II 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3087
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
Received 
AN ACT 
To provide an extension of highway, highway safety, motor 
carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out 
of the Highway Trust Fund pending enactment of a 
law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 
21st Century.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Surface Transpor-
tation Extension Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. ADVANCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transportation 
shall apportion funds made available under section 
1101(c) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 
Century (112 Stat. 116), as amended by this Act, to each 
State in the ratio that—
(1) the State’s total fiscal year 2003 obligation 
authority for funds apportioned for the Federal-aid 
highway program; bears to 
(2) all States’ total fiscal year 2003 obligation 
authority for funds apportioned for the Federal-aid 
highway program. 
(b) PROGRAMMATIC DISTRIBUTIONS.—
(1) PROGRAMS.—Of the funds to be appor-
tioned to each State under subsection (a), the Sec-
retary shall ensure that the State is apportioned an 
amount of the funds, determined under paragraph 
(2), for the Interstate maintenance program, the 
National Highway System program, the bridge pro-
gram, the surface transportation program, the con-
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gestion mitigation and air quality improvement pro-
gram, the recreational trails program, the Appa-
lachian development highway system program, and 
the minimum guarantee. 
(2) IN GENERAL.—The amount that each State 
shall be apportioned under this subsection for each 
item referred to in paragraph (1) shall be deter-
mined by multiplying—
(A) the amount apportioned to the State 
under subsection (a); by 
(B) the ratio that—
(i) the amount of funds apportioned 
for the item to the State for fiscal year 
2003; bears to 
(ii) the total of the amount of funds 
apportioned for the items to the State for 
fiscal year 2003. 
(3) ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS.—Funds au-
thorized by the amendment made under subsection 
(d) shall be administered as if the funds had been 
apportioned, allocated, deducted, or set aside, as the 
case may be, under title 23, United States Code; ex-
cept that the deductions and set-asides in the fol-
lowing sections of such title shall not apply to such 
funds: 
sections 
104(a)(1)(A), 
104(a)(1)(B),
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104(b)(1)(A), 
104(d)(1), 
104(d)(2), 
104(f)(1), 
104(h)(1), 118(c)(1), 140(b), 140(c), and 144(g)(1). 
(4) SPECIAL
RULES
FOR
MINIMUM
GUAR-
ANTEE.—In carrying out the minimum guarantee 
under section 105(c) of title 23, United States Code, 
with funds apportioned under this section for the 
minimum guarantee, the $2,800,000,000 set forth in 
paragraph (1) of such section 105(c) shall be treated 
as being $1,166,666,667 and the aggregate of 
amounts apportioned to the States under this sec-
tion for the minimum guarantee shall be treated, for 
purposes of such section 105(c), as amounts made 
available under section 105 of such title. 
(5) EXTENSION OF OFF-SYSTEM BRIDGE SET-
ASIDE.—Section 144(g)(3) of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after ‘‘2003’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘and in the period of October 1, 2003, 
through February 29, 2004,’’. 
(c) 
REPAYMENT
FROM
FUTURE
APPORTION-
MENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall reduce 
the amount that would be apportioned, but for this 
section, to a State for programs under chapter 1 of 
title 23, United States Code, for fiscal year 2004, 
under a law reauthorizing the Federal-aid highway