U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) want the U.S. Department of Transportation to update them on the status of alternative means to fund the federal Highway Trust Fund.
In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the legislators requested the status of establishing a surface transportation advisory board that would inform and provide the structure for a new national pilot program to test mileage-based user fees as a funding alternative for the fund, that would potentially replace current motor fuel taxes.
