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studies under paragraph (1). Any comments by such 
department on such findings shall be included in any 
final report on such studies. 
(3) If a final report on the studies under para-
graph (1) is not available for at least the 1-month 
period preceding the date of any referendum held by 
the City of Houston, Texas, or by a county of Texas, 
regarding approval of the issuance of bonds for 
funding a light rail system in Houston, Texas, all in-
formation developed by such studies regarding pas-
senger and cost estimates for such a system shall be 
made available to the public at least 1 month before 
the date of the referendum. 
SEC. 322. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for engineering work related to an addi-
tional runway at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Inter-
national Airport. 
SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring air-
port sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration and the Transportation Security Administration 
without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities 
and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings 
for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation, 
aviation security or weather reporting: Provided, That the
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prohibition of funds in this section does not apply to nego-
tiations between the agency and airport sponsors to 
achieve agreement on ‘‘below-market’’ rates for these 
items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors 
to provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic 
control facilities and the TSA for necessary security check-
points. 
SEC. 324. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, whenever an allocation is made of the sums author-
ized to be appropriated for expenditure on the Federal 
lands highway program, and whenever an apportionment 
is made of the sums authorized to be appropriated for ex-
penditure on the surface transportation program, the con-
gestion mitigation and air quality improvement program, 
the National Highway System, the Interstate maintenance 
program, the bridge program, the Appalachian develop-
ment highway system, and the minimum guarantee pro-
gram, the Secretary of Transportation shall deduct a sum 
in such amount not to exceed 1.4 percent of all sums so 
made available to administer the provisions of law to be 
financed from appropriations for the program authorized 
under chapters 1 and 2 of title 23, United States Code, 
and to make transfers in accordance with section 
104(a)(1)(A)(ii) of title 23, United States Code: Provided, 
That any deduction by the Secretary of Transportation
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in accordance with this subsection shall be deemed to be 
a deduction under section 104(a)(1)(A) of title 23, United 
States Code, and the sum so deducted shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
SEC. 325. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, States may use funds provided in this Act under sec-
tion 402 of title 23, United States Code, to produce and 
place highway safety public service messages in television, 
radio, cinema and print media, and on the Internet in ac-
cordance with guidance issued by the Secretary of Trans-
portation: Provided, That any State that uses funds for 
such public service messages shall submit to the Secretary 
a report describing and assessing the effectiveness of the 
messages: Provided further, That $8,000,000 of the funds 
allocated for innovative seat belt projects under section 
157 of title 23, United States Code, and $8,000,000 of 
funds allocated under section 163 of title 23, United 
States Code, shall be used by the States, as directed by 
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator, to 
purchase advertising in broadcast or print media to sup-
port the national mobilizations conducted in all fifty 
States, aimed at increasing seat belt use and reducing al-
cohol-impaired driving: Provided further, That up to 
$2,000,000 of the funds allocated for innovative seat belt 
projects under sections 157 and 163 of title 23, United
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States Code, shall be used by the Administrator to evalu-
ate the effectiveness of State seat belt and alcohol-im-
paired driving programs that purchase advertising as pro-
vided by this section. 
SEC. 326. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation 
to approve assessments or reimbursable agreements per-
taining to funds appropriated to the modal administra-
tions 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. 327. None of the funds in this Act may be ex-
pended to issue, implement, or enforce a regulation that 
diminishes or revokes an exemption authorized under sec-
tion 345 of the National Highway System Designation Act 
of 1995 (Public Law 104–59; 109 Stat. 613; 49 U.S.C. 
31136 note) before the Secretary of Transportation deter-
mines by a rulemaking proceeding that the exemptions 
granted are not in the public interest and adversely affects 
the safety of commercial motor vehicles with respect to 
such exemption that is required under subsection (c) of 
such section and, as under subsection (d), if a result of 
monitoring the safety performance of drivers of commer-
cial vehicles that are subject to an exemption under section
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345, the Secretary determines that public safety has been 
severely affected by an exemption granted under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall report to Congress that deter-
mination: Provided, That this limitation shall not preclude 
the Secretary from revoking an exemption granted to an 
individual, farm, company, or other entity under section 
345 of Public Law 104–59 for national security reasons. 
SEC. 328. Notwithstanding sections 22101 (c) and 
(d), 22103, 22105(a), and 22108(b) of title 49, United 
States Code, the Secretary of Transportation shall make 
a grant under chapter 221 of such title in the amount 
of $690,287 to the State of Iowa for a rail infrastructure 
rehabilitation project on the Iowa Northern Railway. Such 
funds shall be provided from unexpended balances in the 
Local Rail Freight Assistance program under such chap-
ter 221. 
SEC. 329. Notwithstanding 10 U.S.C. 1116(c), pay-
ments into the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible 
Retiree Health Care Fund for fiscal year 2003 under 10 
U.S.C. 1116(a) shall be from funds available in the Coast 
Guard Operating Expenses account. 
SEC. 330. Funds provided in Public Law 106–69 for 
the Wilmington, Delaware, downtown transit connector 
and funds provided in Public Law 106–346 for the Wil-
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mington downtown corridor project shall be available for 
Wilmington, Delaware, commuter rail improvements. 
