To prohibit funds made available to the Federal Transit Administration from being used for the procurement of rolling stock from manufacturers supported by certain foreign governments.

SA 3670. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, making
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title I of division D, insert
the following:
Sec. __. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available to the Federal Transit Administration under
this title to carry out sections 5307, 5311, 5337, and 5339
of title 49, United States Code, may be used in awarding a
contract or subcontract to an entity on or after the date of
enactment of this Act for the procurement of rolling stock
for use in public transportation if the manufacturer of the
rolling stock is incorporated in or has manufacturing
facilities in the United States and receives support from the
government of a country that--
(1) is identified as a nonmarket economy country (as
defined in section 771(18) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19
U.S.C. 1677(18))) as of the date of enactment of this Act;
(2) was identified by the United States Trade
Representative in the most recent report required by section
182 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2242) as a priority
foreign country under subsection (a)(2) of that section; and
(3) is subject to monitoring by the Trade Representative
under section 306 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2416).
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent
with the obligations of the United States under international
agreements.
(c)(1) This section shall not apply to the award of a
contract or subcontract made by a public transportation
agency with a rail rolling stock manufacturer described in
subsection (a) if the manufacturer produced rail rolling
stock for an eligible public transportation agency through a
contract executed prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) A rail rolling stock manufacturer described in
subsection (a) may not use funds provided under a contract or
subcontract described in paragraph (1) to expand the
manufacturer's production of rail rolling stock within the
United States to an amount that is greater than the amount
required under contractual obligations of the manufacturer as
of the date of enactment of this Act.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to
funds that are not appropriated or otherwise made available
to the Federal Transit Administration under this title.
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