Farm-to-Market Road Repair Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 248 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 248

 To amend title 23, United States Code, to expand eligibility for the 
  surface transportation block grant program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2021

 Mr. Hastings 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 expand eligibility for the 
  surface transportation block grant 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 ``Farm-to-Market Road Repair Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 133 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(16) Roads in rural areas that primarily serve to 
        transport agricultural products from a farm or ranch to a 
        marketplace.''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)--
                    (A) in the heading by striking ``5,000'' and 
                inserting ``50,000''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (1) by striking ``subsection 
                (d)(1)(A)(ii)'' and all that follows through the period 
                at the end and inserting ``clauses (iii) and (iv) of 
                subsection (d)(1)(A) for each fiscal year may be 
                obligated on roads functionally classified as rural 
                minor collectors or local roads or on critical rural 
                freight corridors designated under section 167(e).''.
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