---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 728"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "728"
heading: "Reports to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/728"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Regional Rail Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter II — United States Railway Association"
---

# §728. Reports to Congress

- (a) **Progress and evaluation—**
  - (1) The [Association](/usc/45/702.md?p=1) shall prepare and submit to Congress periodic reports on the progress of the [Secretary](/usc/45/702.md?p=18) in carrying out the provisions of subchapters II, III, and IV[^1] of this chapter.
  - (2) Reports submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall also include an evaluation of the performance of the [Corporation](/usc/45/702.md?p=5) in order to keep the Congress informed as to matters which may affect the quality of rail service in the Northeast and which may affect the security of Federal funds invested in the [Corporation](/usc/45/702.md?p=5).
- (b) **Transfer agreements—**
  - (1) The [Association](/usc/45/702.md?p=1) shall prepare and submit to Congress a final report on the transfer agreements which the [Secretary](/usc/45/702.md?p=18) is required to transmit to Congress under section 767[^1] of this title. Such report shall be submitted on the same date as the [Secretary](/usc/45/702.md?p=18)’s transmittal of such agreements to Congress.
  - (2) The report submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall include an evaluation of the effect of the transfer agreements on rail service in the Northeast, [railroad](/usc/45/702.md?p=15) employees, the economy of the [Region](/usc/45/702.md?p=17), other [railroads](/usc/45/702.md?p=15) in the Northeast and elsewhere, and any other matter which the [Association](/usc/45/702.md?p=1) considers appropriate. Such report shall also include recommendations with respect to approval, disapproval, or modification of the transfer agreements.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–236, title II, § 218, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1150(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 675.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subchapter IV of this chapter, including section 767 of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (b)(1), was repealed by Pub. L. 99–509, title IV, § 4033(a)(1), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1908.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 13, 1981, see section 1169 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

### Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which a report required under subsec. (a) of this section is listed as the 9th item on page 195), see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

### Abolition of United States Railway Association and Transfer of Functions and Securities

See section 1341 of this title.