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[Dollars in
Millions]
1400.
Kansas ...........
Reconstruct K–7 from Lone Elm Road to Har-
rison ................................................................
3.100
1401.
Mississippi .....
Construct US–84 from Eddiceton to Auburn
Road ...............................................................
1.250
1402.
Florida ...........
Construct County Road 470 Interchange in
Lake County ...................................................
8.000
1403.
Virginia ..........
Widen I–81 in Roanoke and Botetourt Counties
and in Rockbridge, Augusta and Rockingham
Counties ..........................................................
6.000
1404.
California .......
Improve and modify the Port of Hueneme
Intermodal Corridor—Phase II in Ventura
County ............................................................
22.400
1405.
New York ......
Construct Bay Shore Road SR–231 to SR–27
in Suffolk County ...........................................
8.000
1406.
Alabama .........
Complete I–59 interchange in Dekalb County ...
4.000
1407.
Michigan ........
Construct interchange at US–10/Bay City Road
in Midland ......................................................
4.000
1408.
Connecticut ....
Improve Route 4 intersection in Harwinton,
Connecticut. ....................................................
1.800
1409.
Colorado ........
Construct Wadsworth Boulevard improvement
project in Arvada ............................................
1.000
1410.
Connecticut ....
Reconstruct Post Office/Town Farm Road in
Enfield, Connecticut .......................................
1.500
1411.
Pennsylvania ..
Widen and signalize Sumneytown Pike and
Forty Foot Road in Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania. ..................................................
4.300
1412.
Tennessee ......
Improve State Road 95 from Westover Drive to
SR–62 in Roane and Anderson Counties .......
4.900
1413.
New York ......
FJ&G Rail/Trail Project in Fulton County .......
0.700
1414.
Pennsylvania ..
Construct Towamencin Township multimodal
center ..............................................................
2.900
1415.
Michigan ........
Relocate US–31 from River Road to Naomi
Road in Berrian County .................................
18.000
1416.
Alaska ............
Extend West Douglas Road in Goldbelt and Ju-
neau ................................................................
3.300
1417.
Illinois ............
Construct US–67 in Madison and Jersey Coun-
ties ..................................................................
6.800
1418.
Idaho .............
Reconstruct US–95 from Bellgrove to Mica ......
10.000
1419.
Idaho .............
Construct US–95: Sandcreek Alternate Route
in Sandpoint ...................................................
15.000
1420.
Ohio ...............
Construct highway-rail grade separations on
Snow Road in Brook Park .............................
3.000
1421.
New York ......
Construct Southern State Parkway ITS be-
tween NYS Route 110 and Sagtikos Parkway
4.740
1422.
Florida ...........
Widen US–17/92 in Volusia County ..................
1.800
1423.
Connecticut ....
Realign Route 4 intersection in Farmington .....
2.800
1424.
Louisiana .......
Construct Louisiana Highway 1 from the Gulf
of Mexico to US–90 ........................................
0.750
1425.
Kentucky .......
Construct Kentucky 31E from Bardstowns to
Salt River .......................................................
1.000
1426.
Virginia ..........
Constuct Third Bridge/Tunnel Crossing of
Hampton Road ...............................................
5.000
1427.
Washington ....
Widen Cook Road in Skagit County, Washing-
ton. .................................................................
3.100
1428.
Pennsylvania ..
Construct 25.5 miles of the Perkiomen Trail ....
0.540
1429.
Louisiana .......
Construct Port of South Louisiana Connector
in Saint John the Baptist Parish ...................
0.700
1430.
New York ......
Construct CR–96 from Great South Bay to
Montauk Highway in Suffolk County ............
0.275
1431.
Pennsylvania ..
Construct US–6 Tunkhannock Bypass in Wyo-
ming County ...................................................
2.400
1432.
Alabama .........
Construct Eastern Shore Trail project in
Fairhope, Alabama. ........................................
1.355
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[Dollars in
Millions]
1433.
Georgia ..........
Construct North River Causeway and Bridge,
St. Mary’s County ..........................................
2.900
1434.
Utah ..............
Construct Phase II of the University Avenue
Interchange in Provo ......................................
10.000
1435.
California .......
Widen SR–71 from Riverside County to SR–91
13.000
1436.
Arkansas ........
Construct access route to Northwest Arkansas
Regional Airport in Highfill, Arkansas. .........
16.000
1437.
California .......
Construct Ocean Boulevard and Terminal Is-
land Freeway interchange in Long Beach,
California. .......................................................
20.000
1438.
Nebraska .......
Widen and reconstruct I–680 from Pacific
Street to Dodge Street in Douglas County ....
8.000
1439.
Indiana ..........
Lafayette Railroad relocation project in Lafay-
ette, Indiana. ..................................................
29.400
1440.
Florida ...........
Construct pedestrian overpass from Florida Na-
tional Scenic Trail over I–4 ............................
2.500
1441.
Michigan ........
Conduct preliminary engineering, acquire right-
of-way, and construct I–75/North Down
River Road interchange ..................................
1.500
1442.
New York ......
Construct CR–82 from Montauk Highway to
Sunrise Highway in Suffolk County ...............
0.435
1443.
Connecticut ....
Widen Route 10 from vicinity of Lazy Lane to
River Street in Southington, Connecticut ......
4.640
1444.
Connecticut ....
Widen Route 4 in Torrington ............................
2.800
1445.
Washington ....
Construct Port of Longview Industrial Rail
Corridor and Fibre Way Overpass in Long-
view .................................................................
2.500
1446.
Virginia ..........
Construct I–95/State Route 627 interchange in
Stafford County ..............................................
4.000
1447.
Colorado ........
Complete the Powers Boulevard north extension
in Colorado Springs ........................................
12.000
1448.
Ohio ...............
Construct St. Clairsville Bike Path in Belmont
County ............................................................
0.500
1449.
South Dakota
Construct Aberdeen Truck bypass .....................
2.576
1450.
New York ......
Conduct extended needs study for the Tappan
Zee Bridge ......................................................
4.000
1451.
Washington ....
Widen SR–99 between 148th Street and King
County Line in Lynnwood ..............................
3.000
1452.
Texas .............
Construct State Highway 121 from I–30 to
US–67 in Cleburne .........................................
32.000
1453.
Oklahoma ......
Reconstruct US–70 from Broken Bow to Ar-
kansas State line in McCurtain County .........
7.500
1454.
Georgia ..........
Conduct study of a multimodal transportation
corridor along GA–400 ...................................
25.000
1455.
New York ......
Reconstruct and widen Route 78 from I–90 to
Route 15 .........................................................
5.500
1456.
Nebraska .......
Construct South Beltway in Linclon ..................
5.500
1457.
Nebraska .......
Replace US–81 bridge between Yankton, south
Dakota and Cedar County, Nebaska ..............
1.500
1458.
Florida ...........
Construct Alden Road Improvement Project in
Orange County ...............................................
0.700
1459.
California .......
Improve and widen Forest Hill Road in Placer
County ............................................................
7.000
1460.
Washington ....
Improve Hillsboro Street/Highway 395 intersec-
tion in Pasco ...................................................
3.550
1461.
Missouri .........
Construct Hermann Bridge on Highway 19 in
Montgomery and Gasconade Counties ...........
1.544
1462.
Utah ..............
Widen and improve 123rd/126th South from
700 East to Jordan River in Draper .............
7.000
1463.
Illinois ............
Improve Constitution Avenue in Peoria .............
3.500
1464.
New York ......
Reconstruct Washington County covered bridge
project .............................................................
1.700
1465.
New York ......
Reconstruct Stoneleigh Avenue in Putnam
County ............................................................
3.920
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[Dollars in
Millions]
1466.
Kansas ...........
Construct Phase II improvements to US–59
from US–56 to Ottawa ...................................
10.000
1467.
Pennsylvania ..
Rehabilitate Kenmawr Bridge, Swissvale ...........
0.450
1468.
Pennsylvania ..
Construct Steel Heritage Trail between Glen-
wood Bridge to Clairton via McKeesport .......
0.482
1469.
Illinois ............
Construct Technology Ave. between US Rt. 45
East to Willenborg St., Effingham ................
2.735
1470.
Pennsylvania ..
Conduct preliminary engineering and design for
US–219 bypass of Bradford ...........................
1.000
1471.
Texas .............
Construct relief route around Alice ....................
0.250
1472.
Ohio ...............
Upgrade State Rt. 18 between I–71 and I–77 ..
2.400
1473.
Illinois ............
Upgrade St. Marie Township Rd., Jasper Coun-
ty ....................................................................
0.036
1474.
Illinois ............
Upgrade US 40 in Martinsville ..........................
0.094
1475.
Michigan ........
Repair 48th Ave., Menominee ............................
0.270
1476.
Illinois ............
Undertake improvements to Campus Transpor-
tation System, Chicago ...................................
2.000
1477.
Maine .............
Construct I–95/Stillwater Avenue interchange ..
2.000
1478.
Maine .............
Improve Route 26 ..............................................
1.500
1479.
Maine .............
Improve Route 23 ..............................................
0.500
1480.
Massachusetts
Construct 
Minuteman 
Commuter 
Bikeway-
Charles River Bikeway connector, Cambridge
and Watertown ...............................................
0.750
1481.
Massachusetts
Construct Cambridge Roadways Improvement
project, Cambridge .........................................
3.000
1482.
Massachusetts
Upgrade Sacramento Street underpass, Somer-
ville .................................................................
0.250
1483.
Massachusetts
Reconstruct roadways, Somerville ......................
3.000
1484.
Michigan ........
Construct improvements to 23 Mile Rd. be-
tween Mound Rd. and M–53, Macomb ..........
3.000
1485.
Minnesota ......
Conduct study of potential for diversion of traf-
fic from the I–35 corridor to commuter rail,
Chisago County north of Forest Lake along
I–35 corridor to Rush City .............................
0.500
1486.
Minnesota ......
Construct Elk River bypass from 171st Ave. at
Highway 10 to intersection of County Roads
12 and 13 at Highway 169 ............................
3.200
1487.
Minnesota ......
Construct grade separated interchange at south
junction of TH 371/Brainerd bypass .............
1.000
1488.
New York ......
Construct Fordham University regional trans-
portation facility .............................................
3.000
1489.
New York ......
Construct bike paths in the Riverdale section of
the Bronx ........................................................
0.500
1490.
New York ......
Construct Phase II of the City of Mount
Vernon’s New Haven Railroad Redevelop-
ment ................................................................
2.000
1491.
New York ......
Construct Bike Paths along the Bronx River in
Bronx Park .....................................................
0.500
1492.
New York ......
Rehabilitate transportation facilities in CO–OP
City .................................................................
1.000
1493.
New York ......
Construct sound barriers on both sides of
Grand Central Parkway between 172nd St.
to Chevy Chase Rd .........................................
1.940
1494.
New York ......
Construct sound barriers on east side of
Clearview Expressway between 15th Rd. and
Willets Point Blvd. .........................................
0.400
1495.
New York ......
Construct sound barriers on Grand Central
Parkway between 244th St. and Douglaston
Parkway ..........................................................
0.500
1496.
New York ......
Rehabilitate roads, Village of Great Neck .........
0.160
1497.
Tennessee ......
Construct pedestrian and bicycle pathway to
connect with the Mississippi River Trail, and
restore adjacent historic cobblestones on
riverfront, Memphis ........................................
3.000
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[Dollars in
Millions]
1498.
Texas .............
Expand Winters Freeway (US83/84) in Abilene
between Southwest Drive and US 277 ...........
11.200
1499.
New York ......
Reconstruct Springfield Blvd. between the Long
Island Rail main line south to Rockaway
Blvd., Queens County .....................................
4.000
1500.
Pennsylvania ..
Construct Frazier Township interchange on
SR–28 in Allegheny ........................................
3.000
1501.
Minnesota ......
Reconstruct St. Louis CSAH 9 (Wallace Ave-
nue) in Duluth ................................................
0.600
1502.
California .......
Reimburse costs associated with the relocation
and protection work performed relating to
pipelines, cables, and other facilities impacted
by the construction of the Mid-Trench section
of the Alameda Corrido project ......................
5.350
1503.
Ohio ...............
Construct grade separation at Dille Road in
Euclid .............................................................
5.000
1504.
Nevada ...........
Widen I–15 from the California State line to
Las Vegas .......................................................
2.500
1505.
Nevada ...........
Improve at-grade railroad crossings in Reno .....
2.500
1506.
New York ......
Reconstruct Flushing Avenue between Hum-
boldt Street and Cypress Avenue, and be-
tween Porter Street and Cypress Avenue ......
5.000
1507.
New York ......
Reconstruct Flushing Avenue between Wycoff
and Gates Street ............................................
3.000
SEC. 128. WOODROW WILSON MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
Section 407(a) of the National Highway System Des-
ignation Act of 1995 (109 Stat. 630–631) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3);
(2) by striking ‘‘(a)’’ and all that follows
through the period at the end of paragraph (1) and
inserting the following:
‘‘(a) CONVEYANCES.—
‘‘(1) CONVEYANCE TO STATES AND DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA.—
‘‘(A) GENERAL
AUTHORITY.—Not later
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of
this subparagraph, the Secretary shall convey to
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the State of Virginia, the State of Maryland,
and the District of Columbia all right, title, and
interest of the United States in and to the
Bridge, including such related riparian rights
and interests in land underneath the Potomac
River as are necessary to carry out the project.
‘‘(B) ACCEPTANCE OF TITLE.—Except as
provided in paragraph (3), upon conveyance by
the Secretary, the State of Virginia, the State
of Maryland, and the District of Columbia shall
accept the right, title, and interest in and to the
Bridge.
‘‘(C) CONSOLIDATION OF JURISDICTION.—
For the purpose of making the conveyance
under this paragraph, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the head of any other Federal depart-
ment or agency that has jurisdiction over the
land adjacent to the Bridge shall transfer such
jurisdiction to the Secretary.
‘‘(D) 
FUNDS
ALLOCATED.—No 
funds
made available for the high cost Interstate Sys-
tem reconstruction and improvement program
under section 160 of title 23, United States
Code, may be allocated for the Bridge before
the State of Virginia, the State of Maryland,
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and the District of Columbia accept right, title,
and interest in and to the Bridge under this
paragraph.
‘‘(2) CONVEYANCE TO AUTHORITY.—After exe-
cution of the agreement under subsection (c), the
State of Virginia, State of Maryland, and the Dis-
trict of Columbia shall convey to the Authority their
respective rights, titles, and interests in and to the
Bridge, including such related riparian rights and
interests in land underneath the Potomac River as
are necessary to carry out the Project. Except as
provided in paragraph (3), upon conveyance by the
Secretary, the Authority shall accept the right, title,
and interest in and to the Bridge and all duties and
responsibilities associated with the Bridge.’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3), as redesignated by para-
graph (1) of this section, by striking ‘‘conveyance
under paragraph (1)’’ and inserting ‘‘conveyance
under this subsection’’.
SEC. 129. TRAINING.
(a) TRAINING POSITIONS
FOR WELFARE RECIPI-
ENTS.—Section 140(a) is amended by inserting after the
third sentence the following: ‘‘In implementing such pro-
grams, a State may reserve training positions for persons
who receive welfare assistance from such State; except
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that the implementation of any such program shall not
cause current employees to be displaced or current posi-
tions to be supplanted.’’.
(b) TYPES OF TRAINING.—Section 140(b) is amend-
ed—
(1) in the first sentence—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and technology’’ after
‘‘construction’’; and
(B) by inserting after ‘‘programs’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, and to develop and fund summer
transportation institutes’’; and
(2) in the last sentence by striking ‘‘may be
available’’ and inserting ‘‘may be utilized’’.
(c) HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR TRAINING FACIL-
ITY.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish a heavy equipment operator training facility
in Hibbing, Minnesota. The purpose of the facility
shall be to develop an appropriate curriculum for
training, and to train operators and future operators
of heavy equipment in the safe use of such equip-
ment.
(2) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated out of the Highway Trust Fund (other
than the Mass Transit Account) $500,000 for each
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of fiscal years 1998 and 1999 to carry out this sub-
section.
(3) APPLICABILITY OF TITLE 23.—Funds made
available to carry out this subsection shall be avail-
able for obligation in the same manner as if such
funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23,
United States Code; except that the Federal share of
the cost of establishment of the facility under this
subsection shall be 80 percent and such funds shall
remain available until expended.
(d) MOTOR
CARRIER
OPERATOR
VEHICLE
AND
TRAINING FACILITY.—
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall
make grants to the State of Pennsylvania to estab-
lish and operate an advanced tractor trailer safety
and operator training facility in Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania. The purpose of the facility shall be to
develop and coordinate an advance curriculum for
the training of operators and future operators of
tractor trailers. The facility shall conduct training
on the test track at Letterkenny Army Depot and
the unused segment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The facil-
ity shall be operated by a not-for-profit entity and,
when Federal assistance is no longer being provided
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with respect to the facility, shall be privately oper-
ated.
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available
for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 by sec-
tion 127(a)(3)(H) of this Act, $500,000 per fiscal
year shall be available to carry out this subsection.
Such funds shall remain available until expended.
The Federal share of the cost of establishment and
operation of the facility under this subsection shall
be 80 percent.
SEC. 130. TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE FOR OLYMPIC
CITIES.
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to pro-
vide assistance and support to State and local efforts on
surface and aviation-related transportation issues nec-
essary to obtain the national recognition and economic
benefits of participation in the International Olympic
movement and the International Paralympic movement by
hosting international quadrennial Olympic and Paralympic
events in the United States.
(b) PRIORITY FOR TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS RE-
LATED TO OLYMPIC EVENTS.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary may give priority to fund-
ing for a transportation project related to an Olympic
event from funds available to carry out 1 or more of sec-
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tions 144(g)(1) and 160 of title 23, United States Code,
and sections 5309 and 5326 of title 49, United States
Code, if the project meets the extraordinary needs associ-
ated with an international quadrennial Olympic event and
if the project is otherwise eligible for assistance under
such section.
(c) TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ACTIVITIES.—The
Secretary may participate in planning activities of States,
metropolitan planning organizations, and sponsors of
transportation projects related to an international quad-
rennial Olympic event under sections 134 and 135 of title
23, United States Code, and in developing intermodal
transportation plans necessary for such projects in coordi-
nation with State and local transportation agencies.
(d) USE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—The Sec-
retary may provide assistance from funds deducted under
section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code, for the de-
velopment of an Olympic and Paralympic transportation
management plan in cooperation with an Olympic and a
Paralympic Organizing Committee responsible for hosting,
and State and local communities affected by, an inter-
national quadrennial Olympic event.
(e) TRANSPORTATION
PROJECTS
RELATED
TO
OLYMPIC EVENTS.—
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(1) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may
provide assistance to States and local governments
in carrying out transportation projects related to an
international quadrennial Olympic event. Such as-
sistance may include planning, capital, and operat-
ing assistance.
(2) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of
the costs of projects assisted under this subsection
shall not exceed 80 percent. For purposes of deter-
mining the non-Federal share, highway, aviation,
and transit projects shall be considered a program of
projects.
(f) ELIGIBLE GOVERNMENTS.—A State or local gov-
ernment is eligible to receive assistance under this section
only if it is hosting a venue that is part of an international
quadrennial Olympics that is officially selected by the
International Olympic Committee.
(g) AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.—
(1) AIRPORT
DEVELOPMENT
DEFINED.—Sec-
tion 47102(3) of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(H) Developing, in coordination with
State and local transportation agencies, inter-
modal transportation plans necessary for Olym-
pic-related projects at an airport.’’.
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(2) 
DISCRETIONARY
GRANTS.—Section
47115(d) of title 49, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (5);
(B) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (6) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(7) the need for the project in order to meet
the unique demands of hosting international quad-
rennial Olympic events.’’.
SEC. 131. NATIONAL DEFENSE HIGHWAYS.
(a) RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.—If the Secretary
determines, after consultation with the Secretary of De-
fense, that a highway, or portion of a highway, located
outside the United States is important to the national de-
fense, the Secretary may carry out a project for the recon-
struction of such highway or portion of highway.
(b) FUNDING.—The Secretary may make available,
from funds appropriated for expenditure on the National
Highway System, not to exceed $20,000,000 per fiscal
year for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 to carry
out this section. Such sums shall remain available until
expended.
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SEC. 132. MISCELLANEOUS SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
PROGRAMS.
(a) INFRASTRUCTURE AWARENESS PROGRAM.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized
to fund the production of a documentary about in-
frastructure in cooperation with a not-for-profit na-
tional public television station and the National
Academy of Engineering which shall demonstrate
how public works and infrastructure projects stimu-
late job growth and the economy and contribute to
the general welfare of the nation.
(2) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated out of the Highway Trust Fund (other
than the Mass Transit Account) to carry out this
section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1998,
1999, and 2000. Such funds shall remain available
until expended.
(3) APPLICABILITY OF TITLE 23.—Funds au-
thorized by this subsection shall be available for obli-
gation in the same manner as if such funds were ap-
portioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States
Code; except that the Federal share of the cost of
any project under this subsection and the availability
of funds authorized by this subsection shall be deter-
mined in accordance with this subsection.
(b) STUDY OF PARKING FACILITIES ADEQUACY.—
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(1) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a
study to determine the location and quantity of
parking facilities at commercial truck stops and
travel plazas and public rest areas that could be
used by motor carriers to comply with Federal hours
of service rules. The study shall include an inventory
of current facilities serving the National Highway
System, analyze where shortages exist or are pro-
jected to exist, and propose a plan to reduce the
shortages. The study shall be carried out in coopera-
tion with research entities representing motor car-
riers, the travel plaza industry, and commercial
motor vehicle drivers.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 2001,
the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on
the results of the study with any recommendations
the Secretary determines appropriate as a result of
the study.
(3) FUNDING.—From amounts set aside under
section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code, for
each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, the Sec-
retary may use not to exceed $500,000 per fiscal
year to carry out this section.
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SEC. 133. ELIGIBILITY.
(a) AMBASSADOR BRIDGE ACCESS, MICHIGAN.—Not-
withstanding section 129 of title 23, United States Code,
or any other provision of law, improvements to and con-
struction of access roads, approaches, and related facilities
(such as signs, lights, and signals) necessary to connect
the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan, to the Inter-
state System shall be eligible for funds apportioned under
sections 104(b)(1) and 104(b)(3) of such title.
(b) CUYAHOGA RIVER BRIDGE, OHIO.—Notwith-
standing section 149 of title 23, United States Code, or
any other provision of law, a project to construct a new
bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, shall
be eligible for funds apportioned under section 104(b)(2)
of such title.
(c) CONNECTICUT.—In fiscal year 1998, the State of
Connecticut may transfer any funds remaining available
for obligation under the section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23,
United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date
of the enactment of this Act, for construction of the Inter-
state System to any other program eligible for assistance
under chapter 1 of such title. Before making any distribu-
tion of the obligation limitation under section 103(c)(4)
of this Act, the Secretary shall make available to the State
of Connecticut sufficient obligation authority under sec-
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tion 103(c) of this Act to obligate funds available for
transfer under this subsection.
(d) SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE, CALI-
FORNIA.—In accordance with section 502 of this Act, a
project to reconstruct the Interstate System approach to
the western end of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
and the ramps connecting the bridge to Treasure Island
shall be eligible for funds under section 160 of title 23,
United States Code, relating to the high-cost Interstate
System reconstruction and improvement program.
(e) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 120(l)(1) of title 23, United States Code—
(1) private entity expenditures to construct the
SR–91 toll road located in Orange County, Califor-
nia, from SR–55 to the Riverside County line may
be credited toward the State matching share for any
Federal-aid project beginning construction after the
SR–91 toll road was opened to traffic; and
(2) private expenditures for the future SR–125
toll road in San Diego County, California, from SR–
905 to San Miguel Road may be credited against the
State match share for Federal-aid highway projects
beginning after SR–125 is opened to traffic.
(f) INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, SAULT STE. MARIE,
MI.—The International Bridge Authority, or its successor
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organization, shall be permitted to continue collection of
tolls for the maintenance, operation, capital improve-
ments, and future expansions to the International Bridge
and its approaches, plaza areas, and associated buildings
and structures.
(g) INFORMATION SERVICES.—A food business that
would otherwise be eligible to display a mainline business
logo on a specific service food sign described in section
2G–5.7(4) of part IIG of the 1988 edition of the Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and High-
ways under the requirements specified in that section, but
for the fact that the business is open 6 days a week, can-
not be prohibited from inclusion on such a food sign.
(h) SURVEY
OF STATE PRACTICES
ON SPECIFIC
SERVICE SIGNING.—
(1) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a
study to determine the practices in the States for
specific service food signs described in sections 2G–
5.7 and 2G–5.8 of the Manual on Uniform Traffic
Control Devices for Streets and Highways. The
study shall, at a minimum, examine—
(A) the practices of States for determining
businesses eligible for inclusion on such signs;
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(B) whether States allow businesses to be
removed from such signs and the circumstances
for such removal;
(C) the practices of States for erecting and
maintaining such signs, including the time re-
quired for erecting such signs;
(D) whether States contract out the erec-
tion and maintenance of such signs; and
(E) a survey of States’ practices on the
issues identified in subparagraphs (A) through
(D).
(2) REPORT.—Before the last day of the 1-year
period beginning on the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a
report on the results of the study, including such
recommendations and modifications to the Manual
as the Secretary determines appropriate as a result
of the study. Such modifications may be made as
part of any revision to the Manual.
SEC. 134. FISCAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND OTHER AMEND-
MENTS.
(a) ADVANCED
CONSTRUCTION.—Section 115 is
amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
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(A) by moving the text of paragraph (1)
(including subparagraphs (A) and (B)) 2 ems
to the left;
(B) by striking ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—’’;
(C) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3);
and
(D) by striking ‘‘(A) prior’’ and inserting
‘‘(1) prior’’; and
(E) by striking ‘‘(B) the project’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(2) the project’’;
(2) by striking subsection (c); and
(3) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (c).
(b) AVAILABILITY
OF
FUNDS.—Section 118 is
amended—
(1) in the subsection heading for subsection (b)
by striking ‘‘; DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(e) EFFECT OF RELEASE OF FUNDS.—Any Fed-
eral-aid highway funds released by the final payment on
a project, or by the modification of the project agreement,
shall be credited to the same program funding category
previously apportioned to the State and shall be imme-
diately available for expenditure.’’.
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(c) FEDERAL SHARE PAYABLE.—Section 120 is
amended in each of subsections (a) and (b) by striking
‘‘shall be’’ and inserting ‘‘shall not exceed’’.
(d) PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CONSTRUCTION.—
Section 121 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking the second sentence; and
(B) by striking the last sentence and in-
serting the following: ‘‘Such payments may also
be made for the value of the materials (1)
which have been stockpiled in the vicinity of
such construction in conformity to plans and
specifications for the projects, and (2) which
are not in the vicinity of such construction if
the Secretary determines that because of re-
quired fabrication at an off-site location the
material cannot be stockpiled in such vicinity.’’;
(2) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(b) PROJECT AGREEMENT.—No payment shall be
made under this chapter except for a project covered by
a project agreement. After completion of the project in ac-
cordance with the project agreement, a State shall be enti-
tled to payment out of the appropriate sums apportioned
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or allocated to it of the unpaid balance of the Federal
share payable on account of such project.’’;
(3) by striking subsections (c) and (d); and
(4) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (c).
(e) ADVANCES TO STATES.—Section 124 is amend-
ed—
(1) by striking ‘‘(a)’’ the first place it appears;
and
(2) by striking subsection (b).
(f) DIVERSION.—Section 126, and the item relating
to such section in the table of sections for chapter 1, are
repealed.
(g) STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT.—Section 302 is
amended—
(1) by adding at the end of subsection (a) the
following: ‘‘Compliance with this provision shall have
no effect on the eligibility of costs.’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘(a)’’; and
(3) by striking subsection (b).
(h) BRIDGE COMMISSIONS.—Public Law 87–441, re-
lating to bridge commissions created by Congress and
Federal approval of membership of such commissions, is
repealed.
(i) OTHER AMENDMENTS.—
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(1) Section 1023(h)(1) of Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (23 U.S.C.
127 note) is amended by striking ‘‘the date on which
Federal-aid highway and transit programs are reau-
thorized after the date of the enactment of the Na-
tional Highway System Designation Act of 1995’’
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2003’’.
(2) Section 127(a) is amended by inserting be-
fore the next to the last sentence the following:
‘‘With respect to the State of Colorado, vehicles de-
signed to carry 2 or more precast concrete panels
shall be considered a nondivisible load.’’.
(3) Section 127(a) is amended by adding at the
end the following: ‘‘The State of Louisiana may
allow, by special permit, the operation of vehicles
with a gross vehicle weight of up to 100,000 pounds
for the hauling of sugarcane during the harvest sea-
son, not to exceed 100 days annually.’’.
(4) Section 127 is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(h) MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE.—With respect to
Interstate Route 95 in the State of New Hampshire, State
laws or regulations in effect on January 1, 1987, shall
be applicable for purposes of this section. With respect to
that portion of the Maine Turnpike designated Interstate
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Route 95 and 495, and that portion of Interstate Route
95 from the southern terminus of the Maine Turnpike to
the New Hampshire State line, State laws or regulations
in effect on October 1, 1995, shall be applicable for pur-
poses of this section.’’.
(j) SPECIALIZED HAULING VEHICLES.—
(1) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a
study to examine the impact of the truck weight
standards on specialized hauling vehicles.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of
the study with any recommendations the Secretary
determines appropriate as a result of the study.
SEC. 135. ACCESS OF MOTORCYCLES.
Section 102 is amended by redesignating subsection
(b) as subsection (c) and by inserting after subsection (a)
the following:
‘‘(b) ACCESS OF MOTORCYCLES.—No State or politi-
cal subdivision of a State may restrict the access of motor-
cycles to any highway or portion of a highway for which
Federal-aid highway funds have been utilized for planning,
design, construction, or maintenance.’’.
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SEC. 136. AMENDMENTS TO PRIOR SURFACE TRANSPOR-
TATION AUTHORIZATION LAWS.
(a) ISTEA HIGH PRIORITY CORRIDORS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1105(c) of the Inter-
modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1991 (105 Stat. 2032–2033) is amended—
(A) by striking paragraph (5)(B)(iii)(I)(ff)
and inserting the following:
‘‘(ff) South Carolina State line to
the Myrtle Beach Conway region to
Georgetown, South Carolina, includ-
ing a connection to Andrews following
the route 41 corridor and to Manning
following the U.S. Route 521 corridor;
and’’;
(B) 
by 
striking 
paragraph
(5)(B)(iii)(II)(hh) and inserting the following:
‘‘(hh) South Carolina State line
to the Myrtle Beach Conway region to
Georgetown, South Carolina.’’.
(C) in paragraph (9) by inserting after
‘‘New York’’ the following: ‘‘, including United
States Route 322 between United States Route
220 and I–80’’;
(D) in paragraph (18)—
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(i) by inserting before ‘‘Indianapolis,
Indiana’’ the following: ‘‘Sarnia, Ontario,
Canada, through Port Huron, Michigan,
southwesterly along I–69 and from Wind-
sor, Ontario, Canada, through Detroit,
Michigan, westerly along I–94 via Mar-
shall, Michigan, thence south to’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘and to include’’ and
inserting the following:
‘‘as follows:
‘‘(A) In Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
and Louisiana, the Corridor shall—
‘‘(i) follow the alignment generally
identified in the Corridor 18 Special Issues
Study Final Report; and
‘‘(ii) run in an East/South direction to
United States Route 61 and cross the Mis-
sissippi River (in the vicinity of Memphis,
Tennessee) to Highway 79, and then follow
Highway 79 south to 2 miles west of
Altimer, Arkansas, and across the Arkan-
sas River at Lock and Dam Number 4, Ar-
kansas, and then proceed south in the di-
rection of Monticello, Arkansas, and link
up with the route proposed in the Corridor
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18 Special Issues Study Final Report
which would continue to Haynesville, Lou-
isiana.
‘‘(B) In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the
Corridor shall—
‘‘(i) include United States Route 77
from the Rio Grande River to Interstate
Route 37 at Corpus Christi, Texas, and
then to Victoria, Texas, via United States
Route 77;
‘‘(ii) include United States Route 281
from the Rio Grande River to Interstate
Route 37 and then to Victoria, Texas, via
United States Route 59; and
‘‘(iii) include’’;
(E) in paragraph (21) by striking ‘‘United
States Route 17 in the vicinity of Salamanca,
New York’’ and inserting ‘‘Interstate Route
80’’;
(F) by inserting ‘‘, including I–29 between
Kansas City and the Canadian border’’ before
the period at the end of paragraph (23); and
(G) by inserting after paragraph (29) the
following:
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‘‘(30) Interstate Route 5 in the States of Cali-
fornia, Oregon, and Washington, including Califor-
nia State Route 905 between Interstate Route 5 and
the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.
‘‘(31) The Mon-Fayette Expressway and South-
ern Beltway in Pennsylvania.
‘‘(32) The Wisconsin Development Corridor
from the Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin border near
Dubuque, Iowa, to the Upper Mississippi River
Basin near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as follows:
‘‘(A) United States Route 151 from the
Iowa border to Fond du Lac via Madison, Wis-
consin, then United States Route 41 from Fond
du Lac to Marinette via Oshkosh, Appleton,
and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
‘‘(B) State Route 29 from Green Bay to I–
94 via Wausau, Chippewa Falls, and Eau
Claire, Wisconsin.
‘‘(C) United States Route 10 from Apple-
ton to Marshfield, Wisconsin.
‘‘(33) The Capital Gateway Corridor following
United States Route 50 from the proposed inter-
modal transportation center connected to I–395 in
Washington, D.C., to the intersection of United
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States Route 50 with Kenilworth Avenue and the
Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland.
‘‘(34) The Alameda Corridor East and South-
west Passage, California. The Alameda Corridor
East is generally described as 52.8 miles from east
Los Angeles (terminus of Alameda Corridor)
through the San Gabriel Valley terminating at Col-
ton Junction in San Bernandino. The Southwest
Passage shall follow I–10 from San Bernardino to
the Arizona State line and I–8 from San Diego to
the Arizona State line.
‘‘(35) Everett-Tacoma FAST Corridor.
‘‘(36) New York and Pennsylvania State Route
17 from Harriman, New York, to its intersection
with I–90 in Pennsylvania.
‘‘(37) United States Route 90 from I–49 in La-
fayette, Louisiana, to I–10 in New Orleans.
‘‘(38) The Ports-to-Plains Corridor from the
Mexican Border via I–27 to Denver, Colorado.
‘‘(39) United States Route 63 from Marked
Tree, Arkansas, to I–55.
‘‘(40) United States Route 277/United States
Route 83 Corridor between I–44 in Wichita Falls,
Texas, and I–20 in Abilene, Texas.’’.
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(2) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CORRIDORS.—
Section 1105(e)(5)(A) of such Act is amended—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘referred to’’ the
first place it appears the following: ‘‘in sub-
section (c)(1),’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘and’’ the second place it
appears; and
(C) by inserting after ‘‘(c)(20)’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘, in subsection (c)(36), and in subsection
(c)(37)’’.
(3) ROUTES.—Section 1105(e)(5) of such Act
is further amended—
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (B)
and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respec-
tively;
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (A)
the following:
‘‘(B) ROUTES.—
‘‘(i) DESIGNATION.—The routes re-
ferred to in subsections (c)(18) and (c)(20)
shall be designated as Interstate Route I–
69. A State having jurisdiction over any
segment of routes referred to in sub-
sections (c)(18) and (c)(20) shall erect
signs identifying such segment that is con-
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sistent with the criteria set forth in sub-
sections (e)(5)(A)(i) and (e)(5)(A)(ii) as
Interstate Route I–69, including segments
of United States Route 59 in the State of
Texas. The segment identified in sub-
section (c)(18)(B)(i) shall be designated as
Interstate Route I–69 East, and the seg-
ment identified in subsection (c)(18)(B)(ii)
shall be designated as Interstate Route I–
69 Central. The State of Texas shall erect
signs identifying such routes as segments
of future Interstate Route I–69.
‘‘(ii) RULEMAKING
TO
DETERMINE
FUTURE INTERSTATE SIGN ERECTION CRI-
TERIA.—The Secretary shall conduct a
rulemaking to determine the appropriate
criteria for the erection of signs for future
routes on the Interstate System identified
in subparagraph (A). Such rulemaking
shall be undertaken in consultation with
States and local officials and shall be com-
pleted not later than December 31, 1998.’’;
(C) by striking the last sentence of sub-
paragraph (A) and inserting it as the first sen-
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tence of subparagraph (B)(i), as inserted by
subparagraph (B) of this paragraph; and
(D) in subparagraph (D), as redesignated
by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, by
striking ‘‘(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘(D)’’.
(b) AMENDMENTS
TO SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1982.—Section 146 of the Surface
Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 2130),
relating to lane restrictions, is repealed.
SEC. 137. BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION AND PEDESTRIAN
WALKWAYS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 217 is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘pedestrian walkways
and’’ after ‘‘construction of’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘(other than the Interstate
System)’’;
(2) in subsection (e) by striking ‘‘, other than
a highway access to which is fully controlled,’’;
(3) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(g) PLANNING AND DESIGN.—Bicyclists and pedes-
trians shall be given due consideration in the comprehen-
sive transportation plans developed by each metropolitan
planning organization and State in accordance with sec-
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‘‘(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following
definitions apply:
‘‘(1) BICYCLE
TRANSPORTATION
FACILITY.—
The term ‘bicycle transportation facility’ means new
or improved lanes, paths, or shoulders for use by
bicyclists, traffic control devices, shelters, and park-
ing facilities for bicycles.
‘‘(2) ELECTRIC
BICYCLE.—The term ‘electric
bicycle’ means any bicycle or tricycle with a low-pow-
ered electric motor weighing under 100 pounds, with
a top motor-powered speed not in excess of 20 miles
per hour.
‘‘(3) 
PEDESTRIAN.—The 
term 
‘pedestrian’
means any person traveling by foot and any mobility
impaired person using a wheelchair.
‘‘(4) WHEELCHAIR.—The term ‘wheelchair’
means a mobility aid, usable indoors, and designed
for and used by individuals with mobility impair-
ments, whether operated manually or powered.’’.
(b) PROTECTION
OF NONMOTORIZED TRANSPOR-
TATION TRAFFIC.—Section 109(n) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(n) PROTECTION OF NONMOTORIZED TRANSPOR-
TATION TRAFFIC.—The Secretary shall not approve any
project or take any regulatory action under this title that
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will result in the severance of an existing major route or
have significant adverse impact on the safety for non-
motorized transportation traffic and light motorcycles, un-
less such project or regulatory action provides for a rea-
sonably alternate route or such a route exits.’’.
(c) RAILWAY-HIGHWAY CROSSINGS.—Section 130 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(j) BICYCLE SAFETY.—In carrying out projects
under this section, a State shall take into account bicycle
safety.’’.
(d) HIGHWAY AND STREET DESIGN STANDARDS.—
(1) STUDY.—Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall initiate, in conjunction with the American As-
sociation of State Highway and Transportation Offi-
cials, a study to consider proposals to amend the
policies of such association relating to highway and
street design standards to accommodate bicyclists
and pedestrians.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after such
date of enactment, the Secretary shall transmit to
Congress a report on the results of the study with
any recommendations on amending the policies re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) the Secretary determines
appropriate.
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(e) NATIONAL BICYCLE SAFETY EDUCATION CUR-
RICULA.—
(1) DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary is author-
ized to develop a national bicycle safety education
curricula that may include courses relating to on-
road training.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall transmit to Congress a copy of the curricula.
(3) FUNDING.—From amounts made available
under section 210 of this Act, the Secretary may use
not to exceed $500,000 for fiscal year 1998 to carry
out this subsection.
(f) DESIGN GUIDANCE.—In implementing section
217(g) of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary, in
cooperation with the American Association of State High-
way and Transportation Officials, the Institute of Trans-
portation Engineers, and other interested organizations,
shall develop guidance on the various approaches to ac-
commodating bicycles and pedestrian travel. The guidance
shall address issues such as the level and nature of the
demand, volume, and speed of motor vehicle traffic, safety,
terrain, cost, and sight distance. The guidance shall be
developed within 1 year after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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SEC. 138. HAZARD ELIMINATION PROGRAM.
Section 152 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by inserting ‘‘, bicyclists,’’
after ‘‘motorists’’;
(2) by adding at the end of subsection (a) the
following: ‘‘In carrying out this section, States shall
minimize any negative impact on safety and access
for bicyclists and pedestrians.’’;
(3) in subsection (b) by inserting after
‘‘project’’ the following: ‘‘or safety improvement
project described in subsection (a)’’; and
(4) in subsections (f) and (g) by striking ‘‘high-
way’’ each place it appears.
SEC. 139. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION.
(a) LIFE CYCLE COST ANALYSIS.—Section 106(e) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘with a cost of
$25,000,000 or more’’;
(2) by adding at the end of paragraph (1) the
following: ‘‘The program shall be based on the prin-
ciples contained in section 2 of Executive Order
12893.’’; and
(3) in paragraph (2) by inserting after ‘‘mainte-
nance,’’ the following: ‘‘user costs,’’.
(b) EVALUATION OF PROCUREMENT PRACTICES AND
PROJECT DELIVERY.—
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(1) STUDY.—The Comptroller General shall
conduct a study to assess the impact that a utility
company’s failure to relocate their facilities in a
timely manner has on the delivery and cost of Fed-
eral-aid highway and bridge projects. The study
shall also assess the following:
(A) Methods States use to mitigate such
delays, including the use of the courts to compel
utility cooperation.
(B) The prevalence and use of incentives
to utility companies for early completion of util-
ity relocations on Federal-aid transportation
project sites and, conversely, penalties assessed
on utility companies for utility relocation delays
on such projects.
(C) The extent to which States have used
available technologies, such as subsurface utility
engineering, early in the design of Federal-aid
highway and bridge projects so as to eliminate
or reduce the need for or delays due to utility
relocations.
(D) Whether individual States compensate
transportation contractors for business costs
they incur when Federal-aid highway and
bridge projects under contract to them are de-
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layed by utility company caused delays in utility
relocations and any methods used by States in
making any such compensation.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller
General shall transmit to Congress a report on the
results of the study with any recommendations the
Comptroller General determines appropriate as a re-
sult of the study.
SEC. 140. CONTRACTING FOR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
SERVICES.
(a) CONTRACTING PROCEDURES.—Section 112(b)(2)
of title 23, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B)(i) by striking ‘‘, except
to’’ and all that follows through ‘‘services’’;
(2) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting
the following:
‘‘(C) SELECTION, PERFORMANCE, AND AU-
DITS.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—All requirements
for architectural, engineering, and related
services at any phase of a highway project
funded in whole or in part with Federal-
aid highway funds shall be performed
under a contract awarded in accordance
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with subparagraph (A) unless the sim-
plified acquisition procedures of the Fed-
eral Acquisition Regulations of title 48,
Code of Federal Regulations, apply.
