Route and service criteria

§ 24703. Route and service criteria (a) Route Discontinuances and Additions.—Except as provided in this part, route discontinuances and route additions snail comply with the route and service criteria. (b) Congressional Review of Criteria Amendments.—(1) Amtrak shall submit to Congress a draft of an amendment to the route and service criteria when Amtrak decides an amendment is appropriate. The amendment is effective at the end of the first period of 120 calendar days of continuous session of Congress after it is submitted unless there is enacted into law during the period a joint resolution stating Congress does not approve the amendment. (2) In this subsection— (A) a continuous session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment sine die; and (B) the 120-day period does not include days on which either House is not in session because of adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain. (c) Nonapplication.—The route and service criteria do not apply to— (1) increasing or, because of construction schedules or other temporary disruptive facts or seasonal fluctuations in ridership, decreasing the number of trains on an existing route or a part of an existing route or on a route on which additional trains are being tested; (2) carrying out the recommendations developed under section 4 of the Amtrak Improvement Act of 1978; (3) rerouting transportation between major population centers on an existing route; or (4) (A) modifying transportation operations under section 24707(a) of this title; and 108 STAT. 925 (B) modifying the route system or discontinuing transportation under section 24707(b) of this title.