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(C) Vehicle revenue miles per capita. 
(D) Vehicle revenue hours per capita. 
(E) Passenger miles traveled per capita. 
(F) Passengers per capita. 
(b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—In order to address the 
needs of small urbanized areas with unusually high levels 
of public transportation service, the Secretary shall make 
capital and operating grants under this section to eligible 
recipients described in subsection (d) for use in eligible 
areas. 
(c) APPORTIONMENT.—
(1) APPORTIONMENT FORMULA.—Funds made 
available for grants under this section in a fiscal 
year shall be apportioned among eligible areas in the 
ratio that—
(A) the number of performance categories 
for which each eligible area meets or exceeds 
the industry average in urbanized areas with a 
population of at least 200,000 but not more 
than 999,999; bears to 
(B) the aggregate number of performance 
categories for which all eligible areas meet or 
exceed the industry average in urbanized areas 
with a population of at least 200,000 but not 
more than 999,999.
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(2) DATA USED IN FORMULA.—The Secretary 
shall calculate apportionments under this subsection 
for a fiscal year using data from the national transit 
database used to calculate apportionments for that 
fiscal year under section 5336 of title 49, United 
States Code. 
(d) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—Grant amounts appor-
tioned to an eligible area under this section shall be made 
available to a public transportation agency or other gov-
ernmental entity in the eligible area for obligation in the 
eligible area. 
(e) GOVERNMENT’S SHARE OF COSTS.—
(1) CAPITAL GRANTS.—A grant for a capital 
project under this section (including associated cap-
ital maintenance items) shall be for 80 percent of 
the net capital costs of the project, as determined by 
the Secretary. The recipient may provide additional 
local matching amounts for such projects. 
(2) OPERATING GRANTS.—A grant under this 
section for operating assistance may not exceed 50 
percent of the net operating costs of the project, as 
determined by the Secretary. 
(3) REMAINDER.—The remainder of the net 
project costs may be provided from an undistributed
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cash surplus, a replacement or depreciation cash 
fund or reserve, or new capital. 
(f) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—Funds apportioned 
under this section to an eligible area shall remain available 
for obligation in that eligible area for a period of 3 years 
after the last day of the fiscal year for which the funds 
are apportioned. Any amounts so apportioned that remain 
unobligated at the end of that period shall be added to 
the amount that may be apportioned under this section 
in the next fiscal year. 
(g) APPLICATION OF OTHER SECTIONS.—Sections 
5302, 5318, 5323, 5332, 5333, and 5336(e) of title 49, 
United States Code, apply to this section and to a grant 
made under this section. 
(h) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made available to 
carry out section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, 
$38,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, $41,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2006, $44,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, $47,000,000 
for fiscal year 2008, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2009 
shall be available to carry out this section. 
(i) TECHNICAL
AMENDMENTS.—Section 5336 is 
amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘of this title’’ and inserting 
‘‘to carry out section 5307’’; and
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(B) in paragraph (2) by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, except 
that the amount apportioned to the Anchorage 
urbanized area under subsection (b) shall be 
available to the Alaska Railroad for any costs 
related to its passenger operations’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(1) by inserting ‘‘and the 
Alaska Railroad passenger operations’’ after ‘‘recipi-
ent’’; 
(3) in subsection (j) by striking ‘‘a grant made 
under’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘a grant 
made with funds apportioned under’’; and 
(4) in subsection (k)(1) by striking ‘‘section 
5302(a)(13) of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘section 
5302(a)’’. 
SEC. 3041. ALLOCATIONS FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH AND 
TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Amounts appropriated pursuant 
to section 5338(d) of title 49, United States Code, for na-
tional research and technology programs under sections 
5312, 5314, and 5322 of such title shall be allocated by 
the Secretary as follows: 
(1) SAFETY
AND
EMERGENCY
PREPARED-
NESS.—
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(A) IN GENERAL.—For carrying out safety 
and emergency preparedness research activities 
consisting of technical assistance, training, and 
data analysis and reporting to improve public 
transportation system safety and security and 
emergency preparedness—
(i) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(ii) $7,400,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(iii) $7,800,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(iv) $8,200,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
and 
(v) $8,700,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(B) PUBLIC
TRANSPORTATION
NATIONAL 
SECURITY STUDY.—
(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 
months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary shall enter into an 
agreement with the National Academy of 
Sciences to conduct a study and evaluation 
of the value major public transportation 
systems in the United States serving the 
38 urbanized areas that have a population 
of more than 1,000,000 individuals provide 
to the Nation’s security and the ability of 
such systems to accommodate the evacu-
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ation, egress or ingress of people to or 
from critical locations in times of emer-
gency. 
(ii) ALTERNATIVE ROUTES.—For each 
system described in clause (i) the study 
shall identify—
(I) potential alternative routes 
for evacuation using other transpor-
tation modes such as highway, air, 
marine, and pedestrian activities; and 
(II) transit routes that, if dis-
rupted, do not have sufficient transit 
alternatives available. 
(iii) REPORT.—Not later than 24 
months after the date of entry into the 
agreement, the Academy shall submit to 
the Secretary and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the 
House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Banking, Housing and Urban 
Affairs of the Senate a final report on the 
results of the study and evaluation, to-
gether with such recommendations as the 
Academy considers appropriate.
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(iv) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made 
available under section 5338(d) of title 49, 
United States Code, $250,000 shall be 
available for each of fiscal years 2005 and 
2006 to carry out this subparagraph. 