‘‘(ii) PROHIBITION
ON
STATE
RE-
STRICTIONS.—A State shall not impose
any overhead restriction, or salary limita-
tion inconsistent with the Federal Acquisi-
tion Regulations, that would preclude any
qualified firm from being eligible to com-
pete for contracts awarded in accordance
with subparagraph (A).
‘‘(iii) COMPLIANCE
WITH
FEDERAL
ACQUISITION REGULATIONS.—The process
for selection, award, performance, adminis-
tration, and audit of the resulting con-
tracts shall comply with the procedures,
cost principles, and cost accounting prin-
ciples of the Federal Acquisition Regula-
tions, including parts 30, 31, and 36 of
title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.’’;
(3) in subparagraph (G)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘(i) GENERAL RULE.—’’
before ‘‘Subpargraphs’’;
(B) by adding at the end the following:
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‘‘(ii) STATE
OPTION.—Congress has
determined that the State opt-out period
for the contract administration procedures
has expired. States that have complied
with or received waivers from the Secretary
regarding the requirements of section 307
of the National Highway Designation Act
of 1995, as of the date of the enactment
of this clause, shall not be subject to the
requirements of subparagraph (A).’’; and
(C) by indenting clause (i), as designated
by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, and
aligning it with clause (ii), as added by sub-
paragraph (B) of this paragraph; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(H) COMPLIANCE.—A State shall comply,
with respect to any architecture, engineering, or
related service contract for any phase of a Fed-
eral-aid highway project, with the qualifica-
tions-based selection procedures of the Federal
Acquisition Regulations, and with the single
audit procedures required under this paragraph,
or with an existing State law or a statute en-
acted in accordance with the legislative session
exemption provided by subparagraph (G).’’.
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(b) SELECTION PROCESS.—Section 112 is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(g) SELECTION PROCESS.—A State may procure,
under a single contract, the services of a consultant to pre-
pare any environmental impact assessments or analyses
required, including environmental impact statements, as
well as subsequent engineering and design work on the
same project if the State has conducted a review that as-
sesses the objectivity of any analysis, environmental as-
sessment, or environmental impact statement prior to its
submission to the Secretary.’’.
SEC. 141. COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE STUDY.
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary shall request the Trans-
portation Research Board of the National Academy of
Sciences to conduct a study regarding the regulation of
weights, lengths, and widths of commercial motor vehicles
operating on Federal-aid highways to which Federal regu-
lations currently apply. In conducting the study, the
Board shall review current law, regulations, studies (in-
cluding Transportation Research Board Special Report
225), and practices and develop recommendations regard-
ing any revisions to current law and regulations that the
Board deems appropriate.
(b) FACTORS TO CONSIDER AND EVALUATE.—In de-
veloping recommendations under subsection (a), the Board
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shall consider and evaluate the impact of the recommenda-
tions described in subsection (a) on the economy, the envi-
ronment, safety, and service to communities.
(c) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out the study, the
Board shall consult the Department of Transportation,
States, the motor carrier industry, freight shippers, high-
way safety groups, air quality and natural resource man-
agement groups, commercial motor vehicle driver rep-
resentatives, and other appropriate entities.
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Board shall transmit to
Congress and the Secretary a report on the results of the
study conducted under this section.
(e) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not later than 6 months
after the date of receipt of the report under subsection
(d), the Secretary may transmit to Congress a report con-
taining comments or recommendations of the Secretary re-
garding the report.
(f) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated out of the Highway Trust Fund (other than the
Mass Transit Account) $250,000 for each of fiscal years
1998 and 1999 to carry out this subsection.
(g) APPLICABILITY
OF TITLE 23.—Funds made
available to carry out this section shall be available for
obligation in the same manner as if such funds were ap-
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portioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code;
except that the Federal share of the cost of the study
under this section shall be 100 percent and such funds
shall remain available until expended.
SEC. 142. NEW YORK AVENUE TRANSPORTATION DEVELOP-
MENT AUTHORITY.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established an au-
thority to be known as the New York Avenue Transpor-
tation Development Authority (hereinafter in this section
referred to as ‘‘Authority’’).
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Authority shall be composed
of 5 members appointed as follows:
(1) 3 individuals appointed by the President.
(2) 2 individuals appointed by the mayor of the
District of Columbia.
(c) COMPENSATION.—Members of the Authority may
not receive pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of their
service on the Authority.
(d) DUTIES.—The Authority shall develop a trans-
portation improvement plan for the Capital Gateway Cor-
ridor and vicinity following United States Route 50 from
I–395 in Washington, D.C., to the intersection of United
States Route 50 with Kenilworth Avenue and the Balti-
more-Washington Parkway in Maryland, which shall in-
clude—
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(1) engineering, pre-design, and design nec-
essary to improve the corridor; and
(2) economic feasibility studies of financing the
project, including the feasibility of repaying funds
that may be borrowed from the Highway Trust
Fund to carry out the project.
(e) CONSIDERATIONS FOR TIP.—In developing the
transportation improvement plan, the Authority shall con-
sider—
(1) how a tunnel or other method to re-route
interstate traffic from the surface of New York Ave-
nue may improve traffic on and access to the New
York Avenue Corridor; and
(2) how to improve access to the National Arbo-
retum.
(f) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Authority shall report
to the Congress on any additional legal authorities it needs
to carry out the transportation improvement plan.
(g) FUNDING.—The Authority is eligible to receive
funds authorized under the National Corridor Planning
and Development program established in section 115.
SEC. 143. DEFINITIONS.
Section 101(a) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—The following definitions apply:
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‘‘(1) APPORTIONMENT.—The term ‘apportion-
ment’ includes unexpended apportionments made
under prior authorization laws.
‘‘(2) CARPOOL
PROJECT.—The term ‘carpool
project’ means any project to encourage the use of
carpools and vanpools, including provision of car-
pooling opportunities to the elderly and handicapped,
systems for locating potential riders and informing
them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for
carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as
preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related
traffic control devices, and designating existing fa-
cilities for use for preferential parking for carpools.
‘‘(3) CONSTRUCTION.—The term ‘construction’
means the supervising, inspecting, actual building,
and all expenses incidental to the construction or re-
construction of a highway, including bond costs and
other costs relating to the issuance in accordance
with section 122 of bonds or other debt financing in-
struments and costs incurred by the State in per-
forming Federal-aid project related audits which di-
rectly benefit the Federal-aid highway program.
Such term includes—
‘‘(A) locating, surveying, and mapping (in-
cluding the establishment of temporary and per-
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manent geodetic markers in accordance with
specifications of the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration in the Department of
Commerce);
‘‘(B) resurfacing, restoration, and rehabili-
tation;
‘‘(C) acquisition of rights-of-way;
‘‘(D) relocation assistance, acquisition of
replacement housing sites, and acquisition and
rehabilitation, relocation, and construction of
replacement housing;
‘‘(E) elimination of hazards of railway
grade crossings;
‘‘(F) elimination of roadside obstacles;
‘‘(G) improvements which directly facilitate
and control traffic flow, such as grade separa-
tion of intersections, widening of lanes, channel-
ization of traffic, traffic control systems, and
passenger loading and unloading areas; and
‘‘(H) capital improvements which directly
facilitate an effective vehicle weight enforcement
program, such as scales (fixed and portable),
scale pits, scale installation, and scale houses.
‘‘(4) COUNTY.—The term ‘county’ includes cor-
responding units of government under any other
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name in States which do not have county organiza-
tions and, in those States in which the county gov-
ernment does not have jurisdiction over highways,
any local government unit vested with jurisdiction
over local highways.
‘‘(5) 
FEDERAL-AID
HIGHWAYS.—The 
term
‘Federal-aid highways’ means highways eligible for
assistance under this chapter other than highways
classified as local roads or rural minor collectors.
‘‘(6) FEDERAL-AID SYSTEM.—The term ‘Fed-
eral-aid system’ means any one of the Federal-aid
highway systems described in section 103.
‘‘(7) FEDERAL LANDS HIGHWAYS.—The term
‘Federal lands highways’ means forest highways,
public lands highways, park roads, parkways, and
Indian reservation roads which are public roads.
‘‘(8) 
FOREST
DEVELOPMENT
ROADS
AND
TRAILS.—The term ‘forest development roads and
trails’ means a forest road or trail under the juris-
diction of the Forest Service.
‘‘(9) FOREST
HIGHWAY.—The term ‘forest
highway’ means a forest road under the jurisdiction
of, and maintained by, a public authority and open
to public travel.
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‘‘(10) FOREST ROAD OR TRAIL.—The term ‘for-
est road or trail’ means a road or trail wholly or
partly within, or adjacent to, and serving the Na-
tional Forest System and which is necessary for the
protection, administration, and utilization of the Na-
tional Forest System and the use and development
of its resources.
‘‘(11) HIGHWAY.—The term ‘highway’ includes
roads, streets, and parkways, and also includes
rights-of-way, bridges, railroad-highway crossings,
tunnels, drainage structures, signs, guardrails, and
protective structures, in connection with highways.
It further includes that portion of any interstate or
international bridge or tunnel and the approaches
thereto, the cost of which is assumed by a State
highway department, including such facilities as may
be required by the United States Customs and Im-
migration Services in connection with the operation
of an international bridge or tunnel.
‘‘(12) 
HIGHWAY
SAFETY
IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT.—The term ‘highway safety improvement
project’ means a project which corrects or improves
high hazard locations, eliminates roadside obstacles,
improves highway signing and pavement marking,
installs priority control systems for emergency vehi-
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cles at signalized intersections, installs or replaces
emergency motorist aid call boxes, or installs traffic
control or warning devices at high accident potential
locations.
‘‘(13) INDIAN RESERVATION ROADS.—The term
‘Indian reservation roads’ means public roads that
are located within or provide access to an Indian
reservation or Indian trust land or restricted Indian
land which is not subject to fee title alienation with-
out the approval of the Federal Government, or In-
dian and Alaska Native villages, groups, or commu-
nities in which Indians and Alaskan Natives reside,
whom the Secretary of the Interior has determined
are eligible for services generally available to Indians
under Federal laws specifically applicable to Indians.
‘‘(14) INTERSTATE SYSTEM.—The term ‘Inter-
state System’ means the Dwight D. Eisenhower Na-
tional System of Interstate and Defense Highways
described in section 103(e).
‘‘(15) MAINTENANCE.—The term ‘maintenance’
means the preservation of the entire highway, in-
cluding surface, shoulders, roadsides, structures, and
such traffic-control devices as are necessary for its
safe and efficient utilization.
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‘‘(16) NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM.—The term
‘National Highway System’ means the Federal-aid
highway system described in section 103(b).
‘‘(17) OPERATING COSTS FOR TRAFFIC MON-
ITORING, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL.—The term
‘operating costs for traffic monitoring, management,
and control’ includes labor costs, administrative
costs, costs of utilities and rent, and other costs as-
sociated with the continuous operation of traffic con-
trol, such as integrated traffic control systems, inci-
dent management programs, and traffic control cen-
ters.
‘‘(18) OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT.—The term
‘operational improvement’ means a capital improve-
ment for installation of traffic surveillance and con-
trol equipment, computerized signal systems, motor-
ist information systems, integrated traffic control
systems, incident management programs, and trans-
portation demand management facilities, strategies,
and programs and such other capital improvements
to public roads as the Secretary may designate, by
regulation; except that such term does not include
resurfacing, restoring, or rehabilitating improve-
ments, construction of additional lanes, inter-
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changes, and grade separations, and construction of
a new facility on a new location.
‘‘(19) PARK
ROAD.—The term ‘park road’
means a public road, including a bridge built pri-
marily for pedestrian use, but with capacity for use
by emergency vehicles, that is located within, or pro-
vides access to, an area in the National Park System
with title and maintenance responsibilities vested in
the United States.
‘‘(20) PARKWAY.—The term ‘parkway’, as used
in chapter 2 of this title, means a parkway author-
ized by Act of Congress on lands to which title is
vested in the United States.
‘‘(21) PROJECT.—The term ‘project’ means an
undertaking to construct a particular portion of a
highway, or if the context so implies, the particular
portion of a highway so constructed or any other un-
dertaking eligible for assistance under this title.
‘‘(22) 
PROJECT
AGREEMENT.—The 
term
‘project agreement’ means the formal instrument to
be executed by the State highway department and
the Secretary as required by section 110(a).
‘‘(23) PUBLIC AUTHORITY.—The term ‘public
authority’ means a Federal, State, county, town, or
township, Indian tribe, municipal or other local gov-
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ernment or instrumentality with authority to fi-
nance, build, operate, or maintain toll or toll-free fa-
cilities.
‘‘(24) PUBLIC
LANDS
DEVELOPMENT
ROADS
AND TRAILS.—The term ‘public lands development
roads and trails’ means those roads or trails which
the Secretary of the Interior determines are of pri-
mary importance for the development, protection,
administration, and utilization of public lands and
resources under his control.
‘‘(25) PUBLIC
LANDS
HIGHWAY.—The term
‘public lands highway’ means any highway through
unappropriated or unreserved public lands, non-
taxable Indian lands, or other Federal reservations
under the jurisdiction of and maintained by a public
authority and open to public travel.
‘‘(26) PUBLIC ROAD.—The term ‘public road’
means any road or street under the jurisdiction of
and maintained by a public authority and open to
public travel.
‘‘(27) RURAL AREAS.—The term ‘rural areas’
means all areas of a State not included in urban
areas.
‘‘(28) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘Secretary’
means Secretary of Transportation.
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‘‘(29) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means any one
of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, or
Puerto Rico.
‘‘(30) STATE FUNDS.—The term ‘State funds’
includes funds raised under the authority of the
State or any political or other subdivision thereof,
and made available for expenditure under the direct
control of the State highway department.
‘‘(31) STATE
HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT.—The
term ‘State highway department’ means that depart-
ment, commission, board, or official of any State
charged by its laws with the responsibility for high-
way construction.
‘‘(32) TRANSPORTATION
ENHANCEMENT
AC-
TIVITIES.—The term ‘transportation enhancement
activities’ means, with respect to any project or the
area to be served by the project, any of the following
activities if such activity has a direct link to surface
transportation: provision of facilities for pedestrians
and bicycles, provision of safety and educational ac-
tivities for pedestrians and bicyclists, acquisition of
scenic easements and scenic or historic sites, scenic
or historic highway programs, landscaping and other
scenic beautification, including removal of graffiti
and litter to the extent that such removal is in ex-
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cess of fiscal year 1997 maintenance levels for re-
moval of graffiti and litter, historic preservation, re-
habilitation and operation of historic transportation
buildings, structures, or facilities (including historic
railroad facilities and canals), preservation of aban-
doned railway corridors (including the conversion
and use thereof for pedestrian or bicycle trails), con-
trol and removal of outdoor advertising, archaeologi-
cal planning and research, environmental mitigation
to address water pollution due to highway runoff or
reduce vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while main-
taining habitat connectivity, and provision of tourist
and welcome centers.
‘‘(33) URBAN
AREA.—The term ‘urban area’
means an urbanized area or, in the case of an ur-
banized area encompassing more than one State,
that part of the urbanized area in each such State,
or urban place as designated by the Bureau of the
Census having a population of 5,000 or more and
not within any urbanized area, within boundaries to
be fixed by responsible State and local officials in co-
operation with each other, subject to approval by the
Secretary. Such boundaries shall, as a minimum, en-
compass the entire urban place designated by the
Bureau of the Census, except in the case of cities in
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the State of Maine and in the State of New Hamp-
shire.
‘‘(34) URBANIZED AREA.—The term ‘urbanized
area’ means an area with a population of 50,000 or
more designated by the Bureau of the Census, with-
in boundaries to be fixed by responsible State and
local officials in cooperation with each other, subject
to approval by the Secretary. Boundaries shall, at a
minimum, encompass the entire urbanized area with-
in a State as designated by the Bureau of the Cen-
sus.’’.
SEC. 144. SUBSTITUTE PROJECT.
(a) APPROVAL OF PROJECT.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, upon the request of the Mayor of
the District of Columbia, the Secretary may approve sub-
stitute highway and transit projects under section
103(e)(4) of title 23, United States Code, as in effect on
the day before the date of the enactment of this Act, in
lieu of construction of the Barney Circle Freeway project
in the District of Columbia, as identified in the 1991
Interstate Cost Estimate.
(b) ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—Upon
approval of any substitute project or projects under sub-
section (a)—
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(1) the cost of construction of the Barney Cir-
cle Freeway Modification project shall not be eligible
for funds authorized under section 108(b) of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956; and
(2) substitute projects approved pursuant to
this section shall be funded from interstate construc-
tion funds apportioned or allocated to the District of
Columbia that are not expended and not subject to
lapse on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share payable on
account of a project or activity approved under this section
shall be 85 percent of the cost thereof; except that the
exception set forth in section 120(b)(2) of title 23, United
States Code, shall apply.
(d) LIMITATION
ON ELIGIBILITY.—Any substitute
project approved pursuant to subsection (a) (for which the
Secretary finds that sufficient Federal funds are available)
must be under contract for construction, or construction
must have commenced, before the last day of the 4-year
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion. If the substitute project is not under contract for
construction, or construction has not commenced, by such
last day, the Secretary shall withdraw approval of the sub-
stitute project.
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SEC. 145. USE OF HOV LANES BY ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
Section 102(a) is amended by adding at the end the
following: ‘‘Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, be-
fore September 30, 2003, a State may permit an electric
vehicle with fewer than 2 occupants to operate in high oc-
cupancy vehicle lanes if the vehicle is certified and labeled
as an Inherently Low Emission Vehicle pursuant to sec-
tion 88.313–93 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations,
provided that such permission may be revoked by the
State should the State determine it necessary.’’.
TITLE II—HIGHWAY SAFETY
SEC. 201. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 23, UNITED STATES
CODE.
Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in
this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion of law, the reference shall be considered to be made
to a section or other provision of title 23, United States
Code.
SEC. 202. HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS.
(a) UNIFORM
GUIDELINES.—Section 402(a) is
amended—
(1) in the fourth sentence by striking ‘‘(4)’’ and
inserting ‘‘(4) to prevent accidents and’’; and
(2) in the eighth sentence by striking ‘‘include
information obtained by the Secretary under section
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4007 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi-
ciency Act of 1991 and’’.
(b) ADMINISTRATION OF STATE PROGRAMS.—Sec-
tion 402(b) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(b)(1)’’ and all that follows
through paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION OF STATE PROGRAMS.—’’;
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and
(5) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively;
(3) in paragraph (1)(C), as so redesignated, by
striking ‘‘paragraph (5)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph
(3)’’; and
(4) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated, by
striking ‘‘paragraph (3)(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘para-
graph (1)(C)’’.
(c) APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS.—The 6th sentence
of section 402(c) is amended by inserting ‘‘the apportion-
ment to the Secretary of the Interior shall not be less than
three-fourths of 1 percent of the total apportionment and’’
after ‘‘except that’’.
(d) APPLICATION
IN INDIAN COUNTRY.—Section
402(i) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(i) APPLICATION IN INDIAN COUNTRY.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of applica-
tion of this section in Indian country, the terms
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‘State’ and ‘Governor of a State’ include the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the term ‘political subdivi-
sion of a State’ includes an Indian tribe. Notwith-
standing subsection (b)(1)(C), 95 percent of the
funds apportioned to the Secretary of the Interior
under this section shall be expended by Indian tribes
to carry out highway safety programs within their
jurisdictions. 
The 
requirements 
of 
subsection
(b)(1)(D) shall be applicable to Indian tribes, except
to those tribes with respect to which the Secretary
of Transportation determines that application of
such provisions would not be practicable.
‘‘(2) INDIAN COUNTRY DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘Indian country’ means—
‘‘(A) all land within the limits of any In-
dian reservation under the jurisdiction of the
United States, notwithstanding the issuance of
any patent, and including rights-of-way running
through the reservation;
‘‘(B) all dependent Indian communities
within the borders of the United States, wheth-
er within the original or subsequently acquired
territory thereof and whether within or without
the limits of a State; and
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‘‘(C) all Indian allotments, the Indian ti-
tles to which have not been extinguished, in-
cluding rights-of-way running through such al-
lotments.’’.
(e) RULEMAKING PROCEEDING.—Section 402(j) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(j) RULEMAKING
PROCEEDING.—The Secretary
may from time to time conduct a rulemaking process to
identify highway safety programs that are highly effective
in reducing motor vehicle crashes, injuries, and deaths.
Any such rulemaking shall take into account the major
role of the States in implementing such programs. When
a rule promulgated in accordance with this section takes
effect, States shall consider these highly effective pro-
grams when developing their highway safety programs.’’.
(f) HIGHWAY SAFETY EDUCATION AND INFORMA-
TION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—For fiscal years 1999 and
2000, the Secretary shall allow any State to use
funds apportioned to it under section 402 of title 23,
United States Code to purchase television and radio
time for the placement of highway safety public serv-
ice messages.
(2) STUDY.—The Secretary shall conduct a
study of the effectiveness of the public service mes-
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sages and transmit a report on the results of the
study together with the transmittal under section
508 of this Act.
SEC. 203. HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH AND DEVELOP-
MENT.
Section 403(a)(2)(A) is amended by inserting ‘‘, in-
cluding training in work zone safety management’’ after
‘‘personnel’’.
SEC. 204. OCCUPANT PROTECTION INCENTIVE GRANTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 is amended by insert-
ing after section 404 the following:
‘‘§ 405. Occupant protection incentive grants
‘‘(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY TO MAKE GRANTS.—Subject
to the provisions of this section, the Secretary shall
make grants under subsections (b) and (c) to States
that adopt and implement effective programs to re-
duce highway deaths and injuries resulting from in-
dividuals riding unrestrained or improperly re-
strained in motor vehicles. Such grants may be used
by recipient States only to implement and enforce,
as appropriate, such programs.
