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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 2 (Received in Senate) — To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. · Sec. 2108

Sec. 2108. Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning

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Section 5304 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph
(1)by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in paragraph (2)— by striking The statewide transportation plan and the and inserting the following: The statewide transportation plan and the ; by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; and by adding at the end the following: In developing the statewide transportation plans and STIPs, States shall consider direct and indirect emissions of greenhouse gases. ; and in paragraph
(3)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subsection (d)— in paragraph (1)— in subparagraph (E)— by inserting reduce greenhouse gas emissions, after promote energy conservation, ; by inserting and public health after improve the quality of life ; and by inserting , including housing and land use patterns after economic development patterns ; in subparagraph
(H)by striking and ; in subparagraph
(I)by striking the period at the end and inserting and reduce or mitigate stormwater, sea level rise, extreme weather, and climate change impacts of surface transportation; ; and by adding at the end the following: facilitate emergency management, response, and evacuation and hazard mitigation; improve the level of transportation system access; and support inclusive zoning policies and land use planning practices that incentivize affordable, elastic, and diverse housing supply, facilitate long-term economic growth by improving the accessibility of housing to jobs, and prevent high housing costs from displacing economically disadvantaged households. ; in paragraph (2)— by striking subparagraph
(A)and inserting the following: Through the use of a performance-based approach, transportation investment decisions made as a part of the statewide transportation planning process shall support— the national goals described in section 150(b); the consideration of transportation system access (consistent with section 150(f)); the achievement of statewide targets established under section 150(d); and the general purposes described in section 5301 of title 49. ; and in subparagraph
(D)by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; and in paragraph
(3)by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subsection (e)(3) by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subsection (f)— in paragraph (2)(D)— in clause
(i)by inserting air quality, public health, housing, transportation, resilience, hazard mitigation, emergency management, after conservation, ; and by amending clause
(ii)to read as follows: Consultation under clause
(i)shall involve the comparison of transportation plans to other relevant plans and inventories, including, if available— State and tribal conservation plans or maps; and inventories of natural or historic resources. ; in paragraph (3)(B)— by striking In carrying out and inserting the following: in carrying out ; by redesignating clauses
(i)through
(iv)as subclauses
(I)through (IV), respectively; and by adding at the end the following: In addition to the methods described in clause (i), in carrying out subparagraph (A), the State shall, to the maximum extent practicable— use virtual public involvement, social media, and other web-based tools to encourage public participation and solicit public feedback; and use other methods, as appropriate, to further encourage public participation of historically underrepresented individuals in the transportation planning process. ; in paragraph (4)(A) by inserting reduce greenhouse gas emissions and after potential to ; and in paragraph
(8)by inserting including consideration of the role that intercity buses may play in reducing congestion, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy consumption in a cost-effective manner and strategies and investments that preserve and enhance intercity bus systems, including systems that are privately owned and operated after transportation system ; in subsection (g)— in paragraph (1)(A) by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in paragraph (4)— by striking and inserting Performance target achievement ; Performance management by striking shall include, to the maximum extent practicable, a discussion and inserting the following: shall include a discussion ; by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP each place it appears; and by adding at the end the following: a consideration of how the STIP impacts the overall level of transportation system access, consistent with section 150(f) of title 23. ; in paragraph (5)— in subparagraph
(A)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subparagraph (B)(ii) by striking metropolitan transportation improvement program and inserting TIP ; in subparagraph
(C)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP each place it appears; in subparagraph
(E)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subparagraph (F)(i) by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP each place it appears; in subparagraph (G)(ii) by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; and in subparagraph
(H)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in paragraph (6)— in subparagraph (A)— by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; and by striking and projects carried out under the bridge program or the Interstate maintenance program under title 23 ; and in subparagraph (B)— by striking or under the bridge program or the Interstate maintenance program ; and by striking statewide transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in paragraph (7)— in the heading by striking and inserting Transportation improvement program ; and STIP by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in paragraph
(8)by striking statewide transportation plans and programs and inserting statewide transportation plans and STIPs ; and in paragraph
(9)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP ; in subsection (h)(2)(A) by striking Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, and inserting Not less frequently than once every 4 years, ; in subsection
(j)by striking transportation improvement program and inserting STIP each place it appears; and in subsection
(l)by striking transportation improvement programs and inserting STIPs .
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