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United States · United States Congress · 10 May 2018
Air Designation Actions in Areas of Pollutant Transport Act or the ADAAPT Act This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise requirements for certain nonattainment areas, including provisions related to international border areas, marginal areas, and rural transport areas.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 2018
Air Ambulance Consumer Protection Act This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations for a rulemaking to: (1) require air ambulance operators to clearly disclose charges for air transportation services separately from charges for non-air transportation services within any invoice or bill, and (2) provide other consumer protections for customers of air ambulance operators. The bill makes provisions relating to air transportation consumer complaints applicable to air ambulance transportation. It also allows an air ambulance customer to file a complaint requiring DOT to investigate whether air carriers or ticket agents have engaged in unfair or deceptive practices or unfair methods of competition. An air ambulance operator shall include the hotline telephone number established for consumer complaints on any invoice, bill, or other communication provided to a passenger or customer of the operator.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 2018
Transportation Worker Identification Credential Accountability Act of 2018 This bill prohibits the U.S. Coast Guard from: (1) implementing the rule titled "Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)-Reader Requirements," and (2) proposing or issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking for a rule that would require the use of biometric readers for biometric transportation security cards. These prohibitions end 60 days after the Department of Homeland Security submits to Congress an assessment of the transportation security card program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 2018
DHS Industrial Control Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2018 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to expand the responsibilities of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to ensure that the center's activities address the security of both information and operational technology, including industrial control systems. Additionally, the center must maintain capabilities to identify and address threats and vulnerabilities to products and technologies intended for use in the automated control of critical infrastructure processes by: (1) leading efforts to mitigate cybersecurity threats to industrial control systems, (2) maintaining cross-sector incident response capabilities to respond to cybersecurity incidents, and (3) providing cybersecurity technical assistance to stakeholders.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 2018
Transportation Security Technology Innovation Reform Act of 2018 This bill establishes in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) a Transportation Security Administration Systems Integration Facility for the purpose of testing and evaluating advanced transportation security screening technologies related to the mission of the TSA. The TSA shall review existing advanced transportation security screening technology development, acquisitions, and procurement practices within the TSA. The TSA shall: (1) engage in outreach, coordination, and collaboration with transportation stakeholders to identify and foster innovation of new advanced transportation security screening technologies; (2) streamline the overall technology development, testing, evaluation, acquisitions, procurement, and deployment processes of the TSA; and (3) ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of such processes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 2018
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, each fiscal year, to submit to Congress a five-year budget and work plan for projects of national significance. Each Corps of Engineers district, each fiscal year, must submit a five-year budget and work plan for projects under its jurisdiction. Projects must be carried out in a sustainable manner that focuses on water resource challenges and opportunities, promotes collaboration, and pursues integrated water resource management. The bill reauthorizes provisions of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 pertaining to expedited consideration of water resources infrastructure through 2024. The bill provides for: (1) the establishment of a Corps of Engineers Board of Appeals; and (2) various studies, project modifications, and project authorizations and deauthorizations nationwide. The Environmental Protection Agency must: (1) establish a voluntary stormwater infrastructure funding task force to develop recommendations to improve the funding and financing of stormwater infrastructure, and (2) promote green infrastructure to reduce stormwater flows to sewers or surface waters. The Safe Drinking Water Act is amended to establish a voluntary WaterSense program to identify and promote water-efficient products, buildings, landscapes, facilities, processes, and services.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 2018
This bill authorizes the Federal Aviation Administration to carry out a pilot program to provide grants to support the education and recruitment of aviation maintenance technical workers and the development of the aviation maintenance industry workforce.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 2018
Peaceful Learning Act of 2018 This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study railway noise in the United States. DOT must: (1) establish a single system of measuring railway noise that has a highly reliable relationship between projected railway noise exposure and surveyed reactions of individuals to noise and is applied uniformly in measuring railway noise near urbanized areas, (2) establish a single system for determining the exposure of individuals to railway noise in urbanized areas, and (3) determine minimum standards for railway noise levels on the property of a school located in an urbanized area. Each rail operator shall submit to DOT a noise exposure map showing any areas of nonconforming railway noise levels that adversely impact a school located in an urbanized area and are caused by operations of the rail operator. Rail operators who submit a noise exposure map may also submit a noise compatibility program. DOT may award grants to carry out noise compatibility projects.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 2018
