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motor vehicles for those officers or employees while in offi-
cial travel status.
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal
Transit Administration’s programs authorized by chapter
53 of title 49, United States Code, $45,738,000: Provided,
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for
the execution of contracts under section 5327(c) of title
49, United States Code, in an aggregate amount that ex-
ceeds $15,000,000.
FORMULA GRANTS
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307,
5310(a)(2), 5311, and 5336, to remain available until ex-
pended, $290,000,000: Provided, That no more than
$2,500,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for
these purposes: Provided further, That of the funds pro-
vided under this head for formula grants, no more than
$200,000,000 may be used for operating assistance under
49 U.S.C. 5336(d): Provided further, That the limitation
on operating assistance provided under this heading shall,
for urbanized areas of less than 200,000 in population,
be no less than seventy-five percent of the amount of oper-
ating assistance such areas are eligible to receive under
Public Law 103–331: Provided further, That in the dis-
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tribution of the limitation provided under this heading to
urbanized areas that had a population under the 1990
census of 1,000,000 or more, the Secretary shall direct
each such area to give priority consideration to the impact
of reductions in operating assistance on smaller transit au-
thorities operating within the area and to consider the
needs and resources of such transit authorities when the
limitation is distributed among all transit authorities oper-
ating in the area.
UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTERS
For necessary expenses for university transportation
centers as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5317(b), to remain
available until expended, $6,000,000.
TRANSIT PLANNING AND RESEARCH
For necessary expenses for transit planning and re-
search as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5303, 5311, 5313,
5314, and 5315, to remain available until expended,
$86,000,000, of which $39,500,000 shall be for activities
under 
Metropolitan 
Planning 
(49 
U.S.C. 
5303);
$4,500,000 for activities under Rural Transit Assistance
(49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)); $8,250,000 for activities under
State Planning and Research (49 U.S.C. 5313(b));
$22,500,000 for activities under National Planning and
Research (49 U.S.C. 5314); $8,250,000 for activities
under Transit Cooperative Research (49 U.S.C. 5313(a));
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and $3,000,000 for National Transit Institute (49 U.S.C.
5315).
TRUST FUND SHARE OF EXPENSES
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out
49 U.S.C. 5338(a), $2,210,000,000, to remain available
until expended and to be derived from the Highway Trust
Fund: Provided, That $2,210,000,000 shall be paid from
the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to
the Federal Transit Administration’s formula grants ac-
count.
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
None of the funds in this Act shall be available for
the implementation or execution of programs the obliga-
tions for which are in excess of $2,000,000,000 in fiscal
year 1998 for grants under the contract authority in 49
U.S.C. 5338(b): Provided, That there shall be available
for fixed guideway modernization, $800,000,000; there
shall be available for the replacement, rehabilitation, and
purchase of buses and related equipment and the con-
struction of bus-related facilities, $400,000,000; and there
shall be available for new fixed guideway systems
$800,000,000, to be available as follows:
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$44,600,000 for the Atlanta-North Springs
project (subject to authorization);
$46,300,000 for the Boston Piers MOS–2
project (subject to authorization);
$2,300,000 for the Canton-Akron-Cleveland
commuter rail project (subject to authorization);
$1,000,000 for the Charlotte South corridor
transitway project (subject to authorization);
$500,000 for the Cincinnati Northeast/North-
ern Kentucky rail line project (subject to authoriza-
tion);
$5,000,000 for the Clark County, Nevada fixed
guideway project (subject to authorization);
$800,000 for the Cleveland Blue Line extension
to Highland Hills project (subject to authorization);
$700,000 for the Cleveland Berea Red Line ex-
tension to Hopkins International Airport (subject to
authorization);
$1,200,000 for the Cleveland Waterfront Line
extension project (subject to authorization);
$14,000,000 
for 
the 
Dallas-Fort 
Worth
RAILTRAN project (subject to authorization);
$8,000,000 for the DART North Central light
rail extension project (subject to authorization);
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$1,500,000 for the DeKalb County, Georgia
light rail project (subject to authorization);
$21,400,000 for the Denver Southwest Corridor
project (subject to authorization);
$7,000,000 for the Florida Tri-County com-
muter rail project (subject to authorization);
$1,000,000 for the Galveston, Texas rail trolley
system project (subject to authorization);
$1,000,000 for the Houston Advanced Regional
Bus Plan project (subject to authorization);
$51,100,000 for the Houston Regional Bus
project (subject to authorization);
$1,000,000 for the Indianapolis Northeast cor-
ridor project (subject to authorization);
$4,000,000 for the Jackson, Mississippi inter-
modal corridor project (subject to authorization);
$76,000,000 for the Los Angeles MOS–3
project (subject to authorization);
$27,000,000 for MARC commuter rail improve-
ments (subject to authorization);
$1,000,000 for the Memphis, Tennessee re-
gional rail project (subject to authorization);
$9,000,000 for the Metro-Dade Transit east-
west corridor project (subject to authorization);
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formance of hazardous materials exemptions and approv-
als functions.
PIPELINE SAFETY
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND)
For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of
the pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out
a pipeline safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C.
60107, and to discharge the pipeline program responsibil-
ities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $31,486,000, of
which $3,300,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund and shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2000; and of which $28,186,000 shall be de-
rived from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which
$14,839,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2000: Provided, That in addition to amounts made avail-
able for the Pipeline Safety Fund, $1,000,000 shall be
available for grants to States for the development and es-
tablishment of one-call notification systems and shall be
derived from amounts previously collected under section
7005 of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1985.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND)
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C.
5127(c), $200,000, to be derived from the Emergency