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deed of trust may be advanced by the Administrator from
unobligated balances available to the Federal Railroad Ad-
ministration, to be reimbursed from payments received
from the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation.
RAILROAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For necessary expenses for railroad research and de-
velopment, $25,325,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
RAILROAD REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM
The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to
issue to the Secretary of the Treasury notes or other obli-
gations pursuant to section 512 of the Railroad Revitaliza-
tion and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–
210), as amended, in such amounts and at such times as
may be necessary to pay any amounts required pursuant
to the guarantee of the principal amount of obligations
under sections 511 through 513 of such Act, such author-
ity to exist as long as any such guaranteed obligation is
outstanding: Provided, That pursuant to section 502 of
such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or loan guar-
antee commitments shall be made using Federal funds for
the credit risk premium during fiscal year 2001.
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RHODE ISLAND RAIL DEVELOPMENT
For the costs associated with construction of a third
track on the Northeast Corridor between Davisville and
Central Falls, Rhode Island, with sufficient clearance to
accommodate double stack freight cars, $17,000,000 to be
matched by the State of Rhode Island or its designee on
a dollar-for-dollar basis and to remain available until ex-
pended.
NEXT GENERATION HIGH-SPEED RAIL
For necessary expenses for the Next Generation
High-Speed Rail program as authorized under 49 U.S.C.
26101 and 26102, $25,100,000, to remain available until
expended.
ALASKA RAILROAD REHABILITATION
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make
grants to the Alaska Railroad, $20,000,000 shall be for
capital rehabilitation and improvements benefiting its pas-
senger operations, to remain available until expended.
WEST VIRGINIA RAIL DEVELOPMENT
For capital costs associated with track, signal, and
crossover rehabilitation and improvements on the MARC
Brunswick line in West Virginia, $15,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
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CAPITAL GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD
PASSENGER CORPORATION
For necessary expenses of capital improvements of
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation as author-
ized by 49 U.S.C. 24104(a), $521,476,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary
shall not obligate more than $208,590,000 prior to Sep-
tember 30, 2001.
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal
Transit Administration’s programs authorized by chapter
53 of title 49, United States Code, $12,800,000: Provided,
That no more than $64,000,000 of budget authority shall
be available for these purposes: Provided further, That of
the funds in this Act available for the execution of con-
tracts under section 5327(c) of title 49, United States
Code, $1,000,000 shall be transferred to the Department
of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General for costs
associated with the audit and review of new fixed guideway
systems: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,500,000
for the National Transit Database shall remain available
until expended.
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FORMULA GRANTS
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307,
5308, 5310, 5311, 5327, and section 3038 of Public Law
105–178, $669,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That no more than $3,345,000,000 of
budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $60,000,000 shall be available for grants for the costs
of planning, delivery, and temporary use of transit vehicles
for special transportation needs and construction of tem-
porary transportation facilities for the XIX Winter Olym-
piad and the VIII Paralympiad for the Disabled, to be held
in Salt Lake City, Utah: Provided further, That in allo-
cating the funds designated in the preceding proviso, the
Secretary shall make grants only to the Utah Department
of Transportation, and such grants shall not be subject
to any local share requirement or limitation on operating
assistance under this Act or the Federal Transit Act, as
amended: Provided further, That notwithstanding section
3008 of Public Law 105–178, the $50,000,000 to carry
out 49 U.S.C. 5308 shall be transferred to and merged
with funding provided for the replacement, rehabilitation,
and purchase of buses and related equipment and the con-
struction of bus-related facilities under ‘‘Federal Transit
Administration, Capital investment grants’’.
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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, $22,200,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That no more than $110,000,000 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)), $52,113,600 is available for metro-
politan planning (49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, and 5305),
$10,886,400 is available for State planning (49 U.S.C.
5313(b)); and $29,500,000 is available for the national
planning and research program (49 U.S.C. 5314).
TRUST FUND SHARE OF EXPENSES
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for pay-
ment of obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C.
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5303–5308, 5310–5315, 5317(b), 5322, 5327, 5334,
5505, and sections 3037 and 3038 of Public Law 105–
178, $5,016,600,000, to remain available until expended,
and to be derived from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That $2,676,000,000
shall be paid to the Federal Transit Administration’s for-
mula grants account: Provided further, That $87,800,000
shall be paid to the Federal Transit Administration’s tran-
sit planning and research account: Provided further, That
$51,200,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Adminis-
tration’s administrative expenses account: Provided fur-
ther, That $4,800,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit
Administration’s university transportation research ac-
count: Provided further, That $80,000,000 shall be paid
to the Federal Transit Administration’s job access and re-
verse commute grants program: Provided further, That
$2,116,800,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit Ad-
ministration’s capital investment grants account.
CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS
INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS
For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308,
5309, 5318, and 5327, $529,200,000, to remain available
until 
expended: 
Provided, 
That 
no 
more 
than
$2,646,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for
these purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding
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any other provision of law, there shall be available for
fixed guideway modernization, $1,058,400,000; there shall
be available for the replacement, rehabilitation, and pur-
chase of buses and related equipment and the construction
of bus-related facilities, $529,200,000 together with
$50,000,000 transferred from ‘‘Federal Transit Adminis-
tration, Formula grants’’; and there shall be available for
new fixed guideway systems $1,058,400,000, together
with $4,983,828 made available for the Pittsburgh airport
busway project under Public Law 105–66, together with
$1,488,750 made available for the Burlington to Glouces-
ter, New Jersey line under Public Law 103–331, together
with $20,521,470 previously appropriated for the Orlando
Lynx light rail project remaining unobligated as of or
deobligated after September 30, 2000; to be available as
follows:
$10,400,000 for Alaska or Hawaii ferry
projects;
$500,000 for the Albuquerque/Greater Albu-
querque mass transit project;
$25,000,000 for the Atlanta, Georgia, North
line extension project;
$1,000,000 for the Austin, Texas, capital metro
light rail project;
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$3,000,000 for the Baltimore central LRT dou-
ble track project;
$5,000,000 for the Birmingham, Alabama,
transit corridor;
$25,000,000 for the Boston South Boston Piers
transitway project;
$1,000,000 for the Boston Urban Ring project;
$2,000,000 
for 
the 
Burlington-Bennington
(ABRB), Vermont, commuter rail project;
$1,000,000 for the Calais, Maine, branch line
regional transit program;
$2,000,000 for the Canton-Akron-Cleveland
commuter rail project;
$3,000,000 for the Central Florida commuter
rail project;
$5,000,000 for the Charlotte, North Carolina,
north corridor and south corridor transitway
projects;
$35,000,000 for the Chicago METRA com-
muter rail projects;
$15,000,000 for the Chicago Ravenswood and
Douglas branch reconstruction projects;
$1,500,000 for the Clark County, Nevada, RTC
fixed guideway project;
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$4,000,000 for the Cleveland Euclid corridor
improvement project;
$1,000,000 for the Colorado Roaring Fork Val-
ley project;
$70,000,000 for the Dallas north central light
rail extension project;
$3,000,000 for the Denver Southeast corridor
project;
$20,200,000 for the Denver Southwest corridor
project;
$500,000 for the Detroit, Michigan, metropoli-
tan airport light rail project;
$50,000,000 for the Dulles corridor project;
$15,000,000 for the Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
Tri-County commuter rail project;
$1,000,000 for the Galveston, Texas, rail trolley
extension project;
$15,000,000 for the Girdwood to Wasilla, Alas-
ka, commuter rail project;
$500,000 for the Harrisburg-Lancaster capital
area transit corridor 1 commuter rail project;
$1,000,000 for the Hollister/Gilroy branch line
rail extension project;
$2,500,000 for Honolulu, Hawaii, bus rapid
transit project;
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$2,500,000 for the Houston advanced transit
project;
$10,750,000 for the Houston regional bus
project;
$3,000,000 for the Indianapolis, Indiana,
northeast-downtown corridor project;
$1,000,000 for the Johnson County, Kansas, I–
35 commuter rail project;
$3,500,000 
for 
Kansas 
City, 
Missouri,
Southtown corridor project;
$4,000,000 for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee
rail extension project;
$3,000,000 for the Little Rock, Arkansas, river
rail project;
$8,000,000 for the Long Island Railroad East
Side access project;
$2,000,000 for the Los Angeles Mid-City and
East Side corridors projects;
$50,000,000 for the Los Angeles North Holly-
wood extension project;
$3,000,000 for the Los Angeles-San Diego
LOSSAN corridor project;
$2,000,000 for the Lowell, Massachusetts-
Nashua, New Hampshire commuter rail project;
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$10,000,000 
for 
the 
MARC 
expansion
projects—Penn-Camden lines connector and midday
storage facility;
$1,000,000 for the Massachusetts North Shore
corridor project;
$6,000,000 for the Memphis, Tennessee, Med-
ical Center rail extension project;
$6,000,000 for the Nashville, Tennessee, re-
gional commuter rail project;
$121,000,000 for the New Jersey Hudson Ber-
gen project;
$7,000,000 for the Newark-Elizabeth rail link
project;
$2,000,000 for the Northern Indiana south
shore commuter rail project;
$1,000,000 for the Northwest New Jersey-
Northeast Pennsylvania passenger rail project;
$10,000,000 for the Oceanside-Escondido, Cali-
fornia, light rail extension project;
$2,000,000 for the Orange County, California,
transitway project;
$10,000,000 
for 
the 
Philadelphia-Reading
SETPA Schuylkill Valley metro project;
$2,000,000 for the Philadelphia SEPTA Cross
County metro project;
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$80,000,000 for the San Francisco BART ex-
tension to the airport project;
$12,250,000 for the San Jose Tasman West
light rail project;
$75,000,000 for the San Juan Tren Urbano
project;
$1,500,000 for the Santa Fe-Eldorado, New
Mexico, rail link project;
$50,000,000 for the Seattle, Washington, cen-
tral link LRT project;
$4,000,000 for the Spokane, Washington,
South Valley corridor light rail project;
$1,000,000 
for 
the 
St. 