Supports the designation of National Fishing and Boating Week and recognizes that the recreational boating community and the boating industry should be commended for their numerous contributions to the economy, the well-being of citizens, and responsible environmental stewardship of water resources.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 2018
This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue final regulations to modernize training programs at certain aviation maintenance technician schools. The FAA shall ensure such training programs are revised and updated in correlation with aviation maintenance technician airman certification standards as necessary to reflect current technology and maintenance practices.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 2018
VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018 or VA MISSION Act of 2018 This bill consolidates Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community care programs, revises other VA health care programs and facilities provisions, and makes appropriations for veterans care. The bill establishes the Veterans Community Care Program to furnish hospital care, medical services, and extended care services through certain non-VA providers to veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system or otherwise entitled to VA care. The VA may enter agreements with non-VA providers to furnish veterans with care that is otherwise not feasibly available. The VA shall: (1) establish standards for VA health care quality and for non-VA care in areas of VA expertise, (2) prohibit rehiring previously-removed VA providers, (3) provide prompt payment to providers, (4) establish opioid prescribing practices for non-VA providers, and (5) carry out the modernization or realignment of Veterans Health Administration facilities. The Veterans Choice Program is terminated after one year. The bill establishes: (1) the Center for Innovation for Care and Payment, and (2) the Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission. The VA may: (1) provide care for the live donor of a transplant for a veteran, and (2) carry out a Specialty Education Loan Repayment Program and other actions to recruit health care professionals. The VA family caregiver program is expanded. The Office of Management and Budget shall review each enhanced-use facility lease. The bill establishes pilot programs for medical scribes, mobile deployment teams for underserved facilities, and graduate medical education. The bill extends VA pension reductions for Medicare-covered veterans in nursing homes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 2018
Congratulates the volunteers and staff of the Independent Transportation Network of America in communities across the United States for the one million rides they have provided to older and visually challenged people, their families, and their communities. Recognizes the Independent Transportation Network of America as a nonprofit transportation network company that serves the common good and has helped people remain in their own homes and communities after they can no longer drive safely.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 2018
Farmers Conserving Agricultural Resources through EQIP Act or the Farmers CARE Act This bill reauthorizes and modifies the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). (EQIP provides financial and technical assistance for agricultural producers and land owners to implement certain conservation practices.) The bill expands and modifies the purposes of the program. It also includes modifications that: increase payments for certain land management and vegetative practices that result in highly cost-effective treatment of priority resource concerns; prohibit payments for large confined animal feeding operations to construct an animal waste management facility or any associated waste transport or transfer device; repeal the allocation of funding for practices relating to livestock production; increase the allocation of funding for practices relating to improving fish and wildlife habitat; specify an allocation of funding for producers who participate in an independent animal welfare certification program; add payments for certain practices that promote ground and surface water conservation; remove the payment limitation for practices related to organic production; add payments for certain conservation practices related to antibiotic use and pasture-based production systems; prioritize applications that address priority resource concerns identified by USDA; and reduce the limitation on total EQIP payments.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 2018
Congratulates the volunteers and staff of the Independent Transportation Network of America in communities across the United States for the one million rides they have provided to older and visually challenged people, their families, and their communities. Recognizes the Independent Transportation Network of America as a nonprofit transportation network company that serves the common good and has helped people remain in their own homes and communities after they can no longer drive safely.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 2018
Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; and (2) increase the corporate income tax rate to 24.5% to provide revenues for programs created by this bill. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture must allocate funds from the trust fund to clean water programs, drinking water programs, and water well systems. The bill amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the EPA to make grants for providing technical assistance for water and sanitation infrastructure and drinking water systems to rural and small municipalities and tribal governments. The EPA must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields. The bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas. The bill revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF. The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the EPA to make grants to local educational agencies for: (1) infrastructure to ensure that drinking water in schools is lead free, and (2) testing drinking water in schools for lead.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 2018
Emergency Port of Entry Personnel and Infrastructure Funding Act of 2018 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to hire, train, and assign to duty, by September 30, 2023: (1) 5,000 additional full-time U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to serve on all inspection lanes and enforcement teams at U.S. land ports of entry on the northern and southern borders, and (2) 350 full-time support staff for all U.S. ports of entry. The bill also requires DHS to: ensure that each CBP officer is equipped with a secure two-way communication and satellite-enabled device that allows communication between ports of entry and inspection stations and with other law enforcement entities; award grants for the purchase of identification and detection equipment and mobile, hand-held, two-way communication devices for state and local law enforcement officers serving on the southern border; develop a strategic plan for standardized collection of vehicle wait times at land ports of entry and update it to reflect new practices, time lines, tools, and assessments; develop a standardized model for the allocation of CBP officers and support staff at land ports of entry; and identify and adopt at least two new, outcome-based performance measures that support the trade facilitation goals of the CBP.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 2018
Water Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act of 2018 This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for increasing the resiliency or adaptability of water systems (e.g., groundwater storage systems or wastewater treatment systems) to changes to the quality, quantity, or reliability of water resources.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 2018
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to establish a standard of service animal behavior training that an individual with a disability shall adhere to in seeking accommodation involving a service animal from an air carrier, including any foreign air carrier, providing air transportation. Any individual who knowingly and willfully makes a false statement to obtain an accommodation involving a service animal from an air carrier is subject to specified criminal penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 2018
Commends Captain Tammie Jo Shults and the crew of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 for their courage and heroism. Praises Captain Shults not only for her commitment to the safety of the passengers on her plane, but for her determination to further the role of women in military and commercial aviation. Mourns the loss of passenger Jennifer Riordan and expresses condolences to her family.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 2018
Supports the designation of National Business Traveler Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 2018
Protecting Infrastructure and Promoting the Economy Act or the PIPE Act This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for drinking water or wastewater infrastructure projects.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 2018
Maritime Authorization and Enhancement Act for Fiscal Year 2019 This bill reauthorizes for FY2019 programs of the Department of Transportation (DOT) associated with maintaining the United States merchant marine, including the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), state maritime academies, the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program, U.S. Maritime Administration operations and programs, the ship disposal program, and the maritime guaranteed loan program. The bill addresses (1) DOT jurisdiction over the USMMA; (2) the USMMA policy on sexual harassment, dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking; (3) implementation of recommendations for the USMMA Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program; (4) electronic records on mariner availability to meet national security needs; (5) small shipyard grants; (6) domestic ship recycling facilities; (7) USMMA cadet Sea Year training needs; (8) the national maritime strategy; (9) the DOT Office of Inspector General report on the financial controls and protections included in its policies and procedures for approving loan applications under the Federal Ship Financing Program; (10) multi-year contracts for the procurement of vessels within the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel Program; (11) the use of state academy training vessels; (12) DOT authority to issue war risk insurance; and (13) the comprehensive study of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Seaway navigation system.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 2018
Preserving America's Infrastructure Dollars Act of 2018 or the PAID Act of 2018 This bill requires the Department of Transportation to require each state to conduct a life-cycle cost analysis for each project of the state that: (1) receives federal highway financial assistancee; and (2) has an estimated total cost of $30 million or more.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 2018
Transportation Equity Act This bill requires the Department of Transportation to establish a program to reimburse eligible public transportation agencies that provide an eligible individual (i.e., an individual who is 60 years or older, has a disability, receives a means-tested benefit, or is a low-income individual, or the spouse of such an individual) a free unlimited transportation pass (i.e., a T-U pass).
