(f) Paragraph (e) shall not apply to any State which
on or after August 1, 1997, has the amount distributed
to such State under paragraph (a) for fiscal year 1997
reduced under paragraph (c)(2).
SEC. 311. The limitation on obligations for the pro-
grams of the Federal Transit Administration shall not
apply to any authority under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously
made available for obligation, or to any other authority
previously made available for obligation under the discre-
tionary grants program.
SEC. 312. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
SEC. 313. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to plan, finalize, or implement regulations that would
establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles
wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation
Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation
Scheme.
SEC. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, airports may transfer, without consideration, to the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) instrument land-
ing systems (along with associated approach lighting
equipment and runway visual range equipment) which
conform to FAA design and performance specifications,
the purchase of which was assisted by a Federal airport
aid program, airport development aid program or airport
improvement program grant. The FAA shall accept such
equipment, which shall thereafter be operated and main-
tained by the FAA in accordance with agency criteria.
SEC. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to award a multiyear contract for production end
items that (1) includes economic order quantity or long
lead time material procurement in excess of $10,000,000
in any one year of the contract or (2) includes a cancella-
tion charge greater than $10,000,000 which at the time
of obligation has not been appropriated to the limits of
the government’s liability or (3) includes a requirement
that permits performance under the contract during the
second and subsequent years of the contract without con-
ditioning such performance upon the appropriation of
funds: Provided, That this limitation does not apply to a
contract in which the Federal Government incurs no fi-
nancial liability from not buying additional systems, sub-
systems, or components beyond the basic contract require-
ments.
SEC. 316. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be made available for planning and executing a pas-
senger manifest program by the Department of Transpor-
tation that only applies to United States flag carriers.
SEC. 317. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and except for fixed guideway modernization projects,
funds made available by this Act under ‘‘Federal Transit
Administration, Discretionary grants’’ for projects speci-
fied in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this
Act not obligated by September 30, 1999, shall be made
available for other projects under 49 U.S.C. 5309.
SEC. 318. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, any funds appropriated before October 1, 1993, under
any section of chapter 53 of title 49 U.S.C., that remain
available for expenditure may be transferred to and ad-
ministered under the most recent appropriation heading
for any such section.
SEC. 319. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to implement or enforce regulations that would result
in the withdrawal of a slot from an air carrier at O’Hare
International Airport under section 93.223 of title 14 of
the Code of Federal Regulations in excess of the total slots
withdrawn from that air carrier as of October 31, 1993
if such additional slot is to be allocated to an air carrier
or foreign air carrier under section 93.217 of title 14 of
the Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 320. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to compensate in excess of 335 technical staff years under
the federally-funded research and
development center
contract between the Federal Aviation Administration
and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Develop-
ment during fiscal year 1997.
SEC. 321. Funds provided in this Act for the Trans-
portation Administrative Service Center (TASC) shall be
reduced by $10,000,000, which limits fiscal year 1997
TASC obligational authority for elements of the Depart-
ment of Transportation funded in this Act to no more
than $114,812,000: Provided, That such reductions from
the budget request shall be allocated by the Department
of Transportation to each appropriations account in pro-
portion to the amount included in each account for the
transportation administrative service center.
SEC. 322. Funds received by the Federal Highway
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Fed-
eral Railroad Administration from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources
for expenses incurred for training may be credited respec-
tively to the Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Limita-
tion on General Operating Expenses’’ account, the Federal
Transit Administration’s ‘‘Transit Planning and Re-
search’’ account, and to the Federal Railroad Administra-
tion’s ‘‘Railroad Safety’’ account, except for State rail
safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 20105.
SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulations
pursuant to title V of the Motor Vehicle Information and
Cost Savings Act (49 U.S.C. 32901, et seq.) prescribing
corporate average fuel economy standards for automobiles,
as defined in such title, in any model year that differs
from standards promulgated for such automobiles prior to
enactment of this section.
SEC. 324. None of the funds in this Act may be used
for planning, engineering, design, or construction of a
sixth runway at the new Denver International Airport,
Denver, Colorado.
