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Schuylkill 
Valley 
Metro, 
Pennsylvania, 
$2,000,000; 
Seattle Sound Transit, Washington, $80,000,000; 
Second Avenue Subway, New York, $25,000,000; 
Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Corridor Project, 
Santa Clara County, California, $5,000,000; 
Silver 
Line 
Phase 
III, 
Massachusetts, 
$4,000,000; 
Sounder 
Commuter 
Rail, 
Washington, 
$5,000,000; 
Southeast Corridor Multi-Modal Project (T– 
REX), Colorado, $80,000,000; 
Triangle Transit Authority Regional Rail Sys-
tem (Raleigh-Durham), North Carolina, $18,000,000; 
Washington County Commuter Rail Project, Or-
egon, $15,000,000; 
West Corridor Light Rail, Colorado, $5,000,000. 
JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 3037 of the 
Federal Transit Act of 1998, $20,541,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That no more than 
$121,833,000 of budget authority shall be available for these 
purposes: Provided further, That up to $300,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading may be used by the Fed-
eral Transit Administration for technical assistance and
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support and performance reviews of the Job Access and Re-
verse Commute Grants program. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL TRANSIT 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 150. The limitations 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 pre-
viously made available for obligation. 
SEC. 151. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
and except for fixed guideway modernization projects, funds 
made available by this Act under ‘‘Federal Transit Admin-
istration, Capital investment grants’’ for projects specified 
in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this Act 
not obligated by September 30, 2008, and other recoveries, 
shall be made available for other projects under 49 U.S.C. 
5309. 
SEC. 152. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any funds appropriated before October 1, 2005, under any 
section of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, that 
remain available for expenditure may be transferred to and 
administered under the most recent appropriation heading 
for any such section. 
SEC. 153. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any Office of Management and Budget Circular or any pol-
icy, directive, or regulation, funds made available from the
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Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund in this 
Act may not be deposited in the General Fund of the United 
States Treasury: Provided, That obligations incurred to 
carry out any Federal Transit program, project or activity 
shall be liquidated first from amounts appropriated for that 
program, project or activity from the General Fund of the 
United States Treasury until the appropriated amount is 
depleted. 
SEC. 154. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
unobligated funds made available for a new fixed guideway 
systems projects under the heading ‘‘Federal Transit Ad-
ministration, Capital Investment Grants’’ in any appro-
priations Act prior to this Act may be used during this 
fiscal year to satisfy expenses incurred for such projects. 
SEC. 155. Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii 
ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. 5309(m)(2)(B) may be used to construct new vessels 
and facilities, or to improve existing vessels and facilities, 
including both the passenger and vehicle-related elements of 
such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities: Pro-
vided, That not more than $3,000,000 of the funds made 
available pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(2)(B) may be 
used by the State of Hawaii to initiate and operate a pas-
senger ferryboat services demonstration project to test the 
viability of different intra-island and inter-island ferry
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boat routes and technology: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 49 U.S.C. 5302(a)(7), funds made available for 
Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats may be used to acquire pas-
senger ferry boats and to provide passenger ferry transpor-
tation services within areas of the State of Hawaii under 
the control or use of the National Park Service. 
SEC. 156. Amounts made available from the bus cat-
egory of the Capital Investment Grants Account or Discre-
tionary Grants Account in this or any other previous Ap-
propriations Act that remain unobligated or unexpended in 
a grant for a multimodal transportation facility in Bur-
lington, Vermont, may be used for site-preparation and de-
sign purposes of a multimodal transportation facility in 
a different location within Burlington, Vermont, than origi-
nally intended notwithstanding previous expenditures in-
curred such purposes at the original location. 
SEC. 157. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds designated in the conference report accompanying 
Public Law 108–447 and Public Law 108–199 for the King 
County Metro Park and Ride on First Hill, Seattle, Wash-
ington, shall be available to the Swedish Hospital parking 
garage, Seattle, Washington, subject to the same conditions 
and requirements of Section 125 of Division H of Public 
Law 108–447.
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SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora-
tion is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within 
the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to 
the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9101– 
9110), as may be necessary in carrying out the programs 
set forth in the Corporation’s budget for the current fiscal 
year. 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses for operations and mainte-
nance of those portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway oper-
ated and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Devel-
opment Corporation, $16,284,000, to be derived from the 
Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 
99–662. 
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a 
U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs 
of the United States, $156,000,000, to remain available 
until expended.
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OPERATIONS AND TRAINING 
For necessary expenses of operations and training ac-
tivities authorized by law, $118,649,000 of which 
$23,750,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2006, for salaries and benefits of employees of the United 
States Merchant Marine Academy; of which $13,033,000 
shall remain available until expended for capital improve-
ments at the United States Merchant Marine Academy; and 
of which $8,211,000 shall remain available until expended 
for the State Maritime Schools Schoolship Maintenance and 
Repair. 
SHIP DISPOSAL 
For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obso-
lete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Mar-
itime Administration, $21,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the guaran-
teed loan program, not to exceed $4,726,000, which shall 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
Operations and Training.