SEC. 331. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law—
(1) in section 1602 of the Transportation Eq-
uity Act for the 21st Century—
(A) item number 426 (112 Stat. 272) is 
amended by striking ‘‘Louisiana Highway 16’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘Louisiana High-
way 1026’’; 
(B) item number 696 (112 Stat. 383), re-
lating to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is amended 
by inserting after ‘‘Gettysburg comprehensive 
road improvement study’’ the following: ‘‘and 
construction of projects identified in the study’’; 
(C) item number 230 is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘Construct new exit 46A on I–90 at route 
170 in North Chili’’ and inserting ‘‘Monroe 
County transportation improvements on Long 
Pond Road, Pattonwood Road, and Leyll road’’; 
(D) item number 1344 (112 Stat. 306) is 
amended by striking ‘‘Upgrade’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘City’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing ‘‘Upgrade Frederic Douglas Circle and
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abatement projects along Interstate 95 in 
Bensalem Township between Exit 25 and 26, 
Bucks County’’ after ‘‘improvements’’; 
(2) section 3030(d)(3) of the Transportation 
Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105–
178) is amended by redesignating the second sub-
paragraph (D) (as added by section 361 of Public 
Law 107–87) as subparagraph (E) and by inserting 
at the end: 
‘‘(F) Port of Anchorage Intermodal pas-
senger and freight facility.’’; 
(3) of the $668,000 appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Surface Transportation Projects’’ in Public 
Law 103–331 for CA 113 railroad grade separation, 
California, the unobligated share shall be available 
for railroad grade separation for the City of Dixon, 
Solano County, California;
(4) the $500,000 appropriated under the head-
ing ‘‘Surface Transportation Projects’’ in Public 
Law 103–331 for 6th and 7th Sts. improvements 
Brownsville, TX may be used to construct the West 
Rail project in or near Brownsville, including a new 
international railroad bridge crossing over the Rio 
Grand River;
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(5) section 610, section 609(c), and the last 
sentence of section 604(b)(1) of Public Law 97–468 
are repealed; 
(6) for the purpose of further leveraging Fed-
eral resources and enhancing private investment 
supporting the financing of public toll roads in Or-
ange County, California, authorized by section 
129(d) of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary 
of Transportation shall modify the agreements en-
tered into with the San Joaquin Hills Transpor-
tation Corridor Agency and the Foothill Eastern 
Transportation Corridor Agency pursuant to section 
339 of Public Law 102–388, section 336 of Public 
Law 103–331 and section 356 of Public Law 104–
50, to extend the term of coverage provided by such 
lines throughout the term of the revenue bonds 
issued to acquire, finance or refinance those facili-
ties: Provided, That notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, such modifications shall be deemed eli-
gible under section 184 of title 23, United States 
Code, and shall be funded under section 188 of title 
23, United States Code: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, any 
amounts of the original Federal lines of credit not 
drawn upon, up to the combined original principal
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amount of $240,000,000, shall continue to be avail-
able for draws until such revenue bonds have been 
retired: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, not more than 20 percent of 
the combined original principal amount shall be 
available for draws in any one year: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any draw (except for operation and maintenance ex-
penses) shall be repaid not later than five years fol-
lowing the year in which such revenue bonds have 
been retired. In implementing this section, the Sec-
retary may modify other terms of the existing Fed-
eral lines of credit, including by combining them into 
a single line of credit the principal amount of which 
is limited to $240,000,000, provided that the mar-
ginal budgetary cost of any such additional modifica-
tions is funded under section 188 of title 23, United 
States Code; and 
(7) For the purpose of any applicable law, for 
fiscal year 2003, the city of Norman, Oklahoma, 
shall be considered to be part of the Oklahoma City 
Transportation Management Area.
SEC. 332. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to finalize or implement the proposed 
rule entitled ‘‘Statewide Planning, Metropolitan Transpor-
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tation Planning’’, published by the Department of Trans-
portation in the Federal Register on June 19, 2002 (67 
FR 41648 et seq.). 
SEC. 333. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated or expended by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration for the development or implementation of 
a pilot program for the purpose of allowing commercial 
drivers 18 to 20 years of age to operate the trucks and 
buses of motor carriers in interstate commerce. 
SEC. 334. Section 1023(h) of the Intermodal Surface 
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (23 U.S.C. 127 
note, Public Law 102–240) is amended—
(1) in the subsection heading, by inserting 
‘‘OVER-THE-ROAD BUSES AND’’ before ‘‘PUBLIC’’; 
and 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to any vehi-
cle which’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘to—
‘‘(A) any over-the-road bus (as defined in 
section 301 of the Americans with Disabilities 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12181)); or 
‘‘(B) any vehicle that’’.
SEC. 335. Funds appropriated or limited in this Act 
shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in 
section 350 of Public Law 107–87, including that the Sec-
retary submit a report to the House and Senate Appro-
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priations Committees annually on the safety and security 
of transportation into the United States by Mexico-domi-
ciled motor carriers.
SEC. 336. (a) Section 11123 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘failure of existing com-
muter 
passenger 
transportation 
operations 
caused by a cessation of service by the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation,’’ after ‘‘ces-
sation of operations,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of para-
graph (3); 
(C) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (4)(C) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(5) in the case of a failure of existing freight 
or commuter rail passenger transportation oper-
ations caused by a cessation of service by the Na-
tional Railroad Passenger Corporation, direct the 
continuation of the operations and dispatching, 
maintenance, and other necessary infrastructure 
functions related to the operations.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(3)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘When’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) 
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
when’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) In the case of a failure of existing freight or 
commuter rail passenger transportation operations caused 
by a cessation of service by the National Railroad Pas-
senger Corporation, the Board shall provide funding, to 
the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to 
fully reimburse the directed service provider for its costs 
associated with the activities directed under subsection 
(a), including the payment of increased insurance pre-
miums. The Board shall order complete indemnification 
against any and all claims associated with the provision 
of service to which the directed rail carrier may be ex-
posed.’’; and 
(3) In the case of a failure of existing freight 
or commuter rail passenger transportation oper-
ations caused by cessation of service by the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation, the Board may not 
direct a rail carrier to undertake activities under 
subsection (a) to continue such operations unless the 
Board first affirmatively finds that the rail carrier