‘‘(2) MAINTENANCE
OF
EFFORT.—No grant
may be made to a State under subsection (b) or (c)
in any fiscal year unless the State enters into such
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agreements with the Secretary as the Secretary may
require to ensure that the State will maintain its ag-
gregate expenditures from all other sources for pro-
grams described in paragraph (1) at or above the
average level of such expenditures in its 2 fiscal
years preceding the Building Efficient Surface
Transportation and Equity Act of 1998.
‘‘(3) MAXIMUM PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY; FED-
ERAL SHARE FOR GRANTS.—No State may receive
grants under subsection (b) or (c) in more than 6
fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1997.
The Federal share payable for any grant under this
section shall not exceed—
‘‘(A) in the first and second fiscal years in
which the State receives the grant, 75 percent
of the cost of implementing and enforcing, as
appropriate, in such fiscal year a program
adopted by the State;
‘‘(B) in the third and fourth fiscal years in
which the State receives the grant, 50 percent
of the cost of implementing and enforcing, as
appropriate, in such fiscal year such program;
and
‘‘(C) in the fifth and sixth fiscal years in
which the State receives the grant, 25 percent
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of the cost of implementing and enforcing, as
appropriate, in such fiscal year such program.
‘‘(b) GRANT A.—A State may establish its eligibility
for a grant under this subsection by adopting or dem-
onstrating to the satisfaction of the Secretary at least 5
of the following and, beginning in fiscal year 2001, at least
6 of the following:
‘‘(1) SAFETY BELT USE LAW.—The State has
in effect a safety belt use law that makes unlawful
throughout the State the operation of a passenger
motor vehicle whenever an individual (other than a
child who is secured in a child restraint system) in
the front seat of the vehicle (and, beginning in fiscal
year 2000, in any seat in the vehicle) does not have
a safety belt properly secured about the individual’s
body.
‘‘(2) PRIMARY SAFETY BELT USE LAW.—The
State provides for primary enforcement of its safety
belt use law.
‘‘(3) MINIMUM
FINE
OR
PENALTY
POINTS.—
The State imposes a minimum fine, or provides for
the imposition of penalty points against an individ-
ual’s driver’s license, for a violation of its safety belt
use law.
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‘‘(4) CHILD SAFETY SEAT LAW.—The State has
in effect a child passenger protection law that makes
unlawful throughout the State the operation of a
passenger motor vehicle whenever a child up to 4
years of age in the vehicle is not properly secured in
a child safety seat.
‘‘(5) SPECIAL
TRAFFIC
ENFORCEMENT
PRO-
GRAM.—The State has implemented a statewide spe-
cial traffic enforcement program for occupant pro-
tection that emphasizes publicity for the program.
‘‘(6) CHILD
OCCUPANT
PROTECTION
EDU-
CATION PROGRAM.—The State has implemented a
statewide comprehensive child occupant protection
education program that includes education about
proper seating positions for children in air bag
equipped motor vehicles and instruction on how to
reduce the improper use of child restraints systems.
‘‘(7) CHILD
PASSENGER
PROTECTION
LAW.—
The State has in effect a child passenger protection
law that makes unlawful throughout the State the
operation of a passenger motor vehicle whenever a
child up to 10 years of age (and, beginning in fiscal
year 2003, a child up to 16 years of age) in the ve-
hicle is not properly restrained.
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‘‘(c) GRANT B.—A State may establish its eligibility
for a grant under this subsection by adopting or dem-
onstrating to the satisfaction of the Secretary each of the
following:
‘‘(1) STATE
SAFETY
BELT
USE
RATE.—The
State demonstrates a statewide safety belt use rate
in both front outboard seating positions in all pas-
senger motor vehicles of 80 percent or higher in
each of the years a grant under this subparagraph
is received.
‘‘(2) SURVEY
METHOD.—The State follows
safety belt use survey methods which conform to
guidelines issued by the Secretary ensuring that
such measurements are accurate and representative.
‘‘(d) GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of each grant
for which a State qualifies under subsection (b) or (c) for
a fiscal year shall equal up to 30 percent of the amount
apportioned to the State for fiscal year 1997 under section
402 of this title.
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the following
definitions apply:
‘‘(1) CHILD
SAFETY
SEAT.—The term ‘child
safety seat’ means any device (except safety belts)
designed for use in a motor vehicle to restrain, seat,
or position a child who weighs 50 pounds or less.
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‘‘(2) MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term ‘motor vehi-
cle’ means a vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical
power and manufactured primarily for use on public
streets, roads, and highways, but does not include a
vehicle operated only on a rail line.
‘‘(3) MULTIPURPOSE
PASSENGER
VEHICLE.—
The term ‘multipurpose passenger vehicle’ means a
motor vehicle with motive power (except a trailer),
designed to carry not more than 10 individuals, that
is constructed either on a truck chassis or with spe-
cial features for occasional off-road operation.
‘‘(4) PASSENGER
CAR.—The term ‘passenger
car’ means a motor vehicle with motive power (ex-
cept a multipurpose passenger vehicle, motorcycle, or
trailer) designed to carry not more than 10 individ-
uals.
‘‘(5) PASSENGER MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term
‘passenger motor vehicle’ means a passenger car or
a multipurpose passenger motor vehicle.
‘‘(6) SAFETY
BELT.—The term ‘safety belt’
means—
‘‘(A) with respect to open-body passenger
vehicles, including convertibles, an occupant re-
straint system consisting of a lap belt or a lap
belt and a detachable shoulder belt; and
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‘‘(B) with respect to other passenger vehi-
cles, an occupant restraint system consisting of
integrated lap and shoulder belts.
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Funds author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this section shall be
subject to a deduction not to exceed 5 percent for the nec-
essary costs of administering the provisions of this section.
‘‘(g) APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 1.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, all provisions of chapter 1
of this title that are applicable to National Highway
System funds, other than provisions relating to the
apportionment formula and provisions limiting the
expenditure of such funds to Federal-aid highways,
shall apply to the funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(2) INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS.—If the Sec-
retary determines that a provision of chapter 1 of
this title is inconsistent with this section, such provi-
sion shall not apply to funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(3) CREDIT FOR STATE AND LOCAL EXPENDI-
TURES.—The aggregate of all expenditures made
during any fiscal year by a State and its political
subdivisions (exclusive of Federal funds) for carrying
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out the State highway safety program under section
402 (other than planning and administration) shall
be available for the purpose of crediting such State
during such fiscal year for the non-Federal share of
the cost of any project under this section (other than
one for planning or administration) without regard
to whether such expenditures were actually made in
connection with such project.
‘‘(4) INCREASED FEDERAL SHARE FOR CERTAIN
INDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS.—In the case of an occu-
pant protection program carried out by an Indian
tribe, if the Secretary is satisfied that an Indian
tribe does not have sufficient funds available to meet
the non-Federal share of the cost of such program,
the Secretary may increase the Federal share of the
cost thereof payable under this title to the extent
necessary.
‘‘(5) TREATMENT OF TERM ‘STATE HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT’.—In applying provisions of chapter 1
in carrying out this section, the term ‘State highway
department’ as used in such provisions shall mean
the Governor of a State and, in the case of an In-
dian tribe program, the Secretary of the Interior.’’.
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for such chapter is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 404 the following:
‘‘405. Occupant protection incentive grants.’’.
SEC. 
205. 
ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED 
DRIVING 
COUNTER-
MEASURES.
Section 410 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 410. Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures
‘‘(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Subject to the require-
ments of this section, the Secretary shall make grants to
States that adopt and implement effective programs to re-
duce traffic safety problems resulting from individuals
driving while under the influence of alcohol. Such grants
may only be used by recipient States to implement and
enforce such programs.
‘‘(b) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—No grant may be
made to a State under this section in any fiscal year unless
the State enters into such agreements with the Secretary
as the Secretary may require to ensure that the State will
maintain its aggregate expenditures from all other sources
for alcohol traffic safety programs at or above the average
level of such expenditures in its 2 fiscal years preceding
the date of the enactment of the Building Efficient Sur-
face Transportation and Equity Act of 1998.
‘‘(c) MAXIMUM PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY; FEDERAL
SHARE FOR GRANTS.—No State may receive grants under
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this section in more than 6 fiscal years beginning after
September 30, 1997. The Federal share payable for any
grant under this section shall not exceed—
‘‘(1) in the first and second fiscal years in
which the State receives a grant under this section,
75 percent of the cost of implementing and enforc-
ing in such fiscal year a program adopted by the
State pursuant to subsection (a);
‘‘(2) in the third and fourth fiscal years in
which the State receives a grant under this section,
50 percent of the cost of implementing and enforc-
ing in such fiscal year such program; and
‘‘(3) in the fifth and sixth fiscal years in which
the State receives a grant under this section, 25 per-
cent of the cost of implementing and enforcing in
such fiscal year such program.
‘‘(d) BASIC GRANT ELIGIBILITY.—
‘‘(1) BASIC GRANT A.—A State shall become el-
igible for a grant under this paragraph by adopting
or demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Secretary
at least 5 of the following:
‘‘(A) .08 BAC PER SE LAW.—A law that
provides that any individual with a blood alco-
hol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater
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while operating a motor vehicle shall be deemed
to be driving while intoxicated.
‘‘(B) ADMINISTRATIVE
LICENSE
REVOCA-
TION.—An administrative driver’s license sus-
pension or revocation system for individuals
who operate motor vehicles while under the in-
fluence of alcohol that requires that—
‘‘(i) in the case of an individual who,
in any 5-year period beginning after the
date of the enactment of the Building Effi-
cient Surface Transportation and Equity
Act of 1998, is determined on the basis of
a chemical test to have been operating a
motor vehicle under the influence of alco-
hol or is determined to have refused to
submit to such a test as proposed by a law
enforcement officer, the State agency re-
sponsible for administering drivers’ li-
censes, upon receipt of the report of the
law enforcement officer—
‘‘(I) shall suspend the driver’s li-
cense of such individual for a period
of not less than 90 days if such indi-
vidual is a first offender in such 5-
year period; and
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‘‘(II) shall suspend the driver’s li-
cense of such individual for a period
of not less than 1 year, or revoke such
license, if such individual is a repeat
offender in such 5-year period; and
‘‘(ii) the suspension and revocation re-
ferred to under clause (i) shall take effect
not later than 30 days after the day on
which the individual refused to submit to a
chemical test or received notice of having
been determined to be driving under the
influence of alcohol, in accordance with the
State’s procedures.
‘‘(C) UNDERAGE
DRINKING
PROGRAM.—
An effective system, as determined by the Sec-
retary, for preventing operators of motor vehi-
cles under age 21 from obtaining alcoholic bev-
erages and for preventing persons from making
alcoholic beverages available to individuals
under age 21. Such system may include a grad-
uated licensing system, the issuance of drivers’
licenses to individuals under age 21 that are
easily distinguishable in appearance from driv-
ers’ licenses issued to individuals age 21 years
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of age or older, and the issuance of drivers’ li-
censes that are tamper resistant.
‘‘(D) ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM.—Either—
‘‘(i) a statewide program for stopping
motor vehicles on a nondiscriminatory,
lawful basis for the purpose of determining
whether the operators of such motor vehi-
cles are driving while under the influence
of alcohol; or
‘‘(ii) a statewide special traffic en-
forcement program for impaired driving
that emphasizes publicity for the program.
‘‘(E) 
REPEAT
OFFENDERS.—Effective
sanctions for repeat offenders convicted of driv-
ing under the influence of alcohol. Such sanc-
tions, as determined by the Secretary, may in-
clude electronic monitoring; alcohol interlocks;
intensive supervision of probation; vehicle im-
poundment, confiscation, or forfeiture; dedi-
cated detention facilities; special measures to
reduce driving with a suspended license; and as-
signment of treatment.
‘‘(F) DRIVERS
WITH
HIGH
BAC’S.—Pro-
grams to target individuals with high blood al-
cohol concentrations who operate a motor vehi-
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cle. Such programs may include implementation
of a system of graduated penalties and assess-
ment of individuals convicted of driving under
the influence of alcohol.
‘‘(G) 
YOUNG
ADULT
DRINKING
PRO-
GRAMS.—Programs to reduce driving while
under the influence of alcohol by individuals age
21 through 34. Such programs may include
awareness campaigns; traffic safety partner-
ships with employers, colleges, and the hospi-
tality industry; assessment of first time offend-
ers; and incorporation of treatment into judicial
sentencing.
‘‘(H) TESTING FOR BAC.—An effective sys-
tem for increasing the rate of testing for blood
alcohol concentration of motor vehicle drivers in
fatal accidents and, in fiscal year 2000 and in
each fiscal year thereafter, a rate of such test-
ing that is equal to or greater than the national
average.
‘‘(2) BASIC GRANT B.—A State shall become el-
igible for a grant under this paragraph by adopting
or demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Secretary
each of the following:
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viduals driving while under the influence of alcohol
or controlled substances. Such programs may seek to
achieve such a reduction through legal, judicial, en-
forcement, educational, technological, or other ap-
proaches.
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—A State shall be eligible to
receive a grant under this subsection in a fiscal year
only if the State is eligible to receive a grant under
subsection (d) in such fiscal year.
‘‘(3) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made avail-
able to carry out this section, not to exceed 12 per-
cent shall be available for making grants under this
subsection.
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Funds author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this section shall be
subject to a deduction not to exceed 5 percent for the nec-
essary costs of administering the provisions of this section.
‘‘(g) APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 1.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, all provisions of chapter 1
of this title that are applicable to National Highway
System funds, other than provisions relating to the
apportionment formula and provisions limiting the
expenditure of such funds to Federal-aid highways,
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shall apply to the funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(2) INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS.—If the Sec-
retary determines that a provision of chapter 1 of
this title is inconsistent with this section, such provi-
sion shall not apply to funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(3) CREDIT FOR STATE AND LOCAL EXPENDI-
TURES.—The aggregate of all expenditures made
during any fiscal year by a State and its political
subdivisions (exclusive of Federal funds) for carrying
out the State highway safety program under section
402 (other than planning and administration) shall
be available for the purpose of crediting such State
during such fiscal year for the non-Federal share of
the cost of any project under this section (other than
one for planning or administration) without regard
to whether such expenditures were actually made in
connection with such project.
‘‘(4) INCREASED FEDERAL SHARE FOR CERTAIN
INDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS.—In the case of an alco-
hol-impaired driving countermeasures program car-
ried out by an Indian tribe, if the Secretary is satis-
fied that an Indian tribe does not have sufficient
funds available to meet the non-Federal share of the
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cost of such program, the Secretary may increase
the Federal share of the cost thereof payable under
this title to the extent necessary.
‘‘(5) TREATMENT OF TERM ‘STATE HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT’.—In applying provisions of chapter 1
in carrying out this section, the term ‘State highway
department’ as used in such provisions shall mean
the Governor of a State and, in the case of an In-
dian tribe program, the Secretary of the Interior.
‘‘(h) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following
definitions apply:
‘‘(1) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE.—The term ‘alco-
holic beverage’ has the meaning such term has
under section 158(c) of this title.
‘‘(2) CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCES.—The term
‘controlled substances’ has the meaning such term
has under section 102(6) of the Controlled Sub-
stances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6)).
‘‘(3) MOTOR VEHICLE.—The term ‘motor vehi-
cle’ means a vehicle driven or drawn by mechanical
power and manufactured primarily for use on public
streets, roads, and highways, but does not include a
vehicle operated only on a rail line.’’.
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SEC. 206. STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY DATA IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 is further amended by
adding at the end the following new section:
‘‘§ 411. State highway safety data improvements
‘‘(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Subject to the provi-
sions of this section, the Secretary shall make grants to
States that adopt and implement effective programs to—
‘‘(1) improve the timeliness, accuracy, complete-
ness, uniformity, and accessibility of the State’s data
needed to identify priorities for national, State, and
local highway and traffic safety programs;
‘‘(2) evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to
make such improvements;
‘‘(3) link these State data systems, including
traffic records, together and with other data systems
within the State, such as systems that contain medi-
cal and economic data; and
‘‘(4) improve State data systems’ compatibility
with national data systems and those of other States
and enhance the Secretary’s ability to observe and
analyze national trends in crash occurrences, rates,
outcomes, and causation.
Such grants may be used by recipient States only to imple-
ment such programs.
‘‘(b) MODEL DATA ELEMENTS.—The Secretary, in
consultation with States and other appropriate parties,
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shall determine the model data elements necessary to ob-
serve and analyze national trends in crash occurrences,
rates, outcomes, and causation. A State’s multiyear high-
way safety data and traffic records plan described in sub-
section (e)(1) shall demonstrate how the model data ele-
ments will be incorporated into the State’s data systems
for the State to be eligible for grants under this section.
‘‘(c) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—No grant may be
made to a State under this section in any fiscal year unless
the State enters into such agreements with the Secretary
as the Secretary may require to ensure that the State will
maintain its aggregate expenditures from all other sources
for highway safety data programs at or above the average
level of such expenditures in its 2 fiscal years preceding
the date of the enactment of the Building Efficient Sur-
face Transportation and Equity Act of 1998.
‘‘(d) MAXIMUM PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY; FEDERAL
SHARE FOR GRANTS.—No State may receive grants under
this section in more than 6 fiscal years beginning after
September 30, 1997. The Federal share payable for any
grant under this section shall not exceed—
‘‘(1) in the first and second fiscal years in
which the State receives the grant, 75 percent of the
cost of implementing and enforcing, as appropriate,
in such fiscal year a program adopted by the State;
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‘‘(2) in the third and fourth fiscal years in
which the State receives the grant, 50 percent of the
cost of implementing and enforcing, as appropriate,
in such fiscal year such program; and
‘‘(3) in the fifth and sixth fiscal years in which
the State receives the grant under this section, 25
percent of the cost of implementing and enforcing,
as appropriate, in such fiscal year such program.
‘‘(e) FIRST-YEAR GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY.—A State shall be eligible for
a first-year grant under this section in a fiscal year
if the State either—
‘‘(A) demonstrates, to the satisfaction of
the Secretary, that the State has—
‘‘(i) established a highway safety data
and traffic records coordinating committee
with a multidisciplinary membership, in-
cluding the administrators, collectors, and
users of such data (including the public
health, injury control, and motor carrier
communities);
‘‘(ii) completed, within the preceding
5 years, a highway safety data and traffic
records assessment or an audit of the
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State’s highway safety data and traffic
records system; and
‘‘(iii) initiated the development of a
multiyear highway safety data and traffic
records strategic plan, to be approved by
the State’s highway safety data and traffic
records coordinating committee, that iden-
tifies and prioritizes the State’s highway
safety data and traffic records needs and
goals, and that identifies performance-
based measures by which progress toward
those goals will be determined; or
‘‘(B) provides, to the satisfaction of the
Secretary—
‘‘(i) a certification that the State has
met the requirements of clauses (i) and (ii)
of subparagraph (A);
‘‘(ii) a multiyear plan that—
‘‘(I) identifies and prioritizes the
State’s highway safety data and traf-
fic records needs and goals;
‘‘(II) specifies how the State’s in-
centive funds for the fiscal year will
be used to address those needs and
goals; and
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‘‘(III) 
identifies 
performance-
based measures by which progress to-
ward those goals will be determined;
and
‘‘(iii) a certification that the State’s
highway safety data and traffic records co-
ordinating committee continues to operate
and supports the multiyear plan described
in clause (ii).
‘‘(2) GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of a first-
year grant made to a State for a fiscal year under
this subsection shall equal—
‘‘(A) if the State is eligible for the grant
under paragraph (1)(A), $125,000, subject to
the availability of appropriations; and
‘‘(B) if the State is eligible for the grant
under paragraph (1)(B), an amount determined
by multiplying—
‘‘(i) the amount appropriated to carry
out this section for such fiscal year; by
‘‘(ii) the ratio that the funds appor-
tioned to the State under section 402 for
fiscal year 1997 bears to the funds appor-
tioned to all States under section 402 for
fiscal year 1997;
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except that no State shall receive less than
$225,000, subject to the availability of appro-
priations.
‘‘(f) SUCCEEDING YEAR GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY.—A State shall be eligible for
a grant under this subsection in any fiscal year suc-
ceeding the first fiscal year in which the State re-
ceives a grant under subsection (e) if the State, to
the satisfaction of the Secretary—
‘‘(A) submits or updates a multiyear plan
described in subsection (e)(1)(A)(iii);
‘‘(B) certifies that the highway safety data
and traffic records coordinating committee of
the State continues to operate and supports the
multiyear plan; and
‘‘(C) reports annually on the State’s
progress in implementing the multiyear plan.
‘‘(2) GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of a suc-
ceeding year grant made to the State for a fiscal
year under this paragraph shall equal the amount
determined by multiplying—
‘‘(A) the amount appropriated to carry out
this section for such fiscal year; by
‘‘(B) the ratio that the funds apportioned
to the State under section 402 for fiscal year
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1997 bears to the funds apportioned to all
States under section 402 for fiscal year 1997;
except that no State shall receive less than
$225,000, subject to the availability of appropria-
tions.
‘‘(g) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Funds author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this section shall be
subject to a deduction not to exceed 5 percent for the nec-
essary costs of administering the provisions of this section.
‘‘(h) APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER 1.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, all provisions of chapter 1
of this title that are applicable to National Highway
System funds, other than provisions relating to the
apportionment formula and provisions limiting the
expenditure of such funds to Federal-aid highways,
shall apply to the funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(2) INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS.—If the Sec-
retary determines that a provision of chapter 1 of
this title is inconsistent with this section, such provi-
sion shall not apply to funds authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section.
