S.Amdt. 2454

SA 2454. Mrs. FEINSTEIN (for herself and Mr. Padilla) 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:

At the end of section 30005 in division C, add the
following:
(c) Federal Share Adjustments.--
(1) In general.--In addition to amounts made available
under section 5338 of title 49, United States Code, there are
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 such sums
as are necessary to increase the Federal share, at the
request of a project sponsor, of a new fixed guideway capital
project, a core capacity improvement project, or a small
start project (as those terms are defined in section 5309(a)
of that title) that--
(A) is not open to revenue service; and
(B) has received an allocation of funding in any of fiscal
years 2019, 2020, and 2021.
(2) Criteria.--In allocating amounts made available under
paragraph (1) to projects described in that subsection, the
Secretary of Transportation shall take into consideration the
extent to which a project sponsor demonstrates a need for a
higher Federal share, including the extent to which--
(A) the project sponsor made a local financial commitment
that exceeded 20 percent of the cost of the project; and
(B) the project sponsor has experienced, as a result of the
public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 31, 2020, with
respect to COVID-19, a loss of revenue that would otherwise
be used by the project sponsor to provide the non-Federal
share for the project.
(3) Adjustment.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, if the project sponsor of a project described in
subsection (a) meets 1 or both of the criteria described in
subsection (b), the Secretary of Transportation shall
increase the Federal share of the project by not more than 30
percent, up to a maximum of Federal share of 80 percent.
(4) Amount.--Amounts made available under this section
shall be provided to a project described in subsection (a)
notwithstanding the limitation of any calculation of the
maximum amount of Federal financial assistance that may be
provided to that project.
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