Louis, 
Missouri,
MetroLink Cross County connector project;
$60,000,000 
for 
the 
St. 
Louis-St. 
Clair
MetroLink extension project;
$8,000,000 for the Stamford, Connecticut, fixed
guideway corridor;
$6,000,000 
for 
the 
Stockton, 
California,
Altamont commuter rail project;
$5,000,000 for the Twin Cities Transitways
projects;
$50,000,000 for the Twin Cities Transitways—
Hiawatha corridor project;
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$3,000,000 for the Virginia Railway Express
commuter rail project;
$7,500,000 for the Washington Metro-Blue
Line extension-Addison Road (Largo) project;
$2,000,000 for the West Trenton, New Jersey,
rail project;
$2,500,000 for the Whitehall and St. George
ferry terminal projects;
$5,000,000 for the Wilmington, Delaware,
downtown transit corridor project; and
$1,000,000 for the Wilsonville to Washington
County, Oregon, commuter rail project:
Provided further, That any funds previously appropriated
for the Miami-Dade Transit east-west multimodal corridor
project and the Miami Metro-Dade North 27th Avenue
corridor 
project 
remaining 
unobligated 
as 
of 
or
deobligated after September 30, 2000, are to be made
available for the South Miami-Dade Busway Extension
project: Provided further, That funds made available under
the heading ‘‘Capital investment grants’’ in Division A,
Section 101(g) of Public Law 105–277 for the ‘‘Colorado-
North Front Range corridor feasibility study’’ are to be
made available for ‘‘Colorado-Eagle Airport to Avon light
rail system feasibility study’’; and that funds made avail-
able in Public Law 106–69 under ‘‘Capital investment
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grants’’ for buses and bus-related facilities that were des-
ignated for projects numbered 14 and 20 shall be made
available to the State of Alabama for buses and bus-re-
lated facilities.
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for pay-
ment of previous obligations incurred in carrying out 49
U.S.C. 5338(b), $350,000,000, to remain available until
expended and to be derived from the Mass Transit Ac-
count of the Highway Trust Fund.
JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS
Notwithstanding section 3037(l)(3) of Public Law
105–178, as amended, for necessary expenses to carry out
section 3037 of the Federal Transit Act of 1998,
$20,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That no more than $100,000,000 of budget author-
ity shall be available for these purposes: Provided further,
That up to $250,000 of the funds provided under this
heading may be used by the Federal Transit Administra-
tion for technical assistance and support and performance
reviews of the Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants
program.
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SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION
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.
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, $13,004,000, to be derived from
the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public
Law 99–662.
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RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
ADMINISTRATION
RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of
the Research and Special Programs Administration,
$36,373,000, of which $645,000 shall be derived from the
Pipeline Safety Fund, and of which $4,707,000 shall re-
main available until September 30, 2003: 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
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, $47,044,000, of
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which $7,488,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund and shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2003; of which $36,556,000 shall be derived
from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $23,837,000
shall remain available until September 30, 2003; and of
which $3,000,000 shall be derived from amounts pre-
viously collected under 49 U.S.C. 60301: Provided, That
amounts previously collected under 49 U.S.C. 60301 shall
be available for damage prevention grants to States.
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, 2003: Provided, That not more than $14,300,000 shall
be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2001 from
amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i) and
5127(d): Provided further, That none of the funds made
available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i) and 5127(d) shall be made
available for obligation by individuals other than the Sec-
retary 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-
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eral Act of 1978, as amended, $48,450,000: 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.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, $17,954,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, not to exceed $900,000 from fees
established by the Chairman of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as off-
setting collections and used for necessary and authorized
expenses under this heading: Provided further, That the
sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be
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reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting col-
lections are received during fiscal year 2001, to result in
a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at
no more than $17,054,000.
TITLE II
RELATED AGENCIES
ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION
BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, as authorized
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as
amended, $4,795,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this
appropriation funds received for publications and training
expenses.
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles and aircraft; 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 a GS–15; uniforms,
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C.
5901–5902) $62,942,000, of which not to exceed $2,000
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may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
SEC. 301. During the current fiscal year applicable
appropriations 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 business; and uniforms,
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C.
5901–5902).
SEC. 302. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2001 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or
previous appropriations Acts.
SEC. 303. Hereafter, funds appropriated under this
or any other Act for expenditures by the Federal Aviation
Administration shall be available: (1) except as otherwise
authorized by title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), for ex-
penses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents
of Federal Aviation Administration personnel stationed
outside the continental United States at costs for any
given area not in excess of those of the Department of
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Defense for the same area, when it is determined by the
Secretary that the schools, if any, available in the locality
are unable to provide adequately for the education of such
dependents; and (2) for transportation of said dependents
between schools serving the area that they attend and
their places of residence when the Secretary, under such
regulations as may be prescribed, determines that such
schools are not accessible by public means of transpor-
tation on a regular basis.
SEC. 304. Appropriations contained in this Act for
the Department 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. 305. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than 104 political
and Presidential appointees in the Department of Trans-
portation: Provided, That none of the personnel covered
by this provision or political and Presidential appointees
in an independent agency funded in this Act may be as-
signed on temporary detail outside the Department of
Transportation or such independent agency.
SEC. 306. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties
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intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings
funded in this Act.
SEC. 307. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 308. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such
expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided
under existing law, or under existing Executive order
issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 309. (a) No recipient of funds made available
in this Act shall disseminate personal information (as de-
fined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3)) obtained by a State depart-
ment of motor vehicles in connection 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.
(b) 18 U.S.C. 2725 is amended by: In paragraph (2)
striking the word ‘‘and’’; and inserting after paragraph
3:
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‘‘(4) ‘highly restricted personal information’
means an individual’s photograph or image, social
security number, medical or disability information;
and
‘‘(5) ‘express consent’ means consent in writing,
including consent conveyed electronically that bears
an electronic signature as defined in section 106(5)
of Public Law 106–229.’’.
(c) 18 U.S.C. 2721(a) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A State department of motor ve-
hicles, and any officer, employee, or contractor thereof,
shall not knowingly disclose or otherwise make available
to any person or entity:
‘‘(1) personal information, as defined in 18
U.S.C. 2725(3), about any individual obtained by
the department in connection with a motor vehicle
record, except as provided in subsection (b) of this
section; or
‘‘(2) highly restricted personal information, as
defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(4), about any individual
obtained by the department in connection with a
motor vehicle record, without the express consent of
the person to whom such information applies, except
uses permitted in subsections (b)(1), (b)(4), (b)(6),
and (b)(9): Provided, That subsection (a)(2) shall
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not in any way affect the use of organ donation in-
formation on an individual’s driver’s license or affect
the administration of organ donation initiatives in
the States.’’.
(d) 18 U.S.C. 2721(b) is amended by inserting before
‘‘may be disclosed’’ ‘‘, subject to subsection (a)(2),’’.
(e) 18 U.S.C. 2721 is amended by inserting after sub-
section (d):
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON CONDITIONS.—No State may
condition or burden in any way the issuance of an individ-
ual’s motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1)
to obtain express consent. Nothing in this paragraph shall
be construed to prohibit a State from charging an admin-
istrative fee for issuance of a motor vehicle record.’’.
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary
shall not withhold funds provided in this Act for any
grantee if a State is in noncompliance with this provision.