‘‘(3) CREDIT FOR STATE AND LOCAL EXPENDI-
TURES.—The aggregate of all expenditures made
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during any fiscal year by a State and its political
subdivisions (exclusive of Federal funds) for carrying
out the State highway safety program under section
402 (other than planning and administration) shall
be available for the purpose of crediting such State
during such fiscal year for the non-Federal share of
the cost of any project under this section (other than
one for planning or administration) without regard
to whether such expenditures were actually made in
connection with such project.
‘‘(4) INCREASED FEDERAL SHARE FOR CERTAIN
INDIAN TRIBE PROGRAMS.—In the case of a highway
safety data improvements program carried out by an
Indian tribe, if the Secretary is satisfied that an In-
dian tribe does not have sufficient funds available to
meet the non-Federal share of the cost of such pro-
gram, the Secretary may increase the Federal share
of the cost thereof payable under this title to the ex-
tent necessary.
‘‘(5) TREATMENT OF TERM ‘STATE HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT’.—In applying provisions of chapter 1
in carrying out this section, the term ‘State highway
department’ as used in such provisions shall mean
the Governor of a State and, in the case of an In-
dian tribe program, the Secretary of the Interior.’’.
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for such chapter is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘411. State highway safety data improvements.’’.
SEC. 207. NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTER.
(a) TRANSFER OF SELECTED FUNCTIONS TO NON-
FEDERAL MANAGEMENT.—Section 30302 of title 49,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(e) TRANSFER OF SELECTED FUNCTIONS TO NON-
FEDERAL MANAGEMENT.—
‘‘(1) AGREEMENT.—The Secretary may enter
into an agreement with an organization that rep-
resents the interests of the States to manage, ad-
minister, and operate the National Driver Register’s
computer timeshare and user assistance functions. If
the Secretary decides to enter into such an agree-
ment, the Secretary shall ensure that the manage-
ment of these functions is compatible with this chap-
ter and the regulations issued to implement this
chapter.
‘‘(2) REQUIRED DEMONSTRATION.—Any trans-
fer of the National Driver Register’s computer
timeshare and user assistance functions to an orga-
nization that represents the interests of the States
shall begin only after a determination is made by the
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Secretary that all States are participating in the Na-
tional Driver Register’s ‘Problem Driver Pointer
System’ (the system used by the Register to effect
the exchange of motor vehicle driving records), and
that the system is functioning properly.
‘‘(3) TRANSITION PERIOD.—Any agreement en-
tered into under this subsection shall include a pro-
vision for a transition period sufficient to allow the
States to make the budgetary and legislative changes
the States may need to pay fees charged by the or-
ganization representing their interests for their use
of 
the 
National 
Driver 
Register’s 
computer
timeshare and user assistance functions. During this
transition period, the Secretary shall continue to
fund these transferred functions.
‘‘(4) FEES.—The total of the fees charged by
the organization representing the interests of the
States in any fiscal year for the use of the National
Driver Register’s computer timeshare and user as-
sistance functions shall not exceed the total cost to
the organization of performing these functions in
such fiscal year.
‘‘(5) LIMITATION
ON
STATUTORY
CONSTRUC-
TION.—Nothing in this subsection may be construed
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to diminish, limit, or otherwise affect the authority
of the Secretary to carry out this chapter.’’.
(b) ACCESS TO REGISTER INFORMATION.—
(1) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section
30305(b) of title 49, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(A) in paragraph (2) by inserting before
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, unless
the information is about a revocation or suspen-
sion still in effect on the date of the request’’;
(B) in paragraph (8), as redesignated by
section 207(b) of the Coast Guard Authoriza-
tion Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–324, 110
Stat. 3908)—
(i) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and
inserting ‘‘subsection (a) of this section’’;
and
(ii) by moving the text of such para-
graph 2 ems to the left; and
(C) by redesignating paragraph (8), as re-
designated by section 502(b)(1) of the Federal
Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996 (Public
Law 104–264, 110 Stat. 3262), as paragraph
(9).
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(2) FEDERAL
AGENCY
ACCESS
PROVISION.—
Section 30305(b) of title 49, United States Code, is
further amended—
(A) by redesignating paragraph (6) as
paragraph (10) and inserting such paragraph
after paragraph (9);
(B) by inserting after paragraph (5) the
following:
‘‘(6) The head of a Federal department or agency
that issues motor vehicle operator’s licenses may request
the chief driver licensing official of a State to obtain infor-
mation under subsection (a) of this section about an indi-
vidual applicant for a motor vehicle operator’s license from
such department or agency. The department or agency
may receive the information, provided it transmits to the
Secretary a report regarding any individual who is denied
a motor vehicle operator’s license by that department or
agency for cause; whose motor vehicle operator’s license
is revoked, suspended, or canceled by that department or
agency for cause; or about whom the department or agen-
cy has been notified of a conviction of any of the motor
vehicle-related offenses or comparable offenses listed in
section 30304(a)(3) and over whom the department or
agency has licensing authority. The report shall contain
the information specified in section 30304(b).’’; and
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(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(11) The head of a Federal department or agency
authorized to receive information regarding an individual
from the Register under this section may request and re-
ceive such information from the Secretary.’’.
(c) EVALUATION
AND
ASSESSMENT
OF
ALTER-
NATIVES.—
(1) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall evaluate
the implementation of chapter 303 of title 49,
United States Code, and the programs under sec-
tions 31106 and 31309 of such title and identify al-
ternatives to improve the ability of the States to ex-
change information about unsafe drivers and to
identify drivers with multiple licenses.
(2) 
TECHNOLOGY
ASSESSMENT.—The 
Sec-
retary, in conjunction with the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrators, shall conduct an
assessment of available electronic technologies to im-
prove access to and exchange of motor vehicle driv-
ing records. The assessment may consider alter-
native unique motor vehicle driver identifiers that
would facilitate accurate matching of drivers and
their records.
(3) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 2
years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
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Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on the
results of the evaluation and technology assessment,
together with any recommendations for appropriate
administrative and legislative actions.
SEC. 208. SAFETY STUDIES.
(a) BLOWOUT RESISTANT TIRES STUDY.—The Sec-
retary shall conduct a study on the benefit to public safety
of the use of blowout resistant tires on commercial motor
vehicles and the potential to decrease the incidence of acci-
dents and fatalities from accidents occurring as a result
of blown out tires.
(b) SCHOOL BUS OCCUPANT SAFETY STUDY.—The
Secretary shall conduct a study to assess occupant safety
in school buses. The study shall examine available infor-
mation about occupant safety and analyze options for im-
proving occupant safety.
(c) REPORTS.—Not later than 2 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit
to Congress a report on the results of each study con-
ducted under this section.
(d) LIMITATION ON FUNDING.—The Secretary may
not expend more than $200,000, from funds made avail-
able by section 210, for conducting each study under this
section.
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SEC. 209. EFFECTIVENESS OF LAWS ESTABLISHING MAXI-
MUM BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATIONS.
(a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General shall conduct
a study to evaluate the effectiveness of State laws that—
(1) deem any individual with a blood alcohol
concentration of 0.08 percent or greater while oper-
ating a motor vehicle to be driving while intoxicated;
and
(2) deem any individual under the age of 21
with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.02 percent or
greater while operating a motor vehicle to be driving
while intoxicated;
in reducing the number and severity of alcohol-involved
crashes.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall
transmit to the Committee on Transportation and Infra-
structure of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Public Works and the Environment of the Sen-
ate a report containing the results of the study conducted
under this section.
SEC. 210. AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The following sums are author-
ized to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund
(other than the Mass Transit Account):
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(1) NHTSA HIGHWAY
SAFETY
PROGRAMS.—
For carrying out section 402 of title 23, United
States Code, by the National Highway Traffic Safe-
ty Administration $128,200,000 for fiscal year
1998, $150,700,000 for fiscal year 1999, and
$195,700,000 for each of fiscal years 2000 through
2003.
(2) FHWA HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMS.—For
carrying out section 402 of title 23, United States
Code, by the Federal Highway Administration
$12,000,000 for fiscal year 1998, $20,000,000 for
fiscal year 1999, and $25,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2000 through 2003.
(3) NHTSA HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT.—For carrying out section 403 of
such title by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration $55,000,000 for each of fiscal years
1998 through 2003.
(4) FHWA HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT.—For carrying out section 403 of
such title by the Federal Highway Administration
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1998 through
2003.
(5) 
OCCUPANT
PROTECTION
INCENTIVE
GRANTS.—For carrying out section 405 of such title
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$9,000,000 for fiscal year 1998 and $20,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003.
(6) ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED
DRIVING
COUNTER-
MEASURES INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.—For car-
rying out section 410 of such title $35,000,000 for
fiscal year 1998 and $45,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 1999 through 2003.
(7) STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY DATA GRANTS.—
For carrying out section 411 of such title
$2,500,000 for fiscal year 1998 and $12,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003.
(8) NATIONAL DRIVER REGISTER.—For carry-
ing out chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code,
by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion, $2,300,000 for each of fiscal years 1998
through 2003.
(b) TRANSFERS.—In each fiscal year, the Secretary
may transfer any amounts remaining available under
paragraph (5), (6), or (7) of subsection (a) to the amounts
made available under any other of such paragraphs in
order to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that each
State receives the maximum incentive funding for which
the State is eligible under sections 405, 406, and 410 of
title 23, United States Code.
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SEC. 211. TRANSPORTATION INJURY RESEARCH.
(a) CENTER
FOR TRANSPORTATION INJURY RE-
SEARCH.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make
grants to establish and maintain a center for trans-
portation injury research at the Calspan University
of Buffalo Research Center affiliated with the State
University of New York at Buffalo.
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available
for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 by sec-
tion 127(a)(3)(H) of this Act, $2,000,000 per fiscal
year shall be available to carry out this subsection.
(b) HEAD AND SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make
grants to the Neuroscience Center for Excellence at
Louisiana State University and the Virginia Trans-
portation Research Institute at George Washington
University for research and technology development
for preventing and minimizing head and spinal cord
injuries relating to automobile accidents.
(2) FUNDING.—Of amounts made available for
each of fiscal years 1999 through 2003 by section
127(a)(3)(F), $500,000 per fiscal year shall be
available to carry out this subsection.
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TITLE III—FEDERAL TRANSIT
ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS
SEC. 301. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 49, UNITED STATES
CODE.
Except as otherwise specifically provided, whenever in
this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion of law, the reference shall be considered to be made
to a section or other provision of title 49, United States
Code.
SEC. 302. DEFINITIONS.
Section 5302 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘§ 5302. Definitions
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In this chapter, the following
definitions apply:
‘‘(1) CAPITAL
PROJECT.—The term ‘capital
project’ means a project for—
‘‘(A) acquiring, constructing, supervising,
or inspecting equipment or a facility for use in
mass transportation, expenses incidental to the
acquisition or construction (including designing,
engineering, location surveying, mapping, and
acquiring rights of way), payments for the cap-
ital portions of rail trackage rights agreements,
transit-related intelligent transportation sys-
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tems, relocation assistance, acquiring replace-
ment housing sites, and acquiring, constructing,
relocating, and rehabilitating replacement hous-
ing;
‘‘(B) rehabilitating a bus;
‘‘(C) remanufacturing a bus;
‘‘(D) overhauling rail rolling stock;
‘‘(E) preventive maintenance;
‘‘(F) leasing equipment or a facility for use
in mass transportation subject to regulations
the Secretary prescribes limiting the leasing ar-
rangements to those that are more cost-effective
than acquisition or construction; or
‘‘(G) a mass transportation improvement
that enhances economic development or incor-
porates private investment (including commer-
cial and residential development and pedestrian
and bicycle access to a mass transportation fa-
cility) because the improvement—
‘‘(i) enhances the effectiveness of a
mass transportation project and is related
physically or functionally to that mass
transportation project or establishes new
or enhanced coordination between mass
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transportation and other transportation;
and
‘‘(ii) provides a fair share of revenue
for mass transportation that will be used
for mass transportation.
‘‘(2) 
CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
OFFICER
OF
A
STATE.—The term ‘chief executive officer of a State’
includes the designee of the chief executive officer.
‘‘(3) EMERGENCY
REGULATION.—The term
‘emergency regulation’ means a regulation—
‘‘(A) that is effective temporarily before
the expiration of the otherwise specified periods
of time for public notice and comment under
section 5334(b) of this title; and
‘‘(B) prescribed by the Secretary of Trans-
portation as the result of a finding that a delay
in the effective date of the regulation—
‘‘(i) would injure seriously an impor-
tant public interest;
‘‘(ii) would frustrate substantially leg-
islative policy and intent; or
‘‘(iii) would damage seriously a person
or class without serving an important pub-
lic interest.
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‘‘(4) FIXED
GUIDEWAY.—The term ‘fixed
guideway’ means a mass transportation facility—
‘‘(A) using and occupying a separate right
of way or rail for the exclusive use of mass
transportation and other high occupancy vehi-
cles; or
‘‘(B) using a fixed catenary system and a
right of way usable by other forms of transpor-
tation.
‘‘(5) HANDICAPPED
INDIVIDUAL.—The term
‘handicapped individual’ means an individual who,
because of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunc-
tion, or other incapacity or temporary or permanent
disability (including an individual who is a wheel-
chair user or has semiambulatory capability), cannot
use effectively, without special facilities, planning, or
design, mass transportation service or a mass trans-
portation facility.
‘‘(6) LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.—The
term ‘local governmental authority’ includes—
‘‘(A) a political subdivision of a State;
‘‘(B) an authority of at least one State or
political subdivision of a State;
‘‘(C) an Indian tribe; and
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‘‘(D) a public corporation, board, or com-
mission established under the laws of a State.
‘‘(7) MASS TRANSPORTATION.—The term ‘mass
transportation’ means transportation by a convey-
ance that provides regular and continuing general or
special transportation to the public, but does not in-
clude school bus, charter, or sightseeing transpor-
tation.
‘‘(8) NET
PROJECT
COST.—The term ‘net
project cost’ means the part of a project that reason-
ably cannot be financed from revenues.
‘‘(9) NEW BUS MODEL.—The term ‘new bus
model’ means a bus model (including a model using
alternative fuel)—
‘‘(A) that has not been used in mass trans-
portation in the United States before the date
of production of the model; or
‘‘(B) used in mass transportation in the
United States but being produced with a major
change in configuration or components.
‘‘(10) PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE.—The term
‘preventive maintenance’ means a major activity in-
tended to improve or upgrade a transit vehicle or fa-
cility or repair or replace a damaged, malfunction-
ing, overaged, or outmoded transit vehicle or facility
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system, subsystem, element, or component. Such
term does not include any activity of a routine or
servicing nature, such as checking and replenishing
fluid levels, adjusting settings on otherwise properly
operating components, washing and cleaning a tran-
sit vehicle or facility, changing tires and wheels, or
repairing damage to a vehicle or facility caused by
an accident.
‘‘(11) PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION.—The term
‘public transportation’ means mass transportation.
‘‘(12) REGULATION.—The term ‘regulation’
means any part of a statement of general or particu-
lar applicability of the Secretary of Transportation
designed to carry out, interpret, or prescribe law or
policy in carrying out this chapter.
‘‘(13) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means a State
of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puer-
to Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands.
‘‘(14) TRANSIT.—The term ‘transit’ means
mass transportation.
‘‘(15) TRANSIT
ENHANCEMENT.—The term
‘transit enhancement’ means with respect to any
project or an area to be served by the project, his-
toric preservation, rehabilitation, and operation of
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historic mass transportation buildings, structures,
and facilities (including historic bus and railroad fa-
cilities and canals); projects that enhance transit
safety and security; landscaping and other scenic
beautification and art in and around mass transpor-
tation stations, facilities, bus shelters, bridges, and
buses; bicycle and pedestrian access to mass trans-
portation, including bicycle storage facilities and in-
stalling equipment for transporting bicycles on mass
transportation vehicles; projects that enhance access
for the disabled to mass transportation; and archae-
ological planning and research related to mass trans-
portation projects.
‘‘(16) URBAN
AREA.—The term ‘urban area’
means an area that includes a municipality or other
built-up place that the Secretary of Transportation,
after considering local patterns and trends of urban
growth, decides is appropriate for a local mass
transportation system to serve individuals in the lo-
cality.
‘‘(17) URBANIZED AREA.—The term ‘urbanized
area’ means an area—
‘‘(A) encompassing at least an urbanized
area within a State that the Secretary of Com-
merce designates; and
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‘‘(B) designated as an urbanized area
within boundaries fixed by State and local offi-
cials and approved by the Secretary of Trans-
portation.
‘‘(b) AUTHORITY TO MODIFY ‘HANDICAPPED INDI-
VIDUAL’.—The Secretary of Transportation by regulation
may modify the definition of subsection (a)(5) as it applies
to section 5307(d)(1)(D) of this title.’’.
SEC. 303. METROPOLITAN PLANNING.
(a) GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF PLANNING PROC-
ESS.—Section 5303(b) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF PLANNING PROC-
ESS.—
‘‘(1) CONSIDERATION.—To the extent that the
metropolitan planning organization determines ap-
propriate, the metropolitan transportation planning
process may include consideration of goals and ob-
jectives that—
‘‘(A) support the economic vitality of the
metropolitan area, especially by enabling global
competitiveness, productivity, and efficiency;
‘‘(B) increase the safety and security of
the transportation system for all users;
‘‘(C) increase the accessibility and mobility
for people and freight;
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‘‘(D) protect and enhance the environment,
conserve energy, and enhance quality of life;
‘‘(E) 
enhance 
the 
integration 
and
connectivity of the transportation system,
across and between modes, for people and
freight;
‘‘(F) promote efficient system utilization
and operation; and
‘‘(G) preserve and optimize the existing
transportation system.
This paragraph shall apply to the development of
long-range transportation plans and transportation
improvement programs.
‘‘(2) CONVERSION
TO
GOALS
AND
OBJEC-
TIVES.—The metropolitan planning organization
shall cooperatively determine with the State and
mass transportation operators how the consider-
ations listed in paragraph (1) are translated into
metropolitan goals and objectives and how they are
factored into decisionmaking.’’.
(b) COORDINATION.—Section 5303(e) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) PROJECT LOCATED IN MULTIPLE MPOS.—
If a project is located within the boundaries of more
than one metropolitan planning organization, the
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metropolitan planning organizations shall coordinate
plans regarding the project.’’.
(c) LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.—Section
5303(f) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘transpor-
tation’’ after ‘‘long-range’’;
(2) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘at least
shall—’’ and inserting ‘‘shall contain, at a minimum,
the following:’’;
(3) in paragraph (1)(A)—
(A) by striking ‘‘identify’’ and inserting
‘‘An identification of’’; and
(B) by striking the semicolon at the end
and inserting a period;
(4) by striking paragraph (1)(B) and inserting
the following:
‘‘(B) A financial plan that demonstrates how
the adopted transportation plan can be implemented,
indicates resources from public and private sources
that are reasonably expected to be made available to
carry out the plan and recommends any additional
financing strategies for needed projects and pro-
grams. The financial plan may include, for illus-
trative purposes, additional projects that would be
included in the adopted transportation plan if rea-
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sonable additional resources beyond those identified
in the financial plan were available. For the purpose
of developing the transportation plan, the metropoli-
tan planning organization and State shall coopera-
tively develop estimates of funds that will be avail-
able to support plan implementation.’’;
(5) in paragraph (1)(C)—
(A) by striking ‘‘assess’’ and inserting ‘‘An
assessment of’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a pe-
riod;
(6) in paragraph (1)(D) by striking ‘‘indicate’’
and inserting ‘‘Indicate’’;
(7) in paragraph (4) by inserting after ‘‘em-
ployees,’’ the following: ‘‘freight shippers and provid-
ers of freight transportation services,’’; and
(8) in paragraph (5) by inserting ‘‘transpor-
tation’’ before ‘‘plan’’.
SEC. 304. TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
Section 5304 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2 years’’ and
inserting ‘‘3 years’’; and
(2) in subsection (b)(2)—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (B);
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(B) by striking the period at the end of
subparagraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(D) may include, for illustrative purposes,
additional projects that would be included in
the adopted transportation plan if reasonable
additional resources beyond those identified in
the financial plan were available.’’.
SEC. 305. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT AREAS.
Section 5305(d)(1) is amended by striking ‘‘of the
National Highway System’’ each place it appears and in-
serting the following: ‘‘under the National Highway Sys-
tem and high risk road safety programs,’’.
SEC. 306. URBANIZED AREA FORMULA GRANTS.
(a) SECTION HEADING.—
(1) AMENDMENT TO SECTION.—Section 5307 is
amended by striking the section heading and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘§ 5307. Urbanized area formula grants’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The item re-
lating to section 5307 in the table of sections for
chapter 53 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘5307. Urbanized area formula grants.’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 5307(a) is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘In this section—’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘In this section, the following definitions
apply:’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘ASSOCIATED CAPITAL MAIN-
TENANCE ITEMS.—The term’’ after ‘‘(1)’’; and
(3) by inserting ‘‘DESIGNATED
RECIPIENT.—
The term’’ after ‘‘(2)’’.
(c) GENERAL
AUTHORITY.—Section 5307(b) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘, improvement, and oper-
ating costs’’ and inserting ‘‘and improvement
costs’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new
sentence: ‘‘In an urbanized area with a popu-
lation of less than 200,000, the Secretary may
also make grants under this section to finance
the operating cost of equipment and facilities
for use in mass transportation.’’;
(2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (5); and
(3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (3).
