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necessary for administration under section 104(a) of title 23,
United States Code; and
(4) notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall with-
hold from initial distribution the fiscal year 1994 Federal-
aid highways obligation limitation set aside for Interstate
Construction Discretionary projects: Provided, That the Sec-
retary shall distribute only after August 1, 1994, such obligation
limitation withheld in accordance with this section to those
States receiving Interstate Discretionary allocations.
(d) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1993,
the aggregate amount of obligations under section 157 of title
23, United States Code, for projects covered under section 147
of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, section 9
of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981, sections 131(b), 131(j),
and 404 of Public Law 97–424, sections 1061, 1103 through 1109,
4008, and 6023(b)(8) and 6023(b)(10) of Public Law 102–240, and
for projects authorized by Public Law 99–500 and Public Law 100–
17, shall not exceed $302,551,350.
(e) During the period August 2 through September 30, 1994,
the aggregate amount which may be obligated by all States pursu-
ant to paragraph (d) shall not exceed 2.5 percent of the aggregate
amount of funds apportioned or allocated to all States—
(1) under sections 104 and 144 of title 23, United States
Code, and 1013(c) and 1015 of Public Law 102–240, and
(2) for highway assistance projects under section 103(e)(4)
of title 23, United States Code,
which would not be obligated in fiscal year 1994 if the total amount
of the obligation limitation provided for such fiscal year in this
Act were utilized.
(f) Paragraph (e) shall not apply to any State which on or
after August 1, 1994, has the amount distributed to such State
under paragraph (a) for fiscal year 1994 reduced under paragraph
(c)(2).
SEC. 311. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
for salaries and expenses of more than one hundred and ten political
and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation:
Provided, That none of the personnel covered by this provision
may be assigned on temporary detail outside the Department of
Transportation.
SEC. 312. Not to exceed $1,500,000 of the funds provided in
this Act for the Department of Transportation shall be available
for the necessary expenses of advisory committees.
SEC. 313. The limitation on obligations for the programs of
the Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority
under section 21 of the Federal Transit Act, previously made avail-
able for obligation, or to any other authority previously made avail-
able for obligation under the Discretionary Grants program.
SEC. 314. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
for the construction of, or any other costs related to, the Central
Automated Transit System (Downtown People Mover) in Detroit,
Michigan.
SEC. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to
implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
SEC. 316. The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to
transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Office of the Sec-
retary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary: Provided,
That no appropriation shall be increased or decreased by more
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than 12 per centum by all such transfers: Provided further, That
any such transfer shall be submitted for approval to the House
and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 317. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1994
pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall be absorbed within
the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 318. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
to plan, finalize, or implement regulations that would establish
a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles wide between
the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and the San Francisco
Traffic Separation Scheme.
SEC. 319. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, airports
may transfer, without consideration, to the Federal Aviation
Administration instrument landing systems (along with associated
approach lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment)
which conform to Federal Aviation Administration design and
performance specifications, the purchase of which was assisted by
a Federal airport aid program, airport development aid program
or airport improvement program grant. The Federal Aviation
Administration shall accept such equipment, which shall thereafter
be operated and maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration
in accordance with agency criteria.
SEC. 320. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used by the Federal Aviation Administration for a new national
weather graphics system.
SEC. 321. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
to award a multiyear contract for production end items that (1)
includes economic order quantity or long lead time material procure-
ment in excess of $10,000,000 in any one year of the contract
or (2) includes a cancellation charge greater than $10,000,000 which
at the time of obligation has not been appropriated to the limits
of the government’s liability or (3) includes a requirement that
permits performance under the contract during the second and
subsequent years of the contract without conditioning such perform-
ance upon the appropriation of funds: Provided, That this limitation
does not apply to a contract in which the Federal Government
incurs no financial liability from not buying additional systems,
subsystems, or components beyond the basic contract requirements.
SEC. 322. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be
made available for planning and executing a passenger manifest
program by the Department of Transportation that only applies
to United States flag carriers.
SEC. 323. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
for the planning or implementation of any change in the current
Federal status of the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight serv-
ice stations at Red Bluff Airport in Red Bluff, California, and
Tri-City Airport in Bristol, Tennessee.
SEC. 324. Of the funds provided for ‘‘Research, development,
test, and evaluation’’ in this Act, the Coast Guard shall utilize
$1,000,000 to enter into a grant agreement with the International
Oceanographic Foundation, Inc. for research activities at the South
Florida oil spill research center.
SEC. 325. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to implement, administer, or enforce the provisions of
section 1038(d) of Public Law 102–240.
SEC. 326. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
except for fixed guideway modernization projects, funds made avail-
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able by this Act or previous Acts under ‘‘Federal Transit Administra-
tion, Discretionary Grants’’ for projects specified in this Act or
previous Acts or identified in reports accompanying this Act or
previous Acts not obligated by September 30, 1996, shall be made
available for other projects under section 3 of the Federal Transit
Act, as amended.
