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further, That no assessments may be levied against any program, 
budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act unless 
notice of such assessments and the basis therefor are presented 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are 
approved by such Committees: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may provide non-commodity information technology and procure-
ment services in a consolidated or shared manner for operating 
administrations through the Working Capital Fund: Provided fur-
ther, That the preceding proviso shall not apply to the Federal 
Aviation Administration, the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway 
Development Corporation, and the Office of Inspector General: Pro-
vided further, That an operating administration may determine 
that certain non-commodity information technology and procure-
ment services do not provide a direct benefit to the operating 
administration and shall not be required to obligate funds appro-
priated by this Act to the Office of the Secretary pursuant to 
section 188 of this Act: Provided further, That if the determination 
in the preceding proviso concludes that non-commodity information 
technology and procurement services do not provide a direct benefit 
to the operating administration, those services shall remain within 
the operating administration: Provided further, That not less than 
30 days prior to using the authority provided in the preceding 
four provisos, the Secretary shall provide the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations a plan describing the non-commodity 
information technology and procurement services consolidated or 
shared through the Working Capital Fund: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide monthly briefings to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations on all activities relating to 
non-commodity information technology and procurement services 
as authorized under this heading, including: (1) the amount of 
funding 
participating 
operating 
administrations 
provide 
the 
Working Capital Fund for programming and full time equivalent 
positions, including reimbursable and non-reimbursable details, to 
support non-commodity information technology and procurement 
services as authorized under this heading; and (2) the number 
of full time equivalent positions in the Office of the Chief Informa-
tion Officer within the Office of the Secretary and the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration within the Office of 
the Secretary to support non-commodity information technology 
and procurement services as authorized under this heading: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall include funding for program-
ming and full time equivalent positions to support non-commodity 
information technology and procurement services, as authorized 
under this heading, in the congressional budget justification for 
fiscal year 2027 for the Working Capital Fund, the Office of the 
Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Secretary, the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration within the 
Office of the Secretary, and each participating operating administra-
tion: Provided further, That unless otherwise specified under this 
heading, the Working Capital Fund shall only deliver services con-
sisting of administration and commodity information technology: 
Provided further, That the departmental consolidation of activities 
including human resources, governmental affairs, public affairs and 
public engagement, and civil rights in the Working Capital Fund 
are prohibited: Provided further, That amounts within the Working 
Capital Fund are not available to provide services not specifically 
authorized under this heading.
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SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION AND OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses for small and disadvantaged business 
utilization and outreach activities, $5,330,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027: Provided, That not less than 6 small 
business transportation resource centers shall be maintained and 
operated: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 332 of 
title 49, United States Code, such amounts may be used for business 
opportunities related to any mode of transportation: Provided fur-
ther, That appropriations made available under this heading shall 
be available for any purpose consistent with prior year appropria-
tions that were made available under the heading ‘‘Office of the 
Secretary—Minority Business Resource Center Program’’. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
In addition to funds made available from any other source 
to carry out the essential air service program under sections 41731 
through 41742 of title 49, United States Code, $513,637,231, to 
be derived 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 basic essential air service min-
imum requirements shall not include the 15-passenger capacity 
requirement under section 41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States 
Code: Provided further, That amounts authorized to be distributed 
for the essential air service program under section 41742(b) of 
title 49, United States Code, shall be made available immediately 
from amounts otherwise provided to the Administrator of the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration: Provided further, That the Adminis-
trator may reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the 
account established under section 45303 of title 49, United States 
Code: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 41733 of 
title 49, United States Code, for fiscal year 2026, the requirements 
established under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 41731(a)(1) 
of title 49, United States Code, shall not apply to maintain eligibility 
under section 41731 of title 49, United States Code. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available by this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office 
of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the 
operating administrations in this Act, except for activities underway 
on the date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
for congressional notification. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary shall post on the website of the Depart-
ment of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Council
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on Credit and Finance, including the agenda for each meeting, 
and require the Council on Credit and Finance to record the 
decisions and actions of each meeting. 
SEC. 103. In addition to authority provided by section 327 
of title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Working Capital 
Fund is authorized to provide partial or full payments in advance 
and accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal agencies 
from available funds for transit benefit distribution services that 
are necessary to carry out the Federal transit pass transportation 
fringe benefit program under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 
3049 of SAFETEA–LU (5 U.S.C. 7905 note): Provided, That the 
Department shall maintain a reasonable operating reserve in the 
Working Capital Fund, to be expended in advance to provide 
uninterrupted transit benefits to Government employees: Provided 
further, That such reserve shall not exceed 1 month of benefits 
payable and may be used only for the purpose of providing for 
the continuation of transit benefits: Provided further, That the 
Working Capital Fund shall be fully reimbursed by each customer 
agency from available funds for the actual cost of the transit benefit. 
