108 STAT. 894 PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 (2) destroys, mutilates, changes, or by another means falsifies such a record or report; (3) does not enter required specified facts and transactions in such a record or report; (4) makes or preserves such a record or report in violation of a regulation prescribed or order issued under chapter 201 of this title; or (5) files a false record or report with the Secretary of Transportation. (b) ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT REPORTS.—A railroad carrier not filing the report required by section 20901 of this title shall be fined not more than $500 for each violation and not more than $500 for each day during which the report is overdue. PART B—ASSISTANCE CHAPTER 221—LOCAL RAIL FREIGHT ASSISTANCE Sec. 22101. Financial assistance for State projects. 22102. Eligibility. 22103. Applications. 22104. State rail plan financing. 22105. Sharing project costs. = 22106. Limitations on financial assistance. 22107.. Records, audits, and information. 22108. Authorization of appropriations. § 22101. Financial assistance for State projects (a) GENERAL. —The Secretary of Transportation shall provide financial assistance to a State, as provided under this chapter, for a rail freight assistance project of the State when a rail carrier subject to subchapter I of chapter 105 of this title maintains a rail line in the State. The assistance is for the cost of— (1) acquiring, in any way the State considers appropriate, an interest in a rail line or rail property to maintain existing, or to provide future, rail freight transportation, but only if the Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized, or exempted from the requirements of that authorization, the abandonment of, or the discontinuance of rail transportation on, the rail line related to the project; (2) improving and rehabilitating rail property on a rail line to the extent necessary to allow adequate and efficient rail freight transportation on the line, but only if the rail carrier certifies that the rail line related to the project carried not more than 5,000,000 gross ton-miles of freight a mile in the prior year; and (3) building rail or rail-related facilities (including new connections between at least 2 existing rail lines, intermodal freight terminals, sidings, bridges, and relocation of existing lines) to improve the quality and efficiency of the rail freight transportation, but only if the rail carrier certifies that the rail line related to the project carried not more than 5,000,000 gross ton-miles of freight a mile in the prior year. (b) CALCULATING COST-BENEFIT RATIO. —The Secretary shall establish a methodology for calculating the ratio of benefits to costs of projects proposed under this chapter. In establishing the methodology, the Secretary shall consider the need for equitable treatment of different regions of the United States and different
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