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Streamlined Apportionment, Flexibility, and Efficiency Transit Act
To amend chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, to maximize value of taxpayer dollars by providing regulatory relief for transit agencies, and for other purposes.
Summary
The Streamlined Apportionment, Flexibility, and Efficiency Transit Act modifies federal transit funding rules to reduce regulatory burden on transit agencies. The bill extends the deadline for apportioning federal transit funds to small urbanized areas to December 1 of each fiscal year and increases the time transit agencies have to spend bus formula funds from three years to five years. It streamlines environmental review processes by minimizing documentation requirements for categorically excluded projects and encouraging early coordination with State Historic Preservation Offices. The bill also directs the Transportation Secretary to consolidate and reduce reporting requirements for federal transit grant recipients and modifies the Federal Transit Administration's triennial review process to focus on previous deficiencies and common compliance issues rather than comprehensive compliance audits.
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- May 14, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
- May 14, 2026 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 14, 2026
Ms. Scholten introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, to maximize value of taxpayer dollars by providing regulatory relief for transit agencies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Streamlined Apportionment, Flexibility, and Efficiency Transit Act”.
SEC. 2. REGULATORY RELIEF FOR TRANSIT AGENCIES.
(a) Formula Funds Apportionment Streamlining.—Section 5336(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking “and” at the end;
(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
“(2) notwithstanding paragraph (1), apportion amounts to the States and recipients in urbanized areas under 1,000,000 in population appropriated under section 5338(a)(2) to carry out sections 5307, 5310, and 5311 not later than December 1 of the fiscal year for which any amounts are appropriated; and”.
(b) Bus Formula 5-Year Availability.—Section 5339(a)(8) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking “3 fiscal years” and inserting “5 fiscal years”; and
(2) by striking “3-fiscal-year” and inserting “5-fiscal- year”.
(c) Asset Disposition.—Section 5334(h)(4)(B)(ii)(II)(bb) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting “, except in the case of a recipient or subrecipient that certifies to the Secretary that the remaining amounts are to be used for capital projects under section 5307, 5310, or 5311” before the period at the end.
(d) General Provisions.—Section 5323 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(w) Categorical Exclusion Documentation.—The Secretary shall minimize the requirements for documentation, studies, and memos to the greatest extent possible for any project seeking to be categorically excluded from requirements for environmental assessments or environmental impact statements.
“(x) Early Collaboration With State Historic Preservation Offices.—The Secretary shall encourage early consultation between the project sponsor and State historic preservation offices before the process under section 206108 of title 54 begins.”.
(e) Reporting Frequency and Consolidation.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall—
(1) review all the reporting requirements that the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration requires discretionary grant recipients to meet;
(2) evaluate which such requirements can be eliminated, consolidated, or reduced in scope; and
(3) direct the Administrator to—
(A) implement the recommendations of this review; and
(B) submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a list of the reporting requirements that will be eliminated, consolidated, or reduced in scope pursuant to this subsection.
(f) FTA Triennial Review Streamlining.—Section 5307(f)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking “completely”; and
(2) by adding “The Secretary shall focus the review on previous deficiencies by the recipient and the most common deficiencies by all recipients, as identified by the Secretary. The Secretary shall randomly sample the remaining areas of compliance, not to exceed 5 categories in the random sample.” at the end. <all>
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