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of the Chief Information Officer: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of Transportation is authorized to transfer funds 
appropriated for any office of the Office of the Secretary 
(except for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Busi-
ness Utilization) to any other office of the Office of the 
Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation for any 
office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 per-
cent by all such transfers: Provided further, That notice 
of any change in funding greater than 5 percent shall be 
submitted for approval to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed $60,000 shall be for allocation within the Department 
for official reception and representation expenses as the 
Secretary may determine: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, excluding fees author-
ized in Public Law 107–71, there may be credited to this 
appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in user 
fees: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
in this Act shall be available for the position of Assistant 
Secretary for Public Affairs. 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing 
the Department of Transportation’s financial systems and 
re-engineering business processes, $10,000,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2014. 
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CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES 
For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, 
including necessary upgrades to wide area network and 
information technology infrastructure, improvement of 
network perimeter controls and identity management, 
testing and assessment of information technology against 
business, security, and other requirements, implementa-
tion of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 
infrastructure enhancements, implementation of enhanced 
security controls on network devices, and enhancement of 
cyber security workforce training tools, $6,000,000, to re-
main available through September 30, 2014. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$9,773,000. 
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND 
DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation 
planning, research, systems development, development ac-
tivities, and making grants, to remain available until ex-
pended, $8,000,000. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For necessary expenses for operating costs and cap-
ital outlays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed 
$174,128,000 shall be paid from appropriations made 
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available to the Department of Transportation: Provided, 
That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation: Pro-
vided further, That the above limitation on operating ex-
penses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency 
of the Department shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund without majority approval of the Working 
Capital Fund Steering Committee and approval of the 
Secretary: Provided further, That no assessments may be 
levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity or 
project funded by this Act unless notice of such assess-
ments and the basis therefor are presented to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are ap-
proved by such Committees. 
MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $418,000, as au-
thorized by 49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $21,955,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the guaranteed loan program, $867,388. 
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MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses of Minority Business Re-
source Center outreach activities, $3,234,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2014: Provided, That not-
withstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for 
business opportunities related to any mode of transpor-
tation. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to funds made available from any other 
source to carry out the essential air service program under 
49 U.S.C. 41731 through 41742, $114,000,000, to be de-
rived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That in determining 
between or among carriers competing to provide service 
to a community, the Secretary may consider the relative 
subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, 
That no funds made available under section 41742 of title 
49, United States Code, and no funds made available in 
this Act or any other Act in any fiscal year, shall be avail-
able to carry out the essential air service program under 
sections 41731 through 41742 of such title 49 in commu-
nities in the 48 contiguous States unless the community 
received subsidized essential air service or received a 90- 
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day notice of intent to terminate service and the Secretary 
required the air carrier to continue to provide service to 
the community at any time between September 30, 2010, 
and September 30, 2011, inclusive: Provided further, That 
basic essential air service minimum requirements shall not 
include the 15-passenger capacity requirement under sub-
section 41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That if the funds under this heading are 
insufficient to meet the costs of the essential air service 
program in the current fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
transfer such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
essential air service program from any available amounts 
appropriated to or directly administered by the Office of 
the Secretary for such fiscal year. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE 
SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this 
Act to the Department of Transportation may be obligated 
for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation to ap-
prove assessments or reimbursable agreements pertaining 
to funds appropriated to the modal administrations in this 
Act, except for activities underway on the date of enact-
ment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements 
have completed the normal reprogramming process for 
Congressional notification. 
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