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| PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3194 | PRINTER'S NO. 3301 |
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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BOBACK, GEIST, HELM, MAJOR, MILLARD, PASHINSKI, PICKETT AND FARRY, MARCH 12, 2012 |
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| AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 29, 2012 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Providing for the adoption of capital projects related to flood |
2 | disaster railroad assistance projects. |
3 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
4 | hereby enacts as follows: |
5 | Section 1. Short title. |
6 | This act shall be known and may be cited as the Flood |
7 | Disaster Railroad Assistance Project Itemization Act of 2012. |
8 | Section 2. Definitions. |
9 | The following words and phrases when used in this act shall |
10 | have the meanings given to them in this section unless the |
11 | context clearly indicates otherwise: |
12 | "Disaster." The period of time in calendar year 2011 |
13 | relating to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee that was the |
14 | subject of a presidential declaration of an emergency under The |
15 | Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act |
16 | (Public Law 93-288, 88 Stat. 143). |
17 | Section 3. Total authorization. |
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1 | The total authorization for disaster assistance projects to |
2 | be financed in part with grants as itemized in this act is |
3 | $2,600,000. |
4 | Section 4. Itemization of disaster assistance projects. |
5 | The individual disaster assistance projects to be financed |
6 | from current revenues are hereby itemized, together with their |
7 | respective estimated financial costs, as follows: |
8 | Department of Transportation $2,600,000 |
9 | (1) Lycoming Valley Railroad 1,000,000 |
10 | (2) Delaware & Hudson Railway 1,600,000 |
11 | Section 5. Funds. |
12 | The projects itemized in this act shall be funded from |
13 | current revenues of the General Fund the current amount | <-- |
14 | appropriated for General Fund rail freight assistance. |
15 | Section 6. Federal funds. |
16 | All moneys received from the Federal Government for the |
17 | projects specifically itemized in this act are also hereby |
18 | appropriated for those projects. |
19 | Section 7. Construction. |
20 | Amounts contained in this act for any project shall not |
21 | supplant or replace any Federal funds authorized by any Federal |
22 | law or regulation. Funding from this act for any project is |
23 | available only to the extent that Federal funds are not |
24 | available for such project. |
25 | Section 8. Effective date. |
26 | This act shall take effect immediately. |
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