HR 6472 IHCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To rescind certain earmark projects under SAFETEA-LU for the purpose of eliminating the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

July 10, 2008CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. FLAKE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 concernedCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To rescind certain earmark projects under SAFETEA-LU for the purpose of eliminating the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Resist Offsetting with Additional Debt Act’ or the ‘ROAD Act’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 2. RESCISSIONS.

(a) SAFETEA-LU Rescissions- Subject to subsection (b), the unobligated balances of funds made available for the following provisions of SAFETEA-LU (Public Law 109-59), or made available by amendments made by the following provisions of SAFETEA-LU, are hereby rescinded:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) Section 1114 (highway bridge program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) Section 1301 (projects of national and regional significance).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(3) Section 1302 (national corridor infrastructure improvement program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(4) Section 1306 (freight intermodal distribution pilot grant program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(5) Section 1702 (high priority projects).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(6) Section 1801 (construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(7) Section 1807 (nonmotorized transportation pilot program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(8) Section 1934 (transportation improvements).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(9) Section 1937 (roads in closed basins).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(10) Section 1940 (Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(11) Section 1943 (Great Lakes ITS implementation).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(12) Section 1944 (transportation construction and remediation, Ottawa County, Oklahoma).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(13) Section 1945 (infrastructure awareness program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(14) Section 1957 (traffic circle construction, Clarendon, Vermont).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(15) Section 1960 (Denali access system program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(16) Section 1961 (I-95/Contee Road interchange study).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(17) Section 1962 (multimodal facility improvements).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(18) Section 3011 (capital investment grants).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(19) Section 3036 (authorizations).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(20) Section 3044 (bus and bus facilities).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(21) Section 3046 (allocations for national research and technology programs).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(22) Section 5203 (technology deployment).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(23) Section 5309 (centers for surface transportation excellence).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(24) Section 5505 (transportation scholarship opportunities program).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(25) Section 5513 (research grants).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) Applicability- Subsection (a) applies to the unobligated balances that are--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(1) available on the date of enactment of this Act; andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(2) the result of a congressional earmark.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(c) Definition- The term ‘congressional earmark’ has the meaning given such term in clause 9(d) of Rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 3. NO TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

Amounts in the General Fund of the Treasury may not be transferred to the Highway Trust Fund.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of Congress that State departments of transportation should consider project descriptions in section 144(g)(1)(A) of title 23, United States Code, and in the tables contained in sections 1301, 1302, 1702, 1934, and 3044 of the SAFETEA-LU (Public Law 109-59) if such projects involve improving transportation safety.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink