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for the central account: Provided further, That the Admin-
istrator is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for 
an office of the Federal Transit Administration: Provided 
further, That no appropriation for an office shall be in-
creased or decreased by more than 3 percent by all such 
transfers: Provided further, That any change in funding 
greater than 3 percent shall be submitted for approval to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be 
available for travel expenses: Provided further, That of the 
funds in this Act available for the execution of contracts 
under section 5327(c) of title 49, United States Code, 
$2,000,000 shall be reimbursed to the Department of 
Transportation’s Office of Inspector General for costs as-
sociated with audits and investigations of transit-related 
issues, including reviews of new fixed guideway systems: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $2,200,000 for the 
National transit database shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
FORMULA GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 
5308, 5310, 5311, 5327, and section 3038 of Public Law 
105–178, $767,800,000, to remain available until ex-
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pended: Provided, That no more than $3,839,000,000 of 
budget authority shall be available for these purposes. 
UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5505, 
$1,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That no more than $6,000,000 of budget authority shall 
be available for these purposes. 
TRANSIT PLANNING AND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5303, 
5304, 5305, 5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 
5322, $24,200,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That no more than $122,000,000 of budget au-
thority shall be available for these purposes: Provided fur-
ther, That $5,250,000 is available to provide rural trans-
portation assistance (49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)), $4,000,000 
is available to carry out programs under the National 
Transit Institute (49 U.S.C. 5315), $8,250,000 is avail-
able to carry out transit cooperative research programs 
(49 U.S.C. 5313(a)), $60,385,600 is available for metro-
politan planning (49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, and 5305), 
$12,614,400 is available for State planning (49 U.S.C. 
5313(b)); and $31,500,000 is available for the national 
planning and research program (49 U.S.C. 5314).
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TRUST FUND SHARE OF EXPENSES 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 
49 U.S.C. 5303–5308, 5310–5315, 5317(b), 5322, 5327, 
5334, 5505, and sections 3037 and 3038 of Public Law 
105–178, $5,807,020,000 to remain available until ex-
pended, and to be derived from the Mass Transit Account 
of 
the 
Highway 
Trust 
Fund: 
Provided, 
That 
$3,071,200,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Ad-
ministration’s formula grants account: Provided further, 
That $97,800,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Ad-
ministration’s transit planning and research account: Pro-
vided further, That $58,000,000 shall be paid to the Fed-
eral Transit Administration’s administrative expenses ac-
count: Provided further, That $4,800,000 shall be paid to 
the Federal Transit Administration’s university transpor-
tation 
research 
account: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
$64,000,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Adminis-
tration’s job access and reverse commute grants program: 
Provided further, That $2,507,220,000 shall be paid to the 
Federal Transit Administration’s capital investment 
grants account.
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CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308, 
5309, 5318, and 5327, $599,280,000, to remain available 
until 
expended: 
Provided, 
That 
no 
more 
than 
$3,106,500,000 of budget authority shall be available for 
these purposes: Provided further, That there shall be avail-
able for fixed guideway modernization, $1,214,400,000; 
there shall be available for the replacement, rehabilitation, 
and purchase of buses and related equipment and the con-
struction of bus-related facilities, $677,700,000; and there 
shall be available for new fixed guideway systems 
$1,214,400,000, to be available as follows: 
Baltimore, MD, Central Light Rail Double 
Track Project, $40,000,000; 
BART San Francisco Airport (SFO), CA, Ex-
tension Project, $100,000,000; 
Boston, MA, Silver Line Phase III, $3,000,000; 
Charlotte, NC, South Corridor Light Rail 
Project, $4,000,000; 
Chicago Transit Authority, IL, Douglas Branch 
Reconstruction, $85,000,000; 
Chicago, IL, Metra Commuter Rail Expansions 
and Extensions, $52,000,000;
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Chicago, 
IL, 
Ravenswood 
Reconstruction, 
$45,000,000; 
Dallas, TX, North Central Light Rail Exten-
sion, $30,161,283; 
Denver, CO, Southeast Corridor LRT (T-
REX), $80,000,000; 
East Side Access Project, NY, Phase I, 
$70,000,000; 
Ft. 
