Transportation Funding Accountability and Transparency Act

I 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 5731 To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a program dashboard for the fixed guideway capital investment grants program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 30, 2020 Mr. MALINOWSKI (for himself, Mr. SIRES, and Mr. PAYNE) introduced the fol- lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for a program dashboard for the fixed guideway capital invest- ment grants program. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation Fund- 4 ing Accountability and Transparency Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT PROGRAM DASH- 6 BOARD. 7 Section 5309(o) of title 49, United States Code, is 8 amended by adding at the end the following: 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Jan 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5731.IH H5731 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 5731 IH ‘‘(4) PROGRAM DASHBOARD.— 1 ‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary 2 shall establish and maintain on a publicly avail- 3 able website a capital investment grant program 4 dashboard. 5 ‘‘(B) REQUIREMENTS.—The dashboard es- 6 tablished under subparagraph (A) shall con- 7 tain— 8 ‘‘(i) an overview of the program under 9 this section; 10 ‘‘(ii) the amount of funding appro- 11 priated to the program under this section 12 in each fiscal year; 13 ‘‘(iii) the amount of funding allocated 14 from the program under this section in 15 each fiscal year to each program compo- 16 nent, including core capacity improvement 17 projects, small start projects, and fixed 18 guideway capital projects; 19 ‘‘(iv) the amount of funding obligated 20 from the program under this section to 21 each program component, including core 22 capacity improvement projects, small start 23 projects, and fixed guideway capital 24 projects. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Jan 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5731.IH H5731 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 5731 IH ‘‘(C) PROJECT-SPECIFIC PAGES.—The 1 website established under this paragraph shall 2 contain a webpage for each project under the 3 program that contains, for each such project— 4 ‘‘(i) a comprehensive tracker of the 5 status of the project in the approval proc- 6 ess, including— 7 ‘‘(I) whether the project is in 8 project development, the engineering 9 phase, or the construction phase; and 10 ‘‘(II) an identification of all the 11 offices required to review each phase 12 of the approval process, and whether 13 such office has completed such review; 14 ‘‘(ii) a letter of no prejudice tracker 15 that includes— 16 ‘‘(I) the date any such letter was 17 requested; and 18 ‘‘(II) the review process by which 19 the Secretary grants such a letter (in- 20 cluding each office that must review 21 the letter) and an up-to-date status of 22 such review; 23 ‘‘(iii) the date on which a full funding 24 grant agreement is executed; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Jan 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H5731.IH H5731 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 5731 IH ‘‘(iv) the status of the project sponsor 1 in securing the required non-Federal cost 2 share, based on information provided by 3 the project sponsor; and 4 ‘‘(v) a comprehensive tracker of the 5 environmental review process for the 6 project, including the specific offices re- 7 quired to sign off on the review, that— 8 ‘‘(I) is up to date (within 30 9 days) of what office is reviewing an 10 environmental impact statement, when 11 such office received the statement, 12 and the date on which such depart- 13 ment or that office approves the state- 14 ment; and 15 ‘‘(II) displays the information in 16 subclause (I) until the project is com- 17 pleted.’’. 18 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:51 Jan 31, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H5731.IH H5731 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS