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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1066 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To authorize funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure programs |
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| 6 | 6 | | to be used for other highway projects, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. L |
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| 10 | 10 | | UMMISintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Environment and Public Works |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To authorize funding for electric vehicle charging infrastruc- |
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| 14 | 14 | | ture programs to be used for other highway projects, |
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| 15 | 15 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Highway Funding 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Flexibility Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. OPTIMIZING USE OF NATIONAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | INFRASTRUCTURE FORMULA PROGRAM 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | FUNDS. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) D |
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| 25 | 25 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘program’’ means 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | the program under paragraph (2) in the matter 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | under the heading ‘‘ |
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| 32 | 32 | | HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | PROGRAMS’’ under the heading ‘‘FEDERALHIGHWAY 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | A |
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| 35 | 35 | | DMINISTRATION’’ under the heading ‘‘DEPART-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | MENT OF TRANSPORTATION’’ in title VIII of 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | division J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act (Public Law 117–58; 135 Stat. 1421) (com-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | monly known as the ‘‘National Electric Vehicle In-9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | frastructure Formula Program’’). 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) S |
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| 42 | 42 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | the Secretary of Transportation. 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) S |
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| 45 | 45 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | ing given the term in section 101(a) of title 23, 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | United States Code. 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (b) O |
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| 49 | 49 | | PTIMIZATION OFFUNDS.— 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (1) I |
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| 51 | 51 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 17 |
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| 52 | 52 | | provision of law, any amounts made available under 18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | the program that are unobligated as of the date of 19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | enactment of this Act— 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (A) shall be used only for— 21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (i) the construction, reconstruction, 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, or 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | preservation of a Federal-aid highway; 24 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (ii) a project to replace, rehabilitate, 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | preserve, or protect 1 or more bridges on 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | the National Bridge Inventory under sec-3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | tion 144(b) of title 23, United States 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Code; 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (iii) improvements that reduce the 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, such 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | as wildlife crossing structures; 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (iv) projects to preserve or provide ad-9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ditional parking for commercial motor ve-10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | hicles that are eligible under section 1401 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | of MAP–21 (23 U.S.C. 137 note; Public 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | Law 112–141); or 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (v) preliminary engineering, engineer-14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ing, or design-related services directly re-15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | lated to a project described in any of 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | clauses (i) through (iv); and 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (B) may not be used for the purposes de-18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | scribed in paragraph (2) in the matter under 19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | the heading ‘‘ |
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| 82 | 82 | | HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE PRO -20 |
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| 83 | 83 | | GRAMS’’ under the heading ‘‘FEDERALHIGH-21 |
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| 84 | 84 | | WAYADMINISTRATION’’ under the heading 22 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’’ 23 |
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| 86 | 86 | | in title VIII of division J of the Infrastructure 24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | •S 1066 IS |
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| 90 | 90 | | Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58; 1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | 135 Stat. 1421). 2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (2) F |
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| 93 | 93 | | UTURE FISCAL YEARS .—Notwithstanding 3 |
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| 94 | 94 | | any other provision of law, any funds made available 4 |
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| 95 | 95 | | for the program for any fiscal year beginning after 5 |
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| 96 | 96 | | the date of enactment of this Act shall be distributed 6 |
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| 97 | 97 | | to States in accordance with the program on October 7 |
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| 98 | 98 | | 1 of that fiscal year and used as described in para-8 |
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| 99 | 99 | | graph (1). 9 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (c) S |
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| 101 | 101 | | ET-ASIDES.— 10 |
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| 102 | 102 | | (1) I |
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| 103 | 103 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 11 |
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| 104 | 104 | | provision of law, the Secretary shall distribute to 12 |
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| 105 | 105 | | States in accordance with paragraph (3)— 13 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (A) any unobligated amounts under the 14 |
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| 107 | 107 | | program that are set aside for the Joint Office 15 |
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| 108 | 108 | | described in the program; and 16 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (B) any unobligated amounts under the 17 |
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| 110 | 110 | | program that are set aside for grants to States 18 |
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| 111 | 111 | | or localities that require additional assistance to 19 |
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| 112 | 112 | | strategically deploy electric vehicle charging in-20 |
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| 113 | 113 | | frastructure. 21 |
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| 114 | 114 | | (2) F |
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| 115 | 115 | | UTURE FISCAL YEARS .—Notwithstanding 22 |
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| 116 | 116 | | any other provision of law, any funds described in 23 |
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| 117 | 117 | | paragraph (1) that are made available for any fiscal 24 |
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| 118 | 118 | | year beginning after the date of enactment of this 25 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Act shall be distributed to States in accordance with 1 |
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| 123 | 123 | | paragraph (3) on October 1 of that fiscal year and 2 |
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| 124 | 124 | | used as described in paragraph (4). 3 |
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| 125 | 125 | | (3) D |
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| 126 | 126 | | ISTRIBUTION.— The amounts distributed 4 |
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| 127 | 127 | | under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be distributed so 5 |
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| 128 | 128 | | that each State receives an amount equal to the pro-6 |
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| 129 | 129 | | portion that— 7 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (A) the amount apportioned to the State 8 |
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| 131 | 131 | | for the applicable fiscal year under section 9 |
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| 132 | 132 | | 104(c) or section 165 of title 23, United States 10 |
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| 133 | 133 | | Code; bears to 11 |
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| 134 | 134 | | (B) the total amount apportioned to all 12 |
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| 135 | 135 | | States for that fiscal year under section 104(c) 13 |
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| 136 | 136 | | and section 165 of that title. 14 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (4) U |
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| 138 | 138 | | SE OF FUNDS .—Amounts distributed 15 |
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| 139 | 139 | | under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be used as de-16 |
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| 140 | 140 | | scribed in subsection (b)(1). 17 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (d) T |
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| 142 | 142 | | REATMENT.—The amounts described in sub-18 |
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| 143 | 143 | | sections (b) and (c) shall— 19 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (1) not be subject to any obligation limitation 20 |
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| 145 | 145 | | for Federal-aid highway and highway safety con-21 |
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| 146 | 146 | | struction programs; 22 |
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| 147 | 147 | | (2) remain available until the date the funds 23 |
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| 148 | 148 | | would have remained available under the program; 24 |
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| 149 | 149 | | and 25 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (3) be in addition to any other funding appor-1 |
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| 154 | 154 | | tioned to States under section 104(c) and section 2 |
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| 155 | 155 | | 165 of title 23, United States Code. 3 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (e) R |
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| 157 | 157 | | EQUIREMENTS.—Amounts described in sub-4 |
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| 158 | 158 | | sections (b) and (c) shall be— 5 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (1) except as otherwise provided in this section, 6 |
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| 160 | 160 | | administered as if apportioned under chapter 1 of 7 |
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| 161 | 161 | | title 23, United States Code; 8 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (2) subject to the requirements of section 9 |
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| 163 | 163 | | 11101(e) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 10 |
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| 164 | 164 | | Act (23 U.S.C. 101 note; Public Law 117–58); and 11 |
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| 165 | 165 | | (3) subject to section 120 of title 23, United 12 |
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| 166 | 166 | | States Code. 13 |
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| 167 | 167 | | SEC. 3. OPTIMIZING USE OF CHARGING AND FUELING IN-14 |
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| 168 | 168 | | FRASTRUCTURE GRANT FUNDS. 15 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (a) D |
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| 170 | 170 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 16 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (1) P |
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| 172 | 172 | | ROGRAM.—The term ‘‘program’’ means 17 |
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| 173 | 173 | | the grant program under section 151(f) of title 23, 18 |
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| 174 | 174 | | United States Code. 19 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (2) S |
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| 176 | 176 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 20 |
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| 177 | 177 | | the Secretary of Transportation. 21 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (3) S |
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| 179 | 179 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-22 |
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| 180 | 180 | | ing given the term in section 101(a) of title 23, 23 |
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| 181 | 181 | | United States Code. 24 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (b) O |
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| 183 | 183 | | PTIMIZATION OFFUNDS.— 25 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 1 |
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| 188 | 188 | | provision of law, the Secretary shall distribute to 2 |
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| 189 | 189 | | States in accordance with paragraph (3) any 3 |
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| 190 | 190 | | amounts made available to carry out the program 4 |
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| 191 | 191 | | that are unobligated as of the date of enactment of 5 |
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| 192 | 192 | | this Act. 6 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (2) F |
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| 194 | 194 | | UTURE FISCAL YEARS .—Any amounts 7 |
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| 195 | 195 | | made available to carry out the program for a fiscal 8 |
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| 196 | 196 | | year that begins after the date of enactment of this 9 |
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| 197 | 197 | | Act shall be distributed to States in accordance with 10 |
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| 198 | 198 | | paragraph (3) on October 1 of that fiscal year. 11 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (3) D |
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| 200 | 200 | | ISTRIBUTION.—The amounts distributed 12 |
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| 201 | 201 | | under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be distributed so 13 |
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| 202 | 202 | | that each State receives an amount equal to the pro-14 |
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| 203 | 203 | | portion that— 15 |
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| 204 | 204 | | (A) the amount apportioned to the State 16 |
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| 205 | 205 | | for the applicable fiscal year under section 17 |
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| 206 | 206 | | 104(c) or section 165 of title 23, United States 18 |
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| 207 | 207 | | Code; bears to 19 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (B) the total amount apportioned to all 20 |
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| 209 | 209 | | States for that fiscal year under section 104(c) 21 |
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| 210 | 210 | | and section 165 of that title. 22 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (4) U |
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| 212 | 212 | | SES OF FUNDS.—Any amounts distributed 23 |
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| 213 | 213 | | under paragraphs (1) and (2)— 24 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (A) shall be used only for the purposes de-1 |
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| 218 | 218 | | scribed in section 2(b)(1)(A); and 2 |
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| 219 | 219 | | (B) may not be used for any purposes de-3 |
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| 220 | 220 | | scribed in the program. 4 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (c) T |
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| 222 | 222 | | REATMENT.—The amounts described in sub-5 |
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| 223 | 223 | | section (b) shall— 6 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (1) be subject to any obligation limitation for 7 |
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| 225 | 225 | | Federal-aid highway and highway safety construc-8 |
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| 226 | 226 | | tion programs; 9 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (2) remain available until the date the funds 10 |
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| 228 | 228 | | would have remained available under the program; 11 |
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| 229 | 229 | | and 12 |
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| 230 | 230 | | (3) be in addition to any other funding appor-13 |
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| 231 | 231 | | tioned to States under section 104(c) or section 165 14 |
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| 232 | 232 | | of title 23, United States Code. 15 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (d) R |
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| 234 | 234 | | EQUIREMENTS.—Amounts described in sub-16 |
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| 235 | 235 | | section (b) shall be— 17 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (1) except as otherwise provided in this section, 18 |
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| 237 | 237 | | administered as if apportioned under chapter 1 of 19 |
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| 238 | 238 | | title 23, United States Code; 20 |
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| 239 | 239 | | (2) subject to the requirements of section 21 |
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| 240 | 240 | | 11101(e) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 22 |
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| 241 | 241 | | Act (23 U.S.C. 101 note; Public Law 117–58); and 23 |
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| 245 | 245 | | (3) subject to section 120 of title 23, United 1 |
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| 246 | 246 | | States Code. 2 |
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