Lauderdale, 
FL, 
Tri-Rail 
Commuter 
Project, $18,410,000; 
Las Vegas, NV, Resort Corridor Fixed Guide-
way, $15,000,000; 
Los Angeles, CA, Eastside Light Rail Transit 
System, $10,000,000; 
Memphis, TN, Medical Center Rail Extension, 
$9,247,588; 
Minneapolis, MN, Hiawatha Corridor Light 
Rail Transit (LRT), $74,980,000; 
New Orleans, LA, Canal Street Streetcar 
Project, $23,921,373; 
New York, Second Avenue Subway, $3,000,000; 
Newark, NJ, Rail Link (NERL) MOS1, 
$22,566,022; 
Northern, NJ, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail 
(MOS2), $100,000,000;
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Phoenix, AZ, Central Phoenix/East Valley 
Light Rail Transit Project, $13,000,000; 
Pittsburgh, PA, Stage II Light Rail Transit 
Reconstruction, $32,243,422; 
Portland, OR, Interstate MAX Light Rail Ex-
tension, $77,500,000; 
Raleigh, NC, Triangle Transit Authority Re-
gional Rail Project, $3,000,000; 
Salt Lake City, UT, Medical Center LRT Ex-
tension, $30,663,361; 
San Diego, CA, Mission Valley East Light Rail 
Transit Extension, $65,000,000; 
San Diego, CA, Oceanside-Escondido Rail 
Project, $48,000,000; 
San Juan, PR, Tren Urbano Rapid Transit 
System, $43,540,000; 
Seattle, WA, Sound Transit Central Link Ini-
tial Segment, $15,000,000; 
Washington, 
DC/MD, 
Largo 
Extension, 
$65,000,000; 
Washington, DC/VA, Dulles Corridor Rapid 
Transit Project, $25,000,000; 
Hawaii and Alaska Ferry Boats, $10,296,000; 
Oversight set-aside, $12,144,000; and
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San Francisco, CA, Muni Third Street Light 
Rail Project, $10,000,000: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, for the purpose of calculating the non-New 
Starts share of the total project cost of both phases of 
San Francisco Muni’s Third Street Light Rail Transit 
project for fiscal year 2004, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall include all non-New Starts contributions made 
towards Phase 1 of the two-phase project for engineering, 
final design and construction, and also shall allow non-
New Starts funds expended on one element or phase of 
the project to be used to meet the non-New Starts share 
requirement of any element or phase of the project: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided in this Act 
for the San Francisco Muni’s Third Street Light Rail 
Transit Project shall be obligated if the Federal Transit 
Administration determines that the project is found to be 
‘‘not recommended’’ after evaluation and computation of 
revised transportation system user benefit data. 
JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 3037 of 
the Federal Transit Act of 1998, $17,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That no more than 
$85,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for 
these purposes: Provided further, That up to $200,000 of
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the funds provided under this heading may be used by the 
Federal Transit Administration for technical assistance 
and support and performance reviews of the Job Access 
and Reverse Commute Grants program. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—FEDERAL TRANSIT 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 160. The limitations on obligations for the pro-
grams of the Federal Transit Administration shall not 
apply to any authority under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously 
made available for obligation, or to any other authority 
previously made available for obligation. 
SEC. 161. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, and except for fixed guideway modernization projects, 
funds made available by this Act under ‘‘Federal Transit 
Administration, Capital investment grants’’ for projects 
specified in this Act or identified in reports accompanying 
this Act not obligated by September 30, 2006, and other 
recoveries, shall be made available for other projects under 
49 U.S.C. 5309. 
SEC. 162. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, any funds appropriated before October 1, 2003, under 
any section of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, 
that remain available for expenditure may be transferred 
to and administered under the most recent appropriation 
heading for any such section.
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SEC. 163. None of the funds in this Act shall be made 
available for the design, construction, or maintenance of 
any segment of a light rail system in Houston that has 
not been specifically approved by a majority of the partici-
pating voters in the Houston Metropolitan Transit Au-
thority service area in a referendum. 
