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49 U.S.C. § 5318 — Bus testing facility
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**(a) Facility.—** The Secretary shall maintain one facility for testing a new bus model for maintainability, reliability, safety, performance (including braking performance), structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise.
**(b) Operation and Maintenance.—** The Secretary shall enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, a qualified person or organization to operate and maintain the facility. The contract, cooperative agreement, or grant may provide for the testing of rail cars and other public transportation vehicles at the facility.
**(c) Fees.—** The person operating and maintaining the facility shall establish and collect fees for the testing of vehicles at the facility. The Secretary must approve the fees.
**(d) Availability of Amounts To Pay for Testing.—** The Secretary shall enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, the operator of the facility under which the Secretary shall pay 80 percent of the cost of testing a vehicle at the facility from amounts available to carry out this section. The entity having the vehicle tested shall pay 20 percent of the cost.
**(e) Acquiring New Bus Models.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under this chapter may be obligated or expended to acquire a new bus model only if—
(A) a bus of that model has been tested at a facility authorized under subsection (a); and
(B) the bus tested under subparagraph (A) met—
(i) performance standards for maintainability, reliability, performance (including braking performance), structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise, as established by the Secretary by rule; and
(ii) the minimum safety performance standards established by the Secretary pursuant to se
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**(a) Facility.—** The Secretary shall maintain one facility for testing a new bus model for maintainability, reliability, safety, performance (including braking performance), structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise.
**(b) Operation and Maintenance.—** The Secretary shall enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, a qualified person or organization to operate and maintain the facility. The contract, cooperative agreement, or grant may provide for the testing of rail cars and other public transportation vehicles at the facility.
**(c) Fees.—** The person operating and maintaining the facility shall establish and collect fees for the testing of vehicles at the facility. The Secretary must approve the fees.
**(d) Availability of Amounts To Pay for Testing.—** The Secretary shall enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, the operator of the facility under which the Secretary shall pay 80 percent of the cost of testing a vehicle at the facility from amounts available to carry out this section. The entity having the vehicle tested shall pay 20 percent of the cost.
**(e) Acquiring New Bus Models.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under this chapter may be obligated or expended to acquire a new bus model only if—
(A) a bus of that model has been tested at a facility authorized under subsection (a); and
(B) the bus tested under subparagraph (A) met—
(i) performance standards for maintainability, reliability, performance (including braking performance), structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise, as established by the Secretary by rule; and
(ii) the minimum safety performance standards established by the Secretary pursuant to section 5329(b).
(2) **Bus test “pass/fail” standard.—** — Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2012, the Secretary shall issue a final rule under subparagraph (B)(i). The final rule issued under paragraph 11 So in original. Probably should be “subparagraph”. (B)(i) shall include a bus model scoring system that results in a weighted, aggregate score that uses the testing categories under subsection (a) and considers the relative importance of each such testing category. The final rule issued under subparagraph (B)(i) shall establish a “pass/fail” standard that uses the aggregate score described in the preceding sentence. Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under this chapter may be obligated or expended to acquire a new bus model only if the new bus model has received a passing aggregate test score. The Secretary shall work with the bus testing facility, bus manufacturers, and transit agencies to develop the bus model scoring system under this paragraph. A passing aggregate test score under the rule issued under subparagraph (B)(i) indicates only that amounts appropriated or made available under this chapter may be obligated or expended to acquire a new bus model and shall not be interpreted as a warranty or guarantee that the new bus model will meet a purchaser’s specific requirements.
**(f) Capital Equipment.—** A facility operated and maintained under this section may use funds made available under this section for the acquisition of equipment and capital projects related to testing new bus models.
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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) In General.—** The Secretary shall provide assistance for projects and activities to advance innovative public transportation research and development in accordance with the requirements of this section.
**(b) Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Projects.—**
(1) **In general.—** — The Secretary may make grants and enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and other agreements for research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects, and evaluation of research and technology of national significance to public transportation, that the Secretary determines will improve public transportation.
(2) **Agreements.—** — In order to carry out paragraph (1), the Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with—
(A) departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government, including Federal laboratories;
(B) State and local governmental entities;
(C) providers of public transportation;
(D) private or non-profit organizations;
(E) institutions of higher education; and
(F) technical and community colleges.
(3) **Application.—**
(A) *In general.—* — To receive a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agreement under this section, an entity described in paragraph (2) shall submit an application to the Secretary.
(B) *Form and contents.—* — An application under subparagraph (A) shall be in such form and contain such information as the Secretary may require, including—
(i) a statement of purpose detailing the need being addressed;
(ii) the short- and long-term goals of the project, including opportunities for future innovation and development, the potential for deployment, and benefits to riders and public transportation; and
(iii) the sho
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**(a) Interests in Property.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Financial assistance provided under this chapter to a State or a local governmental authority may be used to acquire an interest in, or to buy property of, a private company engaged in public transportation, for a capital project for property acquired from a private company engaged in public transportation after July 9, 1964, or to operate a public transportation facility or equipment in competition with, or in addition to, transportation service provided by an existing public transportation company, only if—
(A) the Secretary determines that such financial assistance is essential to a program of projects required under sections 5303, 5304, and 5306;
(B) the Secretary determines that the program provides for the participation of private companies engaged in public transportation to the maximum extent feasible; and
(C) just compensation under State or local law will be paid to the company for its franchise or property.
(2) **Limitation.—** — A governmental authority may not use financial assistance of the United States Government to acquire land, equipment, or a facility used in public transportation from another governmental authority in the same geographic area.
**(b) Relocation and Real Property Requirements.—** The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 ([42 U.S.C. 4601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) shall apply to financial assistance for capital projects under this chapter.
**(c) Consideration of Economic, Social, and Environmental Interests.—**
(1) **Cooperation and consultation.—** — The Secretary shall cooperate and consult with the Secretary of the Interior and the Admini
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 5318
management, insurance, and risk management’’ before
semicolon at end.
Subsec. (a)(15), (16). Pub. L. 105–178, § 3017(a)(2)(E)–(G),
as amended by Pub. L. 105–206 added pars. (15) and (16).
1996—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–287 substituted ‘‘sec-
tions 5307 and 5309’’ for ‘‘sections 5304 and 5306’’.
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 section 101 of Title 23, Highways.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1998 AMENDMENT
Title IX of Pub. L. 105–206 effective simultaneously
with enactment of Pub. L. 105–178 and to be treated as
included in Pub. L. 105–178 at time of enactment, and
provisions of Pub. L. 105–178, as in effect on day before
July 22, 1998, that are amended by title IX of Pub. L.
105–206 to be treated as not enacted, see section 9016 of
Pub. L. 105–206, set out as a note under section 101 of
Title 23, Highways.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–287 effective July 5, 1994,
see section 8(1) of Pub. L. 104–287, set out as a note
under section 5303 of this title.
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROCEDURES AND
APPROACHES
Pub. L. 112–141, div. B, § 20013(b), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat.
692, provided that:
‘‘(1) IDENTIFY IMPEDIMENTS.—The Secretary shall—
‘‘(A) except as provided in paragraph (6), identify
any provisions of chapter 53 of title 49, United States
Code, and any regulations or practices
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