H. R. 1105—415 
EFFICIENCY INCENTIVE GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD 
PASSENGER CORPORATION 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the amounts made available under this heading in Public 
Laws 109–115 and 110–5, all unobligated balances as of the date 
of enactment of this provision are hereby rescinded. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 151. The Secretary may purchase promotional items of 
nominal value for use in public outreach activities to accomplish 
the purposes of 49 U.S.C. 20134: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall prescribe guidelines for the administration of such purchases 
and use. 
SEC. 152. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds provided in this Act for the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation shall immediately cease to be available to said Corpora-
tion in the event that the Corporation contracts to have services 
provided at or from any location outside the United States. For 
purposes of this section, the word ‘‘services’’ shall mean any service 
that was, as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time or part- 
time Amtrak employee whose base of employment is located within 
the United States. 
SEC. 153. The Secretary of Transportation may receive and 
expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, 
from non-United States Government sources to repair damages 
to or replace United States Government owned automated track 
inspection cars and equipment as a result of third party liability 
for such damages, and any amounts collected under this section 
shall be credited directly to the Safety and Operations account 
of the Federal Railroad Administration, and shall remain available 
until expended for the repair, operation and maintenance of auto-
mated track inspection cars and equipment in connection with 
the automated track inspection program. 
SEC. 154. The Federal Railroad Administrator shall submit 
a quarterly report on April 1, 2009, and quarterly reports thereafter, 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations detailing 
the Administrator’s efforts at improving the on-time performance 
of Amtrak intercity rail service operating on non-Amtrak owned 
property. Such reports shall compare the most recent actual on- 
time performance data to pre-established on-time performance goals 
that the Administrator shall set for each rail service, identified 
by route. Such reports shall also include whatever other information 
and data regarding the on-time performance of Amtrak trains the 
Administrator deems to be appropriate. The amounts made avail-
able in this title under the heading ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Salaries 
and Expenses’’ shall be reduced $100,000 for each day after the 
first day of each quarter that the quarterly reports required by 
this section are not submitted to the Congress.
H. R. 1105—416 
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal Transit 
Administration’s programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49, 
United States Code, $94,413,000: Provided, That of the funds avail-
able under this heading, not to exceed $1,800,000 shall be available 
for travel and not to exceed $23,322,000 shall be available for 
the central account: Provided further, That any funding transferred 
from the central account shall be submitted for approval to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That none of the funds provided or limited in this Act may be 
used to create a permanent office of transit security under this 
heading: Provided further, That of the funds in this Act available 
for the execution of contracts under section 5327(c) of title 49, 
United States Code, $2,000,000 shall be transferred to the Depart-
ment of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General for costs associ-
ated with audits and investigations of transit-related issues, 
including reviews of new fixed guideway systems: Provided further, 
That upon submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2010 
President’s budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit 
to Congress the annual report on new starts, including proposed 
allocations of funds for fiscal year 2010. 
FORMULA AND BUS GRANTS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provi-
sions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, 
5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 and section 3038 of Public Law 105– 
178, as amended, $8,670,000,000 to be derived from the Mass 
Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds available for the implementa-
tion or execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 
5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, 5320, 5335, 5339, and 
5340 and section 3038 of Public Law 105–178, as amended, shall 
not exceed total obligations of $8,260,565,000 in fiscal year 2009. 
RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTERS 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5306, 5312– 
5315, 5322, and 5506, $67,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That $10,000,000 is available to carry out 
the transit cooperative research program under section 5313 of 
title 49, United States Code, $4,300,000 is available for the National 
Transit Institute under section 5315 of title 49, United States 
Code, and $7,000,000 is available for university transportation cen-
ters program under section 5506 of title 49, United States Code: 
Provided further, That $45,700,000 is available to carry out national 
research programs under sections 5312, 5313, 5314, and 5322 of 
title 49, United States Code.
H. R. 1105—417 
CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 5309 of title 49, 
United States Code, $1,809,250,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which no less than $200,000,000 is for section 5309(e) 
of such title: Provided, That of the funds available under this 
heading, amounts are to be made available as follows: 
AC Transit BRT Corridor, California, $4,000,000. 
Bellevue-Redmond 
BRT, 
King 
County, 
Washington, 
$10,952,330. 
BRT, Potomac Yard-Crystal City, City of Alexandria and 
Arlington County, Virginia, $1,000,000. 
BRT, State Avenue Corridor, Wyandotte County, Kansas, 
$1,500,000. 
Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Project, Minnesota, 
$20,000,000. 
Central Florida Commuter Rail, Florida, $13,000,000. 
