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(2) the proposed construction of such routes is part of 
a comprehensive, multi-modal, service-area wide transportation 
plan that includes multiple additional segments of fixed guide-
way capital projects, including light rail for the jurisdiction 
set forth in the ballot proposition. The ballot language shall 
include reasonable cost estimates, sources of revenue to be 
used and the total amount of bonded indebtedness to be 
incurred as well as a description of each route and the begin-
ning and end point of each proposed transit project. 
SEC. 165. Of the unobligated amounts made available for fiscal 
year 2012 or prior fiscal years to carry out the discretionary bus 
and bus facilities and new fixed guideway capital projects programs 
under 49 U.S.C. 5309 and the discretionary job access and reverse 
commute program under section 3037 of the Transportation Equity 
Act for the 21st Century, $25,397,797 is hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 166. Until September 15, 2016, the Secretary may not 
enforce regulations related to charter bus service under part 604 
of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, for any transit agency 
that, during fiscal year 2008 was both initially granted a 60-day 
period to come into compliance with part 604, and then was subse-
quently granted an exception from said part: Provided, That not-
withstanding 49 U.S.C. 5323(t), such transit agency may receive 
its allocation of urbanized area formula funds apportioned in accord-
ance with 49 U.S.C. 5336. 
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is 
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits 
of funds and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, 
and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commit-
ments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by 
section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the Corporation’s budget for the current fiscal year. 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, maintenance, 
and capital asset renewal activities of those portions of the St. 
Lawrence Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Saint 
Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, $28,400,000, to be 
derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to 
Public Law 99–662. 
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag 
merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United 
States, $210,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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OPERATIONS AND TRAINING 
For necessary expenses of operations and training activities 
authorized by law, $171,155,000, of which $22,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for maintenance and repair of training 
ships at State Maritime Academies, and of which $5,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for National Security Multi-Mission 
Vessel design for State Maritime Academies and National Security, 
and of which $2,400,000 shall remain available through September 
30, 2017, for the Student Incentive Program at State Maritime 
Academies, and of which $1,200,000 shall remain available until 
expended for training ship fuel assistance payments, and of which 
$18,000,000 shall remain available until expended for facilities 
maintenance and repair, equipment, and capital improvements at 
the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and of which 
$3,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, 
for Maritime Environment and Technology Assistance grants, con-
tracts, and cooperative agreement, and of which $5,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the Short Sea Transportation 
Program (America’s Marine Highways) to make grants for the pur-
poses provided in title 46 sections 55601(b)(1) and 55601(b)(3): 
Provided, That amounts apportioned for the United States Merchant 
Marine Academy shall be available only upon allotments made 
personally by the Secretary of Transportation or the Assistant Sec-
retary for Budget and Programs: Provided further, That the Super-
intendent, Deputy Superintendent and the Director of the Office 
of Resource Management of the United States Merchant Marine 
Academy may not be allotment holders for the United States Mer-
chant Marine Academy, and the Administrator of the Maritime 
Administration shall hold all allotments made by the Secretary 
of Transportation or the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Pro-
grams under the previous proviso: Provided further, That 50 percent 
of the funding made available for the United States Merchant 
Marine Academy under this heading shall be available only after 
the Secretary, in consultation with the Superintendent and the 
Maritime Administrator, completes a plan detailing by program 
or activity how such funding will be expended at the Academy, 
and this plan is submitted to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations: Provided further, That not later than January 
12, 2016, the Administrator of the Maritime Administration shall 
transmit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
the annual report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at 
the United States Merchant Marine Academy as required pursuant 
to section 3507 of Public Law 110–417. 
ASSISTANCE TO SMALL SHIPYARDS 
To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized under 
section 54101 of title 46, United States Code, as amended by Public 
Law 113–281, $5,000,000 to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary shall issue the Notice of Funding Avail-
ability no later than 15 days after enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That from applications submitted under the previous pro-
viso, the Secretary of Transportation shall make grants no later 
than 120 days after enactment of this Act in such amounts as 
the Secretary determines: Provided further, That not to exceed 
2 percent of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available for necessary costs of grant administration.
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SHIP DISPOSAL 
For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete ves-
sels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime Adminis-
tration, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized, $8,135,000, 
of which $5,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$3,135,000 shall be available for administrative expenses to carry 
out the guaranteed loan program, which shall be transferred to 
and merged with the appropriations for ‘‘Operations and Training’’, 
Maritime Administration. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 170. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
in addition to any existing authority, the Maritime Administration 
is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary 
repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy 
involving Government property under control of the Maritime 
Administration: Provided, That payments received therefor shall 
be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof 
and shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy for 
items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered 
into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
SEC. 171. None of the funds available or appropriated in this 
Act shall be used by the United States Department of Transpor-
tation or the United States Maritime Administration to negotiate 
or otherwise execute, enter into, facilitate or perform fee-for-service 
contracts for vessel disposal, scrapping or recycling, unless there 
is no qualified domestic ship recycler that will pay any sum of 
money to purchase and scrap or recycle a vessel owned, operated 
or managed by the Maritime Administration or that is part of 
the National Defense Reserve Fleet: Provided, That such sales 
offers must be consistent with the solicitation and provide that 
the work will be performed in a timely manner at a facility qualified 
within the meaning of section 3502 of Public Law 106–398: Provided 
further, That nothing contained herein shall affect the Maritime 
Administration’s authority to award contracts at least cost to the 
Federal Government and consistent with the requirements of 54 
U.S.C. 308704, section 3502, or otherwise authorized under the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation. 
PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES 
For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Haz-
ardous Materials Safety Administration, $21,000,000: Provided, 
That no later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this
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Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall initiate a rulemaking 
to expand the applicability of comprehensive oil spill response plans, 
and shall issue a final rule no later than one year after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY 
For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials 
safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $55,619,000, of which $7,570,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That up to $800,000 
in fees collected under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in 
the general fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided 
further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be 
available until expended, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources for 
expenses incurred for training, for reports publication and dissemi-
nation, and for travel expenses incurred in performance of haz-
ardous materials exemptions and approvals functions. 
PIPELINE SAFETY 
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND) 
(OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND) 
For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the pipeline 
safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety 
program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the 
pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$146,623,000, of which $22,123,000 shall be derived from the Oil 
Spill Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018; and of which $124,500,000 shall be derived from 
the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $59,835,000 shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2018: Provided, That not less than 
$1,058,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be for 
the One-Call state grant program: Provided further, That not less 
than $1,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall 
be for the finalization and implementation of rules required under 
section 60102(n) of title 49, United States Code, and section 8(b)(3) 
of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation 
Act of 2011 (49 U.S.C. 60108 note; 125 Stat. 1911). 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS 
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND) 
For necessary expenses to carryout 49 U.S.C. 5128(b), $188,000, 
to be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain 
available until September 30, 2017: Provided, That notwithstanding 
the fiscal year limitation specified in 49 U.S.C. 5116, not more 
than $28,318,000 shall be made available for obligation in fiscal 
year 2016 from amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), 
and 5128(b) and (c): Provided further, That notwithstanding 49 
U.S.C. 5116(h)(4), not more than 4 percent of the amounts made 
available from this account shall be available to pay administrative 
costs: Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), 5128(b), or 5128(c) shall be made available