That the following sums are appropriated,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, and for other purposes,
namely:
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of transportation</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="ID024E9F344E8849109F02F696AE8AEAC0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of the
secretary</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="ID34C581B1799F4D0A8E9AF1B2AD1969D2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of the
Secretary, $113,961,000, of which not to exceed
$2,667,000 shall be available for the immediate
Office of the Secretary; not to exceed
$1,000,000 shall be available for the Immediate
Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed
$20,211,000 shall be available for the Office of
the General Counsel; not to exceed $16,568,000
shall be available for the Office of the Under Secretary of Transportation for
Policy; not to exceed $11,216,000 shall be
available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs;
not to exceed $2,200,000 shall be available for
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed
$25,695,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed
$1,800,000 shall be available for the Office of
Public Affairs; not to exceed $1,683,000 shall
be available for the Office of the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed
$1,513,000 shall be available for the Office of
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed
$10,999,000 for the Office of Intelligence,
Security, and Emergency Response; and not to exceed
$18,409,000 shall be available for the Office of
the Chief Information Officer:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Transportation is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any office of
the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no appropriation for any office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5
percent by all such transfers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notice of any change in funding greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for
approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $60,000 shall be for allocation
within the Department for official reception and representation expenses as the
Secretary may determine:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, excluding fees authorized in Public
Law 107–71, there may be credited to this appropriation up to
$2,500,000 in funds received in user fees:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for the position of
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H40406EDDF5534675ABE9C14212BED429"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation Investment
Grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For capital investments
in surface transportation infrastructure,
$800,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Transportation shall distribute funds provided under this heading as
discretionary grants to be awarded to a State, local government, transit
agency, or a collaboration among such entities on a competitive basis for
projects that will have a significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan
area, or a region:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
projects eligible for funding provided under this heading shall include, but
not be limited to, highway or bridge projects eligible under title 23, United
States Code; public transportation projects eligible under chapter 53 of title
49, United States Code; passenger and freight rail transportation projects; and
port infrastructure investments:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in distributing funds provided under this heading, the Secretary shall take
such measures so as to ensure an equitable geographic distribution of funds, an
appropriate balance in addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, and the
investment in a variety of transportation modes:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
a grant funded under this heading shall be not less than
$10,000,000 and not greater than
$200,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not more than 25 percent of the funds made available under this heading may be
awarded to projects in a single State:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal share of the costs for which an expenditure is made under this
heading shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall give priority to projects that require a contribution of
Federal funds in order to complete an overall financing package:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $140,000,000 of the funds provided
under this heading shall be for projects located in rural areas:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for projects located in rural areas, the minimum grant size shall be
$1,000,000 and the Secretary may increase the
Federal share of costs above 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amount made available under this heading, the Secretary may use an
amount not to exceed $150,000,000 for the
purpose of paying the subsidy and administrative costs of projects eligible for
Federal credit assistance under chapter 6 of title 23, United States Code, if
the Secretary finds that such use of the funds would advance the purposes of
this paragraph:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
projects conducted using funds provided under this heading must comply with the
requirements of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall publish criteria on which to base the competition for any
grants awarded under this heading no sooner than 60 days after enactment of
this Act, require applications for funding provided under this heading to be
submitted no sooner than 120 days after the publication of such criteria, and
announce all projects selected to be funded from funds provided under this
heading no sooner than September 15, 2010:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain up to $25,000,000 of
the funds provided under this heading, and may transfer portions of those funds
to the Administrators of the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal
Transit Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal
Maritime Administration, to fund the award and oversight of grants made under
this heading.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC0269697C26C42DBB2C6C7628498F9A5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Financial management capital</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for upgrading and
enhancing the Department of Transportation's financial systems and
re-engineering business processes, $21,000,000,
to remain available through September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1E34C4F067FA466EBA665E476B80CD92"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber Security Initiatives</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary one-time expenses for cyber
security initiatives, including improvement of network perimeter controls and
identity management, testing and assessment of information technology against
business, security, and other requirements, implementation of Federal cyber
security initiatives and information infrastructure enhancements,
implementation of enhanced security controls on network devices, and
enhancement of cyber security workforce training tools,
$30,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H84310314636A4F87BF993F8D662A6F98"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of civil rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Civil Rights,
$9,767,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H030B35D082584A8FA2133263C6D2836C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation planning, research, and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
expenses for conducting transportation planning, research, systems development,
development activities, and making grants, to remain available until expended,
$9,819,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H65C29B5F77724E03A86E9F2CDBBBD250"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Working capital fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for operating costs
and capital outlays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed
$147,596,000, shall be paid from appropriations
made available to the Department of Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such services shall
be provided on a competitive basis to entities within the Department of
Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the above limitation on operating expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency of the Department shall be
transferred to the Working Capital Fund without the approval of the agency
modal administrator:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity
or project funded by this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis
therefor are presented to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and
are approved by such Committees.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBB7FDEF3124B4A34A0B0FE8CD81BA8BF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minority business resource center
program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost of
guaranteed loans, $329,000, as authorized by 49
U.S.C. 332:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan
program, $584,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF662A15FC66B4A59ADED0FFC23F3073C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minority business outreach</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of Minority Business
Resource Center outreach activities, $3,395,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding 49
U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for business opportunities related to any
mode of transportation.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDCD2B65252FD45BB8D32A02856EA19DE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payments to air
carriers</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H353D59A39A484E50A2427E7DDB3ECA27"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF90DE0FB49A84654B2E2DB90C0611E09"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In addition to funds made available from any
other source to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C.
