Sec. 1304. Community climate innovation grants
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Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, as amended by this title, is further amended by inserting after section 171 the following: The Secretary shall establish a community climate innovation grant program (in this section referred to as the Program ) to make grants, on a competitive basis, for locally selected projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving the mobility, accessibility, and connectivity of the surface transportation system. The purpose of the Program shall be to support communities in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the surface transportation system.
The Secretary may make grants under the Program to the following entities: A metropolitan planning organization. A unit of local government or a group of local governments, or a county or multi-county special district. A subdivision of a local government. A transit agency. A special purpose district with a transportation function or a port authority. A Tribal government or a consortium of tribal governments. A territory. A multijurisdictional group of entities described in paragraphs
(1)through (7). To be eligible for a grant under the Program, an entity specified in subsection
(c)shall submit to the Secretary an application in such form, at such time, and containing such information as the Secretary determines appropriate. The Secretary may only provide a grant under the Program for a project that is expected to yield a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the surface transportation system and— is a project eligible for assistance under this title or under chapter 53 of title 49 or supports fueling infrastructure for fuels defined under section 9001(5) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ( 7 U.S.C. 8101(5) ); or is a capital project as defined in section 22906 of title 49 to improve intercity passenger rail that will yield a significant reduction in single occupant vehicle trips and improve mobility on public roads. Grant amounts received for a project under the Program may be used for— development phase activities, including planning, feasibility analysis, revenue forecasting, environmental review, preliminary engineering and design work, and other preconstruction activities; and construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, acquisition of real property (including land related to the project and improvements to the land), environmental mitigation, construction contingencies, acquisition of equipment, and operational improvements. In making grants for projects under the Program, the Secretary shall give priority to projects that are expected to yield the most significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the surface transportation system. In making grants for projects under the Program, the Secretary shall consider the extent to which— a project maximizes greenhouse gas reductions in a cost-effective manner; a project reduces dependence on single-occupant vehicle trips or provides additional transportation options; a project improves the connectivity and accessibility of the surface transportation system, particularly to low- and zero-emission forms of transportation, including public transportation, walking, and bicycling; an applicant has adequately considered or will adequately consider, including through the opportunity for public comment, the environmental justice and equity impacts of the project; a project contributes to geographic diversity among grant recipients, including to achieve a balance between urban, suburban, and rural communities; a project serves low-income residents of low-income communities, including areas of persistent poverty, while not displacing such residents; a project uses pavement materials that demonstrate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through sequestration or innovative manufacturing processes; a project repurposes neglected or underused infrastructure, including abandoned highways, bridges, railways, trail ways, and adjacent underused spaces, into new hybrid forms of public space that support multiple modes of transportation; and a project includes regional multimodal transportation system management and operations elements that will improve the effectiveness of such project and encourage reduction of single occupancy trips by providing the ability of users to plan, use, and pay for multimodal transportation alternatives. The maximum amount of a grant under the Program shall be $25,000,000. Of the amounts made available to carry out the Program, the Secretary may use up to 1 percent to provide technical assistance to applicants and potential applicants. The Secretary shall, with respect to a project funded by a grant under this section, apply— the requirements of this title to a highway project; the requirements of chapter 53 of title 49 to a public transportation project; and the requirements of section 22905 of title 49 to a passenger rail or freight rail project. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, if an eligible project is a multimodal project, the Secretary shall— determine the predominant modal component of the project; and apply the applicable requirements of such predominant modal component to the project. For any passenger or freight rail component of a project, the requirements of section 22907(j)(2) of title 49 shall apply. For any public transportation component of a project, the requirements of section 5333 of title 49 shall apply. In applying the Buy American requirements under section 313 of this title and sections 5320, 22905(a), and 24305(f) of title 49 to a multimodal project under this paragraph, the Secretary shall— consider the various modal components of the project; and seek to maximize domestic jobs. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, the Secretary shall require recipients of grants under this section to comply with subsection
(a)of section 113 with respect to public transportation projects, passenger rail projects, and freight rail projects, in the same manner that recipients of grants are required to comply with such subsection for construction work performed on highway projects on Federal-aid highways. None of the funds provided under this section may be used for a project that will result in the construction of new capacity available to single occupant vehicles unless the project consists of a high-occupancy vehicle facility and is consistent with section 166. In this section, the term areas of persistent poverty means— any county that has had 20 percent or more of the population of such county living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; any census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent, as measured by the most recent 5-year data series available from the American Community Survey of the Bureau of the Census for all States and Puerto Rico; or any other territory or possession of the United States that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990, 2000, and 2010 island areas decennial censuses, or equivalent data, of the Bureau of the Census. . The analysis for chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 171 the following: 172. Community climate innovation grants. .
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