Us Code § 22901 - Definitions
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§ 22901. Definitions
In this chapter:
(1)
(2)
(A) acquiring, constructing, improving, or inspecting equipment, track and track structures, or a facility for use in or for the primary benefit of intercity passenger rail service, expenses incidental to the acquisition or construction (including designing, engineering, location surveying, mapping, environmental studies, and acquiring rights-of-way), payments for the capital portions of rail trackage rights agreements, highway-rail grade crossing improvements related to intercity passenger rail service, mitigating environmental impacts, communication and signalization improvements, relocation assistance, acquiring replacement housing sites, and acquiring, constructing, relocating, and rehabilitating replacement housing;
(B) rehabilitating, remanufacturing or overhauling rail rolling stock and facilities used primarily in intercity passenger rail service;
(C) costs associated with developing State rail plans; and
(D) the first-dollar liability costs for insurance related to the provision of intercity passenger rail service under section 22904.
(3)
(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title III, §301(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4935, §24401; renumbered §22901 and amended Pub. L. 115–420, §7(a)(1), (b)(2)(A), Jan. 3, 2019, 132 Stat. 5445, 5446.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2019—Pub. L. 115–420, §7(a)(1), renumbered section 24401 of this title as this section.
Par. (2)(D). Pub. L. 115–420, §7(b)(2)(A), substituted "22904" for "24404".
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