1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act”.
Metropolitan Planning Enhancement Act
A BILL
To amend titles 23 and 49, United States Code, to improve public understanding of how transportation investments are made by public agencies through establishing greater transparency and accountability processes.
2. Metropolitan transportation planning
Development of transportation plan— Section 134(i) of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as paragraphs (8) and (9); and
by inserting after paragraph (6) the following:
“(7) Project selection transparency and accountability—Projects included in the adopted transportation plan shall be selected through a publicly available transparent process that includes use of criteria that directly support factors in subsection (h), the national transportation goals under section 150(b), and applicable State transportation goals. The criteria shall be used to publicly categorize the highest performing projects.”
Metropolitan tip— Section 134(j)(2)(A) of title 23, United States Code is amended by adding after the period at the end the following:
3. Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning
Long-Range statewide transportation plan— Section 135(f) of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10); and
by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
“(9) Project selection transparency and accountability—Projects included in the adopted long-range statewide transportation plan shall be selected through a publicly available transparent process that includes use of criteria that directly support factors in subsection (d), the national transportation goals under section 150(b), and applicable State transportation goals. The criteria shall be used to publicly categorize the highest performing projects.”
Statewide transportation improvement plan— Section 135(g)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code is amended by adding after the period at the end the following:
4. Metropolitan transportation planning
Development of transportation plan— Section 5303(i) of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraphs (7) and (8) as paragraphs (8) and (9); and
by inserting after paragraph (6) the following:
“(7) Project selection transparency and accountability—Projects included in the adopted transportation plan shall be selected through a publicly available transparent process that includes use of criteria that directly support factors in subsection (h), the national transportation goals under section 150(b), and applicable State transportation goals. The criteria shall be used to publicly categorize the highest performing projects.”
Metropolitan tip— Section 5303(j)(2)(A) of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code is amended by adding after the period at the end the following:
5. Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning
Long-Range statewide transportation plan— Section 5304(f) of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10); and
by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
“(9) Project selection transparency and accountability—Projects included in the adopted long-range statewide transportation plan shall be selected through a publicly available transparent process that includes use of criteria that directly support factors in subsection (d), the national transportation goals under section 150(b), and applicable State transportation goals. The criteria shall be used to publicly categorize the highest performing projects.”
Statewide transportation improvement plan— Section 5304(g)(5)(A) of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding after the period at the end the following: