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PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES 
For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Haz-
ardous Materials Safety Administration, $23,710,000: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Transportation shall issue a final rule to 
expand the applicability of comprehensive oil spill response plans 
within 90 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
the amounts appropriated under this heading shall be reduced 
by $10,000 per day for each day that such rule has not been 
issued following the expiration of the period set forth in the previous 
proviso. 
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY 
For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials 
safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $58,000,000, of which $7,570,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That up to $800,000 
in fees collected under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in 
the general fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided 
further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be 
available until expended, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources for 
expenses incurred for training, for reports publication and dissemi-
nation, and for travel expenses incurred in performance of haz-
ardous materials exemptions and approvals functions. 
PIPELINE SAFETY 
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND) 
(OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND) 
For expenses necessary to carry out a pipeline safety program, 
as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the pipeline 
program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$165,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2021, of 
which $23,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability 
Trust Fund; of which $134,000,000 shall be derived from the Pipe-
line Safety Fund; and of which $8,000,000 shall be derived from 
fees collected under 49 U.S.C. 60302 and deposited in the Under-
ground Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account for the purpose 
of carrying out 49 U.S.C. 60141: Provided, That not less than 
$1,058,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be for 
the One-Call State grant program. 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS 
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Emergency Prepared-
ness Grants program, not more than $28,318,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2021, from amounts made available 
by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), and 5128(b) and (c): Provided, That notwith-
standing 49 U.S.C. 5116(h)(4), not more than 4 percent of the 
amounts made available from this account shall be available to
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pay administrative costs: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
49 U.S.C. 5128(b) and (c) and the current year obligation limitation, 
prior year recoveries recognized in the current year shall be avail-
able to develop a hazardous materials response training curriculum 
for emergency responders, including response activities for the 
transportation of crude oil, ethanol and other flammable liquids 
by rail, consistent with National Fire Protection Association stand-
ards, and to make such training available through an electronic 
format: Provided further, That the prior year recoveries made avail-
able under this heading shall also be available to carry out 49 
U.S.C. 5116(a)(1)(C) and 5116(i). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $92,600,000: Provided, That the Inspector General 
shall have all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties speci-
fied in the Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 
3), to investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements 
to the government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that 
is subject to regulation by the Department of Transportation: Pro-
vided further, That the funds made available under this heading 
may be used to investigate, pursuant to section 41712 of title 
49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive practices and unfair 
methods of competition by domestic and foreign air carriers and 
ticket agents; and (2) the compliance of domestic and foreign air 
carriers with respect to item (1) of this proviso. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applicable appro-
priations to the Department of Transportation shall be available 
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor 
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department busi-
ness; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law 
(5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). 
(b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations 
to the Department and its operating administrations shall be avail-
able for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and deployment 
of unmanned aircraft systems that advance the Department’s, or 
its operating administrations’, missions. 
(c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased or procured by 
the Department prior to the enactment of this Act shall be deemed 
authorized. 
SEC. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Depart-
ment of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the 
per diem rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV. 
SEC. 182. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this 
Act shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connec-
tion with a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), 
except as provided in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 
18 U.S.C. 2721.
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(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not with-
hold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a State is in 
noncompliance with this provision. 
SEC. 183. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for salaries and expenses of more than 125 political and Presidential 
appointees in the Department of Transportation: Provided, That 
none of the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned 
on temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation. 
SEC. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway Administra-
tion and Federal Railroad Administration from States, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources for 
expenses incurred for training may be credited respectively to the 
Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Federal-Aid Highways’’ account 
and to the Federal Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Oper-
ations’’ account, except for State rail safety inspectors participating 
in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 20105. 
SEC. 185. (a) None of the funds provided in this Act to the 
Department of Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan 
guarantee, line of credit, or discretionary grant unless the Secretary 
of Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project 
competitively selected to receive any discretionary grant award, 
letter of intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, 
line of credit commitment, or full funding grant agreement is 
announced by the Department or its modal administrations: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary gives concurrent notification to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations for any ‘‘quick release’’ 
of funds from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That 
no notification shall involve funds that are not available for obliga-
tion. 
(b) In addition to the notification required in subsection (a), 
none of the funds made available in this Act to the Department 
of Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, 
line of credit, cooperative agreement or discretionary grant unless 
the Secretary of Transportation provides the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations a comprehensive list of all such 
loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, cooperative agreement or 
discretionary grants that will be announced not less the 3 full 
business days before such announcement: Provided, That the 
requirement to provide a list in this subsection does not apply 
to any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds from the emergency relief program: 
Provided further, That no list shall involve funds that are not 
available for obligation. 
SEC. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees 
and other funds received by the Department of Transportation 
from travel management centers, charge card programs, the sub-
leasing of building space, and miscellaneous sources are to be 
credited to appropriations of the Department of Transportation 
and allocated to elements of the Department of Transportation 
using fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be available 
until expended. 
SEC. 187. Amounts made available in this or any prior Act 
that the Secretary determines represent improper payments by 
the Department of Transportation to a third-party contractor under 
a financial assistance award, which are recovered pursuant to law, 
shall be available—
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(1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by the 
Department of Transportation in recovering improper pay-
ments: Provided, That amounts made available in this Act 
shall be available until expended; and 
(2) to pay contractors for services provided in recovering 
improper payments or contractor support in the implementation 
of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as amended 
by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 
2010 and Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012, and Fraud Reduction and Data Ana-
lytics Act of 2015: Provided, That amounts in excess of that 
required for paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
(A) shall be credited to and merged with the appropria-
tion from which the improper payments were made, and 
shall be available for the purposes and period for which 
such appropriations are available: Provided further, That 
where specific project or accounting information associated 
with the improper payment or payments is not readily 
available, the Secretary may credit an appropriate account, 
which shall be available for the purposes and period associ-
ated with the account so credited; or 
(B) if no such appropriation remains available, shall 
be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further, That prior to depositing such recovery 
in the Treasury, the Secretary shall notify the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations of the amount and 
reasons for such transfer: Provided further, That for pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘improper payments’’ has 
the same meaning as that provided in section 2(e)(2) of 
Public Law 111–204. 
SEC. 188. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any 
funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogram-
ming action that requires notice to be provided to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, transmission of said re-
programming notice shall be provided solely to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, and said reprogramming 
action shall be approved or denied solely by the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation may provide notice to other congressional commit-
tees of the action of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 30 days 
following the date on which the reprogramming action has been 
approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations. 
SEC. 189. Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal adminis-
trations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for the 
costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when 
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are 
purchased to provide a direct benefit to the applicable modal 
administration or administrations. 
SEC. 190. The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to 
carry out a program that establishes uniform standards for devel-
oping and supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits 
authorized under section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, 
including distribution of transit benefits by various paper and elec-
tronic media.