SEC. 327. Funds appropriated in Public Laws 101–516, 102–
143, and 102–388 for a structure to replace the bridge over the
17th Street Causeway in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, may be used
either for a replacement bridge or a tunnel.
SEC. 328. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be
made available to any State, municipality or subdivision thereof
that diverts revenue generated by a public airport in violation
of the provisions of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of
1982, as amended.
SEC. 329. None of the funds in this Act shall be available
to implement or enforce regulations that would result in the with-
drawal of a slot from an air carrier at O’Hare International Airport
under section 93.223 of title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations
in excess of the total slots withdrawn from that air carrier as
of October 31, 1993 if such additional slot is to be allocated to
an air carrier or foreign air carrier under section 93.217 of title
14 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 330. None of the funds in this Act may be used for
the planning, design or construction of an additional air carrier
runway at Tulsa International Airport.
SEC. 331. None of the funds made available by this Act may
be obligated or expended to design, construct, erect, modify or
otherwise place any sign in any State relating to any speed limit,
distance, or other measurement on any highway if such sign estab-
lishes such speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the
metric system.
SEC. 332. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending
the funds the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of
the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c; popularly known
as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 333. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be
made available for any airport development project, or projects,
proposed in any grant application submitted in accordance with
title V of Public Law 97–248 (96 Stat. 671; 49 U.S.C. App. 2201
et seq.) to any public agency, public authority, or public airport
that imposes a fee for any passenger enplaning at the airport
in any instance where the passenger did not pay for the air
transportation which resulted in such enplanement, including any
case in which the passenger obtained the ticket for the air transpor-
tation with a frequent flyer award coupon.
SEC. 334. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, tolls
collected for motor vehicles on any bridge connecting the boroughs
of Brooklyn, New York, and Staten Island, New York, shall continue
to be collected for only those vehicles exiting from such bridge
in Staten Island.
SEC. 335. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be
used to remote radar coverage from the Roswell, New Mexico,
airport unless the Federal Aviation Administration shows a signifi-
cant cost savings by remote radar coverage based upon a cost
study applying (1) actual personnel staffing levels used at com-
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parable facilities, and (2) the actual equipment costs based on
integration with existing systems rather than acquisition of wholly
redundant systems. The Federal Aviation Administration will report
back to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with
an appropriate study not later than December 31, 1993.
SEC. 336. Monies previously appropriated for the Chattanooga
fixed rail project out of the section 3 ‘‘New Construction’’ account
shall be made available for the Chattanooga electric vehicle project
through the ‘‘Bus and Bus Facilities’’ account.
SEC. 337. Funds previously appropriated for Project Breakeven
in Portland, Oregon, may, upon application by Tri-Met to the Fed-
eral Transit Administration, be expended on the Westside Light
Rail Project in the Portland metropolitan region.
SEC. 338. The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration, pursuant to the Federal Aviation Administration’s partici-
pation in the National Implementation Plan for the Modernization
and Associated Restructuring of the National Weather Service, shall
install seven standard Federal Aviation Administration redundant
configuration NEXRAD radar systems, to provide coverage to each
of the following areas in Alaska: Anchorage; Sitka; King Salmon;
Middleton Island; Fairbanks; Nome; and Bethel: Provided, That
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall
submit a study to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions on the adequacy and effect on aviation safety of installing
fewer than nine NEXRAD systems in Alaska.
SEC. 339. (a) The Secretary of Transportation shall permit
the obligation of not to exceed $4,000,000, apportioned under title
23, United States Code, section 104(b)(5)(B) for the State of Florida
for operating expenses of the Tri-County Commuter Rail project
in the area of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, Florida,
during each year that Interstate 95 is under reconstruction in
such area.
(b) The Secretary of Transportation shall permit the obligation
of not to exceed $9,000,000, apportioned under title 23, United
States Code, section 104(b)(1) for the State of North Carolina for
capital improvements for their Rail Impact project in the Interstate
40/85 corridor from Raleigh to Charlotte during reconstruction of
Interstate 40/85.
SEC. 340. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall
be available for use for closing or otherwise reducing the services
of any flight service station in the State of Alaska in operation
on the date of the enactment of this Act, until after the expiration
of the 90-day period following the date that the Secretary of
Transportation has reported to Congress regarding the effects on
safety of the flight service station closing and reduction in services
plan being carried out by the Federal Aviation Administration
in the State of Alaska on the date immediately preceding the
date of the enactment of this Act. Such report shall be submitted
no later than 90 days after enactment of this Act.
SEC. 341. If any State or local interest, within one year following
the date of the enactment of this Act, can demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation that
such State or local interest can cover any potential operating losses
including the cost of equipment depreciation, or that the National
Railroad Passenger Corporation will not incur or absorb any part
of operational losses including the cost of equipment depreciation
due to the initiation of new State-supported service, the Corporation
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shall initiate such new service: Provided, That the corporation
determines equipment is available to initiate such service.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Transportation
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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