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which would not be obligated in fiscal year 1995 if the
total amount of the obligation limitation provided for such
fiscal year in this Act were utilized.
(f) Paragraph (e) shall not apply to any State which
on or after August 1, 1995, has the amount distributed
to such State under paragraph (a) for fiscal year 1995
reduced under paragraph (c)(2).
SEC. 311. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than one hundred
and ten political and Presidential appointees in the De-
partment of Transportation: Provided, That none of the
personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on
temporary detail outside the Department of Transpor-
tation.
SEC. 312. Not to exceed $850,000 of the funds pro-
vided in this Act for the Department of Transportation
shall be available for the necessary expenses of advisory
committees.
SEC. 313. The limitation on obligations for the pro-
grams of the Federal Transit Administration shall not
apply to any authority under section 21 of the Federal
Transit Act, previously made available for obligation, or
to any other authority previously made available for obli-
gation under the discretionary grants program.
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Ω154æSEC. 314. None of the funds in this Act shall
be used to implement section 404 of title 23, United
States Code.
SEC. 314. For the purpose of carrying out a dem-
onstration of the construction of highways in high priority
corridors, authorized by section 1105(f) of Public Law 102–
240, there is hereby appropriated $6,000,000 for the Sec-
retary to enter into an agreement to make a loan or loans
not to exceed $40,000,000 to the public entity or entities
with the statutory duty to construct such facilities: Pro-
vided, That such loan or loans shall be repaid by direct
repayment no later than the fifth Federal fiscal year follow-
ing the year in which a loan was made. Funds made avail-
able by this section shall not be subject to any limitation.
SEC. 315. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1995 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act
Ω155æor from available unobligated balances.
SEC. 316. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to plan, finalize, or implement regulations that would
establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles
wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation
Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation
Scheme.
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SEC. 317. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, airports may transfer, without consideration, to the
Federal Aviation Administration instrument landing sys-
tems (along with associated approach lighting equipment
and runway visual range equipment) which conform to
Federal Aviation Administration design and performance
specifications, the purchase of which was assisted by a
Federal airport aid program, airport development aid pro-
gram or airport improvement program grant. The Federal
Aviation Administration shall accept such equipment,
which shall thereafter be operated and maintained by the
Federal Aviation Administration in accordance with agen-
cy criteria.
SEC. 318. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to award a multiyear contract for production end
items that (1) includes economic order quantity or long
lead time material procurement in excess of $10,000,000
in any one year of the contract or (2) includes a cancella-
tion charge greater than $10,000,000 which at the time
of obligation has not been appropriated to the limits of
the government’s liability or (3) includes a requirement
that permits performance under the contract during the
second and subsequent years of the contract without con-
ditioning such performance upon the appropriation of
funds: Provided, That this limitation does not apply to a
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contract in which the federal government incurs no finan-
cial liability from not buying additional systems, sub-
systems, or components beyond the basic contract require-
ments.
SEC. 319. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be made available for planning and executing a pas-
senger manifest program by the Department of Transpor-
tation that only applies to United States flag carriers.
Ω156æSEC. 320. None of the funds made available
in this Act may be used to implement, administer, or en-
force the provisions of section 1038(d) of Public Law 102–
240.
SEC. 320. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Of-
fice of the Secretary to any other Office of the Office of the
Secretary: Provided, That no appropriation shall be in-
creased or decreased by more than 12 per centum by all
such transfers: Provided further, That any such transfer
shall be submitted for approval to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 321. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and except for fixed guideway modernization projects,
funds made available by this Act under ‘‘Federal Transit
Administration, Discretionary grants’’ for projects speci-
fied in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this
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Act not obligated by September 30, 1997, shall be made
available for other projects under section 3 of the Federal
Transit Act, as amended.
SEC. 322. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, any funds appropriated before October 1, 1993, under
any section of the Federal Transit Act, as amended, that
remain available for expenditure may be transferred to
and administered under the most recent appropriation
heading for any such section.
SEC. 323. (a) Of the budgetary resources available
to the Department of Transportation (excluding the Mari-
time 
Administration) 
during 
fiscal 
year 
1995,
$65,120,000 are permanently canceled.
