This bill prohibits the Surface Transportation Board from approving a high-speed passenger railroad or magnetic levitation system project unless the project has a distance of at least 10 miles and the land needed for the project is acquired.
To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed 
   rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting 
                 construction, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. LAND ACQUISITION FOR HIGH-SPEED RAIL.

    (a) In General.--The Surface Transportation Board may not approve 
any high-speed rail project--
            (1) to be built across a distance of fewer than 10 miles; 
        and
            (2) before all land needed for the project is acquired.
    (b) High-Speed Rail Defined.--In this Act, the term ``high-speed 
rail'' means passenger ground transportation across a railroad or using 
magnetic levitation systems where a speed of 125 miles per hour can 
reasonably be expected to occur.
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To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting construction, and for other purposes.
To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting construction, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To direct the Surface Transportation Board to require any high-speed rail project to acquire all land for the project before starting construction, and for other purposes.
Rep. Ellzey, Jake