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advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations prior to exercising the authorities of 49 U.S.C. 116(h): 
Provided further, That the program be available to other Federal 
agencies, States, municipalities and project sponsors seeking Fed-
eral transportation expertise in obtaining financing. 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the 
Department 
of 
Transportation’s 
financial 
systems 
and 
re- 
engineering business processes, $6,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2020. 
CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES 
For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, including 
necessary upgrades to wide area network and information tech-
nology infrastructure, improvement of network perimeter controls 
and identity management, testing and assessment of information 
technology against business, security, and other requirements, 
implementation of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 
infrastructure enhancements, and implementation of enhanced 
security controls on network devices, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2019. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $9,500,000. 
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $14,000,000: Provided, 
That of such amount, $1,500,000 shall be for necessary expenses 
of the Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center 
(IIPIC): Provided further, That there may be transferred to this 
appropriation, to remain available until expended, amounts trans-
ferred from other Federal agencies for expenses incurred under 
this heading for IIPIC activities not related to transportation infra-
structure: Provided further, That the tools and analysis developed 
by the IIPIC shall be available to other Federal agencies for the 
permitting and review of major infrastructure projects not related 
to transportation only to the extent that other Federal agencies 
provide funding to the Department as provided for under the pre-
vious proviso. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays 
of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $202,245,000, shall 
be paid from appropriations made available to the Department 
of Transportation: Provided, That such services shall be provided 
on a competitive basis to entities within the Department of 
Transportation: Provided further, That the above limitation on oper-
ating expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency of the
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Department shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund with-
out majority approval of the Working Capital Fund Steering Com-
mittee and approval of the Secretary: Provided further, That no 
assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, 
subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice of such 
assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved by 
such Committees. 
MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses of the Minority Business Resource 
Center, the provision of financial education outreach activities to 
eligible transportation-related small businesses, the monitoring of 
existing loans in the guaranteed loan program, and the modification 
of such loans of the Minority Business Resource Center, $500,301, 
as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 332; Provided, That notwithstanding 
that section, these funds may be for business opportunities related 
to any mode of transportation. 
SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION AND OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses for small and disadvantaged business 
utilization and outreach activities, $4,646,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2019: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 
332, these funds may be used for business opportunities related 
to any mode of transportation. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
In addition to funds made available from any other source 
to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 
41731 through 41742, $155,000,000, to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That in determining between or among carriers competing 
to provide service to a community, the Secretary may consider 
the relative subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, 
That basic essential air service minimum requirements shall not 
include the 15-passenger capacity requirement under subsection 
41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That 
none of the funds in this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to enter into a new contract with a community located less than 
40 miles from the nearest small hub airport before the Secretary 
has negotiated with the community over a local cost share: Provided 
further, That amounts authorized to be distributed for the essential 
air service program under subsection 41742(b) of title 49, United 
States Code, shall be made available immediately from amounts 
otherwise provided to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration: Provided further, That the Administrator may 
reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the account estab-
lished under section 45303 of title 49, United States Code.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office 
of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the 
modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway 
on the date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
for Congressional notification. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary shall post on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the 
Council on Credit and Finance, including the agenda for each 
meeting, and require the Council on Credit and Finance to record 
the decisions and actions of each meeting. 
SEC. 103. In addition to authority provided by section 327 
of title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Working Capital 
Fund is hereby authorized to provide partial or full payments 
in advance and accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal 
agencies from available funds for transit benefit distribution serv-
ices that are necessary to carry out the Federal transit pass 
transportation fringe benefit program under Executive Order No. 
13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109–59: Provided, That 
the Department shall maintain a reasonable operating reserve in 
the Working Capital Fund, to be expended in advance to provide 
uninterrupted transit benefits to Government employees: Provided 
further, That such reserve will not exceed one month of benefits 
payable and may be used only for the purpose of providing for 
the continuation of transit benefits: Provided further, That the 
Working Capital Fund will be fully reimbursed by each customer 
agency from available funds for the actual cost of the transit benefit. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including operations and research activi-
ties related to commercial space transportation, administrative 
expenses for research and development, establishment of air naviga-
tion facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance 
of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps 
sold to the public, the lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 112–95, $10,211,754,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2019, of which $8,851,000,000 shall be derived from 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed 
$7,692,786,000 shall be available for air traffic organization activi-
ties; not to exceed $1,310,000,000 shall be available for aviation 
safety activities; not to exceed $22,587,000 shall be available for 
commercial 
space 
transportation 
activities; 
not 
to 
exceed 
$801,506,000 shall be available for finance and management activi-
ties; not to exceed $60,000,000 shall be available for NextGen 
and operations planning activities; not to exceed $112,622,000 shall 
be available for security and hazardous materials safety; and not
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to exceed $212,253,000 shall be available for staff offices: Provided, 
That not to exceed 5 percent of any budget activity, except for 
aviation safety budget activity, may be transferred to any budget 
activity under this heading: Provided further, That no transfer 
may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 5 percent: 
Provided further, That any transfer in excess of 5 percent shall 
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 405 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided 
further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall 
transmit to Congress an annual update to the report submitted 
to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of Public 
Law 108–176: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 
31 that such report has not been submitted to the Congress: Pro-
vided further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year 
hereafter, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a com-
panion report that describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, 
hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft certification staff 
in a format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing 
plan, including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals 
by fiscal year: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
March 31 that such report has not been submitted to Congress: 
Provided further, That funds may be used to enter into a grant 
agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organization to assist 
in the development of aviation safety standards: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new 
applicants for the second career training program: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regu-
lation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically 
authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, 
as offsetting collections, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, foreign authorities, other public authorities, and 
private sources for expenses incurred in the provision of agency 
services, including receipts for the maintenance and operation of 
air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or modification 
of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair station certifi-
cates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing major repair 
or alteration forms: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, not less than $165,000,000 shall be used to 
fund direct operations of the current 253 air traffic control towers 
in the contract tower program, including the contract tower cost 
share program, and any airport that is currently qualified or that 
will qualify for the program during the fiscal year: Provided further, 
That not later than 30 days after enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress the final disposi-
tion of the Benefit Cost Analysis for applications for participation 
in the Contract Tower Program and for reevaluation of Cost-share 
Program participants pending as of January 1, 2016, as mandated 
by section 119C of division K of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2017 (Public Law 115–31): Provided further, That none of 
the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting and cartography 
are available for activities conducted by, or coordinated through,