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 2018
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2018 This bill reauthorizes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through FY2019. The bill authorizes NASA programs, activities, and reports, including those regarding the International Space Station (ISS); launch, crew, and cargo vehicle critical path redundancy; space suits; earth observation; land remote sensing data collection; Landsat systems; the Goddard Institute for Space Studies; in-space nuclear fission power; civil supersonic transportation research; unmanned aircraft systems research; commercially provided space products and services; commercial in-space infrastructure; and NASA-funded institutes. NASA shall: continue the operation of the ISS; establish a research office at the Johnson Space Center to build upon its expertise in human space flight missions for future challenges; partner with private sector and philanthropic organizations to search for technosignatures, such as radio transmissions, in the search for life's origin and future in the universe; establish the 21st Century Aeronautics Research Capabilities Initiative; more effectively and efficiently share its electromagnetic spectrum with U.S. nongovernmental entities operating or proposing to operate space objects; and restrict contracting with contractors who have a history of poor performance on space contracts. The bill extends NASA's authority to lease nonexcess properties through 2020. The National Space Council shall publish a report that relates the strategic national importance of space to the inherent risk of exploring and using it.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 2018
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 This bill reauthorizes and extends the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and associated programs through FY2023 at increased levels. The Department of Transportation's (DOT's) State block grant program is expanded. The Air Traffic Control Contract Program is modified. Grant authority for competitive land use planning and projects by state and local governments is extended. Various requirements are imposed on the FAA, including those for: (1) conducting a review of the relationship between aircraft noise exposure and its effects on communities around airports; (2) establishing a Safety Oversight and Certification Advisory Committee; and (3) convening a multidisciplinary expert review panel to conduct a survey of Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) holders and ODA program applicants to document and assess FAA certification and oversight activities. The General Accountability Office shall conduct a review to assess the workforce and training needs of the FAA Office of Aviation Safety in the anticipated budgetary environment. Safety provisions are outlined, which include safety critical staffing provisions, as well as air service improvement provisions, which include a cell phone voice communication ban. Provisions with regard to aviation consumers with disabilities are also outlined. The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is amended with respect to wild fire prevention, eligibility for code implementation and enforcement, and program improvements. FAA Leadership in Groundbreaking High-Tech Research and Development Act or the FLIGHT R&D Act Appropriations are authorized with respect to various research and development (R&D) related matters including Safety Research and Development programs. FAA shall appoint an Associate Administrator for Research and Development. Provisions are set forth regarding unmanned aircraft systems, cybersecurity, and FAA R&D activities. The Internal Revenue Code is amended with regard to: (1) expenditure authority from the airport and airway trust fund; and (2) extension of taxes funding such trust fund.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2018
This joint resolution requires the Department of State to periodically certify to Congress that Saudi Arabia is undertaking: (1) a good faith effort to conduct diplomatic negotiations to end the civil war in Yemen, (2) appropriate measures to increase access for Yemenis to food, fuel, and medicine, and (3) measures to reduce civilian casualties from its military operations in Yemen. If the State Department is unable to so certify, no federal funds may be obligated or expended for U.S. air refueling of non-U.S. aircraft conducting missions in Yemen other than missions related to: al Qaeda, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria; countering the transport or employment of ballistic missiles or components in Yemen; helping coalition aircraft return safely to base in emergency situations; or force protection of U.S. aircraft, ships, or personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2018
Aviation Empowerment Act This bill adds to transportation law the definitions of "common carrier" and "personal operator." The Department of of Transportation shall issue or revise regulations to ensure that: (1) a person who holds a pilot certificate may communicate with the public, in any manner the person determines appropriate, to facilitate an aircraft flight for which the pilot and passengers share aircraft operating expenses and that such flight-sharing operations shall not be deemed a common carrier or a commercial operation requiring a commercial certificate; and (2) a personal operator shall not be subject to certain regulations relating to aeronautics and space.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2018
Energy Infrastructure Demand Response Act of 2018 This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a natural gas demand response pilot program that uses the latest demand response technology from the energy sector for natural gas to (1) reduce the cost of energy for consumers, (2) reduce market price volatility, (3) increase reliability of the energy system, and (4) achieve reductions in air emissions and other benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2018
