Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005, Part III

Bill: 109-hr-3332
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Animals
Authorization
Boats and boating
Boundaries
Bridges
Coast guard
Coastal zone
Commuting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Disabled
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water pollution control
Fishing
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Guam
Hawaii
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway use tax
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Minorities
Motor buses
National parks
Native Americans
New Jersey
Northern Mariana Islands
Passenger ships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Railroad engineering
Railroad finance
Railroad safety
Research and development
Research grants
Road construction
Scenic byways
Science, Technology, Communications
Seat belts
Shipbuilding
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Subways
Tax evasion
Tax rates
Taxation
Technological innovations
Terminals (Transportation)
Territories (U.S.)
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic engineering
Trails
Transportation and the aged
Transportation and the disabled
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Trucking
Trucks
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
Virgin Islands
Washington State
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005, Part III - Extends authorizations out of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs through July 21, 2005. Prohibits, after July 21, 2005, the obligation of funds for any federal-aid highway program project until enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing the federal-aid highway program.
 
Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend through July 21, 2005, funding for national outreach and communications programs related to sport fishing and boating safety. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize until July 22, 2005, expenditures for obligations under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from: (1) the HTF; (2) the Mass Transit Account; and (3) the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund. 

action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend authorizations for federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs through July 21, 2005. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 21, 2005.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 21, 2005, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF).
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 21, 2005.
 
Prohibits, after July 21, 2005, the obligation of funds for any federal-aid highway program project until enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing the federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to make specified funds available from the HTF for administrative expenses of the federal-aid highway program for FY2005.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System (NHS) in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) the national scenic byways clearinghouse; (12) surface transportation research; (13) the technology deployment program; (14) training and education; (15) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (16) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (17) university transportation research; (18) metropolitan planning; (19) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (20) the Alaska highway program; (21) Operation Lifesaver; (22) the bridge discretionary program; (23) interstate maintenance; (24) recreational trails administrative costs; and (25) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Amends federal highway law to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants.
 
Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA); (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; (4) emergency commercial driver license (CDL) grants; and (5) continuation of a crash causation study.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, for capital projects in Alaska or Hawaii, for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing fixed guideway systems that are ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities, or that are approaches to ferry terminal facilities, for bus testing facility, and for funding clean fuels); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, clean fuels formula grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, and the National Transit Institute), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 21, 2005. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for: (1) qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972 and the Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act of 1998; and (2) state recreational boating safety programs.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until July 22, 2005, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.

action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 

(

This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend authorizations for federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs through July 21, 2005. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 21, 2005.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 21, 2005, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF).
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 21, 2005.
 
Prohibits, after July 21, 2005, the obligation of funds for any federal-aid highway program project until enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing the federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to make specified funds available from the HTF for administrative expenses of the federal-aid highway program for FY2005.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System (NHS) in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) the national scenic byways clearinghouse; (12) surface transportation research; (13) the technology deployment program; (14) training and education; (15) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (16) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (17) university transportation research; (18) metropolitan planning; (19) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (20) the Alaska highway program; (21) Operation Lifesaver; (22) the bridge discretionary program; (23) interstate maintenance; (24) recreational trails administrative costs; and (25) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Amends federal highway law to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants.
 
Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA); (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; (4) emergency commercial driver license (CDL) grants; and (5) continuation of a crash causation study.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, for capital projects in Alaska or Hawaii, for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing fixed guideway systems that are ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities, or that are approaches to ferry terminal facilities, for bus testing facility, and for funding clean fuels); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, clean fuels formula grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, and the National Transit Institute), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 21, 2005. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for: (1) qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972 and the Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act of 1998; and (2) state recreational boating safety programs.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until July 22, 2005, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.

action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

 
Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2005, Part III - Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend authorizations for federal highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, and transit programs through July 21, 2005. 
 
(Sec. 2) Extends the off-system bridge set-aside through July 21, 2005.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to extend to July 21, 2005, certain advanced authorizations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF).
 
