SEC. 207. RELIEF FROM MANDATES.
(a) MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.—The Secretary shall not
take any action pursuant to or enforce the provisions of
section 303(c) of title 23, United States Code, with respect
to any State during fiscal year 1996.
(b) ASPHALT PAVEMENT CONTAINING RECYCLED RUB-
BER.—Section 1038 of the Intermodal Surface Transpor-
tation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 1987–1990) is
amended—
(1) by striking subsection (d); and
(2) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection
(d).
SEC. 208. DEFINITIONS.
In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) AUTHORIZED FUNDS.—The term ‘‘authorized
funds’’ means funds authorized to be appropriated out
of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass
Transit Account) to carry out title 23, United States
Code (other than sections 402 and 410) and the Inter-
modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
and subject to an obligation limitation.
(2) URBANIZED
AREA.—The term ‘‘urbanized
area’’ has the meaning such term has under section
101(a) of title 23, United States Code.
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. DISTRIBUTION OF TRANSIT OPERATING ASSIST-
ANCE LIMITATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any limitation
otherwise imposed on operating assistance under section
5307 of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary shall
distribute such limitation so that each urbanized area (as
such term is defined under section 5302 of such title) that
had a population under the 1990 decennial census of the
United States of less than 200,000 will receive, under the
distribution of such limitation for fiscal year 1996, 75 per-
cent of the amount the area received under the distribution
of such limitation for fiscal year 1995.
(b) CONSIDERATION.—In the distribution of the limi-
tation referred to in subsection (a) to urbanized areas that
had a population under the 1990 decennial census of
1,000,000 or more, the Secretary shall direct each such area
to give priority consideration to the impact of reductions
in operating assistance on smaller transit authorities oper-
ating within the area and to consider the needs and re-
sources of such transit authorities when the limitation is
distributed among all transit authorities operating in the
area.
SEC. 302. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HIGH COST FEDERAL-AID
PROJECTS.
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall require each
recipient of Federal financial assistance for a highway or
transit 
project 
with 
an 
estimated 
total 
cost 
of
$1,000,000,000 or more to submit to the Secretary an an-
nual financial plan. Such plan shall be based on detailed
annual estimates of the cost to complete the remaining ele-
ments of the project and on reasonable assumptions, as de-
termined by the Secretary, of future increases in the cost
to complete the project.
(b) RECOMMENDATIONS ON WITHHOLDING OF ASSIST-
ANCE.—As part of an annual report to be submitted under
subsection (c), the Secretary shall make a recommendation
to Congress on whether or not future Federal assistance
should be withheld with respect to any project described in
subsection (a) for which an annual financial plan is not
submitted under subsection (a) or for which the Secretary
determines that the estimates or assumptions referred to in
subsection (a) are not reasonable.
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to Congress
an annual report on the financial plans submitted to the
Secretary under this section, and any recommendation
made by the Secretary under subsection (b), in the preced-
ing fiscal year.