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49 U.S.C. § 24903 — General authority
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**(a) General.—** To carry out this chapter and the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 ([45 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), Amtrak may—
(1) acquire, maintain, and dispose of any interest in property used to provide improved high-speed rail transportation under [section 24902 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section24902&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, any interest in real property that Amtrak considers necessary to carry out the goals of section 24902;
(3) provide for rail freight, intercity rail passenger, and commuter rail passenger transportation over property acquired under this section;
(4) improve rail rights of way between Boston, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia (including the route through Springfield, Massachusetts, and routes to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Albany, New York, from the Northeast Corridor main line) to achieve the goals of section 24902 of providing improved high-speed rail passenger transportation between Boston, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, and intermediate intercity markets;
(5) acquire, build, improve, and install passenger stations, communications and electric power facilities and equipment, public and private highway and pedestrian crossings, and other facilities and equipment necessary to provide improved high-speed rail passenger transportation over rights of way improved under clause (4) of this subsection;
(6) make agreements with other carriers and commuter authorities to grant, acquire, or make arrangements for rail freight or commuter rail passenger transportation over, rights of way and facilities acquired under the Re
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**(a) General.—** To carry out this chapter and the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 ([45 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), Amtrak may—
(1) acquire, maintain, and dispose of any interest in property used to provide improved high-speed rail transportation under [section 24902 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section24902&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, any interest in real property that Amtrak considers necessary to carry out the goals of section 24902;
(3) provide for rail freight, intercity rail passenger, and commuter rail passenger transportation over property acquired under this section;
(4) improve rail rights of way between Boston, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia (including the route through Springfield, Massachusetts, and routes to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Albany, New York, from the Northeast Corridor main line) to achieve the goals of section 24902 of providing improved high-speed rail passenger transportation between Boston, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, and intermediate intercity markets;
(5) acquire, build, improve, and install passenger stations, communications and electric power facilities and equipment, public and private highway and pedestrian crossings, and other facilities and equipment necessary to provide improved high-speed rail passenger transportation over rights of way improved under clause (4) of this subsection;
(6) make agreements with other carriers and commuter authorities to grant, acquire, or make arrangements for rail freight or commuter rail passenger transportation over, rights of way and facilities acquired under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 ([45 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 ([45 U.S.C. 801](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section801&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), and chapter 224 of this title; and
(7) appoint a general manager of the Northeast Corridor improvement program.
**(b) Compensatory Agreements.—** Rail freight and commuter rail passenger transportation provided under subsection (a)(3) of this section shall be provided under compensatory agreements with the responsible carriers.
**(c) Compensation for Transportation Over Certain Rights of Way and Facilities.—**
(1) An agreement under subsection (a)(6) of this section shall provide for reasonable reimbursement of costs but may not cross-subsidize intercity rail passenger, commuter rail passenger, and rail freight transportation.
(2) If the parties do not agree, the Surface Transportation Board shall order that the transportation continue over facilities acquired under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 ([45 U.S.C. 701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 ([45 U.S.C. 801](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section801&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), and chapter 224 of this title and shall determine compensation (without allowing cross-subsidization between commuter rail passenger and intercity rail passenger and rail freight transportation) for the transportation not later than 120 days after the dispute is submitted. The Board shall assign to a rail carrier obtaining transportation under this subsection the costs Amtrak incurs only for the benefit of the carrier, plus a proportionate share of all other costs of providing transportation under this paragraph incurred for the common benefit of Amtrak and the carrier. The proportionate share shall be based on relative measures of volume of car operations, tonnage, or other factors that reasonably reflect the relative use of rail property covered by this subsection.
(3) This subsection does not prevent the parties from making an agreement under subsection (a)(6) of this section after the Board makes a decision under this subsection.
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**(a) Managing Costs and Revenues.—** Amtrak shall manage its operating costs, pricing policies, and other factors with the goal of having revenues derived each fiscal year from providing intercity rail passenger transportation over the Northeast Corridor route between the District of Columbia and Boston, Massachusetts, equal at least the operating costs of providing that transportation in that fiscal year.
