Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Transportation Innovation Coordination Act”.
Transportation Innovation Coordination Act
A BILL
To provide for coordination between Federal agencies regarding the decarbonization, development, certification, and deployment of aircraft, vessels, and medium and heavy duty transportation vehicles, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Additional duties of the joint office of energy and transportation
In paragraph (2) in the matter under the heading “Department of Transportation-Federal Highway Administration” in title VIII of division J of the Infrastructure Innovation and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58) is amended—
in the twenty-sixth proviso by striking “and (9)” and inserting “(9) developing technical assistance and best practices for the deployment of EV charging and hydrogen fueling in community based locations that support local EV use, including parks, multi-family housing, employment centers, community centers, shopping centers, and parking lots; (10) in conjunction with Federal agencies with jurisdiction over broadband policy including the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and Federal Communications Commission, developing technical assistance and best practices for reducing the cost and accelerating the deployment of broadband infrastructure by minimizing the number and scale of repeated excavations for the installation and maintenance of broadband conduit or broadband infrastructure in rights-of-way where transportation projects are planned or underway; and (11)”;
in the thirty-third proviso by striking the semicolon and inserting a colon; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(A) The Office shall provide a report to Congress identifying barriers to decarbonization of medium and heavy duty road transportation, including charging and fueling availability, technology research and development needs, vehicle availability, battery and component cost and supply constraints, potential regulatory impediments such as vehicle weight allowance and treatment of near-zero emissions technologies, and other barriers not later than 180 days after enactment.
“(B) The Joint Office shall develop technical assistance, and support research to support the decarbonization of medium and heavy duty trucks and other freight transportation equipment and operations. The Joint Office shall support research, planning, and funding for charging and fueling infrastructure that supports medium and heavy duty vehicle electrification including high-powered charging depots, hydrogen fueling infrastructure, grid reliability solutions, smart charge management, and distributed energy resources, including integration with on-site energy storage and renewable energy generation.
“(C) The Joint Office shall identify and support the development and deployment of alternative sustainable low-carbon fuels including biofuels, clean hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia, and associated powertrain technologies, including batteries, fuel cells, and hydrogen internal combustion engines.”