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        H.R.2988

                       One Hundred Fourth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six


                                 An Act


 
       To amend the Clean Air Act to provide that traffic signal 
    synchronization projects are exempt from certain requirements of 
                 Environmental Protection Agency Rules.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION. 1. TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYNCHRONIZATION PROJECTS.

    Section 176(c)(4) (42 U.S.C. 7506(c)(4)) of the Clean Air Act is 
amended by adding the following at the end thereof:
    ``(D) Compliance with the rules of the Administrator for 
determining the conformity of transportation plans, programs, and 
projects funded or approved under title 23 of the United States Code or 
the Federal Transit Act to State or Federal implementation plans shall 
not be required for traffic signal synchronization projects prior to 
the funding, approval or implementation of such projects. The 
supporting regional emissions analysis for any conformity determination 
made with respect to a transportation plan, program, or project shall 
consider the effect on emissions of any such project funded, approved, 
or implemented prior to the conformity determination.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.