S.Amdt. 2651

SA 2651. Ms. McSALLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end, add the following:

SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR TRANSPORTATION GRANTS.

(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Transportation shall use any amounts
made available to the Secretary for grant programs for
covered projects, and not otherwise obligated, to provide
additional funds to covered projects.
(b) Amount.--In providing additional funds for a covered
project under subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation
shall provide an amount equal to not less than 10 percent of
the total project costs.
(c) Federal Share.--Amounts made available for a covered
project under subsection (a) shall not be counted toward the
Federal share of the project.
(d) Modifications to Agreements.--The Secretary of
Transportation shall modify a grant agreement for a covered
project as necessary to provide additional funds under
subsection (a) in accordance with the amount determined under
subsection (b).
(e) Definition of Covered Project.--In this section, the
term ``covered project'' means a highway project, a public
transportation project, a rural transportation project, or a
tribal transportation project that--
(1) during the period beginning on January 1, 2017, and
ending on the date of enactment of this Act--
(A) has been awarded a grant under a competitive grant
program of the Secretary of Transportation; or

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(B) in the case of a new fixed guideway capital project
proposed to be carried out using a grant under section 5309
of title 49, United States Code, advanced to the engineering
phase under subsection (g) of that section; and
(2) requires additional funding to complete the project due
to the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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