Congress 116 - HR 6898 - IMAGINE Act

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Innovative Materials for America's Growth and Infrastructure Newly Expanded Act of 2020 or the IMAGINE Act

This bill encourages the use of innovative construction materials and techniques to accelerate the deployment, extend the service life, improve the performance, and reduce the cost of domestic transportation and water infrastructure projects.

Among other things, the bill

establishes an Interagency Innovative Materials Standards Task Force to assess existing standards and test methods for the use of innovative materials in infrastructure, identify key barriers in the standards area that inhibit broader market adoption, and develop new methods and protocols, as necessary, to better evaluate innovative materials;
requires the Department of Transportation to enhance the development of innovative materials in the United States by providing awards to entities for establishing and operating new innovative material innovation hubs;
directs the Federal Highway Administration to provide grants to states departments of transportation, tribal governments, or units of local governments for coastal and rural infrastructure bridge projects; and
provides grants for the design and installation of water infrastructure projects.

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May 18, 2020

Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
May 18, 2020

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
May 18, 2020

Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
May 15, 2020

Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 15, 2020

Introduced in House

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