Bill > HR5354

This bill, the Generating Resilient, Environmentally Exceptional National Streets Act (GREEN Streets Act), aims to require transportation planners to consider projects and strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. Establishing national goals to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resilience of the transportation system. The Department of Transportation (DOT) is directed to set minimum standards for states to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and per capita vehicle miles traveled (VMTs) on the National Highway System. 2. Requiring states and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to consider projects and strategies that reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and decrease per capita VMTs. States and MPOs must also publish an analysis of the impact on per capita VMTs and mobile source greenhouse gas emissions for each project that adds new lanes or increases traffic capacity and costs more than $25 million. 3. Establishing national transit access standards and performance measures for transit accessibility, transit stop distance, and transit mode share. The DOT must require certain metropolitan areas and states to set targets and report on their progress in meeting these standards. 4. Penalizing states that fail to meet the standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and per capita VMTs by requiring them to dedicate a portion of their federal highway funding to achieve compliance.