(b) The Secretary of Transportation shall allocate the
amount of budgetary resources canceled among the De-
partment’s accounts (excluding the Maritime Administra-
tion) available for procurement and procurement-related
expenses. Amounts available for procurement and procure-
ment-related expenses in each such account shall be re-
duced by the amount allocated to such account.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the definition
of ‘‘procurement’’ includes all stages of the process of ac-
quiring property or services, beginning with the process
of determining a need for a product or services and ending
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with contract completion and closeout, as specified in 41
U.S.C. 403(2).
Ω157æSEC. 324. Of the funds appropriated in Public
Law 103–122 for railroad-highway crossings projects,
$20,000,000 shall be available for costs, not to exceed 80
percent, of a project to reduce rail-highway conflicts on
M–59 near Pontiac, Michigan, and a project on Bristol
Road near Flint, Michigan, including $500,000 which
shall be made available to improve and upgrade Maple
Road at Bishop Airport, Michigan:–Provided, That of the
funds appropriated in Public Law 94–387 for railroad-
highway demonstration projects, $486,000 in unobligated
balances shall be made available for the rail relocation
project in Lafayette, Indiana.
SEC. 324. For necessary expenses to carry out a pilot
project to provide direct financial assistance by contract,
to a community group incorporated for the purpose of pro-
tecting the scenic qualities of a designated scenic byway,
to demonstrate the effect of alternative highway designs on
the scenic and historic qualities of a scenic byway, a sum
of $100,000: Provided, That such amount be derived from
moneys available for contract programs for a national sce-
nic byways study made available by Public Law 101–164
(Federal Highway Administration Limitation on General
Operating Expenses) as further referenced by Conference
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Report 101–315 and not expended as of the date of this
Act.
Ω158æSEC. 325. None of the funds provided by this
Act shall be made available to any State, municipality or
subdivision thereof that diverts revenue generated by a
public airport in violation of the provisions of the Airport
and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended.
SEC. 325. None of the funds provided in this Act for
the United States Coast Guard shall be available for the
inspection of Department of Defense vessels excluding those
under the Ready Reserve Force and the National Defense
Reserve Fleet after January 1, 1995.
SEC. 326. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to implement or enforce regulations that would result
in the withdrawal of a slot from an air carrier at O’Hare
International Airport under section 93.223 of title 14 of
the Code of Federal Regulations in excess of the total slots
withdrawn from that air carrier as of October 31, 1993
if such additional slot is to be allocated to an air carrier
or foreign air carrier under section 93.217 of title 14 of
the Code of Federal Regulations.
Ω159æSEC. 327. None of the funds made available
by this Act may be obligated or expended to design, con-
struct, erect, modify or otherwise place any sign in any
State relating to any speed limit, distance, or other meas-
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urement on any highway if such sign establishes such
speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the met-
ric system.
SEC. 327. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, tolls collected for motor vehicles on any bridge connect-
ing the boroughs of Brooklyn, New York, and Staten Island,
New York, shall continue to be collected for only those vehi-
cles exiting from such bridge in Staten Island.
SEC. 328. None of the funds provided by this Act
shall be made available for any airport development
project, or projects, proposed in any grant application sub-
mitted in accordance with title V of Public Law 97–248
(96 Stat. 671; 49 U.S.C. App. 2201 et seq.) to any public
agency, public authority, or public airport that imposes a
fee for any passenger enplaning at the airport in any in-
stance where the passenger did not pay for the air trans-
portation which resulted in such enplanement, including
any case in which the passenger obtained the ticket for
the air transportation with a frequent flyer award coupon.
Ω160æSEC. 329. None of the funds in this Act may
be used to continue the federally-funded research and de-
velopment center (FFRDC) relationship between the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration and the Center for Advanced
Aviation Systems Development after March 31, 1995:–
Provided, That the Federal Aviation Administration may
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continue this work after March 31, 1995 only by full and
open competition among all interested parties, including
the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development.
SEC. 329. (a) The Secretary of Transportation may
enter into grants, cooperative agreements, and other trans-
actions with any person, agency, or instrumentality of the
United States, any unit of State or local government, any
educational institution, and any other entity in execution
of the Technology Reinvestment Project authorized under
the Defense Conversion, Reinvestment and Transition As-
sistance Act of 1992 and related legislation.
(b) The authority provided in this section may be exer-
cised without regard to section 3324 of title 31, United
States Code.