SEC. 310. (a) For fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of
Transportation shall—
(1) not distribute from the obligation limitation
for Federal-aid Highways amounts authorized for
administrative expenses and programs funded from
the administrative takedown authorized by section
104(a) of title 23, United States Code, and para-
graph (7) of this section, for the highway use tax
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evasion program, and amounts provided under sec-
tion 110 of title 23, United States Code, excluding
$128,752,000 pursuant to subsection (e) of section
110 of title 23, as amended, and for the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics;
(2) not distribute an amount from the obliga-
tion limitation for Federal-aid Highways that is
equal to the unobligated balance of amounts made
available from the Highway Trust Fund (other than
the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid highways
and highway safety programs for the previous fiscal
year the funds for which are allocated by the Sec-
retary;
(3) determine the ratio that—
(A) the obligation limitation for Federal-
aid Highways less the aggregate of amounts not
distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2), bears
to
(B) the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for Federal-aid highways and
highway safety construction programs (other
than sums authorized to be appropriated for
sections set forth in paragraphs (1) through (7)
of subsection (b) and sums authorized to be ap-
propriated for section 105 of title 23, United
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States Code, equal to the amount referred to in
subsection (b)(8)) for such fiscal year less the
aggregate of the amounts not distributed under
paragraph (1) of this subsection;
(4) distribute the obligation limitation for Fed-
eral-aid Highways less the aggregate amounts not
distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of section
117 of title 23, United States Code (relating to high
priority projects program), section 201 of the Appa-
lachian Regional Development Act of 1965, the
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of
1995, and $2,000,000,000 for such fiscal year under
section 105 of title 23, United States Code (relating
to minimum guarantee) so that the amount of obli-
gation authority available for each of such sections
is equal to the amount determined by multiplying
the ratio determined under paragraph (3) by the
sums authorized to be appropriated for such section
(except in the case of section 105, $2,000,000,000)
for such fiscal year;
(5) distribute the obligation limitation provided
for 
Federal-aid 
Highways 
less 
the 
aggregate
amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1) and
(2) and amounts distributed under paragraph (4)
for each of the programs that are allocated by the
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Secretary under title 23, United States Code (other
than activities to which paragraph (1) applies and
programs to which paragraph (4) applies) by multi-
plying the ratio determined under paragraph (3) by
the sums authorized to be appropriated for such pro-
gram for such fiscal year;
(6) distribute the obligation limitation provided
for 
Federal-aid 
Highways 
less 
the 
aggregate
amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1) and
(2) and amounts distributed under paragraphs (4)
and (5) for Federal-aid highways and highway safety
construction programs (other than the minimum
guarantee program, but only to the extent that
amounts apportioned for the minimum guarantee
program for such fiscal year exceed $2,639,000,000,
and the Appalachian development highway system
program) that are apportioned by the Secretary
under title 23, United States Code, in the ratio
that—
(A) sums authorized to be appropriated for
such programs that are apportioned to each
State for such fiscal year, bear to
(B) the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for such programs that are appor-
tioned to all States for such fiscal year; and
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(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
after determining the amount of funds to be allo-
cated to the surface transportation program, to the
bridge program, to the congestion mitigation and air
quality improvement program, and to the Interstate
and National Highway System program, under sec-
tion 110 of title 23, United States Code, deduct a
sum, in an amount not to exceed 11⁄6 percent of the
sum made available to each program, to administer
the provisions of law to be financed from appropria-
tions for the Federal-aid highways program.
(b) EXCEPTIONS FROM OBLIGATION LIMITATION.—
The obligation limitation for Federal-aid Highways shall
not apply to obligations: (1) under section 125 of title 23,
United States Code; (2) under section 147 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1978; (3) under section
9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981; (4) under sec-
tions 131(b) and 131( j) of the Surface Transportation As-
sistance Act of 1982; (5) under sections 149(b) and
149(c) of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relo-
cation Assistance Act of 1987; (6) under sections 1103
through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991; (7) under section 157 of title 23,
United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date
of the enactment of the Transportation Equity Act for the
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21st Century; and (8) under section 105 of title 23,
United States Code (but, only in an amount equal to
$639,000,000 for such fiscal year).
(c) REDISTRIBUTION OF UNUSED OBLIGATION AU-
THORITY.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary
shall after August 1 for such fiscal year revise a distribu-
tion of the obligation limitation made available under sub-
section (a) if a State will not obligate the amount distrib-
uted during that fiscal year and redistribute sufficient
amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in addi-
tion to those previously distributed during that fiscal year
giving priority to those States having large unobligated
balances of funds apportioned under sections 104 and 144
of title 23, United States Code, section 160 (as in effect
on the day before the enactment of the Transportation Eq-
uity Act for the 21st Century) of title 23, United States
Code, and under section 1015 of the Intermodal Surface
Transportation Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 1943–1945).
(d) APPLICABILITY OF OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS TO
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PROGRAMS.—The obliga-
tion limitation shall apply to transportation research pro-
grams carried out under chapter 5 of title 23, United
States Code, except that obligation authority made avail-
able for such programs under such limitation shall remain
available for a period of 3 fiscal years.
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(e) REDISTRIBUTION
OF
CERTAIN
AUTHORIZED
FUNDS.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the dis-
tribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the
Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds: (1) that
are authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year for
Federal-aid highways programs (other than the program
under section 160 of title 23, United States Code) and
for carrying out subchapter I of chapter 311 of title 49,
United States Code, and highway-related programs under
chapter 4 of title 23, United States Code; and (2) that
the Secretary determines will not be allocated to the
States, and will not be available for obligation, in such
fiscal year due to the imposition of any obligation limita-
tion for such fiscal year. Such distribution to the States
shall be made in the same ratio as the distribution of obli-
gation authority under subsection (a)(6). The funds so
distributed shall be available for any purposes described
in section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
(f) SPECIAL RULE.—Obligation limitation distributed
for a fiscal year under subsection (a)(4) of this section
for a section set forth in subsection (a)(4) shall remain
available until used and shall be in addition to the amount
of any limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid
highway and highway safety construction programs for fu-
ture fiscal years.
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SEC. 311. 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. 312. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
SEC. 313. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to plan, finalize, or implement regulations that would
establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles
wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation
Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation
Scheme.
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, airports may transfer, without consideration, to the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) instrument land-
ing systems (along with associated approach lighting
equipment and runway visual range equipment) which
conform to FAA design and performance specifications,
the purchase of which was assisted by a Federal airport-
aid program, airport development aid program or airport
improvement program grant. The Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration shall accept such equipment, which shall
thereafter be operated and maintained by FAA in accord-
ance with agency criteria.
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SEC. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to award a multiyear contract for production end
items that: (1) includes economic order quantity or long
lead time material procurement in excess of $10,000,000
in any 1 year of the contract; (2) includes a cancellation
charge greater than $10,000,000 which at the time of obli-
gation has not been appropriated to the limits of the Gov-
ernment’s liability; or (3) includes a requirement that per-
mits performance under the contract during the second
and subsequent years of the contract without conditioning
such performance upon the appropriation of funds: Pro-
vided, That this limitation does not apply to a contract
in which the Federal Government incurs no financial li-
ability from not buying additional systems, subsystems, or
components beyond the basic contract requirements.
SEC. 316. 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, 2003, and other
recoveries, shall be made available for other projects under
49 U.S.C. 5309.
SEC. 317. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, any funds appropriated before October 1, 2000, under
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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.
SEC. 318. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to compensate in excess of 335 technical staff-years under
the federally funded research and development center con-
tract between the Federal Aviation Administration and the
Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development dur-
ing fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 319. Funds received by the Federal Highway
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Fed-
eral Railroad Administration from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources
for expenses incurred for training may be credited respec-
tively to the Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Federal-
Aid Highways’’ account, the Federal Transit Administra-
tion’s ‘‘Transit Planning and Research’’ 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. 320. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulations
pursuant to title V of the Motor Vehicle Information and
Cost Savings Act (49 U.S.C. 32901 et seq.) prescribing
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corporate average fuel economy standards for automobiles,
as defined in such title, in any model year that differs
from standards promulgated for such automobiles prior to
the enactment of this section.
SEC. 321. Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii
ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 5309(m)(2)(B) may be used to construct new ves-
sels and facilities, or to improve existing vessels and facili-
ties, including both the passenger and vehicle-related ele-
ments of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facili-
ties: Provided, That not more than $3,000,000 of the
funds 
made 
available 
pursuant 
to 
U.S.C.
5309(m)(2)(B) may be used by the State of Hawaii to
initiate and operate a passenger ferryboat services dem-
onstration project to test the viability of different intra-
island and inter-island ferry routes.
SEC. 322. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re-
ceived by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the
sale of data products, for necessary expenses incurred pur-
suant to 49 U.S.C. 111 may be credited to the Federal-
aid highways account for the purpose of reimbursing the
Bureau for such expenses: Provided, That such funds shall
be subject to the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways and highway safety construction.
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SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated or expended for employee training which: (a) does
not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills and abilities
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties;
(b) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some partici-
pants; (c) does not require prior employee notification of
the content and methods to be used in the training and
written end of course evaluations; (d) contains any meth-
ods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious
belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice N–
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; (e) is offensive to, or
designed to change, participants’ personal values or life-
style outside the workplace; or (f) includes content related
to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune defi-
ciency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other than that necessary
to make employees more aware of the medical ramifica-
tions of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights of HIV-posi-
tive employees.
