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‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with
the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to
the United States that is not made in the United States,
the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or sub-
contract made with funds made available in this Act, pur-
suant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility proce-
dures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48,
Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 608. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any
guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion covering harassment based on religion, when it is made
known to the Federal entity or official to which such funds
are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any
respect from the proposed guidelines published by the Com-
mission on October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 51266).
SEC. 609. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be obligated or expended
to pay for any cost incurred for: (1) opening or operating
any United States diplomatic or consular post in the So-
cialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July
11, 1995; (2) expanding any United States diplomatic or
consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was
operating on July 11, 1995; or (3) increasing the total
number of personnel assigned to United States diplomatic
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or consular posts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam above
the levels existing on July 11, 1995, unless the President
certifies within 60 days the following:
(A) Based upon all information available to the
United States Government, the Government of the So-
cialist Republic of Vietnam is fully cooperating in
good faith with the United States in the following:
(i) 
Resolving 
discrepancy 
cases, 
live
sightings, and field activities.
(ii) Recovering and repatriating American
remains.
(iii) Accelerating efforts to provide docu-
ments that will help lead to fullest possible ac-
counting of prisoners of war and missing in ac-
tion.
(iv) Providing further assistance in imple-
menting trilateral investigations with Laos.
(B) The remains, artifacts, eyewitness accounts,
archival material, and other evidence associated with
prisoners of war and missing in action recovered
from crash sites, military actions, and other locations
in Southeast Asia are being thoroughly analyzed by
the appropriate laboratories with the intent of provid-
ing surviving relatives with scientifically defensible,
legal determinations of death or other accountability
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that are fully documented and available in unclassi-
fied and unredacted form to immediate family mem-
bers.
SEC. 610. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be used for any United Nations undertaking when
it is made known to the Federal official having authority
to obligate or expend such funds: (1) that the United Na-
tions undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) that such
undertaking will involve United States Armed Forces under
the command or operational control of a foreign national;
and (3) that the President’s military advisors have not sub-
mitted to the President a recommendation that such in-
volvement is in the national security interests of the United
States and the President has not submitted to the Congress
such a recommendation.
SEC. 611. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to provide the following amenities or per-
sonal comforts in the Federal prison system—
(1) in-cell television viewing except for prisoners
who are segregated from the general prison popu-
lation for their own safety;
(2) the viewing of R, X, and NC–17 rated mov-
ies, through whatever medium presented;
(3) any instruction (live or through broadcasts)
or training equipment for boxing, wrestling, judo, ka-
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rate, or other martial art, or any bodybuilding or
weightlifting equipment of any sort;
(4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates or
heating elements; or
(5) the use or possession of any electric or elec-
tronic musical instrument.
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available in title
II for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion (NOAA) under the headings ‘‘Operations, Research,
and Facilities’’ and ‘‘Procurement, Acquisition and Con-
struction’’ may be used to implement sections 603, 604, and
605 of Public Law 102–567: Provided, That NOAA may
develop a modernization plan for its fisheries research ves-
sels that takes fully into account opportunities for contract-
ing for fisheries surveys.
SEC. 613. Any costs incurred by a Department or
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such Department or agency: Provided,
That the authority to transfer funds between appropriations
accounts as may be necessary to carry out this section is
provided in addition to authorities included elsewhere in
this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry out
this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds
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under section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for
obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the
procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 614. None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to distrib-
ute or make available any commercially published informa-
tion or material to a prisoner when it is made known to
the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that such information or material is sexually
explicit or features nudity.
SEC. 615. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under
the heading ‘‘OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS—STATE AND
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE’’, not more than 90
percent of the amount to be awarded to an entity under
the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made
available to such an entity when it is made known to the
Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such
funds that the entity that employs a public safety officer
(as such term is defined in section 1204 of title I of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968) does
not provide such a public safety officer who retires or is
separated from service due to injury suffered as the direct
and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the
line of duty while responding to an emergency situation
or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined by State law)
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with the same or better level of health insurance benefits
that are paid by the entity at the time of retirement or
separation.
