Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010
Latest action · Jul 22, 2010 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 22, 2010
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010 - Declares U.S. policy with respect to freight transportation.
Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) an Office of Freight Planning and Development.
Directs the Secretary to develop a long-term National Freight Freight Transportation Strategic Plan to guide planning and investments in the national transportation system to move freight.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop new or improve existing tools to support an outcome-oriented, performance-based approach to evaluate proposed freight-related and other transportation projects; (2) facilitate the collection of transportation-related data to support a broad range of evaluation methods and techniques to assist in making transportation investment decisions; and (3) consider improvements to the Commodity Flow Survey that reduce identified freight data gaps and deficiencies and help evaluate forecasts of transportation demand.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for capital investment projects that improve the efficiency of the national transportation system to move freight; and (2) give priority to projects with the highest system performance improvement relative to their benefit-cost analysis.
Limits the federal share of project net capital costs at 80%.
Requires a grant recipient to submit to the Secretary: (1) a project management plan and an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $500 million or more; and (2) an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $100 million or more.
Repeals specified prohibitions against the transfer of amounts from the Highway Trust Fund to the Port Infrastructure Development Fund.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 22, 2010.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jul 22, 2010 |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Original | Jul 22, 2010 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee | Referred Jul 22, 2010 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 22, 2010Introduced in Senate
- Jul 22, 2010Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5976 | Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010 | Identical bill | Jul 29, 2010 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to improve the efficiency, operation, and security of the national transportation system to move freight by leveraging investments and promoting partnerships that advance interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Transportation and Public Works.
- Advanced technology and technological innovations
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Transportation
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Environmental health
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Infrastructure development
- Motor carriers
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Noise pollution
- Performance measurement
- Public-private cooperation
- Railroads
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation programs funding
- Transportation safety and security
- Water quality
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 22, 2010Introduced in Senate
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