SEC. 330. Funds provided in this Act for the Depart-
ment of Transportation working capital fund (WCF) shall
be reduced by Ω161æ$13,253,000 $6,105,000, which limits
fiscal year 1995 WCF obligational authority for elements
of the Department of Transportation funded in this Act
to no more than Ω162æ$88,750,000 $94,855,000: Pro-
vided, That such reductions from the budget request shall
be allocated by the Department of Transportation to each
appropriations account in proportion to the amount in-
cluded from each account for the working capital fund.
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SEC. 331. Funds provided in this Act for bonuses and
cash awards for employees of the Department of Trans-
portation 
shall 
be 
reduced 
by 
Ω163æ$6,012,680
$5,169,000, which limits fiscal year 1995 obligational au-
thority to no more than Ω164æ$25,500,000 $26,344,000:
Provided, That this provision shall be applied to funds for
Senior Executive Service bonuses, merit pay, and other bo-
nuses and cash awards.
Ω165æSEC. 332. Section 127(a) of title 23, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing: ‘‘With respect to the State of Maryland, laws and reg-
ulations in effect on June 1, 1993, shall be applicable for
the purposes of this subsection.’’.
SEC. 332. The Federal Aviation Administration is di-
rected to install a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at
Charlotte, North Carolina in fiscal year 1995, and to com-
mission that radar no later than December 31, 1995.
SEC. 333. Funds received Ω166æby the Research and
Special Programs Administration from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private
sources for expenses incurred for training and for reports’
publication and dissemination may be credited to the Re-
search and Special Programs account.
SEC. 334. Funds received Ω167æby the Federal High-
way Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and
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Federal Railroad Administration from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private
sources for expenses incurred for training may be credited
Ω168ærespectively to the Federal Highway Administra-
tion’s ‘‘Limitation on General Operating Expenses’’ ac-
count, the Federal Transit Administration’s ‘‘Transit
Planning and Research’’ account, and to the Federal Rail-
road Administration’s ‘‘Railroad Safety’’ account, except
for State rail safety inspectors participating in training
pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Railroad Safety
Act of 1970.
Ω169æSEC. 335. (a) Subsection (b) of section 1045
of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
of 1991 (105 Stat. 1994) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—
‘‘(1) GENERAL RULE.—Upon approval of any
substitute project or projects under subsection (a)—
‘‘(A) the costs of construction of the eligi-
ble transitway project for which such project or
projects are substituted shall not be eligible for
funds authorized under section 108(b) of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956; and
‘‘(B) a sum equal to the amount that
would have been apportioned to the State of
Wisconsin on October 1, 1994, under section
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104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code, if
the Secretary had not approved such project or
projects shall be available to the Secretary from
the Highway Trust Fund to incur obligations
for the Federal share of the costs of such sub-
stitute project or projects.
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts made available
under paragraph (1)(B) shall be available for obliga-
tion on and after October 1, 1994. Amounts made
available under paragraph (1)(B) shall remain avail-
able until expended and shall be subject to any limi-
tation on obligations for Federal-aid highways estab-
lished by law.
‘‘(3)
APPLICABILITY
OF
TITLE
U.S.C.—
Amounts made available under paragraph (1)(B)
shall be available for obligation in the same manner
as if such funds were apportioned under chapter 1
of title 23, United States Code; except that the Fed-
eral share of the cost of any project carried out with
such funds shall be determined in accordance with
section 103(e)(4)(D) of such title.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) SUBSECTION (c).—The second sentence of
subsection (c) of section 1045 of such Act is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘the authority of section 103(e)(4) of
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title 23, United States Code,’’ and inserting ‘‘section
21(a)(2) of the Federal Transit Act’’.
(2) SUBSECTION (d)(1).—Subsection (d)(1) of
section 1045 of such Act is amended by striking
‘‘project for’’ and all that follows through the period
at the end thereof and inserting ‘‘transit project.’’.
(3) SUBSECTION (d).—Subsection (d) of section
1045 of such Act is amended by striking paragraph
(3) and by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (3).
(c) REDUCTION OF INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION AU-
THORIZATION.—Section 108(b) of the Federal-Aid High-
way Act of 1956 is amended by striking ‘‘$1,800,000,000
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$1,800,000,000, reduced by the amount made avail-
able under section 1045(b)(1)(B) of the Intermodal Sur-
face Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1996’’.