SEC. 616. (a) None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to issue or renew a fishing permit or au-
thorization for any fishing vessel of the United States great-
er than 165 feet in registered length or of more than 750
gross registered tons, and that has an engine or engines ca-
pable of producing a total of more than 3,000 shaft horse-
power—
(1) as specified in the permit application re-
quired under part 648.4(a)(5) of title 50, Code of
Federal Regulations, part 648.12 of title 50, Code of
Federal Regulations, and the authorization required
under part 648.80(d)(2) of title 50, Code of Federal
Regulations, to engage in fishing for Atlantic mack-
erel or herring (or both) under the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.); or
(2) that would allow such a vessel to engage in
the catching, taking, or harvesting of fish in any
other fishery within the exclusive economic zone of the
United States (except territories), unless a certificate
of documentation had been issued for the vessel and
endorsed with a fishery endorsement that was effective
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on September 25, 1997 and such fishery endorsement
was not surrendered at any time thereafter.
(b) Any fishing permit or authorization issued or re-
newed prior to the date of the enactment of this Act for
a fishing vessel to which the prohibition in subsection (a)(1)
applies that would allow such vessel to engage in fishing
for Atlantic mackerel or herring (or both) during fiscal year
1998 shall be null and void, and none of the funds made
available in this Act may be used to issue a fishing permit
or authorization that would allow a vessel whose permit or
authorization was made null and void pursuant to this sub-
section to engage in the catching, taking, or harvesting of
fish in any other fishery within the exclusive economic zone
of the United States.
SEC. 617. During fiscal year 1998 and in any fiscal
year thereafter, the court, in any criminal case (other than
a case in which the defendant is represented by assigned
counsel paid for by the public) pending on or after the date
of the enactment of this Act, may award to a prevailing
party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney’s
fee and other litigation expenses, where the court finds that
the position of the United States was vexatious, frivolous,
or in bad faith, unless the court finds that special cir-
cumstances make such an award unjust. Such awards shall
be granted pursuant to the procedures and limitations (but
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not the burden of proof) provided for an award under sec-
tion 2412 of title 28, United States Code. To determine
whether or not to award fees and costs under this section,
the court, for good cause shown, may receive evidence ex
parte and in camera (which shall include the submission
of classified evidence or evidence that reveals or might reveal
the identity of an informant or undercover agent or matters
occurring before a grand jury) and evidence or testimony
so received shall be kept under seal. Fees and other expenses
awarded under this provision to a party shall be paid by
the agency over which the party prevails from any funds
made available to the agency by appropriation. No new ap-
propriations shall be made as a result of this provision.
SEC. 618. None of the funds provided by this Act shall
be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or to-
bacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any
foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco
or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not
applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the
same type.
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to pay the expenses of an election officer
appointed by a court to oversee an election of any officer
or trustee for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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SEC. 620. The second proviso of the second paragraph
under the heading ‘‘OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFI-
CER.’’ in the Act entitled ‘‘An Act Making appropriations
for the support of the Regular and Volunteer Army for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and
one’’, approved May 26, 1900 (31 Stat. 206; chapter 586;
47 U.S.C. 17), is repealed.
SEC. 621. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available in this Act shall be used to issue visas to
any person who—
(1) has been credibly alleged to have ordered,
carried out, or materially assisted in the extrajudicial
and political killings of Antoine Izmery, Guy Malary,
Father Jean-Marie Vincent, Pastor Antoine Leroy,
Jacques Fleurival, Mireille Durocher Bertin, Eugene
Baillergeau, Michelange Hermann, Max Mayard,
Romulus Dumarsais, Claude Yves Marie, Mario
Beaubrun, Leslie Grimar, Joseph Chilove, Michel
Gonzalez, and Jean-Hubert Feuille;
(2) has been included in the list presented to
former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by former
National Security Council Advisor Anthony Lake in
December 1995, and acted upon by President Rene
Preval;
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(3) was sought for an interview by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation as part of its inquiry into
the March 28, 1995, murder of Mireille Durocher
Bertin and Eugene Baillergeau, Jr., and was credibly
alleged to have ordered, carried out, or materially as-
sisted in those murders, per a June 28, 1995, letter
to the then Minister of Justice of the Government of
Haiti, Jean-Joseph Exume;
(4) was a member of the Haitian High Com-
mand during the period 1991 through 1994, and has
been credibly alleged to have planned, ordered, or par-
ticipated with members of the Haitian Armed Forces
in—
(A) the September 1991 coup against any
person who was a duly elected government offi-
cial of Haiti (or a member of the family of such
official), or
(B) the murders of thousands of Haitians
during the period 1991 through 1994; or
(5) has been credibly alleged to have been a
member of the paramilitary organization known as
FRAPH who planned, ordered, or participated in
acts of violence against the Haitian people.