Authorizes (1) Richard Goldberg to testify in the case of Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport Co., et al. v. John Doe, et al. , except concerning matters for which a privilege should be asserted; and (2) the Senate Legal Counsel to represent Richard Goldberg in connection with such testimony.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 2018
State Transportation Flexibility Act This bill allows a state to elect not to participate in the federal-aid highway program, including any federal highway program under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, or the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The Department of Transportation (DOT) shall carry out a direct federal-aid highway program to permit a state legislature, at least 90 days before the beginning of a fiscal year, to elect to: waive the state's right to receive apportioned or allocated funds under the federal-aid highway program, and receive a prorated amount of taxes appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund (other than for the Mass Transit Account) which are attributable to highway users in the state. The state making an election shall: agree to maintain the Interstate System in accordance with the current Interstate System program; submit a plan describing the purposes, projects, and uses to which such amounts will be put and the federal-aid highway programmatic requirements the state elects to continue; agree to obligate or expend program amounts exclusively for projects that would be eligible for surface transportation program funding; and. agree to report annually to DOT on the use of amounts received under the program and to make the report publicly available. DOT shall carry out a similar alternative funding program for public transportation programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 2018
No Lead in the Air Act of 2018 This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration to issue regulations necessary to prohibit the use of leaded fuel by aircraft operating within U.S. airspace beginning on January 1, 2023.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 2018
Responsible and Effective Standards for Truckers Act or the REST Act This bill directs the Department of Transportation to issue or revise regulations for commercial truck drivers subject to maximum driving time requirements for property-carrying vehicles.The regulations must allow such drivers to suspend an on-duty period (the 14-hour period during which a driver is permitted to drive after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty) for up to 3 hours if such suspension does not extend the total drive time limits in current regulations. No other requirements relating to rest breaks during an on-duty period shall apply to such drivers.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2018
Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act or the USE IT Act This bill amends the Clean Air Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish: (1) a competitive prize program for certain technology projects that capture carbon dioxide directly from the air, and (2) a Direct Air Capture Technology Advisory Board to advise the EPA on carrying out the program. The EPA must: (1) carry out a research and development program for carbon dioxide utilization to promote technologies that transform carbon dioxide generated by industrial processes into a product of commercial value, and (2) support activities relating to carbon dioxide utilization by providing technical and financial assistance. The bill amends the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act to apply the Act's accelerated environmental review and permitting procedures to the construction of infrastructure that captures, utilizes, or sequesters carbon dioxide and the construction of carbon dioxide pipelines. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) must publish guidance to: (1) facilitate reviews associated with the deployment of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects and carbon dioxide pipelines; and (2) identify activities that transform captured carbon dioxide into a product of commercial value. The CEQ must also establish at least two task forces to identify permitting challenges that permitting authorities and project developers and operators face.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2018
Civil Defense Preparedness Act of 2018 This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) and the State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) to assist high-risk urban areas and high-risk states, respectively, to increase preparedness against rocket-propelled or other forms of kinetically-delivered weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks. The bill includes a rocket-propelled or other form of kinetically-delivered WMD among the types of threats to critical infrastructure sectors and to U.S. populations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must assess. FEMA must permit a grant recipient under the UASI and the SHSGP to use grant funds for joint projects with governmental entities for the procurement of WMD protective equipment and nuclear weapons attack building reinforcement.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2018
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to modify regulations relating to hours of service requirements for drivers to ensure that the definition of `agricultural commodity' includes fish, whether or not used for food.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2018
National Aviation Cadet Museum of the United States Recognition Act This bill recognizes the Aviation Cadet Museum in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, as the National Aviation Cadet Museum of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2018
