American Legislation

Adds grant uses to help bring jobs and manufacturing back by supporting relocation, planning, training, and business clusters under the Public Works and Economic Development Act.

Directs GSA to hold public consultations and recommend public-private financing options and projects to reduce federal building costs, with reporting and transparency requirements.

Transfers specific Clear Creek Hatchery facilities to the Nisqually Indian Tribe within 90 days, subject to valid existing rights and no payment.

Authorizes Chesapeake Bay Program Office to advise State watershed programs and offer technical and financial help for watershed projects.

Directs the EDA to create a short grant application and public guidance for small rural and Tribal communities, using stakeholder input and samples to simplify EDA grant applications.

Exempts certain USDA rural housing projects on infill sites from NEPA major-action review; requires a 5-year USDA report.

Creates a national data tool to find and analyze traffic congestion and guide mitigation investments and operations.

Clarifies EPA rules so units that recover vanadium and other metals from spent petroleum catalyst are exempt from certain solid waste and BIF requirements.

Changes how the Lake Champlain Basin Program chooses a fiscal agent and adds fisheries work and reporting requirements.

Clarifies when foreign pollution affects air-quality designations and limits sanctions for states.

Caps annual obligation authority from Highway Trust Fund to Treasury's latest receipts estimate; sets distribution rules and applies similar cap to Mass Transit Account.

Temporarily raises dollar thresholds that trigger GSA prospectus requirements for certain projects for fiscal years 2026–2028.

Creates an EPA office to plan and fund large-scale restoration and water quality projects across the Ohio River Basin.

Creates shared digital data standards and a public portal to manage and track environmental reviews and authorizations across agencies.

Conditions federal highway funding on state cooperation with immigration enforcement, driver's license verification, and information sharing.

Nullifies EPA deadline-extension rule for effluent limits at steam electric power plants.

Names the portion of Interstate 680 in Omaha from milepost 0 to the Missouri River as the Hal Daub Freeway.

Changes who can get roadside pollinator grants, increases grant sizes and funding, and adds consultation steps with Fish and Wildlife and certain Tribes within 50 miles.

Expands and adjusts federal credit programs to finance transit-oriented and attainable housing projects near transit with delegated lending and program extensions.

Requires states to publish annual online reports on major transportation projects and review project performance in plans.

Extends clean and drinking water resilience program authorizations through fiscal years 2027–2031.

Expands air toxics and ambient monitoring, requires fenceline and community sensors, public data access, and EPA rulemaking and reporting.

Reauthorizes and expands a highway program funding wildlife crossing projects, adds tribal assistance and higher federal shares for small communities.