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49 U.S.C. § 301 — Leadership, consultation, and cooperation
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The Secretary of Transportation shall—
(1) under the direction of the President, exercise leadership in transportation matters, including those matters affecting national defense and those matters involving national or regional emergencies;
(2) provide leadership in the development of transportation policies and programs, and make recommendations to the President and Congress for their consideration and implementation;
(3) coordinate Federal policy on intermodal transportation and initiate policies to promote efficient intermodal transportation in the United States;
(4) promote and undertake the development, collection, and dissemination of technological, statistical, economic, and other information relevant to domestic and international transportation;
(5) consult and cooperate with the Secretary of Labor in compiling information regarding the status of labor-management contracts and other labor-management problems and in promoting industrial harmony and stable employment conditions in all modes of transportation;
(6) promote and undertake research and development related to transportation, including noise abatement, with particular attention to aircraft noise, and including basic highway vehicle science;
(7) consult with the heads of other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government on the transportation requirements of the Government, including encouraging them to establish and observe policies consistent with maintaining a coordinated transportation system in procuring transportation or in operating their own transport services;
(8) consult and cooperate with State and local governments, carriers, labor, and other interested persons, including, when appropriate, holding informal public hearings; and
(9) develop and coordinat
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The Secretary of Transportation shall—
(1) under the direction of the President, exercise leadership in transportation matters, including those matters affecting national defense and those matters involving national or regional emergencies;
(2) provide leadership in the development of transportation policies and programs, and make recommendations to the President and Congress for their consideration and implementation;
(3) coordinate Federal policy on intermodal transportation and initiate policies to promote efficient intermodal transportation in the United States;
(4) promote and undertake the development, collection, and dissemination of technological, statistical, economic, and other information relevant to domestic and international transportation;
(5) consult and cooperate with the Secretary of Labor in compiling information regarding the status of labor-management contracts and other labor-management problems and in promoting industrial harmony and stable employment conditions in all modes of transportation;
(6) promote and undertake research and development related to transportation, including noise abatement, with particular attention to aircraft noise, and including basic highway vehicle science;
(7) consult with the heads of other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government on the transportation requirements of the Government, including encouraging them to establish and observe policies consistent with maintaining a coordinated transportation system in procuring transportation or in operating their own transport services;
(8) consult and cooperate with State and local governments, carriers, labor, and other interested persons, including, when appropriate, holding informal public hearings; and
(9) develop and coordinate Federal policy on financing transportation infrastructure, including the provision of direct Federal credit assistance and other techniques used to leverage Federal transportation funds.
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**(a) General.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall carry out this chapter.
**(b) Facilitating Commercial Launches and Reentries.—** In carrying out this chapter, the Secretary shall—
(1) encourage, facilitate, and promote commercial space launches and reentries by the private sector, including those involving space flight participants; and
(2) take actions to facilitate private sector involvement in commercial space transportation activity, and to promote public-private partnerships involving the United States Government, State governments, and the private sector to build, expand, modernize, or operate a space launch and reentry infrastructure.
**(c) Safety.—** In carrying out the responsibilities under subsection (b), the Secretary shall encourage, facilitate, and promote the continuous improvement of the safety of launch vehicles designed to carry humans, and the Secretary may, consistent with this chapter, promulgate regulations to carry out this subsection.
**(d) Executive Agency Assistance.—** When necessary, the head of an executive agency shall assist the Secretary in carrying out this chapter.
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**(a) Grants.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall make grants to States to develop model State intermodal transportation plans that are consistent with the policy set forth in [section 302(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section302/e&num=0&edition=prelim). The model plans shall include systems for collecting data related to intermodal transportation.
**(b) Distribution.—** The Secretary shall award grants to States under this section that represent a variety of geographic regions and transportation needs, patterns, and modes.
**(c) Plan Submission.—** As a condition to a State receiving a grant under this section, the Secretary shall require that the State provide assurances that the State will submit to the Secretary a State intermodal transportation plan not later than 18 months after the date of receipt of the grant.
**(d) Grant Amounts.—** The Secretary shall reserve, from amounts deducted under [section 104(a) of title 23](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section104/a&num=0&edition=prelim), $3,000,000 to make grants under this section. The total amount that a State may receive in grants under this section may not be more than $500,000.
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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**(a) University Transportation Centers Program.—**
(1) **Establishment and operation.—** — The Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”), shall make grants under this section to eligible nonprofit institutions of higher education to establish and operate university transportation centers.
(2) **Role of centers.—** — The role of each university transportation center referred to in paragraph (1) shall be—
(A) to advance transportation expertise and technology in the varied disciplines that comprise the field of transportation through education, research, and technology transfer activities;
(B) to provide for a critical multimodal transportation knowledge base outside of the Department of Transportation; and
(C) to address critical workforce needs and educate the next generation of transportation leaders with respect to the matters described in subparagraphs (A) through (G) of section 6503(c)(1).
**(b) Competitive Selection Process.—**
(1) **Applications.—** — To receive a grant under this section, a consortium of nonprofit institutions of higher education shall submit to the Secretary an application that is in such form and contains such information as the Secretary may require.
