Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Transportation Empowerment Act The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings and purposes. TITLE I—Highway funding Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 102. Federalization and defederalization of projects. Sec. 103. Reporting requirements. Sec. 104. Funding limitation. Sec. 105. Reports; certification. TITLE II—Federal-aid highway program reforms Sec. 201. Definitions. Sec. 202.
Federal-aid system. Sec. 203. Apportionment. Sec. 204. Additional deposits in Highway Trust Fund. Sec. 205. Project approval and oversight. Sec. 206. Standards. Sec. 207. Nationally significant freight and highway projects. Sec. 208. National highway performance program. Sec. 209. Federal share payable. Sec. 210. Emergency relief. Sec. 211. Transferability of Federal-aid highway funds. Sec. 212. Toll roads, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. Sec. 213. Railway-highway crossings. Sec. 214.
Surface transportation block grant program. Sec. 215. Metropolitan transportation planning. Sec. 216. Control of junkyards. Sec. 217. Enforcement of requirements. Sec. 218. Public transportation. Sec. 219. Highway use tax evasion projects. Sec. 220. National bridge and tunnel inventory and inspection standards. Sec. 221. Carpool and vanpool projects. Sec. 222. Construction of ferry boats and ferry terminal facilities. Sec. 223. Highway safety improvement program. Sec. 224. Repeal of congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program.
Sec. 225. National goals and performance measures. Sec. 226. National electric vehicle charging and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling corridors. Sec. 227. Hazard elimination program. Sec. 228. National scenic byways program. Sec. 229. National highway freight program. Sec. 230. Recreational trails program. Sec. 231. Bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways. Sec. 232. Alaska highway. Sec. 233. Conforming amendments. TITLE III—Highway Trust Fund and related taxes Subtitle A—Highway Trust Fund authority Sec. 301.
Extension of Highway Trust Fund expenditure authority. Sec. 302. Termination of Mass Transit Account. Sec. 303. Transfer of unused COVID–19 appropriations to the Highway Trust Fund. Sec. 304. Termination of employee retention credit for employers subject to closure due to COVID–19. Sec. 305. Transfer of unused Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to the Highway Trust Fund. Subtitle B—Highway related taxes Sec. 311. Reduction in taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and special fuels funding Highway Trust Fund.
Sec. 312. Extension of highway-related taxes.