SEC. 324. None of the funds in this Act shall, in the
absence of express authorization by Congress, be used di-
rectly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, adver-
tisement, telegraph, telephone, letter, printed or written
material, radio, television, video presentation, electronic
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communications, or other device, intended or designed to
influence in any manner a Member of Congress or of a
State legislature to favor or oppose by vote or otherwise,
any legislation or appropriation by Congress or a State
legislature after the introduction of any bill or resolution
in Congress proposing such legislation or appropriation,
or after the introduction of any bill or resolution in a State
legislature proposing such legislation or appropriation:
Provided, That this shall not prevent officers or employees
of the Department of Transportation or related agencies
funded in this Act from communicating to Members of
Congress or to Congress, on the request of any Member,
or to members of State legislature, or to a State legisla-
ture, through the proper official channels, requests for leg-
islation or appropriations which they deem necessary for
the efficient conduct of business.
SEC. 325. (a) IN GENERAL.—None of the funds
made available in this Act may be expended by an entity
unless the entity agrees that in expending the funds the
entity will comply with the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C.
10a–10c).
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT RE-
GARDING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
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product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products to the greatest extent
practicable.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘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 con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
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SEC. 326. In addition to the funds limited in this Act,
$54,963,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund
(other than the Mass Transit Account), shall be available
for section 1069(y) of Public Law 102–240.
SEC. 327. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments,
minor fees and other funds received by the Department
from travel management centers, charge card programs,
the subleasing of building space, and miscellaneous
sources are to be credited to appropriations of the Depart-
ment and allocated to elements of the Department using
fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be avail-
able until December 31, 2001.
SEC. 328. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, rule or regulation, the Secretary of Transportation
is authorized to allow the issuer of any preferred stock
heretofore sold to the Department to redeem or repur-
chase such stock upon the payment to the Department of
an amount determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 329. For necessary expenses of the Amtrak Re-
form Council authorized under section 203 of Public Law
105–134, $750,000, to remain available until September
30, 2002: Provided, That the duties of the Amtrak Reform
Council described in section 203(g)(1) of Public Law 105–
134 shall include the identification of Amtrak routes
which are candidates for closure or realignment, based on
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performance rankings developed by Amtrak which incor-
porate information on each route’s fully allocated costs
and ridership on core intercity passenger service, and
which assume, for purposes of closure or realignment can-
didate identification, that Federal subsidies for Amtrak
will decline over the 4-year period from fiscal year 1999
to fiscal year 2002: Provided further, That these closure
or realignment recommendations shall be included in the
Amtrak Reform Council’s annual report to the Congress
required by section 203(h) of Public Law 105–134.
SEC. 330. Item number 1473 in the table contained
in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (112 Stat. 311) is amended by striking
‘‘Stony’’ and inserting ‘‘Commerce’’.
SEC. 331. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to make a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation
notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions not less than three full business days before any dis-
cretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding
grant agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is an-
nounced by the department or its modal administrations
from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the Federal
Highway Administration other than the emergency relief
program; (2) the airport improvement program of the
Federal Aviation Administration; or (3) any program of
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the Federal Transit Administration other than the for-
mula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs:
Provided, That no notification shall involve funds that are
not available for obligation.
SEC. 332. Of the funds provided for fiscal year 2001
in section 232 of the Miscellaneous Appropriations Act,
2000, as enacted by section 1000(a)(5) of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2000, $20,000,000 shall be
available only for fire and life safety improvements to en-
able the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City
to be used as a train station and commercial center.
SEC. 333. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for planning, design, or construction of a light rail
system in Houston, Texas.
SEC. 334. Section 3030(b) of the Transportation Eq-
uity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105–178) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(72) Wilmington Downtown transit corridor.
‘‘(73) Honolulu Bus Rapid Transit project.’’.
SEC. 335. None of the funds appropriated or made
available by this Act or any other Act shall be used (1)
to adopt any proposed rule or proposed amendment to a
rule contained in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
issued on April 24, 2000 (Docket No. FMCSA–97–2350–
953), (2) to adopt any rule or amendment to a rule similar
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in substance to a proposed rule or proposed amendment
to a rule contained in such Notice, or (3) if any such pro-
posed rule or proposed amendment to a rule has been
adopted prior to enactment of this section, to enforce such
rule or amendment to a rule: Provided, That nothing in
this section shall apply to issuing and proceeding, through
all stages of rulemaking other than adoption of a final
rule, under subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United
States Code on a supplemental notice of proposed rule-
making to be issued in Docket No. FMCSA–97–2350–953
that contains proposed rules and proposed amendments to
rules that take appropriate account of the information re-
ceived for filing in the docket on the Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (Docket No. FMCSA–97–2350–953).
SEC. 336. Section 3038(e) of Public Law 105–178
is amended by striking ‘‘50’’ and inserting ‘‘90’’.
SEC. 337. Item number 273 in the table contained
in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (Public Law 105–178) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘Reconstruct I–235 and improve the interchange for
access to the MLKing Parkway.’’ and inserting ‘‘Con-
struction of the north-south segments of the Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. Parkway in Des Moines.’’.
SEC. 338. Item number 328 in the table contained
in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
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21st Century (Public Law 105–178) is amended by insert-
ing before ‘‘of’’ the following: ‘‘or construction’’.
SEC. 339. Section 1602 of the Transportation Equity
Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 256) is amended—
(1) by striking item number 63, relating to
Ohio; and
(2) in item number 186, relating to Ohio, by
striking ‘‘3.75’’ and inserting ‘‘7.5’’.
SEC. 340. (a) Of the funds apportioned to the Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts under each of subsections
(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), and (b)(4) of section 104 and sec-
tion 105 of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary
shall withhold obligation of Federal funds and all project
approvals for the Central Artery/Tunnel project in fiscal
year 2001 and each fiscal year thereafter unless the Sec-
retary of the Department of Transportation determines
that the Commonwealth meets each of the following cri-
teria:
(1) The Commonwealth is in full compliance
with the partnership agreement that was executed
on June 22, 2000, between the Federal Highway
Administration, the Massachusetts Turnpike Author-
ity, the Massachusetts Highway Department, and
the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transpor-
tation and Construction.
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(2) The Commonwealth is in full compliance
with the balanced statewide program memorandum
of understanding entered into by the Massachusetts
Highway Department, the Executive Office of
Transportation and Construction, and metropolitan
planning organizations in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
(3) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall
spend no less than $400,000,000 each year for con-
struction 
activities 
and 
specific 
transportation
projects as defined in the Balanced Statewide Pro-
gram Memorandum of Understanding on projects
other than the Central Artery/Tunnel project.
(b) After June 22, 2000, the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall not approve new net advance construction for
the Central Artery/Tunnel project in an amount greater
than $222,000,000 and no conversion of advance con-
struction to obligation authority shall cause the Federal
share of funding for the Central Artery/Tunnel project to
exceed $8,549,000,000.
(c) Of the funds apportioned to the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts under each of subsections (b)(1), (b)(2),
(b)(3), and (b)(4) of section 104 and section 105 of title
23, United States Code, the Secretary shall withhold obli-
gation of Federal funds and all project approvals for the
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Central Artery/Tunnel project in fiscal year 2001 and each
fiscal year thereafter until the Inspector General of the
Department of Transportation finds the annual update of
the Central Artery/Tunnel project finance plan consistent
with Federal Highway Administration financial plan guid-
ance and the Secretary of the Department of Transpor-
tation approves the annual update of the finance plan, ex-
cept for fiscal year 2001 when approval of the annual up-
date of the finance plan will not be required until Decem-
ber 1, 2000.
(d) Total Federal contributions to the Central Artery/
Tunnel project shall not exceed $8,549,000,000.
(e) Should the Secretary withhold Federal funds ap-
portioned to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under
subsections (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), and (b)(4) of section
104 and section 105 of title 23, United States Code, for
the Central Artery/Tunnel project in any fiscal year for
noncompliance with this section, such funds shall be avail-
able to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for projects
other than the Central Artery/Tunnel project in that fiscal
year.
(f) This section shall be in effect for each fiscal year
in which any Federal funds are made available to con-
struct the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, Mas-
sachusetts.
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(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
section to the contrary, the Secretary is authorized to ap-
prove conversion of advance construction to obligation au-
thority and otherwise make Federal funds available to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts without regard to the re-
quirements of this section, other than subsection (d), if
and only if to the extent necessary, as evidenced by a cer-
tificate of the Secretary of Administration and Finance
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts satisfactory to the
Secretary, to enable the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
to pay all or any portion of the principal amount of notes
issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pursuant
to section 9 through 10D of chapter 11 of the Massachu-
setts acts of 1997, as amended, to finance costs of the
Central Artery/Tunnel project in anticipation of the re-
ceipts of Federal funds: Provided, That no funds derived
from the sale of grant anticipation notes shall be used to
exceed the caps described in subsections (b) and (d).
