“A bill to authorize funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure programs to be used for other highway projects, and for other purposes.”
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This section redirects all unobligated funds as of enactment, as well as all future funding after enactment, from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI)—a program established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that provides formula grants to states for deploying publicly accessible electric vehicle charging infrastructure along designated federal highway corridors—to five specified highway purposes: (1) construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, or preservation of Federal-aid highways; (2) replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, or protection of bridges on the National Bridge Inventory; (3) improvements to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, such as wildlife crossing structures; (4) preservation or additional parking for commercial motor vehicles eligible under MAP-21; or (5) preliminary engineering, engineering, or design services directly related to such projects. (Thus, NEVI funds may no longer be used for EV charging infrastructure.) This section further requires the Secretary of Transportation to distribute to states, proportional to their apportionments under 23 U.S.C. §§104(c) and 165, any unobligated NEVI set-asides for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation or for grants to states and localities needing additional assistance for EV charging deployment, with such amounts to be used for the highway purposes listed above and distributed annually on October 1 for future fiscal years. Amounts under this section are not subject to Federal-aid obligation limitations, remain available until their original NEVI expiration dates, are in addition to regular state apportionments, and are administered as chapter 1 Federal-aid highway funds (subject to specified IIJA and title 23 requirements).
This section requires the Secretary of Transportation to distribute to states, proportional to each state's share of apportionments under 23 U.S.C. §§104(c) and 165, (1) any unobligated amounts as of enactment from the charging and fueling infrastructure grant program (23 U.S.C. §151(f)) and (2) any amounts appropriated for that program in fiscal years after enactment, beginning October 1 of the fiscal year. Such distributed funds (1) must be used only for purposes described in section 2(b)(1)(A), (2) are in addition to other apportionments under §§104(c) and 165, (3) remain available until the periods applicable under the grant program, (4) are subject to Federal-aid highway obligation limitations, and (5) are administered as if apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, U.S. Code, including requirements under section 120 of that title and section 11101(e) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).