(2) EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE.—For 
carrying out equipment and infrastructure research 
activities on public transportation and infrastructure 
technologies and methods and voluntary industry 
standards development—
(A) $5,700,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(B) $6,200,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(C) $6,550,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(D) $6,900,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(E) $7,200,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(3) PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS EF-
FICIENCY.—For carrying out public transportation 
operations efficiency research activities on high-per-
formance public transportation services and other in-
novations in fleet operations and maintenance—
(A) $4,700,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(B) $4,900,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(C) $5,200,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(D) $5,500,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(E) $5,800,000 for fiscal year 2009.
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(4) ENERGY
INDEPENDENCE
AND
ENVIRON-
MENTAL PROTECTION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—For carrying out en-
ergy independence and environmental protection 
research activities on improved public transpor-
tation energy use and propulsion systems and 
public transportation oriented development—
(i) $3,700,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(ii) $3,900,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(iii) $4,150,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(iv) $4,300,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
and 
(v) $4,300,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(B) 
TRANSIT-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT 
CENTER.—Of the funds allocated for each of 
fiscal years 2005 through 2009 under subpara-
graph (A), not less than $1,000,000 shall be 
made available by the Secretary for establish-
ment and operation of a national center for 
transit-oriented development—
(i) to develop standards and defini-
tions for transit-oriented development adja-
cent to public transportation facilities; 
(ii) to develop system planning guid-
ance, performance criteria, and modeling
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techniques for metropolitan planning agen-
cies and public transportation agencies to 
maximize ridership through land use plan-
ning and adjacent development; and 
(iii) to provide research support and 
technical assistance to public transpor-
tation agencies, metropolitan planning 
agencies, and other persons regarding 
transit-oriented development. 
(5) MOBILITY MANAGEMENT.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—For carrying out re-
search activities on mobility management, as 
described in section 5302(a)(1) of title 49, 
United States Code—
(i) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(ii) $7,400,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(iii) $7,800,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(iv) $8,200,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
and 
(v) $8,700,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(B) TRANSPORTATION EQUITY RESEARCH 
PROGRAM.—Of the funds allocated for each of 
fiscal years 2005 through 2009 under subpara-
graph (A), not less than $1,000,000 shall be 
made available by the Secretary for research
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and demonstration activities that focus on the 
impacts that transportation planning, invest-
ment, and operations have on low-income and 
minority populations that are transit dependent. 
Such activities shall include the development of 
strategies to advance economic and community 
development in low-income and minority com-
munities and the development of training pro-
grams that promote the employment of low-in-
come and minority community residents on 
Federal-aid transportation projects constructed 
in their communities. 
(C) COGNITIVE
IMPAIRMENT
STUDY.—Of 
the funds allocated for fiscal year 2005 under 
subparagraph (A), $1,000,000 shall be made 
available by the Secretary for research and 
demonstration activities that focus on the ca-
pacity and resources of Oregon public transpor-
tation systems to address the needs, barriers, 
and desires for travel of people with cognitive 
impairments. 
(6) PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY BUILD-
ING.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—For carrying out public 
transportation capacity building activities con-
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sisting of workforce and industry development, 
the International Mass Transportation Pro-
gram, and technology transfer and industry 
adoption activities—
(i) $2,400,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(ii) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(iii) $2,600,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(iv) $2,700,000 for fiscal year 2008; 
and 
(v) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(B) TRANSIT CAREER LADDER TRAINING 
PROGRAM.—Of the funds allocated for each fis-
cal year under subparagraph (A), not less than 
$1,000,000 shall be available for a nationwide 
career ladder job training partnership program 
for public transportation employees to respond 
to technological changes in the public transpor-
tation industry, especially in the area of mainte-
nance. Such program shall be carried out by the 
Secretary through a contract with a national 
nonprofit organization with a demonstrated ca-
pacity to develop and provide such programs. 
(7) STRATEGIC PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE 
MEASURES.—For carrying out strategic planning 
and performance measures consisting of policy and
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program development, research program planning 
and performance, evaluation, and industry out-
reach—
(A) $3,500,000 for fiscal year 2005; 
(B) $3,700,000 for fiscal year 2006; 
(C) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
(D) $4,200,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
(E) $4,300,000 for fiscal year 2009. 
(b) REMAINDER.—After making allocations under 
subsection (a) of this section and section 5338(d)(2) of 
title 49, United States Code, the remainder of funds made 
available by section 5338(d)(2) of such title for national 
research and technology programs under sections 5312, 
5314, and 5322 for a fiscal year shall be allocated at the 
discretion of the Secretary to other transit research, devel-
opment, demonstration and deployment projects author-
ized by sections 5312, 5314, and 5322 of such title. 
SEC. 3042. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS. 
Section 5323(l) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(l) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—Section 1001 
of title 18 applies to a certificate, submission, or statement 
provided under this chapter. The Secretary may terminate 
financial assistance under this chapter and seek reim-
bursement directly, or by offsetting amounts, available 
under this chapter, when a false or fraudulent statement
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or related act within the meaning of such section 1001 
is made in connection with a Federal transit program.’’. 
SEC. 3043. FORGIVENESS OF GRANT AGREEMENT. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law (includ-
ing any regulation), any outstanding balances on the fol-
lowing grant agreements made to the Lane County Tran-
sit District, Oregon, do not have to be repaid: 
(1) Federal Contract Number OR–03–0087. 
(2) Federal Contract Number OR–90–X094. 
SEC. 3044. COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT. 
(a) REVIEW OF COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT; AU-
THORITY TO INCREASE FEDERAL SHARE.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall undertake a 30-day review of efforts to 
use cooperative procurement to determine whether 
benefits are sufficient to formally incorporate coop-
erative procurement into the mass transit program. 
In particular the Secretary shall review the progress 
made under the pilot program authorized under sec-
tion 166 of division F of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2004 (49 U.S.C. 5397 note; 118 Stat. 
309), based on experience to date in the pilot pro-
gram and any available reports to Congress sub-
mitted under such section 166. The Secretary shall