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80 percent: Provided further, That projects conducted using funds 
provided under this heading must comply with the requirements 
of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall conduct a new competi-
tion to select the grants and credit assistance awarded under this 
heading: Provided further, That the Secretary may retain up to 
$20,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading, and may 
transfer portions of those funds to the Administrators of the Federal 
Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the 
Federal Railroad Administration and the Maritime Administration, 
to fund the award and oversight of grants and credit assistance 
made under the National Infrastructure Investments program. 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the 
Department 
of 
Transportation’s 
financial 
systems 
and 
re- 
engineering business processes, $5,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2017. 
CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES 
For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, including 
necessary upgrades to wide area network and information tech-
nology infrastructure, improvement of network perimeter controls 
and identity management, testing and assessment of information 
technology against business, security, and other requirements, 
implementation of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 
infrastructure enhancements, implementation of enhanced security 
controls on network devices, and enhancement of cyber security 
workforce training tools, $8,000,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2017. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $9,678,000. 
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $8,500,000: Provided, 
That of such amount, $2,500,000 shall be for necessary expenses 
to establish an Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement 
Center (IIPIC) that will implement reforms to improve interagency 
coordination and the expediting of projects related to the permitting 
and environmental review of major transportation infrastructure 
projects including one-time expenses to develop and deploy informa-
tion technology tools to track project schedules and metrics and 
improve the transparency and accountability of the permitting 
process: Provided further, That there may be transferred to this 
appropriation, to remain available until expended, amounts from 
other Federal agencies for expenses incurred under this heading 
for IIPIC activities not related to transportation infrastructure: 
Provided further, That the tools and analysis developed by the 
IIPIC shall be available to other Federal agencies for the permitting
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and review of major infrastructure projects not related to transpor-
tation only to the extent that other Federal agencies provide funding 
to the Department as provided for under the previous proviso. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays 
of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $190,039,000 shall 
be paid from appropriations made available to the Department 
of Transportation: Provided, That such services shall be provided 
on a competitive basis to entities within the Department of 
Transportation: Provided further, That the above limitation on oper-
ating expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency of the 
Department shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund with-
out majority approval of the Working Capital Fund Steering Com-
mittee and approval of the Secretary: Provided further, That no 
assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, 
subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice of such 
assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved by 
such Committees. 
MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $336,000, as authorized by 
49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these 
funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of 
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, $597,000. 
MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center 
outreach activities, $3,084,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2017: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these 
funds may be used for business opportunities related to any mode 
of transportation. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
In addition to funds made available from any other source 
to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 
41731 through 41742, $175,000,000, to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That in determining between or among carriers competing 
to provide service to a community, the Secretary may consider 
the relative subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, 
That basic essential air service minimum requirements shall not 
include the 15-passenger capacity requirement under subsection 
41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That 
none of the funds in this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to enter into a new contract with a community located less than
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40 miles from the nearest small hub airport before the Secretary 
has negotiated with the community over a local cost share: Provided 
further, That amounts authorized to be distributed for the essential 
air service program under subsection 41742(b) of title 49, United 
States Code, shall be made available immediately from amounts 
otherwise provided to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration: Provided further, That the Administrator may 
reimburse such amounts from fees credited to the account estab-
lished under section 45303 of title 49, United States Code. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office 
of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the 
modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway 
on the date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
for Congressional notification. 
SEC. 102. Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31, United 
States Code, in addition to authority provided by section 327 of 
title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Working Capital 
Fund is hereby authorized to provide payments in advance to ven-
dors that are necessary to carry out the Federal transit pass 
transportation fringe benefit program under Executive Order 13150 
and section 3049 of Public Law 109–59: Provided, That the Depart-
ment shall include adequate safeguards in the contract with the 
vendors to ensure timely and high-quality performance under the 
contract. 
SEC. 103. The Secretary shall post on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the 
Credit Council, including the agenda for each meeting, and require 
the Credit Council to record the decisions and actions of each 
meeting. 
SEC. 104. In addition to authority provided by section 327 
of title 49, United States Code, the Department’s Working Capital 
Fund is hereby authorized to provide partial or full payments 
in advance and accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal 
agencies for transit benefit distribution services that are necessary 
to carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit 
program under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 3049 of 
Public Law 109–59: Provided, That the Department shall maintain 
a reasonable operating reserve in the Working Capital Fund, to 
be expended in advance to provide uninterrupted transit benefits 
to Government employees, provided that such reserve will not 
exceed one month of benefits payable: Provided further, that such 
reserve may be used only for the purpose of providing for the 
continuation of transit benefits, provided that the Working Capital 
Fund will be fully reimbursed by each customer agency for the 
actual cost of the transit benefit.
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FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including operations and research activi-
ties related to commercial space transportation, administrative 
expenses for research and development, establishment of air naviga-
tion facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance 
of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps 
sold to the public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 112–95, $9,909,724,000 of which $7,922,000,000 shall 
be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which 
not to exceed $7,505,293,000 shall be available for air traffic 
organization activities; not to exceed $1,258,411,000 shall be avail-
able for aviation safety activities; not to exceed $17,800,000 shall 
be available for commercial space transportation activities; not to 
exceed $760,500,000 shall be available for finance and management 
activities; not to exceed $60,089,000 shall be available for NextGen 
and operations planning activities; not to exceed $100,880,000 shall 
be available for security and hazardous materials safety; and not 
to exceed $206,751,000 shall be available for staff offices: Provided, 
That not to exceed 2 percent of any budget activity, except for 
aviation safety budget activity, may be transferred to any budget 
activity under this heading: Provided further, That no transfer 
may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 2 percent: 
Provided further, That any transfer in excess of 2 percent shall 
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 405 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided 
further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall 
transmit to Congress an annual update to the report submitted 
to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of Public 
Law 108–176: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 
31 that such report has not been submitted to the Congress: Pro-
vided further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year 
hereafter, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a com-
panion report that describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, 
hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft certification staff 
in a format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing 
plan, including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals 
by fiscal year: Provided further, That the amount herein appro-
priated shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
March 31 that such report has not been submitted to Congress: 
Provided further, That funds may be used to enter into a grant 
agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organization to assist 
in the development of aviation safety standards: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new 
applicants for the second career training program: Provided further, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regu-
lation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifically