H. R. 1105—405 
education, 
and 
technology 
deployment 
including 
intelligent 
transportation systems, $11,756,527 are permanently rescinded. 
SEC. 125. There is hereby appropriated to the Secretary of 
Transportation $161,326,625 for surface transportation priorities: 
Provided, That the amount provided by this section shall be made 
available for the programs, projects and activities identified under 
this section in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act: 
Provided further, That funds provided by this section, at the request 
of a State, shall be transferred by the Secretary to another Federal 
agency: Provided further, That the Federal share payable on account 
of any program, project, or activity carried out with funds set 
aside by this section shall be 100 percent: Provided further, That 
the sums set aside by this section shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That none of the funds set aside by 
this section shall be subject to any limitation on obligations for 
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs 
set forth in this Act or any other Act. 
SEC. 126. Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under his 
or her statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Fed-
eral-aid highway projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
make an informal public notice and comment opportunity on the 
intent to issue such waiver and the reasons therefor: Provided, 
That the Secretary shall provide an annual report to the Appropria-
tions Committees of the Congress on any waivers granted under 
the Buy America requirements. 
SEC. 127. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available in Public Law 110–161 for ‘‘Bridge over Broadway, 
Missoula to Rattlesnake National Recreation Area, MT’’ shall be 
available for a new pedestrian and bicycle-friendly at-grade crossing 
of East Broadway Street in Missoula, Montana. 
SEC. 128. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), none of the funds made available, limited, or otherwise affected 
by this Act shall be used to approve or otherwise authorize the 
imposition of any toll on any segment of highway located on the 
Federal-aid system in the State of Texas that— 
(1) as of the date of enactment of this Act, is not tolled; 
(2) is constructed with Federal assistance provided under 
title 23, United States Code; and 
(3) is in actual operation as of the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) NUMBER OF TOLL LANES.—Subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any segment of highway on the Federal-aid system described 
in that subsection that, as of the date on which a toll is 
imposed on the segment, will have the same number of non- 
toll lanes as were in existence prior to that date. 
(2) HIGH-OCCUPANCY
VEHICLE
LANES.—A high-occupancy 
vehicle lane that is converted to a toll lane shall not be subject 
to this section, and shall not be considered to be a non-toll 
lane for purposes of determining whether a highway will have 
fewer non-toll lanes than prior to the date of imposition of 
the toll, if— 
(A) high-occupancy vehicles occupied by the number 
of passengers specified by the entity operating the toll 
lane may use the toll lane without paying a toll, unless