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H.R. 5976: Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010

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H.R. 5976: Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010

111th Congress · introduced 2010-07-29 · Transportation and Public Works · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2010-07-29 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010

Plain summary

Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010 - Declares U.S. policy with respect to freight transportation. Establishes within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) an Office of Freight Planning and Development. Directs the Secretary to develop a long-term National Freight Freight Transportation Strategic Plan to guide planning and investments in the national transportation system to move freight. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop new or improve existing tools to support an outcome-oriented, performance-based approach to evaluate proposed freight-related and other transportation projects; (2) facilitate the collection of transportation-related data to support a broad range of evaluation methods and techniques to assist in making transportation investment decisions; and (3) consider improvements to the Commodity Flow Survey that reduce identified freight data gaps and deficiencies and help evaluate forecasts of transportation demand. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for capital investment projects that improve the efficiency of the national transportation system to move freight; and (2) give priority to projects with the highest system performance improvement relative to their benefit-cost analysis. Limits the federal share of project net capital costs at 80%. Requires a grant recipient to submit to the Secretary: (1) a project management plan and an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $500 million or more; and (2) an annual financial plan for a project with a total cost of $100 million or more. Repeals specified prohibitions against the transfer of amounts from the Highway Trust Fund to the Port Infrastructure Development Fund.

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Official text

Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation Act of 2010

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13] · 9 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Steve Cohen (D-TN), Adam Smith (D-WA), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong111-hr5976 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111