**(b) Priorities in Selecting and Scheduling Projects.—** When selecting and scheduling specific projects, Amtrak shall apply the following considerations, in the following order of priority:
(1) Safety-related items should be completed before other items because the safety of the passengers and users of the Northeast Corridor is paramount.
(2) Activities that benefit the greatest number of passengers should be completed before activities involving fewer passengers.
(3) Reliability of intercity rail passenger transportation must be emphasized.
(4) Trip-time requirements of this section must be achieved to the extent compatible with the priorities referred to in paragraphs (1)–(3) of this subsection.
(5) Improvements that will pay for the investment by achieving lower operating or maintenance costs should be carried out before other improvements.
(6) Construction operations should be scheduled so that the fewest possible passengers are inconvenienced, transportation is maintained, and the on-time performance of Northeast Corridor commuter rail passenger and rail freight transportation is optimized.
(7) Planning should focus on completing activities that will provide immediate benefits to users of the Northeast Corridor.
**(c) Compatibility With Future Improvements and Production of Maximum Labor Benefits.—** Improvements under this section shall be compatible
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) Essential rail service in the midwest and northeast region of the United States is provided by railroads which are today insolvent and attempting to undergo reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act.
(2) This essential rail service is threatened with cessation or significant curtailment because of the inability of the trustees of such railroads to formulate acceptable plans for reorganization. This rail service is operated over rail properties which were acquired for a public use, but which have been permitted to deteriorate and now require extensive rehabilitation and modernization.
(3) The public convenience and necessity require adequate and efficient rail service in this region and throughout the Nation to meet the needs of commerce, the national defense, the environment, and the service requirements of passengers, United States mail, shippers, States and their political subdivisions, and consumers.
(4) Continuation and improvement of essential rail service in this region is also necessary to preserve and maintain adequate national rail services and an efficient national rail transportation system.
(5) Rail service and rail transportation offer economic and environmental advantages with respect to land use, air pollution, noise levels, energy efficiency and conservation, resource allocation, safety, and cost per ton-mile of movement to such extent that the preservation and maintenance of adequate and efficient rail service is in the national interest.
(6) These needs cannot be met without substantial action by the Federal Government.
**(b) Purposes** It is therefore declared to be the purpose of Congress in this chapter to provide for—
(1) the identification of a rail service system in the midwest and
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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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For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communications, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is created a commission to be known as the “Federal Communications Commission”, which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
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**(a) Northeast Corridor Service Development Plan.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Not later than March 31, 2022, the Northeast Corridor Commission established under section 24905 (referred to in this section as the “Commission”) shall submit a service development plan to Congress.
(2) **Contents.—** — The plan required under paragraph (1) shall—
(A) identify key state-of-good-repair, capacity expansion, and capital improvement projects planned for the Northeast Corridor;
(B) provide a coordinated and consensus-based plan covering a 15-year period;
(C) identify service objectives and the capital investments required to meet such objectives;
(D) provide a delivery-constrained strategy that identifies—
(i) capital investment phasing;
(ii) an evaluation of workforce needs; and
(iii) strategies for managing resources and mitigating construction impacts on operations; and
(E) include a financial strategy that identifies funding needs and potential funding sources.
(3) **Updates.—** — The Commission shall update the service development plan not less frequently than once every 5 years.
**(b) Northeast Corridor Capital Investment Plan.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Not later than November 1 of each year, the Commission shall—
(A) develop an annual capital investment plan for the Northeast Corridor; and
(B) submit the capital investment plan to—
(i) the Secretary of Transportation;
(ii) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and
(iii) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
(2) **Contents.—** — The plan required under paragraph (1) shall—
(A) reflect coordination across the entire Northeast Corridor;
(B) integrate the individual capital plans developed
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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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In this subchapter, “aeronautics”, “air commerce”, and “air navigation facility” have the same meanings given those terms in [section 40102(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section40102/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this Act and chapter 224 of title 49, United States Code, is to provide the means to rehabilitate and maintain the physical facilities, improve the operations and structure, and restore the financial stability of the railway system of the United States, and to promote the revitalization of such railway system, so that this mode of transportation will remain viable in the private sector of the economy and will be able to provide energy-efficient, ecologically compatible transportation services with greater efficiency, effectiveness, and economy, through—
(1) ratemaking and regulatory reform;
(2) the encouragement of efforts to restructure the system on a more economically justified basis, including planning authority in the Secretary of Transportation, an expedited procedure for determining whether merger and consolidation applications are in the public interest, and continuing reorganization authority;
(3) financing mechanisms that will assure adequate rehabilitation and improvement of facilities and equipment, implementation of the final system plan, and implementation of the Northeast Corridor project;
(4) transitional continuation of service on light-density rail lines that are necessary to continued employment and community well-being throughout the United States;
(5) auditing, accounting, reporting, and other requirements to protect Federal funds and to assure repayment of loans and financial responsibility; and
(6) necessary studies.
