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Conference negotiators agree pilot‑fund language, flag pressure on T fund if policy isn’t adopted
Summary
Members of the Senate–House conference committee on the transportation bill agreed to budget language tying pilot‑fund money to a nonfederal disaster program and warned that, if the accompanying policy is not approved, the T fund will absorb added funding pressure.
Conference committee members negotiating the transportation bill agreed to budget language that would appropriate pilot‑fund money for the Town Highway nonfederal disaster program and to reversion language if that money is unspent.
The change was described as an agreement on the pilot fund’s purpose and limit: the money “can only be used for that program and cannot be put into the key fund or used for any other transportation purposes,” according to committee…
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