SEC. 164. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds made available for the Roaring Fork Transpor-
tation Authority, Colorado, under Public Laws 106–69 
and 106–346 shall be made available for the Roaring Fork 
Valley Bus Rapid Transit project. 
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT 
CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora-
tion is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, with-
in the limits of funds and borrowing authority available 
to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make 
such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal 
year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be 
necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the 
Corporation’s budget for the current fiscal year.
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OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses for operations and mainte-
nance of those portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway op-
erated and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway De-
velopment Corporation, $14,700,000, to be derived from 
the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public 
Law 99–662. 
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a 
U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security 
needs of the United States, $98,700,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
OPERATIONS AND TRAINING 
For necessary expenses of operations and training ac-
tivities authorized by law, $105,897,000, of which 
$22,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2004, for salaries and benefits of employees of the United 
States Merchant Marine Academy; of which $13,000,000 
shall remain available until expended for capital improve-
ments at the United States Merchant Marine Academy; 
of which $9,063,000 shall remain available until expended 
for the State Maritime Schools Schoolship Maintenance 
and Repair; of which $500,000 shall remain available until
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expended for the evaluation and provision of the fourteen 
commercially strategic ports; and of which $1,000,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2005, for Mari-
time Security Professional Training in support of Section 
109 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. 
SHIP DISPOSAL 
For necessary expenses related to the disposal of ob-
solete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the 
Maritime Administration, $14,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 170. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this or any other Act, the Maritime Administration is au-
thorized to furnish utilities and services and make nec-
essary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or 
occupancy involving Government property under control of 
the Maritime Administration, and payments received 
therefore shall be credited to the appropriation charged 
with the cost thereof: Provided, That rental payments 
under any such lease, contract, or occupancy for items 
other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be de-
posited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. No 
obligations shall be incurred during the current fiscal year 
from the construction fund established by the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936, or otherwise, in excess of the appropria-
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tions and limitations contained in this Act or in any prior 
Appropriations Act. 
SEC. 171. Chapter 10 of title I of the Emergency 
Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 
108–11) is amended by striking ‘‘For the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized, $25,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2005:’’ and inserting ‘‘For the 
cost of guaranteed loans and associated administrative ex-
penses, as authorized, $25,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2005, of which up to $4,498,000 may 
be used for associated administrative expenses:’’. 
RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS 
ADMINISTRATION 
RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of 
the Research and Special Programs Administration, 
$47,018,000, of which $645,000 shall be derived from the 
Pipeline Safety Fund, and of which $2,437,000 shall re-
main available until September 30, 2006: Provided, That 
up to $1,200,000 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, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources
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for expenses incurred for training, for reports publication 
and dissemination, and for travel expenses incurred in per-
formance of hazardous materials exemptions and approv-
als functions. 
PIPELINE SAFETY 
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND) 
(OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND) 
For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of 
the pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out 
a pipeline safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 
60107, and to discharge the pipeline program responsibil-
ities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $64,054,000, of 
which $9,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund and shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2006; of which $55,054,000 shall be derived 
from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $21,786,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2006. 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS 
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND) 
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 
5127(c), $200,000, to be derived from the Emergency 
Preparedness Fund, to remain available until September 
30, 2006: Provided, That not more than $14,300,000 shall 
be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2004 from 
amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5127(c), 
and 5127(d): Provided further, That none of the funds
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made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5127(c), and 
5127(d) shall be made available for obligation by individ-
uals other than the Secretary of Transportation, or his 
designee. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978, as amended, $55,000,000: Provided, 
That the Inspector General shall have all necessary au-
thority, in carrying out the duties specified in the Inspec-
tor General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3) to inves-
tigate 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: Provided 
further, That the funds made available under this heading 
shall be used to investigate, pursuant to section 41712 of 
title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive prac-
tices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and 
foreign air carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compli-
ance of domestic and foreign air carriers with respect to 
item (1) of this proviso.