SEC. 325. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re-
ceived by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the
sale of data products, for necessary expenses incurred pur-
suant to the provisions of section 6006 of the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, may be
credited to the Federal-aid highways account for the pur-
pose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall not be subject to the obliga-
tion limitation for Federal-aid highways and highway safe-
ty construction: Provided further, That in addition to
amounts otherwise provided in this Act, not to exceed
$3,100,000 in expenses of the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics necessary to conduct activities related to airline
statistics may be incurred, but only to the extent such ex-
penses are offset by user fees charged for those activities
and credited as offsetting collections.
SEC. 326. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to transfer funds appropriated in this Act to ‘‘Rental
payments’’ for any expense authorized by that appropria-
tion in excess of the amounts provided in this Act: Pro-
vided, That prior to any such transfer, notification shall
be provided to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 327. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated or expended for employee training which: (a) does
not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills and abilities
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties;
(b) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some partici-
pants; (c) does not require prior employee notification of
the content and methods to be used in the training and
written end of course evaluations; (d) contains any meth-
ods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious
belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice N–
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; (e) is offensive to, or
designed to change, participants’ personal values or life-
style outside the workplace; or (f) includes content related
to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune defi-
ciency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other than that necessary
to make employees more aware of the medical ramifica-
tions of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights of HIV-posi-
tive employees.
SEC. 328. None of the funds in this Act shall, in the
absence of express authorization by Congress, be used di-
rectly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, adver-
tisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written
matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence
in any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose,
by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by
Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any
bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropria-
tion: Provided, That this shall not prevent officers or em-
ployees of the Department of Transportation or related
agencies funded in this Act from communicating to Mem-
bers of Congress on the request of any Member or to Con-
gress, through the proper official channels, requests for
legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary
for the efficient conduct of the public business.
SEC. 329. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to support Federal Transit Administration’s field oper-
ations and oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority in any location other than from the
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
SEC. 330. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for improvements to the Miller Highway
in New York City, New York.
SEC. 331. Not to exceed $850,000 of the funds pro-
vided in this Act for the Department of Transportation
shall be available for the necessary expenses of advisory
committees.
SEC. 332. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary may use funds appropriated under this
Act, or any subsequent Act, to administer and implement
the exemption provisions of 49 CFR 580.6 and to adopt
or amend exemptions from the disclosure requirements of
49 CFR part 580 for any class or category of vehicles
that the Secretary deems appropriate.
SEC. 333. No funds other than those appropriated
to the Surface Transportation Board shall be used for con-
ducting the activities of the Board.
SEC. 334. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to construct, or to pay the salaries or
expenses of Department of Transportation personnel who
approve or facilitate the construction of, a third track on
the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line in the vicinity of
Bronxville, New York, when it is made known to the Fed-
eral official having authority to obligate or expend such
funds that a final environmental impact statement has not
been completed for such construction project.
SEC. 335. Section 5328(c)(1)(E) of title 49, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘Westside’’ the first place it ap-
pears;
(2) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘101–584,’’; and
(3) by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ‘‘, and the locally preferred alternative for
the South/North Corridor Project’’.
SEC. 336. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, of the funds made available to Cleveland for the
‘‘Cleveland Dual Hub Corridor Project’’ or ‘‘Cleveland
Dual Hub Rail Project,’’ $4,023,030 in funds made avail-
able in fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 1994, under Public
Laws 101–516, 102–143, 102–240, 103–122, and accom-
panying reports, shall be made available for the Berea Red
Line Extension and the Euclid Corridor Improvement
projects.
SEC. 337. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, funds made available under section 3035(kk) of Pub-
lic Law 102–240 for fiscal year 1997 to the State of
Michigan shall be for the purchase of buses and bus-relat-
ed equipment and facilities.
SEC. 338. In addition to amounts otherwise provided
in this Act, there is hereby appropriated $2,400,000 for
activities of the National Civil Aviation Review Commis-
sion, to remain available until expended.
SEC. 339. Section 423 of H.R. 1361, as passed the
House of Representatives on May 9, 1995, is hereby en-
acted into law.
