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[CITE: 49USC26105]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                        SUBTITLE V--RAIL PROGRAMS
 
                         PART D--HIGH-SPEED RAIL
 
                 CHAPTER 261--HIGH-SPEED RAIL ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 26105. Definitions

    For purposes of this chapter--
        (1) the term ``financial assistance'' includes grants, 
    contracts, and cooperative agreements;
        (2) the term ``high-speed rail'' means all forms of nonhighway 
    ground transportation that run on rails or electromagnetic guideways 
    providing transportation service which is--
            (A) reasonably expected to reach sustained speeds of more 
        than 125 miles per hour; and
            (B) made available to members of the general public as 
        passengers,

    but does not include rapid transit operations within an urban area 
    that are not connected to the general rail system of transportation;
        (3) the term ``publicly financed costs'' means the costs funded 
    after April 29, 1993, by Federal, State, and local governments;
        (4) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    Transportation;
        (5) the term ``State'' means any of the several States, the 
    District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
    Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and any other territory or 
    possession of the United States; and
        (6) the term ``United States private business'' means a business 
    entity organized under the laws of the United States, or of a State, 
    and conducting substantial business operations in the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 103-440, title I, Sec. 103(a)(2), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 
4618; amended Pub. L. 105-178, title VII, Sec. 7201(b), June 9, 1998, 
112 Stat. 470.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Par. (2). Pub. L. 105-178 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to 
amendment, par. (2) read as follows: ``the term `high-speed rail' has 
the meaning given such term under section 511(n) of the Railroad 
Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976;''.
