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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Appalachian Development Highway
System Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. APPALACHIAN DEVELOPMENT HIGHWAY SYSTEM.

(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit
Account) for the Appalachian development highway system program under
section 14501 of title 40, United States Code, $1,080,000,000 for each
of fiscal years 2012 through 2017.
(b) Apportionment.--The Secretary shall apportion funds made
available by subsection (a) for fiscal years 2012 through 2017 among
the States based on the latest available cost-to-complete estimate for
the Appalachian development highway system under section 14501 of title
40, United States Code, prepared by the Appalachian Regional
Commission.
(c) Applicability of Title 23.--Subject to subsection (d)(2), funds
made available by subsection (a) shall be available for obligation in
the same manner as if the funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of
title 23, United States Code, except that--
(1) the Federal share of the cost of any project carried
out using the funds shall be determined in accordance with
section 14501 of title 40, United States Code; and
(2) the funds shall remain available until expended.
(d) Availability of Funds.--
(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law
enacted before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act,
any obligation limitation enacted for any of fiscal years 2012
through 2017 shall not apply to obligations authorized for the
Appalachian development highway system program under section
14501 of title 40, United States Code.
(2) Reallocation.--Any amounts made available to a State
under this section or any other provision of law for the
Appalachian development highway system under section 14501 of
title 40, United States Code, that remain unobligated by the
State as of the date that is 5 years after the date on which
the funds were made available shall be--
(A) returned to the Secretary; and
(B) reallocated among the remaining States in
accordance with section 14501 of title 40, United
States Code.
(e) Loans Between States.--
(1) In general.--On notice to the Secretary of
Transportation, a State that receives an apportionment under
subsection (b) may lend any amount of contract authority or
obligation authority available to the State pursuant to the
apportionment to any other State that is eligible for such an
apportionment for use by the borrowing State for activities
eligible under section 14501 of title 40, United States Code.
(2) Repayment.--Any loan under paragraph (1) shall be
repaid in accordance with a loan repayment agreement that is
entered into by the affected States and agreed to by the
Secretary.
(f) Purposes.--Section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code, is
amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
''(2) Purposes.--
''(A) Federal-aid highway and other programs.--The
funds authorized by this subsection shall be used to
administer the provisions of law to be financed from
appropriations for the Federal-aid highway program and
programs authorized under chapter 2.
''(B) Appalachian development highway system.--In
any case in which an apportionment is made of the
amounts made available for expenditure for the
Appalachian development highway system program under
section 14501 of title 40, from amounts made available
from the Highway Trust Fund for the Appalachian
development highway system, the Secretary shall
transfer to the Appalachian Regional Commission such
sums as the Appalachian Regional Commission determines
to be appropriate, not to exceed $3,000,000 for each
fiscal year, for administrative and planning activities
associated with the Appalachian development highway
system.''.
(g) Equity Bonus Program.--Section 105 of title 23, United States
Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2)--
(A) by striking subparagraph (J); and
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (K) through (N)
as subparagraphs (J) through (M), respectively; and
(2) in subsection (b)(2)--
(A) in subparagraph (I), by adding ''and'' at the
end;
(B) by striking subparagraph (J); and
(C) by redesignating subparagraph (K) as
subparagraph (J).
A:
Appalachian Development Highway System Act of 2011 - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY2012-FY2017 for the Appalachian development highway system program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to apportion such funds among the appropriate states to complete construction of the Appalachian development highway system.

Requires amounts made available to a state that remain unobligated five years later to be returned to the Secretary and reallocated among the remaining states.

Authorizes states of the system to loan apportioned amounts between themselves.