SEC. 104. Receipts collected in the Department’s Working Cap-
ital Fund, as authorized by section 327 of title 49, United States 
Code, for unused transit and van pool benefits, in an amount 
not to exceed 10 percent of fiscal year 2026 collections, shall be 
available until expended in the Department’s Working Capital Fund 
to provide contractual services in support of section 189 of this 
Act: Provided, That obligations in fiscal year 2026 of such collections 
shall not exceed $1,000,000. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds in this title may be obligated 
or expended for retention or senior executive bonuses for an 
employee of the Department of Transportation without the prior 
written approval of the Assistant Secretary for Administration. 
SEC. 106. In addition to authority provided by section 327 
of title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Administrative 
Working Capital Fund is hereby authorized to transfer information 
technology equipment, software, and systems from departmental 
sources or other entities and collect and maintain a reserve at 
rates which will return full cost of transferred assets. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds provided in this Act to the Depart-
ment of Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance 
unless not less than 3 days before any application approval to 
provide credit assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, 
United States Code, the Secretary provides notification in writing 
to the following committees: the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations; the Committee on Environment and Public 
Works and the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs 
of the Senate; and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture of the House of Representatives: Provided, That such notifica-
tion shall include, but not be limited to, the name of the project 
sponsor; a description of the project; whether credit assistance 
will be provided as a direct loan, loan guarantee, or line of credit; 
and the amount of credit assistance. 
SEC. 108. (a) Amounts made available to the Secretary of 
Transportation or the Department of Transportation’s operating 
administrations in this Act for the costs of award, administration, 
or oversight of financial assistance under the programs identified 
in subsection (c) may be transferred to the account identified in 
section 801 of division J of Public Law 117–58, as amended by
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section 425 of title IV of division L of Public Law 117–103, to 
remain available until expended, for the necessary expenses of 
award, administration, or oversight of any financial assistance pro-
grams in the Department of Transportation. 
(b) Amounts transferred under the authority in this section 
are available in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
purpose. 
(c) The programs from which funds made available under this 
Act may be transferred under subsection (a) are— 
(1) the local and regional project assistance program under 
section 6702 of title 49, United States Code; 
(2) the university transportation centers program under 
section 5505 of title 49, United States Code; and 
(3) the drone infrastructure inspection grant program as 
authorized by section 912 of title IX of Public Law 118–63. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of Transportation may transfer 
amounts awarded to a federally recognized Tribe under a funding 
agreement entered into under part 29 of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, from the Department of Transportation’s operating 
administrations to the Office of Tribal Government Affairs: Pro-
vided, That any amounts retroceded or reassumed under such part 
may be transferred back to the appropriate operating administra-
tion. 
SEC. 109A. For amounts provided for this fiscal year and prior 
fiscal years, section 24112(c)(2)(B) of Public Law 117–58 shall be 
applied by substituting ‘‘30 percent’’ for ‘‘40 percent’’: Provided, 
That if the Secretary determines that there are insufficient merit- 
worthy applications for the amounts provided for fiscal year 2022 
through fiscal year 2026 in division J of Public Law 117–58 for 
competitive grants as authorized in section 24112 of division B 
of Public Law 117–58 to meet the requirement in section 
24112(c)(2)(B) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall use the unuti-
lized amounts to make other grants as authorized in section 24112 
of division B of Public Law 117–58: Provided further, That amounts 
repurposed pursuant to this section shall continue to be treated 
as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 
118–5. 
SEC. 109B. The remaining unobligated balances, as of Sep-
tember 30, 2026, from amounts made available for ‘‘Department 
of Transportation—Office of the Secretary—National Infrastructure 
Investments’’ in division J of Public Law 117–58 for local and 
regional project assistance under section 6702 of title 49, United 
States Code, for fiscal year 2022 are hereby permanently rescinded, 
and an amount of additional new budget authority equivalent to 
the amount rescinded pursuant to this section is hereby appro-
priated on September 30, 2026, for an additional amount for fiscal 
year 2026, to remain available until September 30, 2031, and shall 
be available, without additional competition, for completing the 
funding of awards made pursuant to section 6702 of title 49, United 
States Code, for fiscal year 2022 funding, in addition to other 
funds as may be available for such purposes: Provided, That the 
amounts rescinded pursuant to this section that were previously 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 4112(a) of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concur-
rent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018, and to section 
251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act