41731 through 41742, $146,000,000, to be derived
from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, in determining
between or among carriers competing to provide service to a community, the
Secretary may consider the relative subsidy requirements of the carriers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That, if the funds under this heading are insufficient to meet the costs of the
essential air service program in the current fiscal year, the Secretary shall
transfer such sums as may be necessary to carry out the essential air service
program from any available amounts appropriated to or directly administered by
the Office of the Secretary for such fiscal year.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5DB61ABD8F264C45A9DA2C2046504135"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—office of the
secretary of transportation</header>
</appropriations-small><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDB8E52CE968D4ED899539BB78733D951" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable agreements
pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal administrations in this Act,
except for activities underway on the date of enactment of this Act, unless
such assessments or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process
for Congressional notification.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBE6B4EE9DB034F288982D89AEDF4D5CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available under this
Act may be obligated or expended to establish or implement a program under
which essential air service communities are required to assume subsidy costs
commonly referred to as the EAS local participation program.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAE200B9388344525811148EB3BBBAEFB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary or his designee may engage in
activities with States and State legislators to consider proposals related to
the reduction of motorcycle fatalities.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HDCB645474FE44383B4F539D851C2D72E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal aviation
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3A6A14842655494AAA4F9111815FA36D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9B928B2D1CDE44D0B0D1AB2E6C8E8518"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC1115DB741F843BFA352A0EFE6186B0D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Federal
Aviation Administration, not otherwise provided for, including operations and
research activities related to commercial space transportation, administrative
expenses for research and development, establishment of air navigation
facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft,
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the public, lease
or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, in addition to
amounts made available by Public Law 108–176,
$9,818,000,000, of which
$4,000,000,000 shall be derived from the Airport
and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed
$7,660,628,000 shall be available for air
traffic organization activities; not to exceed
$1,308,986,000 shall be available for aviation
safety activities; not to exceed $15,747,000
shall be available for commercial space transportation activities; not to
exceed $114,784,000 shall be available for
financial services activities; not to exceed
$103,297,000 shall be available for human
resources program activities; not to exceed
$366,354,000 shall be available for region and
center operations and regional coordination activities; not to exceed
$212,255,000 shall be available for staff
offices; and not to exceed $55,949,000 shall be
available for information services:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
utilize not less than $15,000,000 of the funds
provided for aviation safety activities to pay for staff increases in the
Office of Aviation Flight Standards and the Office of Aircraft Certification:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds provided for increases to the staffs of the aviation flight
standards and aircraft certification offices shall be used for other purposes:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed 2 percent of any budget activity, except for aviation safety
budget activity, may be transferred to any budget activity under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation by more than 2 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
any transfer in excess of 2 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of
funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that
section:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Administrator shall develop an objective, data-driven test to be used in
the placement of air traffic controllers after the successful completion of
their training at the Federal Aviation Administration Academy:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Administrator shall submit for approval to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations a plan for developing a test under the previous proviso, and
that such plan shall include a schedule of milestones, an estimated cost to
complete, and interim reports to the House and Senate Committee on
Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the Administrator of the
Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual update to
the report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of
Public Law 108–176:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced by
$100,000 for each day after March 31 that such
report has not been submitted to the Congress:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the Administrator shall
transmit to Congress a companion report that describes a comprehensive strategy
for staffing, hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft certification
staff in a format similar to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan,
including stated attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year,
and a benchmark for assessing the amount of time aviation inspectors spend
directly observing industry field operations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced by
$100,000 per day for each day after March 31
that such report has not been submitted to Congress:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
funds may be used to enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit
standard-setting organization to assist in the development of aviation safety
standards:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds in this Act shall be available for new applicants for the
second career training program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the Federal Aviation
Administration to finalize or implement any regulation that would promulgate
new aviation user fees not specifically authorized by law after the date of the
enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections funds
received from States, counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, other
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred in the provision
of agency services, including receipts for the maintenance and operation of air
navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or modification of
certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair station certificates, or
