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49 U.S.C. § 5315 — Private sector participation

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49 U.S.C. § 5315 — Private sector participation

**(a) General Purposes.—** In the interest of fulfilling the general purposes of this chapter under section 5301(b), the Secretary shall— (1) better coordinate public and private sector-provided public transportation services; (2) promote more effective utilization of private sector expertise, financing, and operational capacity to deliver costly and complex new fixed guideway capital projects; and (3) promote transparency and public understanding of public-private partnerships affecting public transportation. **(b) Actions to Promote Better Coordination Between Public and Private Sector Providers of Public Transportation.—** The Secretary shall— (1) provide technical assistance to recipients of Federal transit grant assistance, at the request of a recipient, on practices and methods to best utilize private providers of public transportation; and (2) educate recipients of Federal transit grant assistance on laws and regulations under this chapter that impact private providers of public transportation. **(c) Actions to Provide Technical Assistance for Alternative Project Delivery Methods.—** Upon request by a sponsor of a new fixed guideway capital project, the Secretary shall— (1) identify best practices for public-private partnerships models in the United States and in other countries; (2) develop standard public-private partnership transaction model contracts; and (3) perform financial assessments that include the calculation of public and private benefits of a proposed public-private partnership transaction. **(d) Rule of Construction.—** Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter— (1) the eligibilities, requirements, or priorities for assistance provided under this chapter; or (2) the requirements of section 5306(a).

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49 U.S.C. § 5333 — Labor standards

**(a) Prevailing Wages Requirement.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors in construction work financed with a grant or loan under this chapter be paid wages not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality, as determined by the Secretary of Labor under sections 3141 through 3144, 3146, and 3147 of title 40. The Secretary of Transportation may approve a grant or loan only after being assured that required labor standards will be maintained on the construction work. For a labor standard under this subsection, the Secretary of Labor has the same duties and powers stated in Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950 (eff. May 24, 1950, 64 Stat. 1267) and [section 3145 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section3145&num=0&edition=prelim). **(b) Employee Protective Arrangements.—** (1) As a condition of financial assistance under sections 5307–5312, 5316,11 See References in Text note below. 5318, 5323(a)(1), 5323(b), 5323(d), 5328,1 5337, and 5338(b) of this title, the interests of employees affected by the assistance shall be protected under arrangements the Secretary of Labor concludes are fair and equitable. The agreement granting the assistance under sections 5307–5312, 5316,1 5318, 5323(a)(1), 5323(b), 5323(d), 5328,1 5337, and 5338(b) shall specify the arrangements. (2) Arrangements under this subsection shall include provisions that may be necessary for— (A) the preservation of rights, privileges, and benefits (including continuation of pension rights and benefits) under existing collective bargaining agreements or otherwise; (B) the continuation of collective bargaining rights; (C) the protection of individual emplo

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42 U.S.C. § 4321 — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–58, div. G, title VIII, § 70801(h), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1294

### Statutory Notes Section, Pub. L. 114–94, div. D, title XLI, § 41013, Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1761, provided that this subchapter shall terminate 7 years after Dec. 4, 2015.

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49 U.S.C. § 5303 — Metropolitan transportation planning

**(a) Policy.—** It is in the national interest— (1) to encourage and promote the safe and efficient management, operation, and development of resilient surface transportation systems that will serve the mobility needs of people and freight and foster economic growth and development within and between States and urbanized areas and better connect housing and employment, while minimizing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution through metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes identified in this chapter; and (2) to encourage the continued improvement and evolution of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes by metropolitan planning organizations, State departments of transportation, and public transit operators as guided by the planning factors identified in subsection (h) and section 5304(d). **(b) Definitions.—** In this section and section 5304, the following definitions apply: (1) **Metropolitan planning area.—** — The term “metropolitan planning area” means the geographic area determined by agreement between the metropolitan planning organization for the area and the Governor under subsection (e). (2) **Metropolitan planning organization.—** — The term “metropolitan planning organization” means the policy board of an organization established as a result of the designation process under subsection (d). (3) **Nonmetropolitan area.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan area” means a geographic area outside designated metropolitan planning areas. (4) **Nonmetropolitan local official.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan local official” means elected and appointed officials of general purpose local government in a nonmetropolitan area with responsibility for transportation. (5) **Regional transportation planning orga

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5 U.S.C. § 5313 — Positions at level II

Level II of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):

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23 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions and declaration of policy

**(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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49 U.S.C. § 5315 — Private sector participation

Page 312 TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION § 5315 Subsec. (a)(4)(A). Pub. L. 109–59, § 3002(b)(4), sub- stituted ‘‘public transportation’’ for ‘‘mass transpor- tation’’. Subsec. (a)(4)(B), (C). Pub. L. 109–59, § 3016(a)(4), (5), redesignated subpar. (C) as (B) and struck out former subpar. (B) which read as follows: ‘‘The Secretary shall establish an Industry Technical Panel composed of rep- resentatives of transportation suppliers and operators and others involved in technology development. A ma- jority of the Panel members shall represent the supply industry. The Panel shall assist the Secretary in iden- tifying priority technology development areas and in establishing guidelines for project development, project cost sharing, and project execution.’’ Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 109–59, § 3016(a)(6), added par. (6). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–59, § 3016(a)(7), substituted ‘‘, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agree- ment under subsection (a) or section 5312,’’ for ‘‘or con- tract financed under subsection (a) of this section,’’. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–59, § 3016(b), added subsec. (c). 1998—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105–178, § 3029(b)(6), sub- stituted ‘‘subsections (d) and (h)(7) of section 5338’’ for ‘‘section 5338(g)(4)’’. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 105–178, § 3016, substituted ‘‘$3,000,000’’ for ‘‘$2,000,000’’. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2015 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 114–94 effective Oct. 1, 2015, see section 1003 of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as a note under section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2012 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 112–141 effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effec- tive and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under

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