Senate EPW Chair Barbara Boxer
[Update: Boxer plans for the committee to act on both the extension and the two-year bill on 9/8, for possible full Senate action the following week.]
The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) will take up a four-month extension of SAFETEA-LU on September 8th. Committee Chair Boxer relayed this to some stakeholders late Thursday, according to Jeff Davis of Transportation Weekly.
The extension will be “clean” – meaning no changes to policies or funding levels, and would last through the end of January. SAFETEA-LU expires at midnight September 30th and must be renewed for keep most highway/transit programs operating and to continue the collection of federal transportation taxes.
What will House Transportation Chair John Mica do? After twenty “clean” extensions of the Federal Aviation bill, Mica successfully inserted policy changes over the objections of his Senate counterparts. Having that victory in hand, it is easy to speculate that he might try to insert policy changes in a SAFETEA-LU extension.
Boxer also announced the EPW committee will act on the bipartisan two-year highway/transit legislative proposal on September 15. 8.
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