for tests related thereto, or for processing major repair or alteration forms:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds appropriated under this heading, not less than
$9,500,000 shall be for the contract tower
cost-sharing program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting and cartography are
available for activities conducted by, or coordinated through, the Working
Capital Fund.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFF60AEE7AA70413EA09BB77F45C439CE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Facilities and
equipment</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H588C1FF170D043389020AD215C9C24A5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses,
not otherwise provided for, for acquisition, establishment, technical support
services, improvement by contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace
systems and experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A
of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial acquisition
of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and service testing,
including construction of test facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by
lease or grant; construction and furnishing of quarters and related
accommodations for officers and employees of the Federal Aviation
Administration stationed at remote localities where such accommodations are not
available; and the purchase, lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds
available under this heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and
certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund,
$2,970,000,000, of which
$2,483,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2013, and of which $487,000,000
shall remain available until September 30, 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That there may be
credited to this appropriation funds received from States, counties,
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses
incurred in the establishment, improvement, and modernization of
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>national airspace
systems<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
upon initial submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2012 President's
budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to the Congress a
comprehensive capital investment plan for the Federal Aviation Administration
which includes funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2012 through
2016, with total funding for each year of the plan constrained to the funding
targets for those years as estimated and approved by the Office of Management
and Budget.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H79D7340C66614B53A810D31B2D1BEC2B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research, engineering, and
development</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBE9D71786FC44DD4A499FA1ACF0E9D3A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses,
not otherwise provided for, for research, engineering, and development, as
authorized under part A of subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code,
including construction of experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary
sites by lease or grant, $198,750,000, to be
derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That there may be
credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections, funds received from
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private
sources, which shall be available for expenses incurred for research,
engineering, and development.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB6C9EE8F201E4BA386550719434A14CB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants-in-aid for
airports</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA989B24246484723AE8096761951FF56"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF9D0D5C41C6A4CE2AB227B78CFF0BFC7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H17B5E00C0B58415C86167FE9BA9F3D53"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(airport and airway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H70D668D6833B43AFA18C2DFB4FB25AB0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For liquidation of obligations incurred for
grants-in-aid for airport planning and development, and noise compatibility
planning and programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and
subchapter I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under other
law authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, and
commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at airports of
such title; for grants authorized under section 41743 of title 49, United
States Code; and for inspection activities and administration of airport safety
programs, including those related to airport operating certificates under
section 44706 of title 49, United States Code,
$3,550,000,000 to be derived from the Airport
and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds
under this heading shall be available for the planning or execution of programs
the obligations for which are in excess of
$3,515,000,000 in fiscal year 2011,
notwithstanding section 47117(g) of title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading shall be available for the replacement of
baggage conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or other
airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk explosive detection
systems:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, of funds limited under this
heading, not more than $99,708,000 shall be
obligated for administration, not less than
$15,000,000 shall be available for the airport
cooperative research program, not less than
$27,217,000 shall be for Airport Technology
Research and $6,000,000, to remain available
until expended, shall be available and transferred to <quote>Office of the
Secretary, Salaries and Expenses</quote> to carry out the Small Community Air
Service Development Program.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF4E7A5E12487494FA6C7A85BAB7CCB9C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal aviation
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98B32962DE404041A54C2C0B681091CD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act may be used
to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the federally funded
research and development center contract between the Federal Aviation
Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during
fiscal year 2011.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H32155F9A021B4FB79232D461E72AD451" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to
provide to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building
construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport
sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air
navigation, or weather reporting:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the prohibition of
funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the agency and
airport sponsors to achieve agreement on <quote>below-market</quote> rates for
these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide
land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8260990A28F04328873A2CAD34B68D24" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>112<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy 49 U.S.C.