SEC. 341. Section 3027(c)(3) of the Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 5307 note;
112 Stat. 2681–477), relating to services for elderly and
persons with disabilities, is amended by striking
‘‘$1,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,444,000’’.
SEC. 342. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, unobligated balances from section 149(a)(45) and
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section 149(a)(63) of Public Law 100–17 and the
Ebensburg Bypass Demonstration Project of Public Law
101–164 may be used for improvements along Route 56
in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, including the construc-
tion of a parking facility in the vicinity.
SEC. 343. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
for the planning, development, or construction of Cali-
fornia State Route 710 freeway extension project through
South Pasadena, California.
SEC. 344. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for engineering work related to an addi-
tional runway at New Orleans International Airport.
SEC. 345. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, up to $800,000 of unobligation balances from capital
investement grants available for Fayette County, Pennsyl-
vania intermodal facilities and buses in the Department
of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–277) and the Department of
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2000 (Public Law 106–69) may be made available for an
intermodal parking facility in Cambria County, Pennsyl-
vania.
SEC. 346. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
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preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of the Protocol.
SEC. 347. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
or any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and
expenses of personnel who prepare or submit appropria-
tions language as part of the President’s Budget submis-
sion to the Congress of the United States for programs
under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommit-
tees on Department of Transportation and Related Agen-
cies that assumes revenues or reflects reductions from the
previous year due to user fee proposals that have not been
enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget un-
less such budget submission identifies which additional
spending reductions should occur in the event the user fee
proposals are not enacted prior to the date of the con-
vening of a committee of conference for the fiscal year
2002 appropriations Act.
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SEC. 348. In addition to the authority provided in
section 636 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General
Government Appropriations Act, 1997, as included in
Public Law 104–208, title I, section 101(f), as amended,
beginning in fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, amounts ap-
propriated for salaries and expenses for the Department
of Transportation may be used to reimburse an employee
whose position is that of safety inspector for not to exceed
one-half the costs incurred by such employee for profes-
sional liability insurance. Any payment under this section
shall be contingent upon the submission of such informa-
tion or documentation as the Department may require.
SEC. 349. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring air-
port sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration without cost building construction, maintenance,
utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned
buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air
navigation or weather reporting. The prohibition of funds
in this section does not apply to negotiations between the
Agency and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on
‘‘below-market’’ rates for these items or to grant assur-
ances that require airport sponsors to provide land without
cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities.
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SEC. 350. None of the funds provided in this Act or
prior Appropriations Acts for Coast Guard ‘‘Acquisition,
construction, and improvements’’ shall be available after
the fifteenth day of any quarter of any fiscal year begin-
ning after December 31, 2000, unless the Commandant
of the Coast Guard first submits a quarterly report to the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all
major Coast Guard acquisition projects including projects
executed for the Coast Guard by the United States Navy
and vessel traffic service projects: Provided, That such re-
ports shall include an acquisition schedule, estimated cur-
rent and year funding requirements, and a schedule of an-
ticipated obligations and outlays for each major acquisi-
tion project: Provided further, That such reports shall rate
on a relative scale the cost risk, schedule risk, and tech-
nical risk associated with each acquisition project and in-
clude a table detailing unobligated balances to date and
anticipated unobligated balances at the close of the fiscal
year and the close of the following fiscal year should the
Administration’s pending budget request for the acquisi-
tion, construction, and improvements account be fully
funded: Provided further, That such reports shall also pro-
vide abbreviated information on the status of shore facility
construction and renovation projects: Provided further,
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That all information submitted in such reports shall be
current as of the last day of the preceding quarter.
SEC. 351. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, beginning in fiscal year 2004, the Secretary shall
withhold 2 percent of the amount required to be appor-
tioned for Federal-aid highways to any State under each
of paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of section 104(b) of title
23, United States Code, if a State has not enacted and
is not enforcing a provision described in section 163(a)
of chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, in fiscal year
2005, the Secretary shall withhold 4 percent of the
amount required to be apportioned for Federal-aid high-
ways to any State under each of paragraphs (1), (3), and
(4) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States Code, if
a State has not enacted and is not enforcing a provision
described in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code;
in fiscal year 2006, the Secretary shall withhold 6 percent
of the amount required to be apportioned for Federal-aid
highways to any State under each of paragraphs (1), (3),
and (4) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States Code,
if a State has not enacted and is not enforcing a provision
described in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code;
and beginning in fiscal year 2007, and in each fiscal year
thereafter, the Secretary shall withhold 8 percent of the
amount required to be apportioned for Federal-aid high-
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ways to any State under each of paragraphs (1), (3), and
(4) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States Code, if
a State has not enacted and is not enforcing a provision
described in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code.
If within four years from the date the apportionment for
any State is reduced in accordance with this section the
Secretary determines that such State has enacted and is
enforcing a provision described in section 163(a) of chap-
ter 1 of title 23, United States Code, the apportionment
of such State shall be increased by an amount equal to
such reduction. If at the end of such four-year period, any
State has not enacted and is not enforcing a provision de-
scribed in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code,
any amounts so withheld shall lapse.
SEC. 352. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, including the Surplus Property Act
of 1944 (58 Stat. 765, chapter 479; 50 U.S.C. App. 1622
et seq.), the Secretary of Transportation (or the appro-
priate Federal officer) may waive, without charge, any of
the terms contained in any deed of conveyance described
in subsection (b) that restrict the use of any land de-
scribed in such a deed that, as of the date of enactment
of this Act, is not being used for the operation of an air-
port or for air traffic. A waiver made under the preceding
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sentence shall be deemed to be consistent with the require-
ments of section 47153 of title 49, United States Code.
(b) DEED OF CONVEYANCE.—A deed of conveyance
referred to in subsection (a) is a deed of conveyance issued
by the United States before the date of enactment of this
Act for the conveyance of lands to a public institution of
higher education in Oklahoma.
(c) USE OF LANDS SUBJECT TO WAIVER.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the lands subject to a waiver under
subsection (a) shall not be subject to any term, con-
dition, reservation, or restriction that would other-
wise apply to that land as a result of the conveyance
of that land by the United States to the institution
of higher education.
(2) USE OF LANDS.—An institution of higher
education that is issued a waiver under subsection
(a) may use revenues derived from the use, oper-
ation, or disposal of that land only for weather-re-
lated and educational purposes that include benefits
for aviation.
(d) GRANTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, if an institution of higher education
that is subject to a waiver under subsection (a) re-
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ceived financial assistance in the form of a grant
from the Federal Aviation Administration or a pred-
ecessor agency before the date of enactment of this
Act, then the Secretary of Transportation may waive
the repayment of the outstanding amount of any
grant that the institution of higher education would
otherwise be required to pay.
(2) ELIGIBILITY
TO
RECEIVE
SUBSEQUENT
GRANTS.—Nothing in paragraph (1) shall affect the
eligibility of an institution of higher education that
is subject to that paragraph from receiving grants
from the Secretary of Transportation under chapter
471 of title 49, United States Code, or under any
other provision of law relating to financial assistance
provided through the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion.
SEC. 353. The table contained in section 1602 of the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century is amend-
ed in item 1006 (112 Stat. 294) by striking ‘‘Extend NW
86th Street from NW 70th Street’’ and inserting ‘‘Con-
struct a road from State Highway 141’’.
SEC. 354. For the purpose of constructing an under-
pass to improve access and enhance highway/rail safety
and economic development along Star Landing Road in
DeSoto County, Mississippi, the State of Mississippi may
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use funds previously allocated to it under the transpor-
tation enhancements program, if available.
SEC. 355. Section 1214 of Public Law 105–178, as
amended, is further amended by adding a new subsection
to read as follows:
‘‘(s) Notwithstanding section 117 (c) of title 23,
United States Code, for project number 1646 in section
1602 of Public Law 105–178, the non-Federal share of
the project may be funded by Federal funds from an agen-
cy or agencies not part of the United States Department
of Transportation.’’.
SEC. 356. Hereafter, the New Jersey Transit com-
muter rail station to be located at the intersection of the
Main/Bergen line and the Northeast Corridor line in the
State of New Jersey shall be known and designated as
the ‘‘Frank R. Lautenberg Station’’: Provided, That the
Secretary of Transportation shall ensure that any and all
applicable reference in law, map, regulation, documenta-
tion, and all appropriate signage shall make reference to
the ‘‘Frank R. Lautenberg Station’’.
SEC. 357. None of the funds in this Act may be avail-
able for the planning, development or construction of a
multi-lane, limited access expressway at section 800,
Pennsylvania Route 202 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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SEC. 358. Item 131 in the table under ‘‘Federal
Transit Administration, Capital investment grants’’ in
Public Law 106–69 is amended by adding after ‘‘buses’’
the following: ‘‘, bus-related equipment and bus facilities’’.