(d) ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION.—Section 5307(g)(3)
is amended by striking ‘‘the amount by which’’ and all
that follows through the period at the end and inserting
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‘‘the most favorable financing terms reasonably available
for the project at the time of borrowing. The applicant
shall certify, in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary,
that the applicant has shown reasonable diligence in seek-
ing the most favorable financing terms.’’.
(e) 
COORDINATION
OF
REVIEWS.—Section
5307(i)(2) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall coordinate
such reviews with any related State or local reviews.’’.
(f) TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES.—Section
5307(k) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(k) TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES.—2 per-
cent of the funds apportioned to urbanized areas of at
least 200,000 population under section 5336 for a fiscal
year shall only be available for transit enhancement activi-
ties.’’.
(g) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 5307(n) is
amended by inserting ‘‘5319,’’ after ‘‘5318,’’.
SEC. 307. MASS TRANSIT ACCOUNT BLOCK GRANTS.
Section 5308, and the item relating to section 5308
in the table of sections for chapter 53, are repealed.
SEC. 308. CAPITAL PROGRAM GRANTS AND LOANS.
(a) SECTION HEADING.—Section 5309 is amended in
the section heading by striking ‘‘Discretionary’’ and
inserting ‘‘Capital program’’.
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The item relating
to section 5309 in the table of sections for chapter 53 is
amended by striking ‘‘Discretionary’’ and inserting ‘‘Cap-
ital program’’.
(c) GENERAL
AUTHORITY.—Section 5309(a) is
amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (1)(E) and inserting
the following:
‘‘(E) capital projects to modernize existing fixed
guideway systems;’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(1)(F);
(3) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (1)(G) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(4) by inserting after paragraph (1)(G) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(H) capital projects to replace, rehabilitate,
and purchase buses and related equipment and to
construct bus-related facilities.’’.
(d) CONSIDERATION
OF DECREASED COMMUTER
RAIL TRANSPORTATION.—Section 5309(c) is repealed.
(e) CRITERIA FOR GRANTS AND LOANS FOR FIXED
GUIDEWAY SYSTEMS.—Section 5309(e) is amended to
read as follows:
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‘‘(e) CRITERIA FOR GRANTS AND LOANS FOR FIXED
GUIDEWAY SYSTEMS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Transpor-
tation may approve a grant or loan under this sec-
tion for a capital project for a new fixed guideway
system or extension of an existing fixed guideway
system only if the Secretary determines that the pro-
posed project is—
‘‘(A) based on the results of an alter-
natives analysis and preliminary engineering;
‘‘(B) justified based on a comprehensive
review of its mobility improvements, environ-
mental benefits, cost effectiveness, and operat-
ing efficiencies; and
‘‘(C) supported by an acceptable degree of
local financial commitment, including evidence
of stable and dependable financing sources to
construct, maintain, and operate the system or
extension.
‘‘(2) ALTERNATIVES
ANALYSIS
AND
PRELIMI-
NARY ENGINEERING.—In evaluating a project under
paragraph (1)(A), the Secretary shall analyze and
consider the results of the alternatives analysis and
preliminary engineering for the project.
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‘‘(3) PROJECT JUSTIFICATION.—In evaluating a
project under paragraph (1)(B), the Secretary
shall—
‘‘(A) consider the direct and indirect costs
of relevant alternatives;
‘‘(B) consider factors such as congestion
relief, improved mobility, air pollution, noise
pollution, energy consumption, and all associ-
ated ancillary and mitigation costs necessary to
carry out each alternative analyzed;
‘‘(C) identify and consider existing mass
transportation supportive land use policies and
future land use patterns and the costs of urban
sprawl;
‘‘(D) consider the degree to which the
project increases the mobility of the mass trans-
portation dependent population or promotes
economic development;
‘‘(E) consider population density, current
transit ridership in the corridor, and cost per
new rider;
‘‘(F) consider the technical capability of
the grant recipient to construct the project;
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‘‘(G) adjust the project justification to re-
flect differences in local land, construction, and
operating costs; and
‘‘(H) consider other factors the Secretary
determines appropriate to carry out this chap-
ter.
‘‘(4) LOCAL FINANCIAL COMMITMENT.—
‘‘(A) EVALUATION OF PROJECT.—In evalu-
ating a project under paragraph (1)(C), the
Secretary shall require that—
‘‘(i) the proposed project plan pro-
vides for the availability of contingency
amounts the Secretary determines to be
reasonable to cover unanticipated cost in-
creases;
‘‘(ii) each proposed local source of
capital and operating financing is stable,
reliable, and available within the proposed
project timetable; and
‘‘(iii) local resources are available to
operate the overall proposed mass trans-
portation system (including essential feeder
bus and other services necessary to achieve
the projected ridership levels) without re-
quiring a reduction in existing mass trans-
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portation services to operate the proposed
project.
‘‘(B) STABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND AVAIL-
ABILITY
OF
LOCAL
FINANCING.—In assessing
the stability, reliability, and availability of pro-
posed sources of local financing for the project,
the Secretary shall consider—
‘‘(i) existing grant commitments;
‘‘(ii) the degree to which financing
sources are dedicated to the purposes pro-
posed;
‘‘(iii) any debt obligation that exists
or is proposed by the recipient for the pro-
posed project or other mass transportation
purpose; and
‘‘(iv) the extent to which the project
has a local financial commitment that ex-
ceeds the required non-Federal share of
the cost of the project.
‘‘(5) REGULATIONS.—No later than 120 days
after the date of the enactment of the Building Effi-
cient Surface Transportation and Equity Act of
1998, the Secretary shall issue regulations on how
the Secretary will evaluate and rate the projects
based on the results of alternatives analysis, project
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justification, and the degree of local financial com-
mitment as required under this subsection.
‘‘(6) PROJECT
EVALUATION
AND
RATING.—A
proposed project may advance from alternatives
analysis to preliminary engineering, and may ad-
vance from preliminary engineering to final design
and construction, only if the Secretary finds that the
project meets the requirements of this section and
there is a reasonable likelihood that the project will
continue to meet such requirements. In making such
findings, the Secretary shall evaluate and rate the
project as either highly recommended, recommended,
or not recommended based on the results of alter-
natives analysis, the project justification criteria,
and the degree of local financial commitment as re-
quired under this subsection. In rating the projects,
the Secretary shall provide, in addition to the overall
project rating, individual ratings for each criteria es-
tablished under the regulations issued under para-
graph (5).
‘‘(7) FULL FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT.—A
project financed under this subsection shall be car-
ried out through a full funding grant agreement.
The Secretary shall enter into a full funding grant
agreement based on the evaluations and ratings re-
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quired under this subsection. The Secretary shall not
enter into a full funding grant agreement for a
project unless that project is authorized for final de-
sign and construction.
‘‘(8) LIMITATIONS ON APPLICABILITY.—
‘‘(A) PROJECTS
WITH
A
SECTION
5309
FEDERAL SHARE OF LESS THAN $25,000,000.—A
project for a new fixed guideway system or ex-
tension of an existing fixed guideway system is
not subject to the requirements of this sub-
section, and the simultaneous evaluation of
similar projects in at least 2 corridors in a met-
ropolitan area may not be limited, if the assist-
ance provided under this section with respect to
the project is less than $25,000,000.
‘‘(B) 
PROJECTS
IN
NONATTAINMENT
AREAS.—The 
simultaneous 
evaluation 
of
projects in at least 2 corridors in a metropoli-
tan area may not be limited and the Secretary
shall make decisions under this subsection with
expedited procedures that will promote carrying
out an approved State Implementation Plan in
a timely way if a project is—
‘‘(i) located in a nonattainment area;
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‘‘(ii) a transportation control measure
(as defined by the Clean Air Act (42
U.S.C. 7401 et seq.)); and
‘‘(iii) required to carry out the State
Implementation Plan.
‘‘(C) PROJECTS FINANCED WITH HIGHWAY
FUNDS.—This subsection does not apply to a
project financed completely with amounts made
available from the Highway Trust Fund (other
than the Mass Transit Account).
‘‘(D) PREVIOUSLY ISSUED LETTER OF IN-
TENT
OR
FULL
FUNDING
GRANT
AGREE-
MENT.—This subsection does not apply to
projects for which the Secretary has issued a
letter of intent or entered into a full funding
grant agreement before the date of the enact-
ment of this subparagraph.’’.
(f) LETTERS OF INTENT AND FULL FUNDING GRANT
AGREEMENTS.—Section 5309(g) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading by striking ‘‘FI-
NANCING’’ and inserting ‘‘FUNDING’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘full financing’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘full funding’’; and
(3) in paragraph (1)(B)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘30 days’’ and inserting
‘‘60 days’’;
(B) by inserting before the first comma
‘‘or entering into a full funding grant agree-
ment’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘issuance of the letter.’’
and inserting ‘‘letter or agreement. The Sec-
retary shall include with the notification a copy
of the proposed letter or agreement as well as
the evaluations and ratings for the project.’’.
(g) ALLOCATING AMOUNTS.—Section 5309(m) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(m) ALLOCATING AMOUNTS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Of the amounts made
available by section 5338(b) for grants and loans
under this section for each of fiscal years 1998
through 2003—
‘‘(A) 40 percent shall be available for fixed
guideway modernization;
‘‘(B) 40 percent shall be available for cap-
ital projects for new fixed guideway systems
and extensions to existing fixed guideway sys-
tems; and
‘‘(C) 20 percent shall be available to re-
place, rehabilitate, and buy buses and related
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equipment and to construct bus-related facili-
ties.
‘‘(2) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR
ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN FINAL DESIGN AND CON-
STRUCTION.—Not more than 8 percent of the
amounts made available in each fiscal year by para-
graph (1)(B) shall be available for activities other
than final design and construction.
‘‘(3) BUS AND BUS FACILITY GRANTS.—
‘‘(A) CONSIDERATION.—In making grants
under paragraph (1)(C), the Secretary shall
consider the age of buses, bus fleets, related
equipment, and bus-related facilities.
‘‘(B) FUNDING FOR BUS TESTING FACIL-
ITY.—Of the amounts made available by para-
graph (1)(C), $3,000,000 shall be available in
each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 to carry
out section 5318.
‘‘(C) FUNDING
FOR
BUS
TECHNOLOGY
PILOT PROGRAM.—Of the funds made available
by paragraph (1)(C), 10 percent shall be avail-
able in each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003
to carry out the bus technology pilot program
under subsection (o).
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‘‘(D) OTHER THAN URBANIZED AREAS.—
Of amounts made available by paragraph
(1)(C), not less than 5.5 percent shall be avail-
able in each fiscal year for other than urbanized
areas.
‘‘(4) ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANCE FOR MUL-
TIPLE PROJECTS.—A person applying for, or receiv-
ing, assistance for a project described in clause (A),
(B), or (C) of paragraph (1) may receive assistance
for a project described in another of those clauses.’’.
(h) ADVANCE CONSTRUCTION.—Section 5309(n)(2)
is amended by striking ‘‘in a way’’ and inserting ‘‘in a
manner’’.
(i) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) RELOCATION
OF
SUBSECTION.—Section
5309 is amended—
(A) by striking subsection (f); and
(B) 
by 
redesignating 
subsections 
(g)
through (o) as subsections (f) through (n), re-
spectively.
(2) 
CROSS
REFERENCES.—Chapter 
is
amended—
(A) in section 5319 by striking ‘‘5309(h)’’
and inserting ‘‘5309(g)’’;
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(B) in section 5328(a)(2) by striking
‘‘5309(e)(1)–(6) of this title’’ and inserting
‘‘5309(e)’’; and
(C) in section 5328(a)(4) by striking
‘‘5309(m)(2) of this title’’ and inserting
‘‘5309(o)(1)’’.
(3) REFERENCES
TO
FULL
FUNDING
GRANT
AGREEMENTS.—Sections 5320 and 5328(a)(4) are
each amended by striking ‘‘full financing’’ each place
it appears and inserting ‘‘full funding’’. The sub-
section heading for section 5320(e) is amended by
striking ‘‘FINANCING’’ and inserting ‘‘FUNDING’’.
(j) BUS TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM.—Section
5309 is further amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing:
‘‘(o) BUS TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish a pilot program for the testing and deploy-
ment of new bus technology, including clean fuel and
alternative fuel technology.
‘‘(2) PROJECTS.—Under the pilot program, the
Secretary shall carry out projects for testing and de-
ployment of new bus technology, including clean fuel
and alternative fuel technology. The Secretary shall
select projects for funding under the pilot program
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that will employ a variety of technologies and will be
performed in a variety of geographic areas of the
country with populations under 50,000, between
50,000 and 200,000, and over 200,000.
‘‘(3) REPORT.—Not later than April 30, 2000,
the Secretary shall transmit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report
on the results of the pilot program, including a de-
scription of the projects carried out, the amounts ob-
ligated, and the status of the test and deployment
activities undertaken.’’.
(k) REPORTS.—Section 5309 is further amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(p) REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) FUNDING LEVELS AND ALLOCATIONS OF
FUNDS FOR FIXED GUIDEWAY SYSTEMS.—
‘‘(A) ANNUAL
REPORT.—Not later than
the first Monday in February of each year, the
Secretary shall submit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House
of Representatives and the Committee on Bank-
ing, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate
a report that includes a proposal on the alloca-
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tion of amounts to be made available to finance
grants and loans for capital projects for new
fixed guideway systems and extensions to exist-
ing fixed guideway systems among applicants
for those amounts.
‘‘(B) RECOMMENDATIONS ON FUNDING.—
The annual report under this paragraph shall
include evaluations and ratings, as required
under subsection (e), for each project that is
authorized or has received funds under this sec-
tion since the date of the enactment of this Act
or October 1 of the preceding fiscal year, which-
ever date is earlier. The report shall also in-
clude recommendations of projects for funding
based on the evaluations and ratings and on ex-
isting commitments and anticipated funding
levels for the next 3 fiscal years and for the
next 10 fiscal years based on information cur-
rently available to the Secretary.
‘‘(2) 
SUPPLEMENTAL
REPORT
ON
NEW
STARTS.—The Secretary shall submit a report to
Congress on the 31st day of August of each year
that describes the Secretary’s evaluation and rating
of each project that has completed alternatives anal-
ysis or preliminary engineering since the date of the
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last report. The report shall include all relevant in-
formation that supports the evaluation and rating of
each project, including a summary of each project’s
financial plan.
‘‘(3) ANNUAL GAO REVIEW.—the General Ac-
counting Office shall—
‘‘(A) conduct an annual review of—
‘‘(i) the processes and procedures for
evaluating and rating projects and rec-
ommending projects; and
‘‘(ii) the Secretary’s implementation
of such processes and procedures; and
‘‘(B) shall report to Congress on the re-
sults of such review by April 30 of each year.’’.
(l) PROJECT DEFINED.—Section 5309 is further
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(q) PROJECT DEFINED.—In this section, the term
‘project’ means, with respect to a new fixed guideway sys-
tem or extension to an existing fixed guideway system, a
minimum operable segment of the project.’’.
SEC. 309. DOLLAR VALUE OF MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall not consider
the dollar value of mobility improvements, as specified in
the report required under section 5309(m)(1)(C) or sec-
tion 5309(p) (as added by this Act), in evaluating projects
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under section 5309 of title 49, United States Code, in de-
veloping regulations, or in carrying out any other duty of
the Secretary.
(b) STUDY.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Comptroller General
shall conduct a study of the dollar value of mobility
improvements and the relationship of mobility im-
provements to the overall transportation justification
of a new fixed guideway system or extension to an
existing system.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 2000,
the Secretary shall transmit to the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives and the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report
on the results of the study, including an analysis of
the factors relevant to determining the dollar value
of mobility improvements.
SEC. 310. FORMULA GRANTS AND LOANS FOR SPECIAL
NEEDS OF ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS AND INDI-
VIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
(a) SECTION HEADING.—Section 5310 is amended in
the section heading by striking ‘‘Grants’’ and inserting
‘‘Formula grants’’.
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The item relating
to section 5310 in the table of sections for chapter 53 is
amended by inserting ‘‘formula’’ before ‘‘grants’’.
SEC. 311. FORMULA PROGRAM FOR OTHER THAN URBAN-
IZED AREAS.
(a) INTERCITY
BUS
TRANSPORTATION.—Section
5311 is amended—
(1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘Finan-
cial assistance’’ and inserting ‘‘Formula
grants’’; and
(2) in subsection (f)(1) by striking ‘‘10 percent
of the amount made available in the fiscal year end-
ing September 30, 1993, and’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The item relating
to section 5311 in the table of sections for chapter 53 is
amended by striking ‘‘Financial assistance’’ and inserting
‘‘Formula grant’’.
SEC. 312. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION,
AND TRAINING PROJECTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5312 is amended—
(1) in each of subsections (a) and (b) by strik-
ing the first parenthetical phrase; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) JOINT PARTNERSHIPS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF
INNOVATION.—
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‘‘(1) CONSORTIUM
DEFINED.—In this sub-
section, the term ‘consortium’ means one or more
public or private organizations located in the United
States which provide mass transportation service to
the public and one or more businesses, including
small and medium sized businesses, incorporated in
a State, offering goods or services or willing to offer
goods or services to mass transportation operators.
It may include as additional members public or pri-
vate research organizations located in the United
States, or State or local governmental authorities.
‘‘(2) GRANTS
AND
AGREEMENTS.—The Sec-
retary may make grants and enter into contracts,
cooperative agreements, and other agreements with
consortia selected competitively from among public
and private partnerships to promote the early de-
ployment of innovation in mass transportation tech-
nology, services, management, or operational prac-
tices. Any such grant, contract, or agreement shall
provide for the sharing of costs, risks, and rewards
of early deployment of innovation. Such grants, con-
tracts, and agreements shall be subject to such
terms and conditions as the Secretary prescribes.
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‘‘(3) 
CONSULTATION
REQUIREMENT.—This
subsection shall be carried out in consultation with
the transit industry.
‘‘(4) COST SHARING.—Any consortium that re-
ceives a grant or enters into a contract or agreement
under this subsection shall provide at least 50 per-
cent of the cost of any joint partnership project. Any
business, organization, person, or governmental body
may contribute funds to such project.
‘‘(5) PUBLIC NOTICE.—The Secretary shall pe-
riodically give public notice of—
‘‘(A) the technical areas for which joint
partnerships are solicited under this subsection;
‘‘(B) required qualifications of consortia
desiring to participate in such partnerships;
‘‘(C) the method of selection and evalua-
tion criteria to be used in selecting participating
consortia and projects under this subsection;
and
‘‘(D) the process by which projects will be
awarded under this subsection.
‘‘(6) ACCEPTANCE
OF
REVENUES.—The Sec-
retary may accept a portion of the revenues result-
ing from sales of an innovation supported under this
subsection and deposit any revenues accepted into a
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special account of the Treasury of the United States
to be established for purposes of carrying out this
subsection.
‘‘(e) INTERNATIONAL MASS TRANSPORTATION PRO-
GRAM.—
‘‘(1) ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary is authorized
to engage in activities to inform the United States
domestic mass transportation community about tech-
nological innovations available in the international
marketplace and activities that may afford domestic
businesses the opportunity to become globally com-
petitive in the export of mass transportation prod-
ucts and services. These activities may include—
‘‘(A) development, monitoring, assessment,
and dissemination domestically of information
about worldwide mass transportation market
opportunities;
‘‘(B) cooperation with foreign public sector
entities in research, development, demonstra-
tion, training, and other forms of technology
transfer and exchange of experts and informa-
tion;
‘‘(C) advocacy, in international mass trans-
portation markets, of firms, products, and serv-
ices available from the United States;
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‘‘(D) informing the international market
about the technical quality of mass transpor-
tation products and services through participa-
tion in seminars, expositions, and similar activi-
ties; and
‘‘(E) offering those Federal Transit Ad-
ministration technical services which cannot be
readily obtained from the United States private
sector to foreign public authorities planning or
undertaking mass transportation projects if the
cost of these services will be recovered under
the terms of each project.
‘‘(2) COOPERATION.—The Secretary may carry
out activities under this subsection in cooperation
with other Federal agencies, State or local agencies,
public and private nonprofit institutions, government
laboratories, foreign governments, or any other orga-
nization the Secretary determines is appropriate.
‘‘(3) FUNDING.—The funds available to carry
out this subsection shall include funds paid to the
Secretary by any cooperating organization or person
and shall be deposited by the Secretary in a special
account in the Treasury of the United States to be
established for purposes of carrying out this sub-
section. The funds shall be available for promotional
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materials, travel, reception, and representation ex-
penses necessary to carry out the activities author-
ized by this subsection. Reimbursement for services
provided under this subsection shall be credited to
the appropriation account concerned.’’.
(b) MASS TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY DEVEL-
OPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT.—
(1) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may
make grants and enter into contracts, cooperative
agreements, and other agreements with eligible con-
sortia to promote the development and early deploy-
ment of innovation in mass transportation tech-
nology, services, management, or operational prac-
tices. The Secretary shall coordinate activities under
this section with related activities under programs of
other Federal departments and agencies.
(2) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.—To be qualified to
receive funding under this section, an eligible consor-
tium shall—
(A) be organized for the purpose of design-
ing, developing, and deploying advanced mass
transportation technologies that address identi-
fied technological impediments in the mass
transportation field;
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(B) have an established mechanism for de-
signing, developing, and deploying advanced
mass transportation technologies as evidenced
by participation in a Federal program such as
the consortia funded pursuant to Public Law
102–396;
(C) facilitate the participation in the con-
sortium of small- and medium-sized businesses
in conjunction with large established manufac-
turers, as appropriate;
(D) be designed to use State and Federal
funding to attract private capital in the form of
grants or investments to further the purposes of
this section; and
(E) provide for the sharing of costs, risks,
and rewards of early deployment of innovation
in mass transportation technologies.
