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H.R. 2602: Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011

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H.R. 2602: Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011

112th Congress · introduced 2011-07-20 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2011-07-20 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011

Plain summary

Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011 - Requires each executive agency to obtain a life-cycle cost analysis for each major infrastructure project prior to obligating funds. Defines "life-cycle cost analysis" as a process for evaluating the total economic worth of an infrastructure project by analyzing specified costs over a minimum 50-year period. Authorizes the use of alternate infrastructure type bidding procedures for awarding contracts for projects on the National Highway System and for major infrastructure projects. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to require states to utilize the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (developed under the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project I-37A) for the initial design phase of all authorized highway projects.

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Official text

Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3] · 11 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Sam Graves (R-MO), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA)

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Words on this page, explained (1)
Authorization
A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong112-hr2602 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112