(b) EXEMPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if the
Secretary of State finds, on a case-by-case basis, that the
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entry into the United States of a person who would other-
wise be excluded under this section is necessary for medical
reasons or such person has cooperated fully with the inves-
tigation of these political murders. If the Secretary of State
exempts any such person, the Secretary shall notify the ap-
propriate congressional committees in writing.
(c) REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.—(1) The United
States chief of mission in Haiti shall provide the Secretary
of State a list of those who have been credibly alleged to
have ordered or carried out the extrajudicial and political
killings mentioned in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).
(2) The Secretary of State shall submit the list pro-
vided under paragraph (1) to the appropriate congressional
committees not later than 3 months after the date of enact-
ment of this Act.
(3) The Secretary of State shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees a list of aliens denied visas,
and the Attorney General shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a list of aliens refused entry to
the United States as a result of this provision.
(4) The Secretary of State shall submit a report under
this subsection not later than 6 months after the date of
enactment of this Act and not later than March 1 of each
year thereafter as long as the Government of Haiti has not
completed the investigation of the extrajudicial and politi-
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cal killings and has not prosecuted those implicated for the
killings specified in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means the Committee on
International Relations and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations
of the Senate.
SEC. 622. Section 3006 of the Balanced Budget Act
of 1997 (Public Law 105–33; 111 Stat. 251, 269) is hereby
repealed. This section shall be deemed a section of the Bal-
anced Budget Act of 1997 for the purposes of section 10213
of that Act (111 Stat. 712), and shall be scored pursuant
to paragraph (2) of such section.
SEC. 623. (a) REPORT ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE UNDER
THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996.—The Federal
Communications Commission shall undertake a review of
the implementation by the Commission of the provisions of
the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–104)
relating to universal service. Such review shall be completed
and submitted to the Congress no later than April 10, 1998.
(b) The report required under subsection (a) shall pro-
vide a detailed description of the extent to which the Com-
mission interpretations reviewed under paragraphs (1)
through (5) are consistent with the plain language of the
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Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.), as
amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and shall
include a review of—
(1) the definitions of ‘‘information service,’’
‘‘local exchange carrier,’’ ‘‘telecommunications,’’ ‘‘tele-
communications service,’’ ‘‘telecommunications car-
rier,’’ and ‘‘telephone exchange service’’ that were
added to section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934
(47 U.S.C. 153) by the Telecommunications Act of
1996 and the impact of the Commission’s interpreta-
tion of those definitions on the current and future
provision of universal service to consumers in all
areas of the nation, including high cost and rural
areas;
(2) the application of those definitions to mixed
or hybrid services and the impact of such application
on universal service definitions and support, and the
consistency of the Commission’s application of those
definitions, including with respect to Internet access
under section 254(h) of the Communications Act of
1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h));
(3) who is required to contribute to universal
service under section 254(d) of the Communications
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(d)) and related existing
federal universal service support mechanisms, and of
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SEC. 626. In addition to amounts otherwise made
available for payment of obligations in carrying out 49
U.S.C. 5338(a), $50,000,000 shall remain available until
expended and to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund:
Provided, That $50,000,000 shall be paid from the Mass
Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to the Federal
Transit Administration’s formula grants account: Provided
further, That subsection (c) of section 337 of the Department
of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1998 is amended by inserting after ‘‘House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations’’, the following: ‘‘and the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation’’.
SEC. 627. (a) Section 501(c)(4) of the District of Co-
lumbia Police and Firemen’s Act of 1958, (District of Co-
lumbia Code, section 4–416(c)(4)), is amended by striking
‘‘locality pay’’ and inserting ‘‘longevity pay’’.