Central 
Link 
Initial 
Segment, 
Seattle, 
Washington, 
$25,962,062. 
Central 
Phoenix/East 
Valley 
Light 
Rail, 
Arizona, 
$91,800,000. 
Charlotte Rapid Transit Extension, North Carolina, 
$20,500,000. 
Commuter Rail Improvements, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 
$30,000,000. 
Commuter Rail Study—Phoenix to Tucson, Arizona, 
$3,500,000. 
CTA Brown Line (Ravenswood), Illinois, $30,474,404. 
CTA Circle Line, Illinois, $6,000,000. 
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Northwest/Southeast Light Rail 
MOS, Texas, $87,974,716. 
Downtown Orlando East-West Circulator System, Florida, 
$8,000,000. 
Dulles Corridor Metrorail, Virginia, $29,100,000. 
Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor Project, Hawaii, 
$20,000,000. 
Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority Advanced Transit 
Program/METRO Solutions Phase 2, Texas, $15,000,000. 
Hudson-Bergen MOS–2, Northern, New Jersey, $1,103,860. 
I–69 HOV/BRT, Mississippi, $7,650,000. 
Improvements to the Rosslyn Metro Station, Virginia, 
$2,000,000. 
JTA BRT System, Jacksonville, Florida, $1,280,000. 
Largo Metrorail Extension, District of Columbia/Maryland, 
$34,700,000. 
Livermore-Amador BRT, Livermore, California, $7,990,000. 
Long Island Rail Road East Side Access, New York, 
$209,623,898. 
Mason Corridor BRT, Fort Collins, Colorado, $11,182,000. 
MARC Capacity Improvements, Maryland, $13,000,000. 
Metra, Illinois, $24,000,000. 
Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension, Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, $81,600,000. 
Metrorail 
Orange 
Line 
Extension 
Project, 
Florida, 
$20,000,000. 
Metro Rapid Bus System Gap Closure, Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, $332,620.
H. R. 1105—418 
Mid-City Rapid, San Diego, California, $19,485,000. 
Mid Jordan Light Rail Extension, Utah, $20,000,000. 
Mountain Links BRT, Flagstaff, Arizona, $5,614,200. 
Norfolk LRT, Virginia, $53,592,108. 
North Shore LRT Connector, Pennsylvania, $670,885. 
Northern Indiana Commuter Transit District, Indiana, 
$5,000,000. 
Northstar Corridor Rail, Minnesota, $71,166,060. 
Pacific Highway South BRT, King County, Washington, 
$281,520. 
Perris Valley Line, Riverside, California, $45,000,000. 
Pioneer Parkway EmX BRT, Springfield, Oregon, $296,000. 
San Francisco Muni Third Street Light Rail—Central Sub-
way Project, California, $10,000,000. 
Second Avenue Subway Phase 1, New York, $277,697,000. 
South Corridor BRT, Kent County, Michigan, $600,000. 
South 
Corridor 
I–205/Portland 
Mall 
LRT, 
Oregon, 
$81,600,000. 
South County Commuter Rail, Wickford Junction Station, 
Rhode Island, $1,345,500. 
South Sacramento Light Rail Extension, California, 
$7,000,000. 
Southeast Corridor, LRT, Colorado, $1,031,210. 
Stamford Urban Transitway, Connecticut, $3,650,000. 
Streetcar Loop, Portland, Oregon, $45,000,000. 
Trans-Hudson Midtown Corridor, New Jersey, $48,000,000. 
Troost Corridor BRT, Kansas City, Missouri, $125,200. 
Tucson Modern Streetcar/Light Rail Transit System, Tuc-
son, Arizona, $2,000,000. 
University Link LRT Extension, Washington, $100,000,000. 
Van Ness BRT Project, San Francisco, California, $400,000. 
VRE Rolling Stock, Virginia, $5,000,000. 
Weber County to Salt Lake City Commuter Rail, Utah, 
$81,600,000. 
West Corridor LRT, Colorado, $60,000,000. 
Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lane, Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia, $9,857,097. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 160. The limitations on obligations for the programs of 
the Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority 
under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, 
or to any other authority previously made available for obligation. 
SEC. 161. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated or limited by this Act under the Federal Transit 
Administration, Capital Investment Grants account and for bus 
and bus facilities under the Federal Transit Administration, For-
mula and Bus Grants account for projects specified in this Act 
or identified in reports accompanying this Act not obligated by 
September 30, 2011, and other recoveries, shall be directed to 
projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for which they 
were originally provided. 
SEC. 162. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
funds appropriated before October 1, 2008, under any section of 
chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, that remain available