**(b) Policy** The policy of this Act and chapter 224 of title 49, United States Code, is to—
(1) balance the needs of carriers, shippers, and the public;
(2) foster competition among all carriers by railroad and other modes of transportation, to promote more adequate and efficient transportatio
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TITLE 45—RAILROADS
§ 701
Sec.
722.
Records, audit, and examination.
723.
Emergency assistance pending implementa-
tion.
724.
Authorization of appropriations.
725.
Interim agreements.
726.
Debentures and series A preferred stock.
727.
Additional purchases of Series A preferred
stock.
728.
Reports to Congress.
729.
Advisory Board.
SUBCHAPTER III—CONSOLIDATED RAIL
CORPORATION
741.
Formation and structure.
742.
Powers and duties of Corporation.
743.
Valuation and conveyance of rail properties.
744.
Termination and continuation of rail serv-
ices.
744a.
End of Conrail commuter service obligation.
745.
Continuing
reorganization;
supplemental
transactions.
746.
Certificates of value.
747.
Protection of Federal funds.
748.
Abandonments.
SUBCHAPTER IV—TRANSFER OF FREIGHT
SERVICES
761 to 769c. Repealed.
SUBCHAPTER V—EMPLOYEE PROTECTION
771 to 780. Repealed.
SUBCHAPTER VI—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
791.
Relationship to other laws.
792, 793.
Repealed.
794.
Tax payments to States.
SUBCHAPTER VII—PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES
797.
Repealed.
797a.
Termination allowance.
797b.
Preferential hiring.
797c.
Central register of railroad employment.
797d.
Election and treatment of benefits.
797e.
Assignment of work.
797f.
Contracting out.
797g.
New collective-bargaining agreements.
797h.
Employee and personal injury claims.
797i.
Limitations on liability.
797j.
Preemption.
797k.
Factfinding panel.
797l.
Class II railroads receiving Federal assist-
ance.
797m.
Arbitration.
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 701. Congressional declaration of policy
(a) Findings
The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) Essential rail service in the midwest and
northeast region of the United States is pro-
vided by railroads wh
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TITLE 45—RAILROADS
§ 797l
1 See References in Text note below.
principally to chapter 8 (§ 151 et seq.) of this title. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see sec-
tion 151 of this title and Tables.
§ 797l. Class II railroads receiving Federal assist-
ance
The Surface Transportation Board shall im-
pose no labor protection conditions in approving
an application under section 10902 of title 49
when the application involves a Class II rail car-
rier which—
(1) is headquartered in a State, and operates
in at least one State, with a population of less
than 1,000,000 persons, as determined by the
1990 census; and
(2) has, as of January 1, 1996, been a recipient
of repayable Federal Railroad Administration
assistance in excess of $5,000,000.
(Pub. L. 93–236, title VII, § 713, as added Pub. L.
104–88, title III, § 327(5)(A), formerly § 327(5), Dec.
29, 1995, 109 Stat. 952, renumbered Pub. L.
104–287, § 6(f)(4)(B), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3399.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 797l, Pub. L. 93–236, title VII, § 713, as
added Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1143(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95
Stat. 668, authorized appropriations to carry out activi-
ties for protection of employees of Consolidated Rail
Corporation, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–509, title IV,
§ 4033(a)(2), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1908.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of Pub. L.
104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of Title 49,
Transportation.
§ 797m. Arbitration
Any dispute or controversy with respect to the
interpretation, application, or enforcement of
the provisions of this subchapter, except sec-
tions 797b, 797c, 797g, and 797l 1 of this title, or
section 1144 of the N
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