(b) The amendment made by section (a) is effective on
the date of enactment of Public Law 105–61.
SEC. 628. Section 19(a) of the Indian Gaming Regu-
latory Act (25 U.S.C. 2718(a)) is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(a) Subject to section 18, there are authorized to be
appropriated, for fiscal year 1998, and for each fiscal year
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thereafter, an amount equal to the amount of funds derived
from the assessments authorized by section 18(a).’’.
SEC. 629. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy
shall—
(1) convey, without consideration, to the Incor-
porated County of Los Alamos, New Mexico (in this
section referred to as the ‘‘County’’), or to the designee
of the County, fee title to the parcels of land that are
allocated for conveyance to the County in the agree-
ment under subsection (e); and
(2) transfer to the Secretary of the Interior, in
trust for the Pueblo of San Ildefonso (in this section
referred to as the ‘‘Pueblo’’), administrative jurisdic-
tion over the parcels that are allocated for transfer to
the Secretary of the Interior in such agreement.
(b) PRELIMINARY IDENTIFICATION OF PARCELS OF
LAND FOR CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER.—(1) Not later than
90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Energy shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report identifying the parcels of land under
the jurisdiction or administrative control of the Secretary
at or in the vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory
that are suitable for conveyance or transfer under this sec-
tion.
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(2) A parcel is suitable for conveyance or transfer for
purposes of paragraph (1) if the parcel—
(A) is not required to meet the national security
mission of the Department of Energy or will not be
required for that purpose before the end of the 10-year
period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act;
(B) is likely to be conveyable or transferable, as
the case may be, under this section not later than the
end of such period; and
(C) is suitable for use for a purpose specified in
subsection (h).
(c) REVIEW OF TITLE.—(1) Not later than one year
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report set-
ting forth the results of a title search on each parcel of land
identified as suitable for conveyance or transfer under sub-
section (b), including an analysis of any claims against or
other impairments to the fee title to each such parcel.
(2) In the period beginning on the date of the comple-
tion of the title search with respect to a parcel under para-
graph (1) and ending on the date of the submittal of the
report under that paragraph, the Secretary shall take ap-
propriate actions to resolve the claims against or other im-
pairments, if any, to fee title that are identified with respect
to the parcel in the title search.
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(d) ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION.—(1) Not later
than 21 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the
Secretary shall—
(A) identify the environmental restoration or re-
mediation, if any, that is required with respect to
each parcel of land identified under subsection (b) to
which the United States has fee title;
(B) carry out any review of the environmental
impact of the conveyance or transfer of each such par-
cel that is required under the provisions of the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.); and
(C) submit to Congress a report setting forth the
results of the activities under subparagraphs (A) and
(B).
(2) If the Secretary determines under paragraph (1)
that a parcel described in paragraph (1)(A) requires envi-
ronmental restoration or remediation, the Secretary shall,
to the maximum extent practicable, complete the environ-
mental restoration or remediation of the parcel not later
than 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
(e) AGREEMENT FOR ALLOCATION OF PARCELS.—As
soon as practicable after completing the review of titles to
parcels of land under subsection (c), but not later than 90
days after the submittal of the report under subsection
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(d)(1)(C), the County and the Pueblo shall submit to the
Secretary an agreement between the County and the Pueblo
which allocates between the County and the Pueblo the par-
cels identified for conveyance or transfer under subsection
(b).
(f) PLAN FOR CONVEYANCE AND TRANSFER.—(1) Not
later than 90 days after the date of the submittal to the
Secretary of Energy of the agreement under subsection (e),
the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a plan for conveying or transferring parcels of land
under this section in accordance with the allocation speci-
fied in the agreement.
(2) The plan under paragraph (1) shall provide for
the completion of the conveyance or transfer of parcels
under this section not later than 9 months after the date
of the submittal of the plan under that paragraph.
(g) CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER.—(1) Subject to para-
graphs (2) and (3), the Secretary shall convey or transfer
parcels of land in accordance with the allocation specified
in the agreement submitted to the Secretary under sub-
section (e).
