Sec. 13001. Strategic innovation for revenue collection
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The Secretary shall establish a program to test the feasibility of a road usage fee and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms (referred to in this section as user-based alternative revenue mechanisms ) to help maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund, through pilot projects at the State, local, and regional level. The Secretary shall provide grants to eligible entities to carry out pilot projects under this section. To be eligible for a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
The Secretary shall ensure that, in the aggregate, the pilot projects carried out using funds provided under this section meet the following objectives: To test the design, acceptance, equity, and implementation of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms, including among— differing income groups; and rural and urban drivers, as applicable. To provide recommendations regarding adoption and implementation of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms. To quantify and minimize the administrative costs of any potential user-based alternative revenue mechanisms.
To test a variety of solutions, including the use of independent and private third-party vendors, for the collection of data and fees from user-based alternative revenue mechanisms, including the reliability and security of those solutions and vendors. To test solutions to ensure the privacy and security of data collected for the purpose of implementing a user-based alternative revenue mechanism. To conduct public education and outreach to increase public awareness regarding the need for user-based alternative revenue mechanisms for surface transportation programs.
To evaluate the ease of compliance and enforcement of a variety of implementation approaches for different users of the surface transportation system. To ensure, to the greatest extent practicable, the use of innovation. To consider, to the greatest extent practicable, the potential for revenue collection along a network of alternative fueling stations. To evaluate the impacts of the imposition of a user-based alternative revenue mechanism on— transportation revenues; personal mobility, driving patterns, congestion, and transportation costs; and freight movement and costs.
To evaluate options for the integration of a user-based alternative revenue mechanism with— nationwide transportation revenue collections and regulations; toll revenue collection platforms; transportation network company fees; and any other relevant transportation revenue mechanisms. An entity eligible to apply for a grant under this section is— a State or a group of States; a local government or a group of local governments; or a metropolitan planning organization (as defined in section 134(b) of title 23, United States Code) or a group of metropolitan planning organizations.
An eligible entity that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant to carry out a pilot project to address 1 or more of the objectives described in paragraph (3). The Secretary shall consider geographic diversity in awarding grants under this subsection. The Federal share of the cost of a pilot project carried out under this section may not exceed— 80 percent of the total cost of a project carried out by an eligible entity that has not otherwise received a grant under this section; and 70 percent of the total cost of a project carried out by an eligible entity that has received at least 1 grant under this section.
Any revenue collected through a user-based alternative revenue mechanism established using funds provided under this section shall not be considered a toll under section 301 of title 23, United States Code. Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal System Funding Alternative Advisory Board established under section 13002(g)(1), shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that— summarizes the results of the pilot projects under this section and the national pilot program under section 13002; and provides recommendations, if applicable, to enable potential implementation of a nationwide user-based alternative revenue mechanism.
Of the funds made available to carry out section 503(b) of title 23, United States Code, for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026 $15,000,000 shall be used for pilot projects under this section. If, by August 1 of each fiscal year, the Secretary determines that there are not enough grant applications to meet the requirements of this section for that fiscal year, the Secretary shall transfer to the national pilot program under section 13002 or to the highway research and development program under section 503(b) of title 23, United States Code— any funds reserved for a fiscal year under paragraph
(1)that the Secretary has not yet awarded under this section; and an amount of obligation limitation equal to the amount of funds that the Secretary transfers under subparagraph (A). Section 6020 of the FAST Act ( 23 U.S.C. 503 note; Public Law 114–94 ) is repealed. The table of contents in section 1(b) of the FAST Act ( Public Law 114–94 ; 129 Stat. 1312) is amended by striking the item relating to section 6020.
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