SEC. 359. Each executive agency shall establish a pol-
icy under which eligible employees of the agency may par-
ticipate in telecommuting to the maximum extent possible
without diminished employee performance. Not later than
6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall pro-
vide that the requirements of this section are applied to
25 percent of the Federal workforce, and to an additional
25 percent of such workforce each year thereafter.
SEC. 360. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, new fixed guideway system funds available for the
Jackson, Mississippi, Intermodal Corridor in the Depart-
ment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1998, Public Law 105–66, may be made avail-
able for obligation during this fiscal year for studies to
evaluate and define transportation alternatives for this
project, including an intermodal facility at Jackson Inter-
national Airport, and for related preliminary engineering,
final design or construction.
SEC. 361. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, up to $499,000 of the funds made available in item
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760 of section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century shall be available for corridor planning
studies between western Baldwin County and Mobile Mu-
nicipal Airport.
SEC. 362. Item number 78 in section 1107(b) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(Public Law 102–240) is amended by inserting ‘‘Akron
Innerbelt (State Route 59) corridor, Broadway viaduct re-
placement, and High Street viaduct replacement,’’ after
‘‘extension,’’.
SEC. 363. Section 117(c) of title 23, United States
Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the
end the following: ‘‘; except that the Federal share on ac-
count of the project to be carried out under item 1419
of the table contained in section 1602 of the Transpor-
tation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 309),
relating to reconstruction of a road and causeway in Shi-
loh Military Park in Hardin County, Tennessee, shall be
100 percent of the total cost thereof’’.
SEC. 364. Section 30118 of title 49, United States
Code, is amended—
(1) in subsections (a), (b)(1), and (c), by insert-
ing ‘‘, original equipment,’’ before ‘‘or replacement
equipment’’ each place it appears; and
(2) in subsection (c)—
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(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and
(2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively,
and indenting appropriately;
(B) by striking ‘‘A manufacturer’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—A
manufacturer’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) DUTY OF MANUFACTURERS.—For the pur-
poses of paragraph (1), a manufacturer of a motor
vehicle, original equipment, or replacement equip-
ment shall have a duty to review and consider infor-
mation, including information received from any for-
eign source, to learn whether the vehicle or equip-
ment contains a defect or does not comply with an
applicable motor vehicle safety standard.’’.
SEC. 365. Funds appropriated to the Federal Transit
Administration under the heading ‘‘Transit planning and
research’’ for international activities in Public Law 106–
69 shall be transferred to and administered by the Agency
for International Development for transportation needs in
the frontline states to the Kosovo conflict, as determined
to be appropriate by the Administrator of the Agency for
International Development.
SEC. 366. Under the heading ‘‘Discretionary Grants’’
in Public Law 105–66, ‘‘$4,000,000 for the Salt Lake
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City regional commuter system project;’’ is amended to
read ‘‘$4,000,000 for the transit and other transportation-
related portions of the Salt Lake City regional commuter
system and Gateway intermodal terminal;’’.
SEC. 367. Of the amounts to be made available in
fiscal year 2001 under section 1404 (safety incentives to
prevent operation of motor vehicles by intoxicated persons)
of Public Law 105–178, $2,492,121 shall be made avail-
able to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for adopting a
0.08 blood alcohol content standard. Thereafter the re-
maining funds shall be distributed by formula to the eligi-
ble states, including Kentucky.
SEC. 368. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Transportation shall waive repay-
ment of any Federal-aid highway funds expended by the
City of Spokane, Washington on the Lincoln Street Bridge
Project.
SEC. 369. Items 218 and 219 in the table under
‘‘Federal Transit Administration, Capital investment
grants’’ in Division A, section 101(g) of Public Law 105–
277 and items 222 and 223 in the table under ‘‘Federal
Transit Administration, Capital investment grants’’ in
Public Law 106–69 are amended by inserting ‘‘and bus
and bus facilities’’ at the end of each item.
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SEC. 370. Item number 6 in the table contained in
section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (Public Law 105–178) is amended by insert-
ing after ‘‘Kaysville’’, ‘‘and within the amount provided,
$2,000,000 for repair and reconstruction of the North
Ogden Divide Highway’’.
SEC. 371. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, States may use funds provided in this Act under sec-
tion 402 of title 23, United States Code, to produce and
place highway safety public service messages in television,
radio, cinema, and print media, and on the Internet in
accordance with guidance issued by the Secretary of
Transportation. Any State that uses funds for such public
service messages shall submit to the Secretary a report
describing and assessing the effectiveness of the messages.
SEC. 372. Notwithstanding section 402 of the De-
partment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1982 (49 U.S.C. 10903 nt), Mohall Rail-
road, Inc. may abandon track from milepost 5.25 near
Granville, North Dakota, to milepost 35.0 at Lansford,
North Dakota, and the track so abandoned shall not be
counted against the 350-mile limitation contained in that
section.
SEC. 373. Item number 163 in the table contained
in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
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21st Century (Public Law 105–178) is amended by insert-
ing before the numeral ‘‘which includes the study, design,
and construction related to local street improvements
needed to complement the extension of Kapkowski Road’’.
SEC. 374. Item number 331 in the table contained
in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century (112 Stat. 269) is amended by striking
‘‘highway access’’ and inserting ‘‘highway and freight rail
access’’.
SEC. 375. For capital costs associated with track re-
location, track construction and rehabilitation, highway-
rail separation construction activities including right-of-
way acquisition and utility relocation, and signal improve-
ments in Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield, Ala-
bama, $5,000,000 to the Alabama Department of Trans-
portation, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That obligation of federal funds is contingent upon a
match of no less than 75 percent from non-federal sources.
SEC. 376. For capital costs associated with track ac-
quisition and rehabilitation between Strasburg Junction
and Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia, $1,000,000 to Valley
Trains and Tours, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the obligation of federal funds is contingent
upon an agreement with Norfolk Southern Corporation on
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track usage and financial support by the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
SEC. 377. Item 1135 of the table contained in section
1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Cen-
tury (112 Stat. 298) is amended by striking ‘‘Replace
Barton Road/M 14 interchange, Ann Arbor’’ and inserting
‘‘Conduct a study of all possible alternatives to the current
M–14/Barton Drive interchange in Ann Arbor, including
relocation of M–14/U.S. 23 from Maple Road to Plymouth
Road, mass transit options, and other means of reducing
commuter traffic and improving highway safety’’.
