Detailed Transportation & Climate Scorecard

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1	Does the bill…	Senate EPW Bill	House Democratic Bill
2	Make public transit a priority
3	Electrify bus transit systems	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Yes - The bill increases funding for low- and no-emissions buses five-fold, and would result in a shift in federal funding towards cleaner buses.
4	Provide transit more money, including for operations	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Yes - The bill sigifnicantly increases funding for transit and provides operating funds for the first year. It does not, however, raise the federal cost-share to match that for highway projects.
5	Improve the Capital Investment Grant Program	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Yes - The bill increases funding for the CIG program and adds important new transparency and accountability measures to ensure USDOT does not hold up projects.
6	Promote transit-oriented development	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Yes - While the bill does not do exactly what we recommended, it does establish a new Transit-Oriented Development Planning Grant program and requires roadway designs to incorporate safe access to transit.
7	Make the current roadway system more efficient
8	Design streets to make them safe for biking and walking	No - While the bill has some programs designed to improve safety and encourage states and metros to adopt Complete Streets designs and plans, it does not provide enough funding for these efforts. Additionally, the bill provides massive funding increases for the base formulas without any additional constraints to improve safety.	Yes - The bill requires FHWA to develop Complete Street design principles and makes $250 million available for active transportation projects including Complete Streets. It also removes states' ability to set regressive safety goals (i.e. negative growth in fatalities).
9	Prioritize maintenance over expansion	No - The bill does not include any requirements that the core formulas or new programs must be spent on maintenance	Updated Yes - The bill includes an amendment sponsored by Reps. Garcia (D-IL) and Gallagher (R-WI) that requires states and metros areas that want to use core highway dollars to build new capacity to perform a benefit-cost analysis using demand models with a demonstrated track record of accuracy and considering the benefits of all relevant performance measures (including GHG emissions); and present a financial plan to maintain the new infrastructure. This is a significant improvement to the bill, which had already prioritized maintenance in the two largest formula programs but provided USDOT with too much flexibility in enforcing it.
10	Ensure new vehicle technologies don't lead to emissions increases	No - The bill includes a large electrification component but does not address the potential for VMT or emissions increases from new technologies	No - The bill does not address the potential VMT or emissions impacts from automated vehicles.
11	Use pricing to reduce emissions and congestion	No - While the bill includes a pilot program that could help further enable pricing, it does not relax any of the current federal restrictions or barriers that have made it difficult for cities to implement their own congestion pricing systems.	Yes - The bill contains a provision designed to make it easier for states to implement congestion pricing systems.
12	Measure the outcomes that support today's goals, including climate and access
13	Set performance measures for reduced GHG and VMT per capita	No - While the bill creates new programs designed to help reduce GHG emissions, it does not require states and metros to measure VMT or GHG or make meaningful progress on reducing them	Partially - The bill requires states to measure greenhouse gas emissions on their systems, but not VMT.
14	Measure how well the transportation system connects people to destinations	Partially - The bill includes a pilot program based on the COMMUTE Act to help some states and metros measure whether their investments are connecting people to jobs and services. This should be applied to all states, rather than just be a pilot program that only some states will have access to.	Yes - The bill establishes a new performance measure for transportation access to help states and MPOs assess the extent to which their transportation systems provide safe, reliable, and convenience access to jobs and services.
15	Implement a Buy Clean standard for federally funded projects	No - The bill does not create a requirement that federally funded infrastructure projects use low-carbon materials	No - The bill contains some funding for clean materials research and proiritizes projects that use GHG-reducing materials in certain programs, but it does not establish a requirement. We understand the Energy and Commerce committee is separately working on a bill to make progress on establishing such a standard at the federal level.
16	Promote intercity passenger rail
17	Provide stable funding	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Yes - While the bill does not provide dedicated funding (i.e. the authorizations are still subject to the annual appropriations process), it nevertheless increases funding authorizations significantly for rail.
18	Create regional intercity rail commissions	N/A - Not in EPW's jurisdiction	Partially - The new PRIME Grant program prioritizes rail projects supported by multiple states and provides a small amount of funding for USDOT to provide regional planning assistance, but the bill could go further to help prop up new multi-state compacts and provide operating support for the rail services provided by those compacts.
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