S.Amdt. 2335

SA 2335. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself,
Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr.
Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R.
3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 2639, strike line 6 and all that follows
through page 2642, line 16, and insert the following:
(1) $27,500,000,000 shall be for a bridge replacement,
rehabilitation, preservation, protection, and construction
program, Provided further, That, except as otherwise provided
under this paragraph, the funds made available under this
paragraph shall be administered as if apportioned under
chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further,
That a project funded with funds made available under this
paragraph shall be treated as a project on a Federal-aid
highway: Provided further, That, of the funds made available
under this paragraph for a fiscal year, 3 percent shall be
set aside to carry out section 202(d) of title 23, United
States Code: Provided further, That funds set aside under the
preceding proviso to carry out section 202(d) of that title
shall be in addition to funds otherwise made available to
carry out that section and shall be administered as if made
available under that section: Provided further, That for
funds set aside under this paragraph to carry out section
202(d) of title 23, United States Code, the Federal share of
the costs shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That up to
\1/2\ of 1 percent of the amounts made available under this
paragraph in each fiscal year shall be for the administration
and operations of the Federal Highway Administration:
Provided further, That for the purposes of funds made
available under this heading for a bridge replacement and
rehabilitation program, (A) the term ``State'' means any of
the 50 States or the District of Columbia; and (B) the term
``qualifying State'' means any State in which the percentage
of total deck area of bridges classified as in poor condition
in such State is at least 5 percent or in which the
percentage of total bridges classified as in poor condition
in such State is at least 5 percent: Provided further, That,
of the funds made available under this heading for a bridge
replacement and rehabilitation program, the Secretary shall
reserve $300,000,000 for each State that does not meet the
definition of a qualifying State: Provided further, That,
after making the reservations under the preceding proviso,
the Secretary shall distribute the remaining funds made
available under this heading for a bridge replacement and
rehabilitation program to each qualifying State by the
proportion that the percentage of total deck area of bridges
classified as in poor condition in such qualifying State
bears to the sum of the percentages of total deck area of
bridges classified as in poor condition in all qualifying
States: Provided further, That for the bridge replacement and
rehabilitation program, no qualifying State shall receive
more than $1,200,000,000, each State shall receive an amount
not less than $300,000,000, and after calculating the
distribution of funds pursuant to the preceding proviso, any
amount in excess of $1,200,000,000 shall be redistributed
equally among each State that does not meet the definition of
a qualifying State: Provided further, That funds provided to
States that do not meet the definition of a qualifying State
for the bridge replacement and rehabilitation program shall
be (A) merged with amounts made available to such State under
this paragraph; (B) available for activities eligible under
this paragraph; and (C) administered as if apportioned under
chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code: Provided further,
That, except as provided in the preceding proviso, the funds
made available under this heading for a bridge replacement
and rehabilitation program shall be used for highway bridge
replacement or rehabilitation projects on public roads:
Provided further, That for purposes of this heading for the
bridge replacement and rehabilitation program, the Secretary
shall calculate the percentages of total deck area of bridges
(including the percentages of total deck area classified as
in poor and the percentages of total bridge counts (including
the percentages of total bridges classified as in poor
condition) based on the National Bridge Inventory as of
December 31, 2018:
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