Southwestern Transit Corridor Planning and Fuel Use Reduction Act

Southwestern Transit Corridor Planning and Fuel Use Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make a grant to: (1) the New Mexico Mid Region Council of Governments to study the feasibility of extending the New Mexico rail runner express commuter rail service south from Belen, New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, or to intermediate points; and (2) the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the city of El Paso, Texas, to study the feasibility for a public transit system, including the option of commuter rail, that would connect Las Cruces and El Paso.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2337 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2337

 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for certain 
  transportation feasibility studies for southern New Mexico and west 
                                 Texas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2009

 Mr. Teague (for himself and Mr. Reyes) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for certain 
  transportation feasibility studies for southern New Mexico and west 
                                 Texas.

    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 ``Southwestern Transit Corridor 
Planning and Fuel Use Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. RAIL RUNNER EXTENSION FEASIBILITY STUDY.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall make a grant to the New 
Mexico Mid Region Council of Governments to conduct, working in 
cooperation with the appropriate municipalities, metropolitan planning 
organizations, and rural planning organizations in New Mexico and 
Texas, a transportation corridor feasibility study to evaluate and 
provide recommendations regarding the costs, benefits, obstacles, 
impacts and feasibility of various transit technology, alignments, and 
funding options for extending the New Mexico rail runner express 
commuter rail service south from Belen, New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, 
or to intermediate points.

SEC. 3. LAS CRUCES AND EL PASO FEASIBILITY STUDY.

    The Secretary of Transportation shall make a grant to the city of 
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the city of El Paso, Texas, to conduct, in 
cooperation with the Las Cruces metropolitan planning organization and 
the El Paso metropolitan planning organization, a transportation 
corridor feasibility study to evaluate and provide recommendations 
regarding the costs, benefits, obstacles, impacts, and feasibility of 
various transit technology, alignments, and funding options for a 
public transit system, including the option of commuter rail, that 
would connect Las Cruces and El Paso.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.
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