Safeguarding America's Skies Act of 2018 This bill amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to detect, track, redirect, and disrupt an unauthorized unmanned aircraft to mitigate a safety or security threat to a facility or asset in the United States related to federal property, authorized protective operations, critical infrastructure, or other efforts.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2018
Expresses the sense that public-private partnerships should be utilized for expanding campgrounds, increasing access to recreational areas, improving infrastructure in public lands and waters, and conserving such lands and waters.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2018
Reducing Antiquated Permitting for Infrastructure Deployments Act or the RAPID Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to determine when the activities of radio station licensees are not subject to review under the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2018
Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy Act or the DRIVE-Safe Act This bill directs the Department of Transportation to issue regulations relating to an apprenticeship program for licensed commercial motor vehicle drivers under the age of 21.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2018
This bill directs federal agencies to carry out an assignment program to allow participating states to assume certain responsibilities of the agency regarding the effect of undertaking a highway project on any historic property within the state.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 2018
Appalachia Opportunity Grants Act of 2018 This bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture to award grants for units of local government in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States to convene groups of public and private entities to collaborate in carrying out regional projects to accomplish positive economic and community impacts in the region. A regional project carried out by a collaborative group must: (1) involve at least two municipalities that share a border; and (2) complete a specific activity that has a goal of job creation, expansion of the capacity of post-secondary education, growth of tourism, improving public health, or upgrading regional infrastructure.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 2018
Reducing Antiquated Permitting for Infrastructure Deployments Act or the RAPID Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to determine when the activities of radio station licensees are not subject to review under the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 2018
Maritime Technical Corrections Act of 2018 This bill revises several provisions of title 14 (Coast Guard) of the United States Code, including provisions related to training course requirements for Coast Guard officers and employees. The bill also makes technical corrections and modifications throughout title 46 (Shipping), including to authorize the Coast Guard to maintain different structural fire protection, manning, operating, and equipment requirements for vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 2018
Southwest Border Regional Commission Reauthorization Act of 2018 This bill reauthorizes the separate regional economic and infrastructure development programs of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission, the Southwest Border Regional Commission, and the Northern Border Regional Commission through FY2023.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 2018
Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2018 This bill allows state and local educational agencies to use certain federal funds for activities related to school safety, including infrastructure improvements.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 2018
Appalachia Opportunity Grants Act of 2018 This bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture to award grants for units of local government in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States to convene groups of public and private entities to collaborate in carrying out regional projects to accomplish positive economic and community impacts in the region. A regional project carried out by a collaborative group must: (1) involve at least two municipalities that share a border; and (2) complete a specific activity that has a goal of job creation, expansion of the capacity of post-secondary education, growth of tourism, improving public health, or upgrading regional infrastructure.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 2018
Treating Barriers to Prosperity Act of 2018 This bill allows the Appalachian Regional Commission to support projects and activities addressing drug abuse, including opioid abuse. Such projects and activities may include those that: facilitate the sharing of best practices among states, counties, and other experts in the region with respect to reducing drug abuse; initiate or expand programs designed to eliminate or reduce the harm to the workforce and economic growth of the region that results from drug abuse; attract and retain relevant health care services, businesses, and workers; and develop relevant infrastructure, including broadband infrastructure that supports the use of telemedicine.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 2018
Municipal Infrastructure Savings and Transparency Act This bill grants an engineer for a public agency that receives funds from the Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , or the Department of Agriculture (USDA), in accordance with state and local procurement requirements, maximum flexibility to select appropriate construction materials that meet the performance requirements of a public contract and that allows open and free competition among suppliers of construction materials, notwithstanding federal procurement requirements. A state or local government may not prohibit or restrict any such engineer from using a particular construction material. The Department of Transportation, the EPA, the Corps of Engineers, and USDA shall establish an interagency task force which shall issue a comprehensive report on federally-funded infrastructure projects.