SEC. 378. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, in addition to amounts made available in this Act or
any other Act, the following sums shall be made available
from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Tran-
sit Account): $50,000,000 for the intelligent transpor-
tation infrastructure program as authorized by section
5117(b)(3) of Public Law 105–178; $8,500,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, 17th Avenue and 23rd
Avenue highway ramps in Denver, Colorado; $1,000,000
for engineering, construction of, and improvements to, the
Cascade Gateway Border Project in Whatcom County,
Washington; $100,000,000 for construction of, and im-
provements to, Corridor D on the Appalachian develop-
ment highway system in the State of West Virginia;
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$1,500,000 for construction of, and improvements to, the
Alameda Corridor-East Gateway to American Trade cor-
ridor project, California; $4,000,000 for construction of,
and improvements to, Avenue G viaduct and connector
roads in Council Bluffs, Iowa; $34,100,000 for design and
construction of the Birmingham, Alabama Northern Belt-
line; $13,500,000 for construction of, and improvements
to, US 231 from Bowling Green to Scottsville, Kentucky;
$150,000 for improvements to the Broad Street and
Wyckoff Road intersection, including traffic light up-
grades, in the Borough of Eatontown, New Jersey;
$12,000,000 for construction of road expansion and im-
provements to, the Broad Street Parkway in Nashua, New
Hampshire; $10,000,000 to construct interchanges US
281 at FM 2812, FM 162, FM 490, SP 122, and SH
186 in Texas; $12,500,000 to construct interchanges US
77 at Business 77 North, FM 3186, FM 490, SP 122,
and SP 413 in Texas; $30,000,000 for construction of,
and improvements to, the Cooper River Bridge in South
Carolina; $100,000,000 for construction of, and improve-
ments to, Corridor X on the Appalachian development
highway system in the State of Alabama; $4,000,000 for
construction, including related activities, of an interchange
at County Highway J and US 10 and to upgrade a seg-
ment of US 10 to a four-lane highway in Portage County,
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Wisconsin; $5,000,000 for construction, including related
activities, of the Craig Road overpass between I–15 and
Lossee Road in the City of North Las Vegas, Nevada;
$30,200,000 for construction of, and improvements to,
bridges and other projects on the Dalton Highway, Alaska;
$3,200,000 for improvements to Dayton Road in Ames,
Iowa; $15,000,000 for construction of, and improvements
to, the Detroit, Michigan Ambassador Bridge Gateway
project; $24,000,000 for construction of, and improve-
ments to, FAST Corridor in Washington; $10,000,000 for
construction of, and improvements to, the Fort Wash-
ington Way reconfiguration project, Cincinnati, Ohio;
$35,000,000 for construction of, and improvements to, the
Four Bears Bridge in North Dakota; $50,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, the Glen Highway/
George Parks Highway interchange in Alaska; $8,000,000
for preliminary design of the Interstate Route 69 Great
River Bridge crossing the Mississippi at Bolivar County,
Mississippi; $8,000,000 for reconstruction of, and other
improvements to, Halls Mill Road in Freehold Township
and Monmouth County, New Jersey; $4,500,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, Hamakua-Hilo corridor
road and bridge projects, Hawaii; $35,000,000 for con-
struction, including related activities, of an extension of
Highway 180 from the City of Mendota to I–5 in Fresno
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County, California; $10,000,000 to upgrade Highway 36
in Marion County, Missouri, to four-lane divided highway;
$9,750,000 for widening, relocation of, and other improve-
ments to South Carolina Highway 5, including the re-
moval and relocation of municipal utilities, between Inter-
state 85 in Cherokee County, South Carolina and Inter-
state 77 in York County, South Carolina; $10,000,000 for
upgrading Highway 60 in Shannon and Carter counties,
Missouri, to four-lane divided highway; $6,400,000 for
Hoeven Valley corridor, Sioux City, road, intersection, and
rail crossing improvements in Iowa; $20,000,000 for envi-
ronmental work, design, and construction of the Hoover
Dam bypass four-lane bridge; $13,500,000 for construc-
tion of, and improvements to, I–15 between milepost 0 and
milepost 16, from the Utah border to Deep Creek, Idaho;
$10,000,000 for construction of, and improvements to, the
I–15 Southbound project, Nevada; $10,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, I–195 in Rhode Island;
$6,400,000 for municipality relocation costs for I–235 in
Polk County, Iowa; $12,000,000 for environmental work,
preliminary survey and design, and reconstruction of I–
35 from Des Moines to Ankeny, Iowa; $36,000,000 for
construction, including related activities, of the I–39/US
51/SH 29 corridor (Wausau Beltline) in and around
Wausau, Wisconsin; $94,000,000 for construction of, and
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improvements to, I–49 in the State of Arkansas;
$18,400,000 for environmental work, preliminary survey
and design of I–69 in Tennessee; $10,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, the I–80/US 395 inter-
change, in Reno, Nevada; $2,800,000 for border crossing
improvements on I–87, in New York; $8,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, the I–95 to Transitway
access project in Stamford, Connecticut; $4,000,000 for
construction of, and improvements to, U.S. Department
of Transportation structure numbered 289–961–H at
FAS Route 37 in Illinois; $250,000 for improvements at
the Rosedale Road and Provinceline Road intersection in
the Township of Princeton, New Jersey; $1,200,000 for
improvements to County Route 605 in Delaware Township
and West Amwell Township Hunterdon County, New Jer-
sey; $2,500,000 for improvements to the Route 9 and
Route 520 intersection in Marlboro Township, New Jer-
sey; $5,000,000 for improvements to US 73 from State
Avenue North to Marxen Road in Wyandotte County,
Kansas; $5,000,000 for installation of sound barriers
along the Route 309 Expressway between Limekiln Pike
and State Route 63 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania;
$8,700,000 for construction, including related activities,
of a new interchange on I–435 at Donahoo Road in Wyan-
dotte County, Kansas; $15,000,000 for construction of,
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and improvements to, the intersection at 27th Street and
Airport Road in Billings, Montana; $5,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, Kahuku Bridges, Ha-
waii; $5,500,000 for construction of, and improvements
to, the Kansas Lane Connector Road alignment project
in Monroe, Louisiana; $4,000,000 for construction of, and
improvements to, Kekaha, Kauai access roads, Hawaii;
$10,000,000 for planning, environmental work, and pre-
liminary engineering of highway, pedestrian, vehicular,
and bicycle access to the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in the District of Columbia; $2,500,000
for construction of, and improvements to, Kihei Road, Ha-
waii; $10,000,000 for Lafayette Street access improve-
ments from the US 202 Dannehower Bridge to the Penn-
sylvania Turnpike, including extension of Lafayette Street
to the Conshohocken Road, intersection improvements and
bridge reconstruction, in Norristown, Pennsylvania;
$12,400,000 for widening and overlay/guard rail work on
SR 789 between Lander and Hudson, Wyoming; $500,000
for reconstruction of Lewisville Road in Lawrence Town-
ship, New Jersey; $3,200,000 for construction of, and im-
provements to, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge in To-
ledo, Ohio; $9,300,000 for construction of, and improve-
ments to, the Midtown West intermodal ferry terminal,
New York City, New York; $5,000,000 for construction,
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including related activities, of an extension of Mississippi
Highway 44, including a bridge over the Pearl River, in
Lawrence County, Mississippi; $13,000,000 for construc-
tion of, and improvements to, the Missouri River pedes-
trian crossing in Omaha, Nebraska; $5,000,000 for the
NJCDC Training Facility Project in Paterson, New Jer-
sey; $16,000,000 for construction of, and improvements
to, North Shore Road in Swain County, North Carolina;
$3,500,000 for construction of, and improvements to, the
Norwich, 
Connecticut 
intermodal 
facility 
project;
$1,500,000 for construction of, and improvements to,
Padanaram and Little River Road bridge projects in Dart-
mouth, Massachusetts; $11,000,000 for reconstruction ac-
tivities on the Potee Street Bridge in Baltimore, Mary-
land; $250,000 for reconstruction of Institute Street,
Lockwood Avenue, First Street, Second Street, Third
Street, Ford Avenue, Liberty Street and Bond Street in
the Borough of Freehold, New Jersey; $4,200,000 for re-
location and related construction activities thereto of Mac-
Arthur 
Boulevard 
in 
Oklahoma 
City, 
Oklahoma;
$1,200,000 for grade crossing eliminations along Route
17 in Chemung County, New York; $4,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, Route 2 between St.
Johnsbury, Vermont and the New Hampshire State Line;
$500,000 for improvements to Route 35 at Clinton Ave-
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nue and other intersections in the Borough of Eatontown,
New Jersey; $500,000 for Route 35 corridor improve-
ments, including signal upgrades, in the Borough of
Eatontown, New Jersey; $2,600,000 for construction of,
and improvements to, the Niangua Bridge on Route 5 in
Camden County, Missouri; $1,000,000 for improvements
to Route 641 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey;
$25,000,000 for construction, including related activities,
of the Route 7 North bypass in Brookfield, Connecticut;
$6,000,000 for construction of, and improvements to, the
Route 9 Bennington Bypass, Vermont; $5,000,000 for
construction of, and improvements to, Saddle Road, Ha-
waii; $1,200,000 for reconstruction of School Road East
in Marlboro Township, New Jersey; $29,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, a Southeast Connector
Route between I–90 and SD 79 in South Dakota;
$5,000,000 for improvements, including traffic signal sys-
tem upgrades, to State Route 99 in Shoreline, Wash-
ington; $500,000 for the Township of Princeton, New Jer-
sey municipal complex road improvements, including im-
provements to the Valley, Mount Lucas, Terhune and
Cherry Hill roadways in the Township of Princeton, New
Jersey; $23,600,000 for construction of, and improve-
ments to, US 12 between Aberdeen and I–29 in South
Dakota; $40,000,000 for construction of, and improve-
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ments to, US 19 in Pinellas County, Florida; $25,000,000
for construction of, and improvements to, US 50 Parkers-
burg bypass in West Virginia; $10,000,000 for construc-
tion of, and improvements to, US 63 in Jonesboro, Arkan-
sas; $5,000,000 for construction of, and improvements to,
US 101 in Oregon; $4,000,000 for construction of, and
improvements to, US 54 in Kansas; $100,000,000 for con-
struction of, and improvements to, the US 82 bridge over
the 
Mississippi 
River 
at 
Greenville, 
Mississippi;
$10,000,000 for construction of, and improvements to, in-
cluding widening, of US 95 between Laughlin Cutoff and
Railroad Pass, Nevada; $1,000,000 for improvements to
the Van Wyck Expressway, Queens County, New York;
and $20,000,000 for widening US 53 from two lanes to
four lanes from Minnesota Highway 169 north of Virginia,
Minnesota to Cook, Minnesota: Provided, That the
amounts appropriated in this section shall remain avail-
able until expended and shall not be subject to, or com-
puted against, any obligation limitation or contract au-
thority set forth in this Act or any other Act.
