Sec. 110019. Low-carbon transportation materials grants
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Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following: In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $900,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to the Administrator to reimburse eligible recipients for the incremental costs of using low-embodied carbon construction materials and products in projects and for the administrative costs of carrying out this section.
The Administrator shall, subject to the availability of funds, reimburse eligible recipients that use low-embodied carbon construction materials and products on a project funded under this title. The amount of reimbursement under subparagraph
(A)shall be the incrementally higher cost of using such materials relative to the cost of using traditional materials, as determined by the eligible recipient and verified by the Administrator. If a reimbursement is provided under paragraph (1), the total Federal share payable for the project for which the reimbursement is provided shall be up to 100 percent. The Administrator shall only provide a reimbursement under paragraph
(1)for a project on a— Federal-aid highway; tribal transportation facility; Federal lands transportation facility; or Federal lands access transportation facility. Amounts made available under this section shall not be subject to any restriction or limitation on the total amount of funds available for implementation or execution of programs authorized for Federal-aid highways. Funds made available under this section shall not be used for projects that result in additional through travel lanes for single occupant passenger vehicles. The Administrator shall review the low-embodied carbon construction materials and products identified by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and shall identify low-embodied carbon construction materials and products— appropriate for use in projects eligible under this title; and eligible for reimbursement under this section. In this section: The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. The term eligible recipient means— a State; a unit of local government; a political subdivision of a State; a territory of the United States; an entity described in section 207(m)(1)(E)); a recipient of funds under section 203; a metropolitan planning organization (as defined in section 134(b)(2)); or a special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function. The term embodied carbon means the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions associated with all relevant stages of production of a material or product, measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide-equivalent per unit of such material or product. The term low-embodied carbon construction materials and products means materials and products identified by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency as having substantially lower levels of embodied carbon compared to estimated industry averages of similar products or materials. . The analysis for chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the following: 180. Low-carbon transportation materials grants. .