(2) **Restriction.—**
(A) *Limitation.—* — A lead institution of a consortium of nonprofit institutions of higher education, as applicable, may only receive 1 grant per fiscal year as a lead institution under this section, except as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B) *Exception for consortium members that are not lead institutions.—* — Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a nonprofit institution of higher education that is a member of a consortium of nonprofit institutions of h
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**(a)** The Department of Transportation (referred to in this section as the “Department”) is an executive department of the United States Government at the seat of Government.
**(b)** The head of the Department is the Secretary of Transportation (referred to in this section as the “Secretary”). The Secretary is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
**(c)** The Department has a Deputy Secretary of Transportation appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Deputy Secretary—
(1) shall carry out duties and powers prescribed by the Secretary; and
(2) acts for the Secretary when the Secretary is absent or unable to serve or when the office of Secretary is vacant.
**(d)** The Department has an Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Under Secretary shall provide leadership in the development of policy for the Department, supervise the policy activities of Assistant Secretaries with primary responsibility for aviation, international, and other transportation policy development and carry out other powers and duties prescribed by the Secretary. The Under Secretary acts for the Secretary when the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary are absent or unable to serve, or when the offices of Secretary and Deputy Secretary are vacant.
**(e) Assistant Secretaries; General Counsel.—**
(1) **Appointment.—** — The Department has 8 Assistant Secretaries and a General Counsel, including—
(A) an Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, an Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs, an Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, an Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, and an Assistant Secr
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**(a) Aviation Project Review Process.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall implement an expedited and coordinated environmental review process for airport capacity enhancement projects, terminal development projects, general aviation airport construction or improvement projects, and aviation safety projects that—
(1) provides for streamlined coordination among the Federal, regional, State, and local agencies concerned with the preparation of environmental impact statements or environmental assessments under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ([42 U.S.C. 4321](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4321&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.);
(2) provides that all environmental reviews, analyses, opinions, permits, licenses, and approvals that must be issued or made by a Federal agency or airport sponsor for such a project will be conducted concurrently, to the maximum extent practicable; and
(3) provides that any environmental review, analysis, opinion, permit, license, or approval that must be issued or made by a Federal agency or airport sponsor for such a project will be completed within a time period established by the Secretary, in cooperation with the agencies identified under subsection (d) with respect to the project.
**(b) Aviation Projects Subject to a Streamlined Environmental Review Process.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Any airport capacity enhancement project, terminal development project, or general aviation airport construction or improvement project shall be subject to the coordinated and expedited environmental review process requirements set forth in this section.
(2) **Project designation criteria.—**
(A) *In general.—* — The Secretary may designate an aviation safety project for priority environmenta
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**(a) Establishment** There is established a Department of Homeland Security, as an executive department of the United States within the meaning of title 5.
**(b) Mission**
(1) **In general** — The primary mission of the Department is to—
(A) prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;
(B) reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism;
(C) minimize the damage, and assist in the recovery, from terrorist attacks that do occur within the United States;
(D) carry out all functions of entities transferred to the Department, including by acting as a focal point regarding natural and manmade crises and emergency planning;
(E) ensure that the functions of the agencies and subdivisions within the Department that are not related directly to securing the homeland are not diminished or neglected except by a specific explicit Act of Congress;
(F) ensure that the overall economic security of the United States is not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland;
(G) ensure that the civil rights and civil liberties of persons are not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland; and
(H) monitor connections between illegal drug trafficking and terrorism, coordinate efforts to sever such connections, and otherwise contribute to efforts to interdict illegal drug trafficking.
(2) **Responsibility for investigating and prosecuting terrorism** — Except as specifically provided by law with respect to entities transferred to the Department under this chapter, primary responsibility for investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism shall be vested not in the Department, but rather in Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over the acts in question.
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 301
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Level II of the Executive Schedule, referred to in sub-
sec. (e)(3)(A)(ii), is set out in section 5313 of Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees.
The date of enactment of the Surface Transportation
Investment Act of 2021, referred to in subsec. (q)(3)(B),
is the date of enactment of div. B of Pub. L. 117–58,
which was approved Nov. 15, 2021.
CHAPTER 3—GENERAL DUTIES AND
POWERS
SUBCHAPTER I—DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY OF
TRANSPORTATION
Sec.
301.
Leadership, consultation, and cooperation.
302.
Policy standards for transportation.
303.
Policy on lands, wildlife and waterfowl ref-
uges, and historic sites.
303a.
Development of water transportation.
304.
Application of categorical exclusions for
multimodal projects.
304a.
Accelerated
decisionmaking
in
environ-
mental reviews.
305.
Transportation investment standards and cri-
teria.
306.
Prohibited discrimination.
307.
Improving State and Federal agency engage-
ment in environmental reviews.
308.
Reports.
309.
High-speed ground transportation.
310.
Aligning Federal environmental reviews.
311.
Congressional notification requirements.
312.
Alternative timing system.
313.
Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation
Technology Council.
SUBCHAPTER II—ADMINISTRATIVE
321.
Definitions.
322.
General powers.
323.
Personnel.
324.
Members of the armed forces.
325.
Advisory committees.
326.
Gifts.
327.
Administrative working capital fund.
328.
Transportation Systems Center working cap-
ital fund.
329.
Transportation information.
330.
Research activities.
331.
Service, supplies, and facilities at remote
places.
332.
Minority Resource Center.
333.
Responsibility for rail transportation unifica
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