US House of Representatives
http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/2010_Jobs_For_Main_Street_Bill_Text.pdf
[E & E Daily -- from 2 stories] The jobs package the House passed yesterday would give $36 billion to the nation’s roads and rails — but that wasn’t its only gift to the transportation community. The legislation (H.R. 2847) would also extend the current highway and transit law through the end of September 2010…
For more than a year, NRDC and other transportation stakeholders have been pleading for lawmakers to focus their attention on passing the next multiyear highway and transit bill to succeed the current law, which had been set to expire at the end of September of this year. They argue the larger bill is needed to overhaul the system and to give states the certainty they need to undertake large-scale projects.
The transportation and environment-related programs covered under the infrastructure funding include:
- $27.5 billion for highway construction.
- $8.4 billion for transit programs, with about $6.2 billion of that going toward urban and rural formula grants.
- $2 billion for clean water initiatives, with $1 billion going toward the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and the other $1 billion going toward the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.
- $2 billion for the Energy Department’s Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, which is designed to promote the development of renewable energy and electricity transmission initiatives. This money would replace funds used to pay for part of the Cash for Clunkers program last summer.
- $715 million for the Army Corps of Engineers for environmental restoration, flood protection, hydropower and other initiatives.
- $100 million for the Bureau of Reclamation for clean drinking water programs in rural areas and for drought relief.
