Key Elements of House Surface Transportation Bill
Authorizes $260 billion over five years.
Not fully funded; needs additional revenue.
Includes average of $41.1 billion per year for highways, $10.5 billion per year for transit, $1.2 billion per year for highway safety.
Ends Highway Trust Fund contribution to transit. Provides onetime $40 billion from general revenue. Funding source not identified.
Boosts direct federal TIFIA funding to $1 billion per year, from $122 million now.
No federal infrastructure bank; encourages state infrastructure banks.
Expedites projects’ environmental and other reviews.
Consolidates or eliminates about 70 current surface-transportation programs.
Ends mandatory set-aside for bike paths, walkways, other “transportation enhancements.”
No funding earmarks for specific projects.
Expands oil, gas drilling offshore in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and oil-shale areas; raises newrevenue, some of which would go to transportation. Amount not specified.
Sources: House Transportation and Infrastructure, natural Resources, Ways and Means Committees; AASHTO AASHTO AASHTO