Revises the amount of obligation limitation that is to be distributed by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Sets a cap upon the total amount of obligation authority distributed through July 21, 2005.
 
Prohibits, after July 21, 2005, the obligation of funds for any federal-aid highway program project until enactment of a multi-year law reauthorizing the federal-aid highway program.
 
(Sec. 3) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to make specified funds available from the HTF for administrative expenses of the federal-aid highway program for FY2005.
 
(Sec. 4) Amends TEA-21 to extend through July, 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations under TEA-21 for: (1) federal lands highways (Indian reservation roads, public lands highways, park roads and parkways, and refuge roads); (2) national corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs; (3) construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities (including set-asides for such projects that are a part of the National Highway System (NHS) in Alaska, New Jersey, and Washington State); (4) the national scenic byways program; (5) the value pricing pilot program; (6) highway use tax evasion projects; (7) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Highway Program; (8) safety grants; (9) the transportation and community and system preservation pilot program; (10) transportation infrastructure finance and innovation; (11) the national scenic byways clearinghouse; (12) surface transportation research; (13) the technology deployment program; (14) training and education; (15) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (16) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) standards, research, operational tests, development, and deployment; (17) university transportation research; (18) metropolitan planning; (19) the Territories of Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (20) the Alaska highway program; (21) Operation Lifesaver; (22) the bridge discretionary program; (23) interstate maintenance; (24) recreational trails administrative costs; and (25) railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high speed rail corridors.
 
Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for skills training and on-the-job training to implement a specified nondiscrimination program.
 
(Sec. 5) Amends federal highway law to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for highway safety programs, including: (1) seat belt safety incentive grants; and (2) prevention of intoxicated driver incentive grants.
 
Amends TEA-21 to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) programs, including: (1) certain highway safety programs; (2) highway safety research and development (R&D); (3) occupant protection incentive grants; (4) alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures incentive grants; and (5) the National Driver Register.
 
(Sec. 6) Amends the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2004, Part V to extend through July 21, 2005, the authorization of appropriations for: (1) administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA); (2) the motor carrier safety assistance program; (3) information systems and commercial driver's license grants; (4) emergency commercial driver license (CDL) grants; and (5) continuation of a crash causation study.
 
(Sec. 7) Extends through July 21, 2005, the authorization of allocations and apportionments for federal transit programs, including: (1) fixed guideway modernization (earmarking amounts to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related facilities, for capital projects in Alaska or Hawaii, for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing fixed guideway systems that are ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities, or that are approaches to ferry terminal facilities, for bus testing facility, and for funding clean fuels); (2) formula grants (earmarking amounts for the Alaska Railroad for improvements to its passenger operations, clean fuels formula grants, transportation services to elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities, financial assistance for urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas, and intercity, fixed route over-the-road bus service); (3) capital programs; (4) planning; (5) research (earmarking amounts for rural transportation assistance, transit cooperative research programs, and the National Transit Institute), including university transportation research; (6) carrying out certain administrative provisions by the Secretary of Transportation; (7) the job access and reverse commute program; (8) the rural transportation accessibility incentive program; (9) urbanized area formula grants; (10) the fuel cell bus and bus facilities program; (11) the advanced technology pilot project; (12) projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems; and (13) the New Jersey urban core project.
 
(Sec. 8) Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to extend funding for the National Outreach and Communications Program through July 21, 2005. Extends through the same date the authorization of apportionments for: (1) qualified projects under the Clean Vessel Act of 1972 and the Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act of 1998; and (2) state recreational boating safety programs.
 
Amends Federal maritime law to increase the authorization of appropriations for personnel and activities expenses of the Coast Guard directly related to the national recreational boating safety program.
 
(Sec. 9) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until July 22, 2005, the authorization for the use of the HTF and the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund, including the sport fish restoration account and the boat safety account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-35.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-35.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8499)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8499)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H6088-6091)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H6088-6091)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H6087-6091)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Mr. Young (AK) asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Resources discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Resources discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Science discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Science discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Transportation discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Committee on Transportation discharged.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Science, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-35