INFRA Transparency Act

INFRA Transparency Act

This bill modifies annual reporting requirements for the the nationally significant freight and highway projects program, including to require the Department of Transportation to provide a summary of each project for which an application was submitted and a grant was not provided.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6184 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6184

    To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the reporting 
requirement for the nationally significant freight and highway projects 
                    program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2020

Mr. Lowenthal (for himself, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Brownley 
of California, and Mr. Rouda) introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the reporting 
requirement for the nationally significant freight and highway projects 
                    program, 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 ``INFRA Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT FREIGHT AND HIGHWAY PROJECTS.

    Section 117(n)(1) of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Contents.--The annual report required under 
                subparagraph (A) shall include--
                            ``(i) a summary of each project for which 
                        an application was submitted under this section 
                        and a grant was not provided;
                            ``(ii) the application for each project for 
                        which a grant has been provided under this 
                        section; and
                            ``(iii) a rating for each project for which 
                        an application was submitted under this section 
                        on such project's ability to fulfill the goals 
                        described in subsection (a)(2) and a 
                        description of such ability.''.
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