Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Long-Distance Corridor Relief Enhancement Act”.
Long-Distance Corridor Relief Enhancement Act
A BILL
To remove the requirement that the Secretary of Transportation consider the committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for long distance intercity passenger rail routes under the Corridor Identification and Development Program.
Sec. 2 Modification of consideration requirement of non-Federal funding for corridor selection
Section 25101(c) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (14) as subparagraphs (A) through (N), respectively, and indenting such subparagraphs, as so redesignated, 2 ems to the right;
in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), as so redesignated, by striking “In selecting” and inserting the following:
“(1) In general—In selecting”
in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated, by striking “committed or” and by inserting “except as provided in paragraph (2), committed or”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(2) Exception for long-distance route corridor
“(A) In general—For the purposes of this subsection, the Secretary shall not require or consider committed or anticipated non-Federal funding for any part of the program described in subsection (a) for any intercity passenger rail corridor on a long-distance route.
“(B) Application—The exception provided in subparagraph (A) shall apply to any long-distance route corridor accepted into the program on or after October 1, 2023.”