PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT.

SEC. 20020. PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT. Section 5327 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “United States” and all that follows through “Secretary of Transportation” and inserting the following: “Federal financial assistance for a major capital project for public transportation under this chapter or any other provision of Federal law, a recipient must prepare a project management plan approved by the Secretary and carry out the project in accordance with the project management plan”; and (B) in paragraph (12), by striking “each month” and inserting “quarterly”; (2) by striking subsections (c), (d), and (f); (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following: “(c) Access to Sites and Records. Each recipient of Federal financial assistance for public transportation under this chapter or any other provision of Federal law shall provide the Secretary and a contractor the Secretary chooses under section 5338(i) with access to the construction sites and records of the recipient when reasonably necessary.” ; (4) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (d); and (5) in subsection (d), as so redesignated— (A) in paragraph (1), by striking “subsection (c) of this section” and inserting “section 5338(i)”; and (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking “preliminary engineering stage” and inserting “project development phase”; and (ii) by striking “another stage” and inserting “another phase”.