SEC. 340. (a) COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN
ACT.—None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in
expending the funds the entity will comply with the Buy
American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c).
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.—
(1) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
product that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress
that entities receiving the assistance should, in ex-
pending the assistance, purchase only American-
made equipment and products to the greatest extent
practicable.
(2) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—
In providing financial assistance using funds made
available in this Act, the head of each Federal agen-
cy shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in paragraph
(1) by the Congress.
(c) PROHIBITION
OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS
FALSELY LABELING PRODUCTS AS MADE IN AMERICA.—
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bear-
ing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription
with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped
to the United States that is not made in the United
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any con-
tract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS HIGHWAY
PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, semitrailer units operating in a truck tractor-
semitrailer combination whose semitrailer unit is more
than forty-eight feet in length and truck tractor-
semitrailer-trailer 
combinations 
specified 
in 
section
31111(b)(1) of title 49, United States Code, may not oper-
ate on United States Route 15 in Virginia between the
Maryland border and the intersection with United States
Route 29.
SEC. 402. Item 30 of the table contained in section
1107(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi-
ciency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2050), relating to Mobile,
Alabama, is amended in the second column by inserting
after ‘‘Alabama’’ the following: ‘‘and for feasibility studies,
preliminary engineering, and construction of a new bridge
and approaches over the Mobile River’’.
SEC. 403. Item 94 of the table contained in section
1107(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Effi-
ciency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2052), relating to St. Thom-
as, Virgin Islands, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘St. Thomas,’’; and
(2) by inserting after ‘‘the island’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘of St. Thomas and improvements to the VIPA
Molasses Dock intermodal port facility on the island
of St. Croix to make the facility capable of handling
multiple cargo tasks’’.
SEC. 404. The Secretary of Transportation is hereby
authorized to enter into an agreement modifying the
agreement entered into pursuant to section 336 of the De-
partment of Transportation and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–331) and section
356 of the Department of Transportation and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–50)
to provide an additional line of credit not to exceed
$25,000,000, which may be used to replace otherwise re-
quired contingency reserves; provided, however, that the
Secretary may only enter into such modification if it is
supported by the amount of the original appropriation
(provided by section 336 of Public Law 103–331). No ad-
ditional appropriation is made by this section. In imple-
menting this section, the Secretary may enter into an
agreement requiring an interest rate, on both the original
line of credit and the additional amount provided for here-
in, higher than that currently in force and higher than
that specified in the original appropriation. An agreement
entered into pursuant to this section may not obligate the
Secretary to make any funds available until all remaining
contingency reserves are exhausted, and in no event shall
any funds be made available before October 1, 1998.
SEC. 405. Public Law 100–202 is amended in the
item relating to ‘‘Traffic Improvement Demonstration
Project’’ by inserting after ‘‘project’’ the following: ‘‘or up-
grade existing local roads’’.
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. (a) LIMITATION ON NEW LOAN GUARAN-
TEES FOR CERTAIN RAILROAD PROJECTS.—None of the
funds made available in this Act may be used for the cost
of any new loan guarantee commitment for any railroad
project, when it is made known to the Federal official hav-
ing authority to obligate or expend such funds that such
railroad project is an international railroad project of the
United States and another country, or a railroad project
in the United States in the vicinity of the United States
border with another country.
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that—
(1) a comprehensive study has been conducted
after the date of the enactment of this Act regarding
criminal activities that have occurred on existing
railroads of such type, including—
(A) the use of such railroads to facilitate
the smuggling of illegal aliens and illegal drugs
into the United States, and the impact of such
smuggling on the total number of illegal aliens,
and the total amount of illegal drugs, entering
the United States; and
(B) the commission of robberies against
such railroads; and
(2) a detailed report setting forth the results of
such study has been issued and made available to
the public.
SEC. 502. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used by the National Transportation Safety
Board to plan, conduct, or enter into any contract for a
study to determine the feasibility of allowing individuals
who are more than 60 years of age to pilot commercial
aircraft.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1997’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 28 (legis-
lative day of June 27), 1996.
Attest:
Clerk.