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plied to funds for Senior Executive Service bonuses, merit
pay, and other bonuses and cash awards.
SEC. 332. Section 127(a) of title 23, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘With respect to the State of Maryland, laws and regula-
tions in effect on June 1, 1993, shall be applicable for
the purposes of this subsection.’’.
SEC. 333. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the
provisions of Public Law 101–500.
SEC. 334. Funds received from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources
for expenses incurred for training and for reports’ publica-
tion and dissemination may be credited to the Research
and Special Programs account.
SEC. 335. Funds received from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources
for expenses incurred for training may be credited to the
Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Limitation on Gen-
eral Operating Expenses’’ account, the Federal Transit
Administration’s ‘‘Transit Planning and Research’’ ac-
count, and to the Federal Railroad Administration’s
‘‘Railroad Safety’’ account, except for State rail safety in-
spectors participating in training pursuant to section 206
of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970.
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SEC. 336. (a) Subsection (b) of section 1045 of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(105 Stat. 1994) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.—
‘‘(1) GENERAL RULE.—Upon approval of any
substitute project or projects under subsection (a)—
‘‘(A) the costs of construction of the eligi-
ble transitway project for which such project or
projects are substituted shall not be eligible for
funds authorized under section 108(b) of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956; and
‘‘(B) a sum equal to the amount that
would have been apportioned to the State of
Wisconsin on October 1, 1994, under section
104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code, if
the Secretary had not approved such project or
projects shall be available to the Secretary from
the Highway Trust Fund to incur obligations
for the Federal share of the costs of such sub-
stitute project or projects.
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts made available
under paragraph (1)(B) shall be available for obliga-
tion on and after October 1, 1994. Amounts made
available under paragraph (1)(B) shall remain avail-
able until expended and shall be subject to any limi-
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tation on obligations for Federal-aid highways estab-
lished by law.
‘‘(3) APPLICABILITY
OF
TITLE
U.S.C.—
Amounts made available under paragraph (1)(B)
shall be available for obligation in the same manner
as if such funds were apportioned under chapter 1
of title 23, United States Code; except that the Fed-
eral share of the cost of any project carried out with
such funds shall be determined in accordance with
section 103(e)(4)(D) of such title.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) SUBSECTION (c).—The second sentence of
subsection (c) of section 1045 of such Act is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘the authority of section 103(e)(4) of
title 23, United States Code,’’ and inserting ‘‘section
21(a)(2) of the Federal Transit Act’’.
(2) SUBSECTION (d)(1).—Subsection (d)(1) of
section 1045 of such Act is amended by striking
‘‘project for’’ and all that follows through the period
at the end thereof and inserting ‘‘transit project.’’.
(3) SUBSECTION (d).—Subsection (d) of section
1045 of such Act is amended by striking paragraph
(3) and by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-
graph (3).
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(c) REDUCTION OF INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION AU-
THORIZATION.—Section 108(b) of the Federal-Aid High-
way Act of 1956 is amended by striking ‘‘$1,800,000,000
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$1,800,000,000, reduced by the amount made avail-
able under section 1045(b)(1)(B) of the Intermodal Sur-
face Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1996’’.
SEC. 337. (a) UNIFORM HOV–2 DEMONSTRATION
PROJECT ON I–66 IN VIRGINIA.—Notwithstanding any
other law or any prior decision of the Secretary of Trans-
portation, the Governor of Virginia shall have the author-
ity to carry out, during all of fiscal year 1995, a dem-
onstration project on Interstate Highway 66 (I–66) in
Fairfax and Arlington Counties, Virginia, to determine the
impact of applying a uniform high-occupancy vehicle re-
striction to the portion of I–66 that is between the District
of Columbia and Interstate Highway 495 (I–495) and the
portion of I–66 that is west of I–495.
(b) PROJECT REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) UNIFORM
HOV
RESTRICTION.—Except as
provided in paragraph (2), under the demonstration
project established under this section, the uniform
high-occupancy vehicle restriction applied to the 2
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portions of I–66 described in subsection (a) shall be
vehicles carrying 2 or more persons.
(2) AUTHORITY OF GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.—
During the 1-year demonstration period under this
section, the Governor of Virginia shall retain the
flexibility to return the high-occupancy vehicle re-
striction applicable to the portion of I–66 that is be-
tween the District of Columbia and I–495 to vehicles
carrying 3 or more persons, or to make any other
revisions in the demonstration project that the Gov-
ernor determines are necessary.
(c) STUDY AND REPORT.—If the Governor of Vir-
ginia makes use of the authority granted in subsection (a),
the Governor shall—
(1) carry out an assessment of the effects of the
uniform high-occupancy vehicle restriction under the
demonstration project established under this section;
and
(2) upon completion of the assessment, submit
to the Congress and to the Secretary of Transpor-
tation a report setting forth the results of the as-
sessment and the demonstration project.
SEC. 338. (a) FEDERAL LINE OF CREDIT.—For the
purpose of carrying out a demonstration of the construc-
tion of public toll roads in Orange County, California, au-
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thorized by section 129(d) of title 23, United States Code,
there is hereby appropriated $8,000,000 for the Secretary
to enter into an agreement to make a line of credit avail-
able, with a principal amount not to exceed $120,000,000
to the public entity or entities with the statutory authority
to construct such facilities.
(b) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—The line of credit under
this section shall be available for draws during the period
beginning on the date of completion of construction and
ending on the last day of the tenth calendar year following
the date construction of the facilities is completed.
(c) PURPOSES.—The line of credit under this section
shall be available to pay the costs of extraordinary repair
and replacement of the facilities, unexpected Federal or
State environmental restrictions, operation and mainte-
nance expenses of the facilities, and debt service on tax-
exempt or taxable obligations financing the facilities.
(d) LIMITATIONS.—
(1) CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.—With respect to
capital expenditures, draws on the line of credit
under this section shall only be made if and to the
extent proceeds from the sale of the obligations is-
sued by the public entity or entities which otherwise
would be available for such purposes are exhausted,
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or are otherwise unavailable for the payment of such
capital expenditures.
(2) EXPENSES.—With respect to expenses, in-
cluding operation and maintenance expenses and
debt service, a draw on the line of credit under this
section shall only be made if revenues from toll oper-
ations and capitalized interest are insufficient (or
are otherwise unavailable) for such purposes.
(3) PER YEAR.—No more than 10 percent of
the total principal amount of the line of credit under
this section shall be available for draws in any one
year.
(4) THIRD PARTY CREDITOR RIGHTS.—No third
party creditor of the public entity or entities shall
have any right against the Federal Government with
respect to draws on the line of credit under this sec-
tion.
(5) AVAILABILITY FOR PARTICULAR COSTS.—
There is no guaranteed availability of proceeds of
the line of credit under this section for the payment
of any particular cost of the public entity or entities
which might be financed under this section.
(e) INTEREST RATE AND REPAYMENT PERIOD.—Any
draws (except for operation and maintenance expenses) on
the line of credit under this section shall accrue interest
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at the 30-year United States Treasury bond rate begin-
ning on the date such draws are made and shall be repaid
in not more than 30 years; except that any draws under
the line of credit for operation and maintenance expenses
shall accrue interest at the 3-year United States Treasury
note rate beginning on the date such draws are made and
shall be repaid in not more than 3 years.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1995’’.
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Union Calendar No. 300
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4556
[Report No. 103–543]
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Department of
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1995, and for other
purposes.
JUNE 9, 1994
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed