Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Design-Build Incentive Act of 2015”.
Design-Build Incentive Act of 2015
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, and SAFETEA–LU to direct the Secretary of Transportation to give preference to certain surface transportation projects that achieve cost efficiencies through the use of project development, finance, operations, and delivery methods, such as design-build, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Selection of TIFIA projects
Section 602(b) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(4) Use of innovative project development and delivery methods—In selecting among eligible projects, the Secretary shall give preference to those applicants for a project who demonstrate that the project will achieve cost efficiencies through the use of innovative project development, finance, operations, or delivery methods, such as design-build.”
Sec. 3 Selection of projects of national and regional significance
by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
“(B) shall give preference to project applications that demonstrate that the project will achieve cost efficiencies through the use of innovative project development, finance, operations, or delivery methods, such as design-build;”