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Highway Administration Emergency Relief funds can be
used to halt the erosion and stabilize the bank if such action
is necessary to protect the highway from imminent failure
and is less expensive than highway relocation.
(b) In cases where an emergency condition causes in-
undation of a roadway or saturation of the subgrade with
further erosion due to abnormal freeze/thaw cycles and dam-
age caused by traffic, fiscal year 1996 or fiscal year 1997
Federal Highway Administration Emergency Relief funds
can be used to repair such roadway.
(c) Not more than $8,000,000 in Federal Highway Ad-
ministration Emergency Relief funds may be used for each
of the conditions referenced in subsections (a) and (b).
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SEC. 354. THE RAILROAD SAFETY INSTITUTE.
Of the money available to the Federal Rail Adminis-
tration up to $500,000 shall be made available to establish
and operate the Institute for Railroad Safety as authorized
by the Swift Rail Development Act of 1994.
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SEC. 355. TRAIN WHISTLE REQUIREMENTS.
No funds shall be made available to implement the reg-
ulations issued under section 20153(b) of title 49, United
States Code, requiring audible warnings to be sounded by
a locomotive horn at highway-rail grade crossings, unless—
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(1) in implementing the regulations or providing
an exception to the regulations under section 20153(c)
of such title, the Secretary of Transportation takes
into account, among other criteria—
(A) the interests of the communities that
have in effect restrictions on the sounding of a
locomotive horn at highway-rail grade crossings
as of July 30, 1996; and
(B) the past safety record at each grade
crossing involved; and
(2) whenever the Secretary determines that sup-
plementary safety measures (as that term is defined
in section 20153(a) of title 49, United States Code)
are necessary to provide an exception referred to in
paragraph (1), the Secretary—
(A) having considered the extent to which
local communities have established public aware-
ness initiatives and highway-rail crossing traffic
law enforcement programs allows for a period of
not to exceed 3 years, beginning on the date of
that determination, for the installation of those
measures; and
(B) works in partnership with affected com-
munities to provide technical assistance and to
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develop a reasonable schedule for the installation
of those measures.
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SEC. 356. No funds appropriated under this Act shall
be used to levy penalties prior to September 1, 1997, on
the States of Maine or New Hampshire based on non-com-
pliance with Federal vehicle weight limitations.
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SEC. 403. The funds authorized to be appropriated for
highway-railroad grade crossing separations in Mineola,
New York, under the head ‘‘Highway-Railroad Grade Cross-
ing Safety Demonstration Project (Highway Trust Fund)’’
in House Report 99–976 and section 302(l) of Public Law
99–591 are hereby also authorized to be appropriated for
other grade crossing improvements in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties in New York and shall be available in accordance
with the terms of the original authoriziaton in House Re-
port 99–976.
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SEC. 405. The amount appropriated for the Lake
Shore Drive extension study, Whiting, Indiana, under the
matter under the heading ‘‘SURFACE
TRANSPORTATION
PROJECTS’’ under the heading ‘‘FEDERAL HIGHWAY
ADMINISTRATION’’ in title I of the Department of
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1995 (Public Law 103–331; 108 Stat. 2478), shall be made
available to carry out the congestion relief project for the
construction of a 4-lane road and overpass at Merrillville,
Indiana, authorized by item 35 of section 1104(b) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(Public Law 102–240; 105 Stat. 2030).
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SEC. 406. HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT,
MICHIGAN.
Of the amount appropriated for the highway safety
improvement project, Michigan, under the matter under the
heading ‘‘SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS’’ under the
heading ‘‘FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION’’ in
title I of the Department of Transportation and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–331;
108 Stat. 2478), for the purposes of right-of-way acquisition
for Baldwin Road, and engineering, right-of-way acquisi-
tion, and construction between Walton Boulevard and Dixie
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Highway, $2,000,000 shall be made available for construc-
tion of Baldwin Road.
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SEC. 407. TRANSFER OF FUNDS AMONG MINNESOTA HIGH-
WAY PROJECTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Such portions of the amounts ap-
propriated for the Minnesota highway projects described in
subsection (b) that have not been obligated as of December
31, 1996, may, at the option of the Minnesota Department
of Transportation, be made available to carry out the 34th
Street Corridor Project in Moorhead, Minnesota, authorized
by section 149(a)(5)(A)(iii) of the Surface Transportation
and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (Public
Law 100–17; 101 Stat. 181) (as amended by section 340(a)
of the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995
(Public Law 104–59; 109 Stat. 607)).
(b) PROJECTS.—The Minnesota highway projects de-
scribed in this subsection are—
(1) the project for Saint Louis County author-
ized by section 149(a)(76) of the Surface Transpor-
tation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987
(Public Law 100–17; 101 Stat. 192); and
(2) the project for Nicollet County authorized by
item 159 of section 1107(b) of the Intermodal Surface
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Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (Public Law
102–240; 105 Stat. 2056).
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Attest:
Secretary.