Sec. 6007. Surface transportation system road usage charge national pilot
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Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall establish a pilot program to demonstrate implementation of a national per-mile road usage charge. In establishing the program, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out the following objectives: Test the design, acceptance, implementation, and financial sustainability of a national per-mile road usage charge.
Collect and report data on the differential effects of a national per-mile road usage charge and the Federal motor fuels tax between urban and rural drivers. Collect and report data on the interoperability of road usage charge collection between States. Provide recommendations regarding adoption and implementation of a national per-mile road usage charge and a recommendation for the amount of the national per-mile road usage charge. In carrying out the program under this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall establish a surface transportation system road usage charge advisory board to— advance and implement the objectives under subsection (b); and developing the recommendations and report under subsection (j)(1).
The advisory board established under paragraph
(1)shall, at a minimum, be composed of a total of 15 representatives of the following entities, to be appointed by the Secretary: State departments of transportation. Local transportation agencies located within a transportation management area (as identified or designated under section 134(k) of title 23, United States Code). Any public or nonprofit entity that carried out a surface transportation system funding alternatives pilot project under section 6020 of the FAST Act ( 23 U.S.C. 503 note). Owners and operators of toll facilities. Fleet operators of commercial motor vehicles. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to the advisory board established under paragraph (1). In carrying out the pilot program established in subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall— establish appropriate methods for reporting vehicle miles traveled under the program; solicit volunteer participants from all 50 States and the District of Columbia; ensure an equitable geographic distribution by population among volunteer participants; enter into agreements, as is practicable, with owners of commercial motor vehicle fleets or passenger motor vehicle fleets for the collection and sharing of anonymized data throughout the pilot program; enter into agreements with entities of the passenger motor vehicle and commercial vehicle industry to develop a technology standard for onboard units used to report vehicle miles traveled; and use components of and information from the State pilots under section 6020 of the FAST Act ( Public Law 114–94 ), as applicable. In establishing a method for collecting information on vehicle miles traveled under the program, the Secretary of Transportation shall consider the following: Third-party on-board diagnostic system-II devices. Smart phone applications. Solicitation of voluntary reporting by automakers. Solicitation of voluntary reporting by car insurance companies. Solicitation of voluntary reporting through State departments of motor vehicles. Any other method that the Secretary of Transportation considers appropriate. Not later than 30 days after establishing the pilot program under this section, the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall issue policies to— protect the privacy of volunteer participants; and secure the data provided by volunteer participants. For the purposes of the pilot program established in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish on an annual basis— for motor vehicles that are not commercial motor vehicles, a per-mile road usage charge that is equivalent to the annual gas tax revenues collected pursuant to section 4081 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 divided by the total vehicle miles traveled by such motor vehicles; and for commercial motor vehicles, a per-mile road usage charge equivalent to the annual diesel tax revenues collected pursuant to section 4041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 divided by the total vehicle miles traveled by medium and heavy-duty trucks. The Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Secretary of Transportation, shall establish a mechanism to collect a per-mile road usage charge from volunteer participants under the program that— may be adjusted as needed to address technical challenges; and may allow third-party vendors to collect the payments and forward to Treasury. Any revenue collected under this section shall not be considered a toll under section 301 of title 23, United States Code. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that any revenue collected under this section is deposited into the Highway Trust Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury shall annually calculate and issue an equivalent refund to volunteer participants for any otherwise applicable Federal motor fuel taxes under sections 4041 and 4081 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Not later than 1 year after the date on which the surface transportation system road usage charge advisory board is established under subsection (c), such board shall submit to the Secretary of Transportation a report on the progress of the pilot program in meeting the objectives described in subsection (b). Not later than 1 year after the date on which volunteer participants begin participating in the pilot program, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report on the pilot program, including the report and recommendations submitted to the Secretary under paragraph (1). In this section: The term commercial motor vehicle has the meaning given the term in section 31101 of title 49, United States Code. The term Highway Trust Fund means the Highway Trust Fund established under section 9503 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The term volunteer participant means— the individual owner of a passenger motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle who volunteers to participate in the pilot program; and the owner of a fleet of commercial motor vehicles or passenger motor vehicles who volunteers to participate in the pilot program.
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