(2) In the case of a parcel allocated under the agree-
ment that is not available for conveyance or transfer in ac-
cordance with the requirement in subsection (f)(2) by reason
of its requirement to meet the national security mission of
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the Department, the Secretary shall convey or transfer the
parcel, as the case may be, when the parcel is no longer
required for that purpose.
(3)(A) In the case of a parcel allocated under the agree-
ment that is not available for conveyance or transfer in ac-
cordance with such requirement by reason of requirements
for environmental restoration or remediation, the Secretary
shall convey or transfer the parcel, as the case may be, upon
the completion of the environmental restoration or remedi-
ation that is required with respect to the parcel.
(B) If the Secretary determines that environmental
restoration or remediation cannot reasonably be expected
to be completed with respect to a parcel by the end of the
10-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this
Act, the Secretary shall not convey or transfer the parcel
under this section.
(h) USE OF CONVEYED OR TRANSFERRED LAND.—The
parcels of land conveyed or transferred under this section
shall be used for historic, cultural, or environmental preser-
vation purposes, economic diversification purposes, or com-
munity self-sufficiency purposes.
(i) TREATMENT OF CONVEYANCES AND TRANSFERS.—
(1) The purpose of the conveyances and transfers under this
section is to fulfill the obligations of the United States with
respect to Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico,
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under sections 91 and 94 of the Atomic Energy Community
Act of 1955 (42 U.S.C. 2391, 2394).
(2) Upon the completion of the conveyance or transfer
of the parcels of land available for conveyance or transfer
under this section, the Secretary shall make no further pay-
ments with respect to Los Alamos National Laboratory
under section 91 or section 94 of the Atomic Energy Com-
munity Act of 1955.
(j) REPEAL
OF SUPERSEDED PROVISION.—In the
event of the enactment of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 1998 by reason of the approval
of the President of the conference report to accompany the
bill (H.R.1119) of the 105th Congress, section 3165 of such
Act is repealed.
SEC. 630. (a) Section 6906 of title 31, United States
Code, is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before
‘‘Necessary’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) LOCAL EXEMPTIONS FROM USER FEES DUE TO
INSUFFICIENT APPROPRIATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Unless sufficient funds are
appropriated for a fiscal year to provide full pay-
ments under this chapter to each unit of general local
government that lies in whole or in part within the
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White Mountain National Forest and is eligible for
the payments, persons residing within the boundaries
of that unit of general local government shall be ex-
empt during that fiscal year from any requirement to
pay a Demonstration Program Fee (parking permit
or passport) imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture
for access to the Forest.
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture shall establish a method of identifying persons
who are exempt from requirements to pay user fees
under paragraph (1).’’.
SEC. 631. Section 512(b) of Public Law 105–61 is
amended by adding before the period: ‘‘unless the President
announced his intent to nominate the individual prior to
November 30, 1997’’.
SEC. 632. Transfers of Unobligated Highway Appor-
tionments. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for fiscal year 1998, a State may transfer
any funds apportioned to the State for any program under
section 104 (including amounts apportioned under section
104(b)(3) or set aside or suballocated under section 133(d)),
144, or 402 of title 23, United States Code, granted to the
State for any program under section 410 of that title, or
allocated to the State for any program under chapter 311
of title 49, United States Code, that are subject to any limi-
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tation on obligations, and that are not obligated, to any
other of those programs.
(b) TREATMENT
OF
TRANSFERRED
FUNDS.—Any
funds transferred to another program under subsection (a)
shall be subject to the provisions of the program to which
the funds are transferred, except that funds transferred to
the surface transportation program under section 133 of
title 23, United States Code, other than paragraphs (1) and
(2) of section 133(d) of that title, shall not be subject to
section 133(d) of that title.
(c) RESTORATION OF APPORTIONMENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after
the date of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Fed-
eral-aid highway program enacted after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation
(referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall
restore any funds that a State transferred under sub-
section (a) for any project not eligible for the funds
but for this section to the program category from
which the funds were transferred.
(2) PROGRAM CATEGORY RECONCILIATION.—The
Secretary may establish procedures under which
funds transferred under subsection (a) from a pro-
gram category for which funds are no longer author-
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ized may be restored to the Federal-aid highway pro-
gram.