SEC. 335. Section 12(c)(1) of the Federal Transit Act
is amended by inserting ‘‘payments for the capital portions
of rail trackage rights agreements,’’ after ‘‘rights-of-way,’’.
SEC. 336. (a) FEDERAL LINE OF CREDIT.—For the
purpose of carrying out a demonstration of the construc-
tion of public toll roads in Orange County, California, au-
thorized by section 129(d) of title 23, United States Code,
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there is hereby appropriated $8,000,000 for the Secretary
to enter into an agreement to make a line of credit avail-
able, with a principal amount not to exceed $120,000,000
to the public entity or entities with the statutory authority
to construct such facilities.
(b) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—The line of credit under
this section shall be available for draws during the period
beginning on the date of completion of construction and
ending on the last day of the tenth calendar year following
the date construction of the facilities is completed.
(c) PURPOSES.—The line of credit under this section
shall be available to pay the costs of extraordinary repair
and replacement of the facilities, unexpected Federal or
State environmental restrictions, operation and mainte-
nance expenses of the facilities, and debt service on tax-
exempt or taxable obligations financing the facilities.
(d) LIMITATIONS.—
(1) CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.—With respect to
capital expenditures, draws on the line of credit
under this section shall only be made if and to the
extent proceeds from the sale of the obligations is-
sued by the public entity or entities which otherwise
would be available for such purposes are exhausted,
or are otherwise unavailable for the payment of such
capital expenditures.
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(2) EXPENSES.—With respect to expenses, in-
cluding operation and maintenance expenses and
debt service, a draw on the line of credit under this
section shall only be made if revenues from toll oper-
ations and capitalized interest are insufficient (or
are otherwise unavailable) for such purposes.
(3) PER YEAR.—No more than 10 percent of
the total principal amount of the line of credit under
this section shall be available for draws in any one
year.
(4) THIRD PARTY CREDITOR RIGHTS.—No third
party creditor of the public entity or entities shall
have any right against the Federal Government with
respect to draws on the line of credit under this sec-
tion.
(5) AVAILABILITY FOR PARTICULAR COSTS.—
There is no guaranteed availability of proceeds of
the line of credit under this section for the payment
of any particular cost of the public entity or entities
which might be financed under this section.
(e) INTEREST RATE AND REPAYMENT PERIOD.—Any
draws (except for operation and maintenance expenses) on
the line of credit under this section shall accrue interest
at the 30-year United States Treasury bond rate begin-
ning on the date such draws are made and shall be repaid
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in not more than 30 years; except that any draws under
the line of credit for operation and maintenance expenses
shall accrue interest at the 3-year United States Treasury
note rate beginning on the date such draws are made and
shall be repaid in not more than 3 years.
Ω170æSEC. 337. The amount otherwise provided by
this
Act
for
‘‘DEPARTMENT
OF
TRANSPOR-
TATION—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY—Salaries
and Expenses’’ is hereby increased by $26,300,000, of
which amount $8,300,000 shall be derived from amounts
provided for in this Act under the heading ‘‘INTER-
STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION—Salaries and Ex-
penses’’.
SEC. 337. In addition to amounts otherwise provided
by this Act, $5,425,000 shall be available for ‘‘Interstate
Commerce Commission, Salaries and Expenses’’ solely for
the discharge of liabilities, including severance pay, under
title 5 of the United States Code to employees separated
from the Interstate Commerce Commission on or after Octo-
ber 1, 1994.
SEC. 338. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
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(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
Ω171æSEC. 339. SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY TOLL
COLLECTION.—(a) Section 13 of the Act of May 13, 1954,
ch. 201 (33 U.S.C. 988a), added by section 805(a)(4) of
Title XIV of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986,
Public Law 99–662 (100 Stat. 4272), is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘SEC. 13. WAIVER OF COLLECTION OF CHARGES OR TOLLS.
‘‘(a) Notwithstanding section 12 of this Act or any
other provision of law, the Corporation shall not collect any
charge or toll established pursuant to section 12 of this Act
with respect to a commercial vessel (as defined in section
4462(a)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).
‘‘(b) The Corporation will maintain a record of the
annual amount of each charge or toll that would have been
collected with respect to each such commercial vessel if it
were not for paragraph (a) of this section.’’.
