months following the employee’s separation from Fed-
eral service, provided that the employee pays his req-
uisite share of such costs over the same 18 month pe-
riod.
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS HIGHWAY
PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, semitrailer units operating in a truck tractor-
semitrailer combination whose semitrailer unit is more
than
forty-eight
feet
in
length
and
truck
tractor-
semitrailer-trailer
combinations
specified
in
section
31111(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, may not oper-
ate on United States Route 15 in Virginia between the
Maryland border and the intersection with United States
Route 29.
SEC. 402. Item 30 of the table contained in section
1107(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi-
ciency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2050), relating to Mobile,
Alabama, is amended in the second column by inserting
after ‘‘Alabama’’ the following: ‘‘and for feasibility studies,
preliminary engineering, and construction of a new bridge
and approaches over the Mobile River’’.
SEC. 403. Item 94 of the table contained in section
1107(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi-
ciency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2052), relating to St. Thom-
as, Virgin Islands, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘St. Thomas,’’; and
(2) by inserting after ‘‘the island’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘of St. Thomas and improvements to the VIPA
Molasses Dock intermodal port facility on the island
of St. Croix to make the facility capable of handling
multiple cargo tasks’’.
SEC. 403. The funds authorized to be appropriated for
highway-railroad grade crossing separations in Mineola,
New York, under the head ‘‘Highway-Railroad Grade Cross-
ing Safety Demonstration Project (Highway Trust Fund)’’
in House Report 99–976 and section 302(l) of Public Law
99–591 are hereby also authorized to be appropriated for
other grade crossing improvements in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties in New York and shall be available in accordance
with the terms of the original authoriziaton in House Re-
port 99–976.
SEC. 404. The Secretary of Transportation is hereby
authorized to enter into an agreement modifying the
agreement entered into pursuant to section 336 of the De-
partment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–331) and section
356 of the Department of Transportation and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–50)
to provide an additional line of credit not to exceed
$25,000,000, which may be used to replace otherwise re-
quired contingency reserves; provided, however, that the
Secretary may only enter into such modification if it is
supported by the amount of the original appropriation
(provided by section 336 of Public Law 103–331). No ad-
ditional appropriation is made by this section. In imple-
menting this section, the Secretary may enter into an
agreement requiring an interest rate, on both the original
line of credit and the additional amount provided for here-
in, higher than that currently in force and higher than
that specified in the original appropriation. An agreement
entered into pursuant to this section may not obligate the
Secretary to make any funds available until all remaining
contingency reserves are exhausted, and in no event shall
any funds be made available before October 1, 1998.
SEC. 405. Public Law 100–202 is amended in the
item relating to ‘‘Traffic Improvement Demonstration
Project’’ by inserting after ‘‘project’’ the following: ‘‘or up-
grade existing local roads’’.
SEC. 406. The amount appropriated for the Lake
Shore Drive extension study, Whiting, Indiana, under the
matter under the heading ‘‘SURFACE
TRANSPORTATION
PROJECTS’’ under the heading ‘‘FEDERAL HIGHWAY
ADMINISTRATION’’ in title I of the Department of
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1995 (Public Law 103–331; 108 Stat. 2478), shall be made
available to carry out the congestion relief project for the
construction of a 4-lane road and overpass at Merrillville,
Indiana, authorized by item 35 of section 1104(b) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(Public Law 102–240; 105 Stat. 2030).
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. (a) LIMITATION ON NEW LOAN GUARAN-
TEES FOR CERTAIN RAILROAD PROJECTS.—None of the
funds made available in this Act may be used for the cost
of any new loan guarantee commitment for any railroad
project, when it is made known to the Federal official hav-
ing authority to obligate or expend such funds that such
railroad project is an international railroad project of the
United States and another country, or a railroad project
in the United States in the vicinity of the United States
border with another country.
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that—
(1) a comprehensive study has been conducted
after the date of the enactment of this Act regarding
criminal activities that have occurred on existing
railroads of such type, including—
(A) the use of such railroads to facilitate
the smuggling of illegal aliens and illegal drugs
into the United States, and the impact of such
smuggling on the total number of illegal aliens,
and the total amount of illegal drugs, entering
the United States; and
(B) the commission of robberies against
such railroads; and
(2) a detailed report setting forth the results of
such study has been issued and made available to
the public.
SEC. 502. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used by the National Transportation Safety
Board to plan, conduct, or enter into any contract for a
study to determine the feasibility of allowing individuals
who are more than 60 years of age to pilot commercial
aircraft.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1997’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 28 (legis-
lative day of June 27), 1996.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
By LINDA NAVE,
Deputy Clerk.
[COMMITTEE PRINT]
Calendar No. 
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3675
[Report No. 104–
]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Department of
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1997, and for other
purposes.
JUNE 28, 1996
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on
Appropriations
JULY 00 (legislative day, JULY 00), 1996
Reported with amendments