(d) LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall allocate to
a State an amount of obligation authority made
available under the Department of Transportation
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Pub-
lic Law 105–66; 111 Stat. 1425), that is not greater
than 75 percent of the State’s total fiscal year 1997
obligation authority for funds apportioned for the
Federal-aid highway program until the earlier of—
(A) such time as a multiyear law reauthor-
izing the Federal-aid highway program has been
enacted; or
(B) July 1, 1998.
(2) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—No contract author-
ity made available to the States before July 1, 1998,
shall be obligated after that date until such time as
a multiyear law reauthorizing the Federal-aid high-
way program has been enacted.
(e) GUIDANCE.—The Secretary may issue guidance for
use in carrying out this section.
SEC. 633. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES FOR FEDERAL-
AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM
AND BUREAU
OF TRANSPOR-
TATION STATISTICS. (a) AUTHORITY TO BORROW.—
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(1) FROM UNOBLIGATED FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR
DISCRETIONARY
ALLOCATIONS.—If unobligated bal-
ances of funds deducted by the Secretary of Transpor-
tation (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’)
under section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code,
for administrative and research expenses of the Fed-
eral-aid highway program are insufficient to pay
those expenses and the amounts necessary for oper-
ation of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for
fiscal year 1998, the Secretary may borrow to pay
those 
expenses 
and 
amounts 
not 
to 
exceed
$211,000,000 from unobligated funds available to the
Secretary for discretionary allocations.
(2) FROM CERTAIN UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—If
unobligated funds available to the Secretary for dis-
cretionary allocations are insufficient for the purposes
described in paragraph (1), the Secretary may borrow
for those purposes not to exceed $211,000,000 from the
unobligated balances of funds apportioned or allo-
cated to the States for the Federal-aid highway pro-
gram.
(b) REQUIREMENT TO REIMBURSE.—Funds borrowed
under subsection (a) shall be reimbursed from amounts
made available to the Secretary under section 104(a) of title
23, United States Code, as soon as practicable after the date
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of enactment of a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid high-
way program enacted after the date of enactment of this
Act.
SEC. 634. EXTENSION OF FEDERAL TRANSIT PRO-
GRAMS. (a) Title III of the Intermodal Surface Transpor-
tation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2087–2140) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 3049. EXTENSION OF FEDERAL TRANSIT PROGRAMS
FOR 
THE 
PERIOD 
OF 
OCTOBER 
1, 
1997,
THROUGH MARCH 31, 1998.
‘‘(a) ALLOCATING AMOUNTS.—Section 5309(m)(1) of
title 49, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘, and
for the period of October 1, 1997, through March 31, 1998’
after ‘1997’.
‘‘(b) APPORTIONMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FIXED
GUIDEWAY MODERNIZATION.—Section 5337 of title 49,
United States Code, is amended—
‘‘(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘and for the
period of October 1, 1997, through March 31, 1998,’
after ‘1997,’; and
‘‘(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘ ‘(e) SPECIAL RULE FOR OCTOBER 1, 1997, THROUGH
MARCH 31, 1998.—The Secretary shall determine the
amount that each urbanized area is to be apportioned for
fixed guideway modernization under this section on a pro
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rata basis to reflect the partial fiscal year 1998 funding
made available by section 5338(b)(1)(F).’.
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATIONS.—Section 5338 of title 49,
United States Code, is amended—
‘‘(1) in subsection (a)—
‘‘(A) in paragraph (1), by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘ ‘(F) $1,349,395,000 for the period of October 1,
1997, through March 31, 1998.’; and
‘‘(B) in paragraph (2), by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘ ‘(F) $369,000,000 for the period of October 1,
1997, through March 31, 1998.’;
‘‘(2) in subsection (b)(1), by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘ ‘(F) $1,110,605,000 for the period of October 1,
1997, through March 31, 1998.’;
‘‘(3) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘and not
more than $1,500,000 for the period of October 1,
1997, through March 31, 1998,’ after ‘1997,’;
‘‘(4) in subsection (e), by inserting ‘and not
more than $3,000,000 is available from the Fund (ex-
cept the Account) for the Secretary for the period of
October 1, 1997, through March 31, 1998,’ after
‘1997,’;