SEC. 379. (a) Section 412(a) of the Woodrow Wilson
Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995 (109 Stat. 627;
112 Stat. 159) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘There is’’ and inserting
the following:
‘‘(A) HIGHWAY TRUST FUND.—There is’’;
and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(B) GENERAL FUND.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—In addition to
amounts made available under subpara-
graph (A), there is appropriated to pay the
costs 
described 
in 
subparagraph 
(A)
$600,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.
‘‘(ii) 
CONDITION.—Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the additional
funds made available by clause (i) shall be
made available only when 1 or more of the
Capital Region jurisdictions accepts con-
veyance from the Secretary of all right,
title, and interest of the United States in
and to the new Bridge.
‘‘(iii) MANNER OF USE.—The use of
the additional funds made available by
clause (i) shall be subject to title 23,
United States Code.’’;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘Funds’’ and inserting
‘‘Except as provided in paragraph (3), funds’’;
and
(B) by striking ‘‘this section’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘paragraph (1)(A)’’; and
(3) by striking ‘‘Code; except that—’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘Code.
‘‘(3) CONDITIONS.—With respect to funds au-
thorized or appropriated by this section—’’.
(b) Section 412 of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial
Bridge Authority Act of 1995 (109 Stat. 627; 112 Stat.
159) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) LIMITATION ON FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the aggregate of the amounts made avail-
able from the Highway Trust Fund and the general
fund of the Treasury under this section shall not ex-
ceed $1,500,000,000.
‘‘(2) EXCLUDED
AMOUNTS.—Amounts made
available for the Project under section 110 of title
23, United States Code, shall be excluded from the
limitation established by paragraph (1).’’.
SEC. 380. Section 5309(g)(4) of title 49 United
States Code is amended by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(4)’’
and by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(B) For fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the
amount equivalent to the last 2 fiscal years of fund-
ing authorized under section 5338(b) for new fixed
guideway systems and extensions to existing fixed
guideway systems referred to in subparagraph (A)
shall be the amount equivalent to the last 3 fiscal
years of such authorized funding.
‘‘(C) Any increase in the total estimated
amount of future obligations of the Government and
contingent commitments to incur obligations covered
by all outstanding letters of intent, full funding
grant agreements, and early systems work agree-
ments as a result of application of subparagraph (B)
instead of subparagraph (A) shall be available as fol-
lows:
‘‘(1) $269,100,000 for the Chicago, Illinois
Metra commuter rail project, that consists of
the following elements: the Kane County exten-
sion; the North Central double-tracking project;
and the Southwest corridor extension.
‘‘(2) $565,600,000 for the Chicago Transit
Authority project that consists of the following
elements: Ravenswood Branch station and line
improvements and the Douglas Branch recon-
struction project.
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‘‘(3) For new fixed guideways and exten-
sions to existing fixed guideway systems other
than for projects referred to in paragraphs (1)
and (2); except that for fiscal year 2001, such
increase under this paragraph shall not be
available for allocation by the department or for
making future obligations of the Government
and contingent commitments until April 1,
2001.
‘‘(D) Of the amount that would be available
under subparagraph (A) if subparagraph (B) were
not in effect and would have otherwise been allo-
cated by the Federal Transit Administration to
those projects referred to in subparagraphs (C)(1)
and (C)(2) shall be available as follows:
‘‘(1) $60,000,000 for the Minneapolis Hia-
watha corridor light rail project, which shall be
in addition to amounts otherwise allocated
under subparagraph (A), for a total of
$334,300,000.
‘‘(2) $217,800,000 for the Dulles corridor
bus rapid transit project, that consists of a
light rail extension from the West Falls Church
metrorail station to Tysons Corner, Virginia
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and bus rapid transit from Tysons Corner to
the Dulles International Airport.
‘‘(E) Any amount that would be available under
subparagraph (A) if subparagraph (B) were not in
effect and would have otherwise been allocated by
the Federal Transit Administration to those projects
referred to in subparagraphs (C)(1) and (C)(2),
shall not be available for allocation by the depart-
ment or for making future obligations of the Govern-
ment and contingent commitments until April 1,
2001, except for those projects referred to in sub-
paragraph (D)(1) and (D)(2).
‘‘(F) Future obligations of the Government and
contingent commitments made against the contin-
gent commitment authority under section 3032(g)(2)
of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency
Act of 1991 for the San Francisco BART to the
Airport project for fiscal years 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006 shall be charged against section
3032(g)(2) of the Intermodal Surface Transpor-
tation Efficiency Act of 1991.
‘‘(G) Any amount that would be available under
subparagraph (A) if subparagraph (F) were not in
effect and would otherwise have been allocated by
the Federal Transit Administration to the project in
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subparagraph (F) shall not be available for alloca-
tion by the department or for making future obliga-
tions of the Government and contingent commit-
ments until April 1, 2001.’’.
SEC. 381. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, within one week from the date of enactment of this
Act, the Federal Transit Administrator shall sign a Full
Funding Grant Agreement for the MOS–2 segment of the
New Jersey Urban Core—Hudson Bergen project.
SEC. 382. None of the funds appropriated in this or
any other Act may be used to adjust the boundary of the
Point Retreat Light Station or to otherwise limit the prop-
erty at the Point Retreat Light Station currently under
lease to the Alaska Lighthouse Association: Provided,
That any modifications to the boundary of the Point Re-
treat Light Station made after January 1, 1998 is hereby
declared null and void.
TITLE IV
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
GIFTS TO THE UNITED STATES FOR REDUCTION OF THE
PUBLIC DEBT
For deposit of an additional amount into the account
established under section 3113(d) of title 31, United
States Code, to reduce the public debt, $5,000,000,000.
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TITLE V
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount in support of the Nation’s
counterterrorism efforts, $6,424,000: Provided, That
these funds shall be for establishing a new interagency Na-
tional Terrorist Asset Tracking Center in the Office of
Foreign Assets Control: Provided further, That these
funds may be used to reimburse any Department of the
Treasury organization for costs of providing support for
this effort.
DEPARTMENT-WIDE SYSTEMS AND CAPITAL
INVESTMENTS PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for the integrated Treasury
wireless network, $15,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That these funds shall be transferred
to accounts and in amounts as necessary to satisfy the
requirements of the Department’s offices, bureaus, and
other organizations: Provided further, That this transfer
authority shall be in addition to any other transfer author-
ity provided: Provided further, That none of the funds ap-
propriated shall be used to support or supplement the In-
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ternal Revenue Service appropriations for Information
Systems.
EXPANDED ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount to develop and implement
programs to expand access to financial services for low-
and moderate-income individuals, $8,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That of these funds,
such sums as may be necessary may be transferred to ac-
counts of the Department’s offices, bureaus, and other or-
ganizations: Provided further, That this transfer authority
shall be in addition to any other transfer authority pro-
vided.
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount to establish and operate
a metropolitan area law enforcement training center for
the Department of the Treasury, other Federal agencies,
the United States Capitol Police, and the Washington,
D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, $5,000,000: Pro-
vided, That the principal function of the center shall be
for firearms and vehicle operation requalification: Pro-
vided further, That use of the center for training for other
state and local law enforcement agencies may be provided
on a space-available basis: Provided further, That the Fed-
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eral Law Enforcement Training Center is authorized to
obligate funds in anticipation of reimbursement from
agencies receiving training sponsored by the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center, except that total obliga-
tions at the end of the fiscal year shall not exceed total
budgetary resources available at the end of the fiscal year:
Provided further, That the costs of transportation to and
from the center, ammunition, vehicles, and instruction at
the center shall be funded either directly by participating
law enforcement agencies, or through reimbursement of
actual costs to this appropriation: Provided further, That
of the funds provided, no more than $1,500,000 may be
obligated until a funding plan for the center has been sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations: Provided fur-
ther, That all Federal property in the National Capital Re-
gion that is in the surplus property inventory of the Gen-
eral Services Administration shall be available for selection
and use by the Secretary of the Treasury as the site of
such a metropolitan area law enforcement training center.
If the Secretary of the Treasury identifies a parcel of such
property that is appropriate for use for such a center, the
property shall not be treated as excess property or surplus
property (as those terms are used in the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act of 1949) and administra-
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tive jurisdiction over the property shall be transferred to
the Secretary for use for such a center.
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND
RELATED EXPENSES
For an additional amount for design and construction
of a metropolitan area law enforcement training center,
including firearms and vehicle operations requalification
facilities, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That of the funds provided, no more than
$3,000,000 may be obligated until a design and construc-
tion plan has been submitted to the Committees on Appro-
priations.
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount, $4,148,000, for participa-
tion in Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount, $18,934,000: Provided,
That $10,000,000 shall be for technology and infrastruc-
ture along the northern border: Provided further, That
$6,600,000 shall be for hiring counterterrorism agents for
deployment along the northern border: Provided further,
That none of the funds provided for the northern border
shall be obligated until the Commissioner of the Customs
Service submits for approval to the Committees on Appro-
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(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Legisla-
tive Branch Appropriations Act, 2001.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001’’.
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