I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3330 
To provide an extension of administrative expenses for highway, highway 
safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out 
of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a law reauthorizing 
the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2005 
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska (for himself, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. PETRI, and Mr. 
DEFAZIO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Resources, Ways and Means, and Science, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To provide an extension of administrative expenses for high-
way, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund 
pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transpor-
tation Equity Act for the 21st Century. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Surface Transpor-
tation Extension Act of 2005, Part III’’.
SEC. 2. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR FEDERAL-AID 
HIGHWAY PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY.— 
Section 4(a) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act 
of 2004, Part V (118 Stat. 1147, 119 Stat. 325) is 
amended by striking ‘‘highway program’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘highway program 
$289,518,000 for fiscal year 2005’’. 
(b) LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the obligations for administra-
tive expenses for Federal-aid highway and highway safety 
construction programs provided by the amendment made 
by subsection (a) shall be $3,000,000 for the period begin-
ning July 19, 2005, and ending July 21, 2005. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2(e)(3) of 
such Act (118 Stat. 1146, 119 stat. 325) is amended by 
striking ‘‘July 19’’ and inserting ‘‘July 21’’. 
SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR NATIONAL HIGH-
WAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be available from the 
Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Ac-
count) for the Secretary of Transportation to pay the ad-
ministrative expenses of the National Highway Traffic Ad-
ministration in carrying out the highway safety programs 
authorized by sections 157 and 163 of chapter 1 of title 
23, United States Code, and sections 402, 403, 405, and
410 of chapter 4 of such title, the National Driver Reg-
ister under chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, 
the motor vehicle safety program under chapter 301 of 
such title 49, and the motor vehicle information and cost 
savings program under part C of subtitle VI of such title 
49 $550,000 for the period of July 20, 2005, through July 
21, 2005. 
(b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—Funds made available 
by this section 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 such funds 
shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR MOTOR CARRIER 
SAFETY ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM. 
Section 7(a)(1) of the Surface Transportation Exten-
sion Act of 2004, Part V (118 Stat. 1153; 119 Stat. 330) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$206,037,600’’ and inserting 
‘‘$206,737,600’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘July 19’’ and inserting ‘‘July 
21’’. 
SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR FEDERAL TRAN-
SIT PROGRAMS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
5338(f)(2) of title 49, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in the heading by striking ‘‘JULY 19’’ and 
inserting ‘‘JULY 21’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (A)(vii)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$52,000,000’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$52,440,000’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘July 19’’ and inserting 
‘‘July 21’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (B)(vii) by striking ‘‘July 
19’’ and inserting ‘‘July 21’’. 
(b) OBLIGATION CEILING.—Section 3040(7) of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 
Stat. 394; 118 Stat. 885; 118 Stat. 1158; 119 Stat. 333) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$6,166,400,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$6,166,844,000’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘July 19’’ and inserting ‘‘July 
21’’. 
SEC. 6. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF TRUST 
FUNDS FOR OBLIGATIONS UNDER TEA–21. 
(a) HIGHWAY TRUST FUND.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 
9503(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 
amended—
(A) in the matter before subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘July 20, 2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘July 22, 2005’’, 
(B) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (L), 
(C) by striking the period at the end of 
subparagraph (M) and inserting ‘‘, or’’, 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (M) 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(N) authorized to be paid out of the 
Highway Trust Fund under the Surface Trans-
portation Extension Act of 2005, Part III.’’, 
and 
(E) in the matter after subparagraph (N), 
as added by this paragraph, by striking ‘‘Sur-
face Transportation Extension Act of 2005, 
Part II’’ and inserting ‘‘Surface Transportation 
Extension Act of 2005, Part III’’. 
(2) MASS TRANSIT ACCOUNT.—Paragraph (3) 
of section 9503(e) of such Code is amended— 
(A) in the matter before subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘July 20, 2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘July 22, 2005’’, 
(B) in subparagraph (J), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end of such subparagraph,