(3) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.—Grants, contracts,
and agreements under paragraph (1) shall be eligible
under and consistent with section 5312 of title 49,
United States Code, and shall be subject to such
terms and conditions as the Secretary prescribes.
(4) FEDERAL SHARE OF COSTS.—The Federal
share of costs for a grant, contract, or agreement
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with a consortium under this subsection shall not ex-
ceed 50 percent of the net project cost.
(5) ELIGIBLE
CONSORTIUM
DEFINED.—For
purposes of this section, the term ‘‘eligible consor-
tium’’ means a consortium of—
(A) businesses incorporated in the United
States;
(B) public or private educational or re-
search organizations located in the United
States;
(C) entities of State or local governments
in the United States;
(D) Federal laboratories; or
(E) existing consortia funded pursuant to
Public Law 103–396.
(6) FUNDING.—
(A) SET-ASIDE OF AMOUNTS MADE AVAIL-
ABLE UNDER SECTION 5338(d).—Of the funds
made available by or appropriated under section
5338(d) of title 49, United States Code, for a
fiscal year $5,000,000 shall be available to
carry out this subsection.
(B) SET-ASIDE OF AMOUNTS MADE AVAIL-
ABLE UNDER SECTION 5309(o).—Of the funds
made available to carry out the bus technology
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pilot program under section 5309(o) of title 49,
United 
States 
Code, 
for 
a 
fiscal 
year
$5,000,000 shall be available to carry out this
subsection.
(c) FUEL CELL BUS AND BUS FACILITIES PRO-
GRAM.—Of the funds made available for a fiscal year to
carry out the bus technology pilot program under section
5309(o) of title 49, United States Code, $4,850,000 shall
be available to carry out the fuel cell powered transit bus
program and the intermodal transportation fuel cell bus
maintenance facility.
(d) ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROJECT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make
grants for the development of low speed magnetic
levitation technology for public transportation pur-
poses in urban areas to demonstrate energy effi-
ciency, congestion mitigation, and safety benefits.
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available
for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003 by sec-
tion 127(a)(3)(H) of this Act, $5,000,000 per fiscal
year shall be available to carry out this subsection.
(3) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share pay-
able on account of activities carried out using a
grant made under this subsection shall be 80 per-
cent of the cost of such activities.
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(e) INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS APPLI-
CATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make
grants for the study, design, and demonstration of
fixed guideway technology in North Orange-South
Seminole County, Florida, and in Galveston, Texas.
(2) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available
pursuant to section 5338(d) of title 49, United
States Code, for fiscal year 1999, $1,500,000 shall
be available to carry out this subsection. Of such
sums, $750,000 shall be available for fixed guideway
activities in North Orange-South Seminole County,
Florida, and $750,000 shall be available for fixed
guideway activities in Galveston, Texas.
SEC. 313. NATIONAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH PRO-
GRAMS.
Section 
5314(a)(2) 
is 
amended 
by 
striking
‘‘$2,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’.
SEC. 314. NATIONAL TRANSIT INSTITUTE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5315 is amended—
(1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘mass
transportation’’ and inserting ‘‘transit’’; and
(2) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘mass transportation’’ in
the first sentence and inserting ‘‘transit’’;
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(B) by inserting ‘‘and architectural de-
sign’’ before the semicolon at the end of para-
graph (5);
(C) by striking ‘‘carrying out’’ in para-
graph (7) and inserting ‘‘delivering’’;
(D) by inserting ‘‘, construction manage-
ment, insurance, and risk management’’ before
the semicolon at the end of paragraph (11);
(E) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (13);
(F) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (14) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(G) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(15) innovative finance.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The item relating
to section 5315 in the table of sections for chapter 53 is
amended by striking ‘‘mass transportation’’ and inserting
‘‘transit’’.
SEC. 315. UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTES.
Section 5316, and the item relating to section 5316
in the table of sections for chapter 53, are repealed.
SEC. 316. TRANSPORTATION CENTERS.
Section 5317, and the item relating to section 5317
in the table of sections for chapter 53, are repealed.
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SEC. 317. BUS TESTING FACILITIES.
(a) 
OPERATION
AND
MAINTENANCE.—Section
5318(b) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘make a contract with’’ and in-
serting ‘‘enter into a contract or cooperative agree-
ment with, or make a grant to,’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘or organization’’ after ‘‘per-
son’’;
(3) by inserting ‘‘, cooperative agreement, or
grant’’ after ‘‘The contract’’; and
(4) by inserting ‘‘mass transportation’’ after
‘‘and other’’.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Section 5318(d) is
amended by striking ‘‘make a contract with’’ and inserting
‘‘enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or
make a grant to,’’.
SEC. 318. BICYCLE FACILITIES.
Section 5319 is amended by striking ‘‘under this sec-
tion is for 90 percent of the cost of the project’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘made eligible by this section is for 90 percent of the
cost of the project; except that, if the grant or any portion
of the grant is made with funds required to be expended
under section 5307(k) and the project involves providing
bicycle access to mass transportation, that grant or por-
tion of that grant shall be at a Federal share of 95 per-
cent’’.
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SEC. 319. GENERAL PROVISIONS ON ASSISTANCE.
(a) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 5323(d) is
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘BUYING
AND
OPERATING
BUSES.—’’and inserting ‘‘CONDITION ON CHARTER BUS
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE.—’’.
(b) GOVERNMENT’S
SHARE.—Section 5323(i) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(i) GOVERNMENT SHARE OF COSTS FOR CERTAIN
PROJECTS.—A grant for a project to be assisted under
this chapter that involves acquiring vehicle-related equip-
ment required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) or vehicle-related equip-
ment (including clean fuel or alternative fuel vehicle-relat-
ed equipment) for purposes of complying with or maintain-
ing compliance with the Clean Air Act, is for 90 percent
of the net project cost of such equipment attributable to
compliance with such Acts. The Secretary shall have dis-
cretion to determine, through practicable administrative
procedures, the costs of such equipment attributable to
compliance with such Acts.’’.
(c) BUY AMERICA.—Section 5323(j)(7) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(7) OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT INADVERTENT
ERROR.—The Secretary may allow a manufacturer
or supplier of steel, iron, or manufactured goods to
correct after bid opening any certification made
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under this subsection if the Secretary is satisfied
that the manufacturer or supplier submitted an in-
correct certification as a result of an inadvertent or
clerical error.’’.
(d) PARTICIPATION OF GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
IN DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF TRANSPORTATION SERV-
ICES.—Section 5323 is amended by redesignating sub-
sections (k) and (l) as subsections (l) and (m) and by in-
serting after subsection (j) the following:
‘‘(k) PARTICIPATION OF GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES
IN DESIGN AND DELIVERY OF TRANSPORTATION SERV-
ICES.—To the extent feasible, governmental agencies and
nonprofit organizations that receive assistance from Gov-
ernment sources (other than the Department of Transpor-
tation) for nonemergency transportation services shall
participate and coordinate with recipients of assistance
under this chapter in the design and delivery of transpor-
tation services and shall be included in the planning for
such services.’’.
(e) SUBMISSION OF CERTIFICATIONS.—Section 5323
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(n) SUBMISSION OF CERTIFICATIONS.—A certifi-
cation required under this chapter and any additional cer-
tification or assurance required by law or regulation to
be submitted to the Secretary may be consolidated into
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a single document to be submitted annually as part of a
grant application under this chapter. The Secretary shall
publish annually a list of all certifications required under
this chapter with the publication required under section
5336(e)(2).’’.
(f) REQUIRED PAYMENTS AND ELIGIBLE COSTS.—
Section 5323 is further amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(o) REQUIRED PAYMENTS AND ELIGIBLE COSTS OF
PROJECTS THAT ENHANCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR
INCORPORATE PRIVATE INVESTMENT.—
‘‘(1) REQUIRED
PAYMENTS.—Each grant or
loan under this chapter for a capital project de-
scribed in section 5302(a)(1)(G) shall require that a
person making an agreement to occupy space in a
facility funded under this chapter pay a reasonable
share of the costs of the facility through rental pay-
ments and other means.
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE
COSTS.—Eligible costs for a
capital project described in section 5302(a)(1)(G)—
‘‘(A) include property acquisition, demoli-
tion of existing structures, site preparation,
utilities, building foundations, walkways, open
space, and a capital project for, and improving,
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equipment or a facility for an intermodal trans-
fer facility or transportation mall; but
‘‘(B) do not include construction of a com-
mercial revenue producing facility or a part of
a public facility not related to mass transpor-
tation.’’.
SEC. 320. CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.
(a) EFFICIENT PROCUREMENT.—Section 5325 is
amended—
(1) by striking subsections (b) and (c);
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (b); and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) EFFICIENT PROCUREMENT.—A recipient may
award a procurement contract under this chapter to other
than the lowest bidder when the award furthers an objec-
tive consistent with the purposes of this chapter, including
improved long-term operating efficiency and lower long-
term costs.’’.
(b) ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING, AND DESIGN
CONTRACTS.—Section 5325(b), as redesignated by sub-
section (a)(2), is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘or requirement’’ after ‘‘A con-
tract’’; and
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(2) by inserting before the last sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘When awarding such contracts, recipients
of assistance under this chapter shall maximize effi-
ciencies of administration by accepting nondisputed
audits conducted by other government agencies, as
provided in subparagraphs (C) through (F) of sec-
tion 112(b)(2) of title 23.’’.
SEC. 321. SPECIAL PROCUREMENTS.
(a) TURNKEY SYSTEM PROJECTS.—Section 5326(a)
is amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(1) TURNKEY SYSTEM PROJECT DEFINED.—In
this subsection, the term ‘turnkey system project’
means a project under which a recipient enters into
a contract with a seller, firm, or consortium of firms
to design and build a mass transportation system or
an operable segment thereof that meets specific per-
formance criteria. Such project may also include an
option to finance, or operate for a period of time,
the system or segment or any combination of design-
ing, building, operating, or maintaining such system
or segment.’’;
(2) in paragraph (2)—
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(A) by inserting ‘‘SELECTION OF TURNKEY
PROJECTS.—’’ after ‘‘(2)’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘or an operable segment
of a mass transportation system’’ after ‘‘trans-
portation system’’;
(3) in paragraph (3) by inserting ‘‘DEM-
ONSTRATIONS.—’’ after ‘‘(3)’’; and
(4) by aligning paragraphs (2) and (3) with
paragraph (1) of such section, as amended by para-
graph (1) of this section.
(b) TECHNICAL
AMENDMENT.—Section 5326 is
amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(c) ACQUIRING ROLLING STOCK.—A recipient of fi-
nancial assistance of the United States Government under
this chapter may enter into a contract to expend that as-
sistance to acquire rolling stock—
‘‘(1) based on—
‘‘(A) initial capital costs; or
‘‘(B) performance, standardization, life
cycle costs, and other factors; or
‘‘(2) with a party selected through a competi-
tive procurement process.
‘‘(d) PROCURING ASSOCIATED CAPITAL MAINTE-
NANCE ITEMS.—A recipient of a grant under section 5307
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of this title procuring an associated capital maintenance
item under section 5307(b) may enter into a contract di-
rectly with the original manufacturer or supplier of the
item to be replaced, without receiving prior approval of
the Secretary, if the recipient first certifies in writing to
the Secretary that—
‘‘(1) the manufacturer or supplier is the only
source for the item; and
‘‘(2) the price of the item is no more than the
price similar customers pay for the item.’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 5334(b)(4)
is amended by striking ‘‘5323(a)(2), (c) and (e), 5324(c),
and 5325 of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘5323(a)(2),
5323(c), 5323(e), 5324(c), 5325(a), 5325(b), 5326(c),
and 5326(d)’’.
SEC. 322. PROJECT MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT AND RE-
VIEW.
Section 5327(c)(2) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘make contracts’’ and inserting
‘‘enter into contracts’’; and
(2) by inserting before the period at the end of
the first sentence the following: ‘‘and to provide
technical assistance to correct deficiencies identified
in compliance reviews and audits carried out under
this section’’.
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SEC. 324. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.
(a) TRAINING AND CONFERENCE COSTS.—Section
5334(a) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(8);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (9) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(10) collect fees to cover the costs of training
or conferences, including costs of promotional mate-
rials, sponsored by the Federal Transit Administra-
tion to promote mass transportation and credit
amounts collected to the appropriation concerned.’’.
(b) FLEXIBILITY FOR AREAS WITH POPULATIONS
UNDER 200,000.—Section 5334(i) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(i) FLEXIBILITY FOR AREAS WITH POPULATIONS
UNDER 200,000.—Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of the Building Efficient Surface Trans-
portation and Equity Act of 1998, the Secretary shall seek
public comment on ways to simplify and streamline the
administration of the formula program for urbanized
areas with populations of less than 200,000 and shall
make, to the extent feasible and consistent with statutory
requirements, every effort to ease any administrative bur-
dens thereby identified.’’.
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(c) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—
(1) SECTION HEADING.—The heading for sec-
tion 5334 is amended by inserting ‘‘provisions’’
after ‘‘Administrative’’.
(2) TABLE OF SECTIONS.—The item relating to
section 5334 in the table of sections for chapter 53
is amended by inserting ‘‘provisions’’ after ‘‘Admin-
istrative’’.
SEC. 325. REPORTS AND AUDITS.
(a) 
NATIONAL
TRANSIT
DATABASE.—Section
5335(a) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘REPORTING SYSTEM AND UNI-
FORM SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS’’ and
inserting ‘‘NATIONAL TRANSIT DATABASE’’; and
(2) in paragraph (1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘by uniform categories,’’
and inserting ‘‘using uniform categories’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘and a uniform system of
accounts and records’’ and inserting ‘‘and using
a uniform system of accounts’’.
(b) REPORTS.—Section 5335 is further amended—
(1) by striking subsections (b) and (c); and
(2) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (b).
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SEC. 326. APPORTIONMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FOR-
MULA GRANTS.
Section 5336 is amended—
(1) in the section heading by striking ‘‘block
grants’’ and inserting ‘‘formula grants’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(d) LIMITATION ON OPERATING ASSISTANCE AND
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE.—Of the funds apportioned
under this section for urbanized areas, such sums as may
be necessary shall be available for operating assistance for
urbanized areas with populations under 200,000, except
that the total amount of such funds made available for
such operating assistance and for urbanized areas for pre-
ventive maintenance activities that become eligible for cap-
ital assistance under section 5307 on the date of the en-
actment of the Building Efficient Surface Transportation
and Equity Act of 1998 may not exceed $400,000,000 for
any fiscal year.’’.
SEC. 327. APPORTIONMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FIXED GUIDEWAY MODERNIZATION.
(a) DISTRIBUTION.—Section 5337(a) is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(a) DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall apportion amounts made available for fixed
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guideway modernization under section 5309 for each of
fiscal years 1998 through 2003 as follows:
‘‘(1) The first $497,700,000 shall be appor-
tioned in the following urbanized areas as follows:
‘‘(A) Baltimore, $8,372,000.
‘‘(B) Boston, $38,948,000.
‘‘(C) 
Chicago/Northwestern 
Indiana,
$78,169,000.
‘‘(D) Cleveland, $9,509,500.
‘‘(E) New Orleans, $1,730,588.
‘‘(F) New York, $176,034,461.
‘‘(G) 
Northeastern 
New 
Jersey,
$50,604,653.
‘‘(H) Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey,
$58,924,764.
‘‘(I) Pittsburgh, $13,662,463.
‘‘(J) San Francisco, $33,989,571.
‘‘(K) 
Southwestern 
Connecticut,
$27,755,000.
‘‘(2) The next $74,849,950 shall be apportioned
as follows:
‘‘(A) $4,849,950 to the Alaska Railroad
for improvements to its passenger operations.
‘‘(B) Of the remaining $70,000,000—
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‘‘(i) 50 percent in the urbanized areas
listed in paragraph (1) as provided in sec-
tion 5336(b)(2)(A); and
‘‘(ii) 50 percent in other urbanized
areas eligible for assistance under section
5336(b)(2)(A) to which amounts were ap-
portioned under this section for fiscal year
1997, as provided in section 5336(b)(2)(A)
and subsection (e) of this section.
‘‘(3) The next $5,700,000 shall be apportioned
in the following urbanized areas as follows:
‘‘(A) Pittsburgh, 61.76 percent.
‘‘(B) Cleveland, 10.73 percent.
‘‘(C) New Orleans, 5.79 percent.
‘‘(D) 21.72 percent in urbanized areas to
which paragraph (2)(B)(ii) applies, as provided
in section 5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of
this section.
‘‘(4) The next $186,600,000 shall be appor-
tioned in each urbanized area to which paragraph
(1) applies and in each urbanized area to which
paragraph (2)(B) applies, as provided in section
5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this section.
‘‘(5) The next $140,000,000 shall be appor-
tioned as follows:
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‘‘(A) 65 percent in the urbanized areas
listed in paragraph (1) as provided in section
5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this sec-
tion.
‘‘(B) 35 percent to other urbanized areas
eligible 
for 
assistance 
under 
section
5336(b)(2)(A) of this title if the areas contain
fixed guideway systems placed in revenue serv-
ice at least 7 years before the fiscal year in
which amounts are made available and in any
urbanized area if, before the first day of the fis-
cal year, the area satisfies the Secretary that
the area has modernization needs that cannot
adequately be met with amounts received under
section 5336(b)(2)(A), as provided in section
5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this sec-
tion.
‘‘(6) The next $100,000,000 shall be appor-
tioned as follows:
‘‘(A) 60 percent in the urbanized areas
listed in paragraph (1) as provided in section
5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this sec-
tion.
‘‘(B) 40 percent to urbanized areas to
which paragraph (5)(B) applies, as provided in
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section 5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this
section.
‘‘(7) Remaining amounts shall be apportioned
as follows:
‘‘(A) 50 percent in the urbanized areas
listed in paragraph (1) as provided in section
5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this sec-
tion.
‘‘(B) 50 percent to urbanized areas to
which paragraph (5)(B) applies, as provided in
section 5336(b)(2)(A) and subsection (e) of this
section.’’.
(b) ROUTE SEGMENTS TO BE INCLUDED IN APPOR-
TIONMENT FORMULAS.—Section 5337 is further amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(e) ROUTE SEGMENTS TO BE INCLUDED IN APPOR-
TIONMENT FORMULAS.—(1) Amounts apportioned under
paragraphs (2)(B), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) shall
have attributable to each urbanized area only the number
of fixed guideway revenue miles of service and number of
fixed guideway route miles for segments of fixed guideway
systems used to determine apportionments for fiscal year
1997.
‘‘(2) Amounts apportioned under paragraphs (5)
through (7) of subsection (a) shall have attributable to
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each urbanized area only the number of fixed guideway
revenue miles of service and number of fixed guideway
route-miles for segments of fixed guideway systems placed
in revenue service at least 7 years before the fiscal year
in which amounts are made available.’’.
SEC. 328. AUTHORIZATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5338 is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘§ 5338. Authorizations
‘‘(a) FORMULA GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) FROM THE TRUST FUND.—There shall be
available from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund to carry out sections 5307,
5310, and 5311—
‘‘(A) $2,697,600,000 for fiscal year 1998;
‘‘(B) $3,213,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;
and
‘‘(C) $3,553,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2000 through 2003.
‘‘(2) FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—In addition
to amounts made available under paragraph (1),
there are authorized to be appropriated to carry out
sections 5307 and 5311—
‘‘(A) $290,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;
and
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‘‘(B) $68,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.
‘‘(3) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Of the aggre-
gate of amounts made available by and appropriated
under this subsection for a fiscal year—
‘‘(A) 2.4 percent shall be available to pro-
vide transportation services to elderly individ-
uals and individuals with disabilities under sec-
tion 5310;
‘‘(B) 5.37 percent shall be available to pro-
vide financial assistance for other than urban-
ized areas under section 5311; and
‘‘(C) 92.23 percent shall be available to
provide financial assistance for urbanized areas
under section 5307.
‘‘(b) CAPITAL PROGRAM GRANTS
AND LOANS.—
There shall be available from the Mass Transit Account
of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out section 5309:
‘‘(1) $2,197,000,000 for fiscal year 1998.
‘‘(2) $2,412,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.
‘‘(3) $2,613,000,000 for each of fiscal years
2000 through 2003.
‘‘(c) PLANNING.—
‘‘(1) FROM THE TRUST FUND.—There shall be
available from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund to carry out sections 5303,
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5304, 5305, and 5313(b) $54,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2000 through 2003.
‘‘(2) FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out sections
5303, 5304, 5305, and 5313(b)—
‘‘(A) $48,000,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
‘‘(B) $52,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.
‘‘(3) ALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—Of the funds
made available by or appropriated under this sub-
section for a fiscal year—
‘‘(A) 82.72 percent shall be available for
metropolitan planning under sections 5303,
5304, and 5305; and
‘‘(B) 17.28 percent shall be available for
State planning under section 5313(b).
‘‘(d) RESEARCH.—
‘‘(1) FROM THE TRUST FUND.—There shall be
available from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund to carry out sections
5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 5322
$38,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2000 through
2003.
‘‘(2) FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out sections
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5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 5322
$38,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1998 and 1999.
‘‘(3) ALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—Of the funds
made available by or appropriated under this sub-
section for a fiscal year—
‘‘(A) not less than $5,250,000 shall be
available for providing rural transportation as-
sistance under section 5311(b)(2);
‘‘(B) not less than $8,250,000 shall be
available for carrying out transit cooperative re-
search programs under section 5313(a);
‘‘(C) not less than $3,000,000 shall be
available to carry out programs under the Na-
tional Transit Institute under section 5315; and
‘‘(D) the remainder shall be available for
carrying out national planning and research
programs under sections 5311(b)(2), 5312,
5313(a), 5314, and 5322.
