project described in subsection (b).
    (d) Federal Share.--The Federal share of the costs of a project 
that receives additional funding under this section may not exceed 80 
percent.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations From General Fund.--There is 
authorized to be appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.
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