(b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter
19 of title 33 is amended by striking:
‘‘Sec. 988a Rebate of charges and tolls.
‘‘(a) Transfer of revenues to Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.
‘‘(b) Certifications to Secretary of the Treasury.’’
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and adding in lieu thereof:
‘‘Sec. 988a Waiver of Collection of Charges or Tolls.
‘‘(a) Waiver of collection of charges or tolls.
‘‘(b) Record of annual amount.’’.
Ω172æSEC. 340. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the unspent balance of funds previously appro-
priated for the Meadowbrook Parkway project shall be
available for the Loop Parkway Bridge rehabilitation
project.
Ω173æSEC. 341. Not more than $1,707,000 of funds
provided for Coast Guard Operating Expenses under this
Act shall be available for Voluntary Separation Incentive,
Special Separation Benefit, early retirement, and other sep-
aration and transition benefits under Chapter 58 of title
10, U.S.C. for active duty members in fiscal year 1995: Pro-
vided, That funds for such benefits shall only become avail-
able if authorized in law.
Ω174æSEC. 342. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, funds made available under Public Law 103–122,
the Fiscal Year 1994 Transportation Appropriations Act,
for the domestic fuel cell development program under the
Federal Transit Administration’s Discretionary Grants ac-
count shall be transferred to that agency’s Transit Planning
and Research account and be administered in accordance
with section 6 of the Federal Transit Act, as amended.
Ω175æSEC. 343. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, $33,700,000 of funds provided in this Act for the
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Portland to Boston Transportation Corridor Program shall
be made available to the Massachusetts Executive Office of
Transportation and Construction for construction of exca-
vation support walls and right-of-way for the Central Ar-
tery Rail Link connection between North and South Sta-
tions. This element of the Program is separate and distinct
from the Transportation Corridor element, and shall not
affect the environmental, financial, or construction work
performed in connection with that element of the Program.
Ω176æSEC. 344. Section 211(b) of the National Driver
Register Act of 1982 as amended, (23 U.S.C. 401 note), is
further amended by inserting after ‘‘1994’’ ‘‘and $2,550,000
for fiscal year 1995’’.
Ω177æSEC. 345. Notwithstanding 15 U.S.C. 631, et
seq. and 10 U.S.C. 2301, et seq. as amended, the United
States Coast Guard acquisition of 47-foot Motor Life Boats
for fiscal years 1995 through 2000 shall be subject to full
and open competition for all U.S. shipyards. Accordingly,
the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) (including but
not limited to FAR Part 19), shall not apply to the extent
they are inconsistent with a full and open competition.
Ω178æSEC. 346. (a) Notwithstanding section 31136(e)
of title 49, United States Code, and in order to further sub-
stantiate research carried out by the Secretary of Transpor-
tation in fiscal year 1992 under the Vision Waiver Study
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Program, the Secretary shall use funds available to the Sec-
retary in the Highway Research Development and Tech-
nology account of the Federal Highway Administration to
carry out a follow-up study to such study program.
(b) In carrying out the follow-up study, the Secretary
shall apply the same criteria and conditions to the study
as the Secretary applied in carrying out research under the
Vision Waiver Study Program.
Ω179æSEC. 347. Of the funds appropriated in the De-
partment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appro-
priation Act, 1977 (Public Law 94–387; 90 Stat. 1171) for
railroad-highway demonstration projects, $486,000 in un-
obligated balances shall be made available for the rail relo-
cation project in Lafayette, Indiana.
Ω180æSEC. 348. The Eastport Port Authority facility
at Estes Head in Eastport, Maine, is eligible for funding
under section 1064 of Public Law 102–240.
Ω181æSEC. 349. No money may be expended by the
Department of Transportation in fiscal year 1995 to imple-
ment or enforce regulatory actions to restrict overflights and
landings on National Parks system units, National Forest
systems, Fish and Wildlife refuges, and other public lands
in the State of Alaska. The term aircraft refers to fixed wing
aircraft and helicopters of general, commercial, or military
nature.
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Ω182æSEC. 350. No funds under this Act for fiscal
1995 may be used to implement recommendations of the
Flight Service Modernization Program to close or reduce
services in flight servicestations in Alaska.
Passed the House of Representatives June 16, 1994.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate July 21 (legislative day, July 20),
1994
Attest:
MARTHA S. POPE,
Secretary.
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