‘‘(e) UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH.—
‘‘(1) FROM THE TRUST FUND.—There shall be
available from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund to carry out section 5505
$6,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2000 through
2003.
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‘‘(2) FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—There is au-
thorized to be appropriated to carry out section
5505 $6,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years
1998 and 1999.
‘‘(f) ADMINISTRATION.—
‘‘(1) FROM THE TRUST FUND.—There shall be
available from the Mass Transit Account of the
Highway Trust Fund for administrative expenses to
carry out section 5334 $52,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2000 through 2003.
‘‘(2) FROM THE GENERAL FUND.—There is au-
thorized to be appropriated for administrative ex-
penses to carry out section 5334—
‘‘(A) $46,000,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
‘‘(B) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.
‘‘(g) GRANTS AS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS.—
‘‘(1) GRANTS FINANCED FROM THE HIGHWAY
TRUST FUND.—A grant or contract approved by the
Secretary, that is financed with amounts made avail-
able under subsection (a)(1), (b), (c)(1), (d)(1),
(e)(1), or (f)(1) is a contractual obligation of the
United States Government to pay the Government’s
share of the cost of the project.
‘‘(2) 
GRANTS
FINANCED
FROM
GENERAL
FUNDS.—A grant or contract, approved by the Sec-
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retary, that is financed with amounts made available
under subsection (a)(2), (c)(2), (d)(2), (e)(2), or
(f)(2) is a contractual obligation of the Government
to pay the Government’s share of the cost of the
project only to the extent amounts are provided in
advance in an appropriations law.
‘‘(h) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Amounts made
available by or appropriated under subsections (a) through
(e) shall remain available until expended.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Chapter 53 is
amended as follows:
(1) In sections 5303(h)(1), 5303(h)(2)(A), and
5303(h)(3)(A) by striking ‘‘5338(g)(1)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘5338(c)(3)(A)’’.
(2) In section 5303(h)(1) by striking ‘‘–5306’’
and inserting ‘‘and 5305’’.
(3) In section 5303(h)(4) by striking ‘‘5338(g)’’
and inserting ‘‘5338(c)(3)(A)’’.
(4) In section 5309(f)(4), as redesignated by
section 308(i)(1)(B) of this Act, by striking
‘‘5338(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘5338(b)’’.
(5) In section 5310(b) by striking ‘‘5338(a)’’
and inserting ‘‘5338(a)(3)(A)’’.
(6) In section 5311(c) by striking ‘‘5338(a)’’
and inserting ‘‘5338(a)(3)(B)’’.
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(7) In section 5313(a)(1) by striking ‘‘section
5338(g)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 5338(d)(3)(B)
and 5338(d)(3)(D)’’.
(8) 
In 
section 
5313(b)(1) 
by 
striking
‘‘5338(g)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘5338(c)(3)(B)’’.
(9) 
In 
section 
5314(a)(1) 
by 
striking
‘‘5338(g)(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘5338(d)(3)(D)’’.
(10) 
In 
section 
5318(d) 
by 
striking
‘‘5338(j)(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘5309(m)(3)(B)’’.
(11) 
In 
section 
5333(b) 
by 
striking
‘‘5338(j)(5)’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘5338(b)’’.
(12) In section 5336(a) by striking ‘‘5338(f)’’
and inserting ‘‘5338(a)(3)(C)’’.
(13) 
In 
section 
5336(e)(1) 
by 
striking
‘‘5338(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘5338(a)(3)(C)’’.
SEC. 329. OBLIGATION CEILING.
(a) CAPITAL PROGRAM GRANTS AND LOANS.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the total of all
obligations from amounts made available from the Mass
Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund by section
5338(b) of title 49, United States Code, shall not exceed—
(1) $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1998;
(2) $2,412,000,000 in fiscal year 1999; and
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(3) $2,613,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2000
through 2003.
(b) FORMULA GRANTS, PLANNING, RESEARCH, AD-
MINISTRATION, 
AND
STUDIES.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the total of all obligations from
amounts made available from the Mass Transit Account
of the Highway Trust Fund by subsections (a), (c), (d),
(e), and (f) of section 5338 of title 49, United States Code,
and sections 331 and 332 of this Act shall not exceed—
(1) $2,260,000,000 in fiscal year 1998;
(2) $3,213,000,000 in fiscal year 1999; and
(3) $3,703,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2000
through 2003.
SEC. 330. ACCESS TO JOBS CHALLENGE GRANT PILOT PRO-
GRAM.
(a) GENERAL
AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may
make grants under this section to assist States, local gov-
ernmental authorities, and nonprofit organizations in fi-
nancing transportation services designed to transport wel-
fare recipients to and from jobs and activities related to
their employment. The Secretary shall coordinate activi-
ties under this section with related activities under pro-
grams of other Federal departments and agencies.
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(6) The extent to which the applicant presents
a comprehensive approach to addressing the needs of
welfare recipients and identifies long-term financing
strategies to support the services under this section.
(c) ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.—The Secretary may make
grants under this section for—
(1) capital projects and to finance operating
costs of equipment, facilities, and associated capital
maintenance items related to providing access to
jobs under this section;
(2) promoting the use of transit by workers
with nontraditional work schedules;
(3) promoting the use by appropriate agencies
of transit vouchers for welfare recipients under spe-
cific terms and conditions developed by the Sec-
retary; and
(4) promoting the use of employer-provided
transportation including the transit pass benefit pro-
gram under subsections (a) and (f) of section 132 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
No planning or coordination activities are eligible for as-
sistance under this section.
(d) COMPETITIVE GRANT SELECTION.—The Sec-
retary shall conduct a national solicitation for applications
for grants under this section. Grantees shall be selected
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on a competitive basis. The Secretary shall select not more
than 10 demonstration projects for the pilot program, in-
cluding 6 projects from urbanized areas with populations
of at least 200,000, 2 projects from urbanized areas with
populations less than 200,000, and 2 projects from other
than urbanized areas.
(e) FEDERAL SHARE OF COSTS.—The Federal share
of costs under this section shall be provided from funds
appropriated to carry out this section. The Federal share
of the costs for a project under this section shall not ex-
ceed 50 percent of the net project cost. The remainder
shall be provided in cash from sources other than revenues
from providing mass transportation. Funds appropriated
to a Federal department or agency (other than the De-
partment of Transportation) and eligible to be used for
transportation may be used toward the nongovernment
share payable on a project under this section.
(f) PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.—The requirements
of sections 5303 through 5306 of title 49, United States
Code, apply to grants made under this section. Applica-
tions must reflect coordination with and the approval of
affected transit grant recipients and the projects financed
must be part of a coordinated public transit-human serv-
ices transportation planning process.
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(g) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.—A grant under this sec-
tion shall be subject to all of the terms and conditions
of grants made under section 5307 of title 49, United
States Code, and such terms and conditions as determined
by the Secretary.
(h) PROGRAM EVALUATION.—
(1) COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—Six months
after the date of the enactment of this Act and each
6 months thereafter, the Comptroller General shall
conduct a study to evaluate the access to jobs pro-
gram conducted under this section and transmit to
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Sen-
ate the results of the study.
(2) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.—The
Secretary shall conduct a study to evaluate the ac-
cess to jobs program conducted under this section
and transmit to the Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs of the Senate the results of the study
within 2 years of the date of the enactment of this
Act.
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(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply:
(1) 
CAPITAL
PROJECT
AND
URBANIZED
AREA.—The terms ‘‘capital project’’ and ‘‘urbanized
area’’ have the meaning such terms have under sec-
tion 5302 of title 49, United States Code.
(2) EXISTING TRANSPORTATION SERVICE PRO-
VIDERS.—The term ‘‘existing transportation service
providers’’ means mass transportation operators and
governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations
that receive assistance from Federal, State, or local
sources for nonemergency transportation services.
(3) WELFARE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘welfare
recipient’’ means an individual who receives or re-
ceived aid or assistance under a State program fund-
ed under part A of title IV of the Social Security
Act (whether in effect before or after the effective
date of the amendments made by title I of the Per-
sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Rec-
onciliation Act of 1996) at any time during the 3-
year period ending on the date the applicant applies
for a grant under this section.
(j) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this section $150,000,000 per fiscal
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year for fiscal years 1998 through 2003. Such sums shall
remain available until expended.
SEC. 331. ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE SURFACE TRANSPOR-
TATION EXTENSION ACT OF 1997.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary shall ensure that the total ap-
portionments and allocations made to a designated grant
recipient under section 5338 of this Act for fiscal year
1998 shall be reduced by the amount apportioned to such
designated recipient pursuant to section 8 of the Surface
Transportation Extension Act of 1997 (111 Stat. 2559).
(b) FIXED GUIDEWAY MODERNIZATION ADJUST-
MENT.—In making the apportionments described in sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall adjust the amount appor-
tioned to each urbanized area for fixed guideway mod-
ernization for fiscal year 1998 to reflect the method for
apportioning funds in section 5337(a).
SEC. 332. PROJECTS FOR NEW FIXED GUIDEWAY SYSTEMS
AND EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING SYSTEMS.
(a) FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.—The fol-
lowing projects are authorized for final design and con-
struction for fiscal years 1998 through 2003 under section
5309(m)(1)(B) of title 49, United States Code:
(1) Atlanta—Athens Commuter Rail.
(2) Atlanta—Griffin Commuter Rail.
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(3) Atlanta—North Line Extension.
(4) Austin—NW/North Central/SE—Airport
LRT.
(5) Baltimore—Central LRT Extension to Glen
Burnie.
(6) 
Boston—Massport 
Airport 
Intermodal
Transit Connector.
(7) Boston—North Shore Blue Line Extension
to Beverly.
(8) Charlotte—South Corridor Transitway.
(9) 
Chicago—Navy 
Pier-McCormick 
Place
Busway.
(10) Chicago—North Central Upgrade Com-
muter Rail.
(11) Chicago—Ravenswood Line Extension.
(12) Chicago—Southwest Extension.
(13) Chicago—West Line Expansion.
(14) Cleveland—Akron-Canton Commuter Rail.
(15) Cleveland—Berea Metroline Extension.
(16) Cleveland—Blue Line Extension.
(17) Cleveland—Euclid Corridor Extension.
(18) Cleveland—I–90 Corridor to Ashtabula
County.
(19) Cleveland—Waterfront Line Extension.
(20) Dallas—North Central Extension.
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(21) Dallas—Ft. Worth RAILTRAN (Phase
II).
(22) Denver—East Corridor (Airport).
(23) Denver—Southeast LRT (I–25 between
6th & Lincoln).
(24) Denver—Southwest LRT.
(25) Denver—West Corridor LRT.
(26) East St. Louis-St. Clair County—Mid-
America Airport Corridor.
(27) Ft. Lauderdale-West Palm Beach-Miami
Tri-County Commuter Rail.
(28) Galveston—Trolley Extension.
(29) Hartford—Griffin Line.
(30) Hollis—Ketchikan Ferry.
(31) Houston—Regional Bus Plan—Phase I.
(32) Kansas City—I–35 Commuter Rail.
(33) Kansas City—Southtown Corridor.
(34) Las Vegas Corridor.
(35) Little Rock—River Rail.
(36) Los Angeles—Metrolink San Bernadino
Line.
(37) Los Angeles—MOS–3.
(38) Los Angeles—Metrolink (Union Station-
Fullerton).
(39) Louisville—Jefferson County Corridor.
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(40) MARC—Commuter Rail Improvements.
(41) Maryland Light Rail Double Track.
(42) Memphis—Medical Center Extension.
(43) Miami—East-West Intermodal Corridor.
(44) Miami—North 27th Avenue Corridor.
(45) Miami—South Busway Extension.
(46) Milwaukee—East-West Corridor.
(47) Monterey County Commuter Rail.
(48) Nashua, NH—Lowell, MA Commuter
Rail.
(49) Nashville—Commuter Rail.
(50) New Orleans—Canal Streetcar.
(51) New York—8th Avenue Subway Connec-
tor.
(52) 
New 
York—Brooklyn—Staten 
Island
Ferry.
(53) New York—Long Island Railroad East
Side Access.
(54) New York—Staten Island Ferry—White-
hall Intermodal Terminal.
(55) New York Susquehanna and Western
Commuter Rail.
(56) New Jersey Urban Core.
(57) Norfolk—Virginia Beach Corridor.
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(58) Orange County—Fullerton—Irvine Cor-
ridor.
(59) Orlando—I–4 Central Florida Light Rail
System.
(60) Philadelphia—Schuykill Valley Metro.
(61) Phoenix—Fixed Guideway.
(62) Colorado—Roaring Fork Valley Rail.
(63) Pittsburgh Airborne Shuttle System.
(64) Pittsburgh—MLK Busway Extension.
(65) Portland—South-North Corridor.
(66) Portland—Westside-Hillsboro Corridor.
(67) Raleigh-Durham—Regional Transit Plan.
(68) Sacramento—Folsom Extension.
(69) Sacramento—Placer County Corridor.
(70) Sacramento—South Corridor.
(71) Salt Lake City—Light Rail (Airport to
University of Utah).
(72) Salt Lake City—Ogden-Provo Commuter
Rail.
(73) Salt Lake City—South LRT.
(74) San Diego—Mid-Coast LRT Corridor.
(75) San Diego—Mission Valley East Corridor.
(76) San Diego—Oceanside—Escondido Cor-
ridor.
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(77) San Francisco—BART to San Francisco
International Airport Extension.
(78) San Francisco—Bayshore Corridor.
(79) San Jose—Tasman Corridor Light Rail.
(80) San Juan—Tren Urbano.
(81) San Juan—Tren Urbano Extension to
Minellas.
(82) Santa Cruz—Fixed Guideway.
(83) Seattle—Southworth High Speed Ferry.
(84) Seattle—Sound Move Corridor.
(85) South Boston—Piers Transitway.
(86) St. Louis—Cross County Corridor.
(87) Stockton—Altamont Commuter Rail.
(88) Tampa Bay—Regional Rail.
(89) Twin Cities—Northstar Corridor (Down-
town, Minneapolis-Anoka County-St. Cloud).
(90) Twin Cities—Transitways Corridors.
(91) Washington—Richmond Rail Corridor Im-
provements.
(92) Washington, D.C.—Dulles Corridor Exten-
sion.
(93) Washington, D.C.—Largo Extension.
(94) West Trenton Line (West Trenton-New-
ark).
(95) Westlake—Commuter Rail Link.
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(96) Pittsburgh North Shore-Central Business
District Corridor.
(97) Pittsburgh—Stage II Light Rail.
(98) Boston—North-South Rail Link.
(99) Spokane—South Valley Corridor Light
Rail.
(100) Miami—Palmetto Metrorail.
(b) ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS
AND PRELIMINARY
ENGINEERING.—The following projects are authorized for
alternatives analysis and preliminary engineering for fiscal
years 1998 through 2003 under section 5309(m)(1)(B) of
title 49, United States Code:
(1) Albuquerque—High Capacity Corridor.
(2) Atlanta—Georgia 400 Multimodal Corridor.
(3) Atlanta—MARTA Extension (S. DeKalb-
Lindbergh).
(4) Atlanta—MARTA I–285 Transit Corridor.
(5) Atlanta—MARTA Marietta-Lawrenceville
Corridor.
(6) Atlanta—MARTA South DeKalb Com-
prehensive Transit Program.
(7) Baltimore—Metropolitan Rail Corridor.
(8) Baltimore—People Mover.
(9) Bergen County Cross—County Light Rail.
(10) Birmingham Transit Corridor.
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(11) Boston—Urban Ring.
(12) Charleston—Monobeam.
(13) Chicago—Cominsky Park Station.
(14) Chicago—Inner Circumferential Commuter
Rail.
(15) Cumberland/Dauphin County Corridor 1
Commuter Rail.
(16) Dallas—DART LRT Extensions.
(17) Dallas—Las Colinas Corridor.
(18) Dayton—Regional Riverfront Corridor.
(19) El Paso—International Fixed Guideway
(El Paso-Juarez).
(20) Fremont—South Bay Corridor.
(21) 
Georgetown 
Branch 
(Bethesda-Silver
Spring).
(22) Houston—Advanced Transit Program.
(23) Jacksonville—Fixed Guideway Corridor.
(24) Kenosha-Racine—Milwaukee Rail Exten-
sion.
(25) Knoxville—Electric Transit.
(26) Lorain—Cleveland Commuter Rail.
(27) Los Angeles—MOS–4 East Side Extension
(II).
(28) Los Angeles—MOS–4 San Fernando Val-
ley East-West.
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(64) Union Township Station (Raritan Valley
Line).
(65) Washington County Corridor (Hastings-St.
Paul).
(66) Washington, D.C.—Georgetown-Ft. Lin-
coln.
(67) Williamsburg—Newport News-Hampton
LRT.
(68) Cincinnati/N. Kentucky—Northeast Cor-
ridor.
(69) Northeast Ohio—commuter rail.
(70) California—North Bay Commuter Rail.
(c) EFFECT OF AUTHORIZATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Projects authorized by sub-
section (a) for final design and construction are also
authorized for alternatives analysis and preliminary
engineering.
(2) FIXED
GUIDEWAY
AUTHORIZATION.—The
project authorized by subsection (a)(3) includes an
additional 28 rapid rail cars and project scope
changes from amounts authorized by the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
(3) INTERMODAL
CENTER
AUTHORIZATION.—
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Huntington, West Virginia Intermodal Facility
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project is eligible for funding under section
5309(m)(1)(C) of title 49, United States Code.
(d) NEW JERSEY URBAN CORE PROJECT.—
(1) ALLOCATIONS.—Section 3031(a) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1991 (105 Stat. 2122) is amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘(3) ALLOCATIONS.—
‘‘(A) RAIL CONNECTION BETWEEN PENN
STATION
NEWARK
AND
BROAD
STREET
STA-
TION, NEWARK.—Of the amounts made avail-
able for the New Jersey Urban Core Project
under section 5309(m)(1)(B) of title 49, United
States Code, for fiscal years 1998 through
2003, the Secretary shall set aside 10 percent,
but not more than $5,000,000, per fiscal year
for preliminary engineering, design, and con-
struction of the rail connection between Penn
Station, Newark and Broad Street Station,
Newark.
‘‘(B) NEWARK—NEWARK INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT—ELIZABETH TRANSIT LINK.—Of the
amounts made available for the New Jersey
Urban 
Core 
Project 
under 
section
5309(m)(1)(B) of title 49, United States Code,
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for fiscal years 1998 through 2003, the Sec-
retary, after making the set aside under sub-
paragraph (A), shall set aside 10 percent, but
not more than $5,000,000, per fiscal year for
preliminary engineering, design, and construc-
tion of the Newark—Newark International Air-
port—Elizabeth Transit Link, including con-
struction of the auxiliary New Jersey Transit
station, described in subsection (d).
‘‘(C) LIGHT RAIL CONNECTION AND ALIGN-
MENT WITHIN AND SERVING THE CITY OF ELIZ-
ABETH.—Of amounts made available for the
New Jersey Urban Core Project under section
5309(m)(1)(B) of title 49, United States Code,
for fiscal years 1998 through 2003, the Sec-
retary, after making the set-aside under sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B), shall set aside 10 per-
cent but not more than $5,000,000 per fiscal
year for preliminary engineering, design, and
construction of the light rail connection and
alignment within and serving the city of Eliza-
beth as described in subsection (d).’’.
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
3031(c) of such Act is amended—
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(A) by striking ‘‘section 3(i) of the Federal
Transit Act (relating to criteria for new
starts)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 5309(e) of title
49, United States Code,’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘; except’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘such element’’.
(3) ELEMENTS OF NEW JERSEY URBAN CORE
PROJECT.—Section 3031(d) of such Act is amend-
ed—
(A) by inserting after ‘‘Secaucus Transfer’’
the following: ‘‘(including relocation and con-
struction of the Bergen County and Pascack
Valley Rail Lines and the relocation of the
Main/Bergen Connection with construction of a
rail station and associated components to and
at the contiguous New Jersey Meadowlands
Sports Complex)’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘, Newark-Newark Inter-
national Airport-Elizabeth Transit Link’’ and
inserting the following: ‘‘(including a connection
from 
the 
Vince 
Lombardi 
Station 
to
Saddlebrook), 
Newark-Newark 
International
Airport-Elizabeth Transit Link (including con-
struction of an auxiliary New Jersey Light Rail
Transit station directly connected to and inte-
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grated with the Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Station at Newark International Airport, pro-
viding access from the Newark-Newark Inter-
national Airport-Elizabeth Light Rail Transit
Link to the Newark International Airport)’’;
and
(C) by inserting after ‘‘New York Penn
Station Concourse,’’ the following: ‘‘the restora-
tion of commuter rail service in Lakewood to
Freehold to Matawan or Jamesburg, New Jer-
sey, as described in section 3035(p) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency
Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2131), a light rail ex-
tension of the Newark-Newark International
Airport-Elizabeth Light Rail Transit Link from
Elizabeth, New Jersey, to the towns of
Cranford, Westfield, Fanwood, and Plainfield in
Union County, New Jersey, and any appro-
priate light rail connections and alignments
within the city of Elizabeth to be determined by
the city of Elizabeth and the New Jersey De-
partment of Transportation (and which shall in-
clude connecting midtown Elizabeth to Route 1
Park and Ride, the Elizabeth Car House Mu-
seum, Division Street, Singer Place, Ferry Ter-