Priority Corridor Equity Act of 2000

Priority Corridor Equity Act of 2000 - Amends Federal highway provisions regarding revenue aligned budget authority to provide that, if in a fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1999, a State has within its boundaries one or more high priority corridors but does not obligate on projects for construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation (construction projects) of segments for the National Highway System (NHS) an aggregate amount that equals or exceeds the lesser of ten percent of the aggregate amount of funds apportioned to the State or the total amount necessary to complete construction of any such incomplete projects, the State may obligate funds allocated to the State for NHS modifications for the following fiscal year only on construction projects in such corridors.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2713 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2713

To amend title 23, United States Code, to require States to use Federal 
 highway funds for projects in high priority corridors, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 2000

Mr. Hutchinson introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 23, United States Code, to require States to use Federal 
 highway funds for projects in high priority corridors, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Priority Corridor Equity Act of 
2000''.

SEC. 2. REVENUE ALIGNED BUDGET AUTHORITY.

    Section 110(c) of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Of the funds'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) In general.--Of the funds''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Special rule.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), 
                if, for fiscal year 2000 or any fiscal year thereafter, 
                a State has within its boundaries 1 or more high 
                priority corridors identified in section 1105(c) of the 
                Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 
                1991 (105 Stat. 2032) and the State does not obligate 
                on projects described in section 103(b)(6)(A) an 
                aggregate amount that equals or exceeds the amount 
                described in subparagraph (B), the State may obligate 
                funds allocated to the State under subsection (b)(4) 
                for the following fiscal year only on projects 
                described in section 103(b)(6)(A) in such corridors.
                    ``(B) Amount.--The amount referred to in 
                subparagraph (A) is the lesser of--
                            ``(i) 10 percent of the aggregate amount of 
                        funds apportioned to the State under this 
                        chapter; or
                            ``(ii) the total amount necessary to 
                        complete construction of any incomplete 
                        projects described in section 103(b)(6)(A) in 
                        such corridors.''.
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