41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That during fiscal year
2010, 49 U.S.C. 41742(b) shall not apply, and any amount remaining in such
account at the close of that fiscal year may be made available to satisfy
section 41742(a)(1) for the subsequent fiscal year.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7C427C0024DF4EE186BD20D8678EA4DC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>113<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of
title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation current at
the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same purposes
of such appropriation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4675392614FD43608F32106D7564A03E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>114.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds limited by this Act for
grants under the Airport Improvement Program shall be made available to the
sponsor of a commercial service airport if such sponsor fails to agree to a
request from the Secretary of Transportation for cost-free space in a
nonrevenue producing, public use area of the airport terminal or other airport
facilities for the purpose of carrying out a public service air passenger
rights and consumer outreach campaign.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58E2F434BE5C4B038B24901F0218482D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>115.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of title 5, United
States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee unless such
employee actually performed work during the time corresponding to such premium
pay.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB4EEA4AA83C04D7F8A6C75321B54CCDA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>116.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act may be
obligated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration to
purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of a
Government-issued credit card.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB71886B7BEEA4C1482350CE0C812FAA4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>117.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall apportion to the
sponsor of an airport that received scheduled or unscheduled air service from a
large certified air carrier (as defined in part 241 of title 14 Code of Federal
Regulations, or such other regulations as may be issued by the Secretary under
the authority of section 41709) an amount equal to the minimum apportionment
specified in 49 U.S.C. 47114(c), if the Secretary determines that airport had
more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the preceding calendar year, based on
data submitted to the Secretary under part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E0A1A0ABAE0419998DBB194C6E9F0F2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>118.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act may be
obligated or expended for retention bonuses for an employee of the Federal
Aviation Administration without the prior written approval of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Administration of the Department of
Transportation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96743D415F73492CB4AAB390A4ABD605" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subparagraph (D) of section 47124(b)(3) of
title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>benefit.</quote>
and inserting <quote>benefit, with the maximum allowable local cost share
capped at 20 percent.</quote>.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H4CB3B32855BC4ECD9D06F54766D69A8B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal highway
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7C23FBF4180347CAA11C9A550EC7DDAD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on administrative
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE3978F380D7641CCA78CAB264F9EF5BD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not to exceed
$417,843,000, together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be paid in
accordance with law from appropriations made available by this Act to the
Federal Highway Administration for necessary expenses for administration and
operation. In addition, not to exceed $3,300,000
shall be paid from appropriations made available by this Act and transferred to
the Appalachian Regional Commission in accordance with section 104 of title 23,
United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB6AF2F912FB04730A76D67C508FA9745"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal-aid
highways</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0D643CAEC9064536B3343CFCA46F4FFA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA0317A405BDB4803A2D25810F47C498C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for the implementation or execution of programs, the obligations for
which are in excess of $41,776,000,000 for
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year
2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That within the
$41,776,000,000 obligation limitation on
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs, not more than
$429,800,000 shall be available for the
implementation or execution of programs for transportation research (chapter 5
of title 23, United States Code; sections 111, 5505, and 5506 of title 49,
United States Code; and title 5 of Public Law 109–59) for fiscal year 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
this limitation on transportation research programs shall not apply to any
authority previously made available for obligation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may, as authorized by section 605(b) of title 23, United States
Code, collect and spend fees to cover the costs of services of expert firms,
including counsel, in the field of municipal and project finance to assist in
the underwriting and servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a
portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit
instruments:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such fees are available until expended to pay for such costs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such amounts are in addition to administrative expenses that are also available
for such purpose, and are not subject to any obligation limitation or the
limitation on administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, United
States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H476300E42D3D4E5EAF1FD185E3800B19"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(Liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0B8DF8F8623D463FA9D88AC4712A2B43"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out the provisions of title 23,
United States Code, that are attributable to Federal-aid highways, not
otherwise provided, including reimbursement for sums expended pursuant to the
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 308, $42,515,000,000 or
so much thereof as may be available in and derived from the Highway Trust Fund
(other than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD9C5768C7BF140E28FFFE6E4BE58185C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission of unobligated
balances)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HEA705D1969EF4BD7B9BAC6B9185FF8CD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the unobligated balances of funds made
available for obligation under 23 U.S.C. 320, section 147 of Public Law 95–599,
section 9(c) of Public Law 97–134, section 149 of Public Law 100–17, and
sections 1006, 1069, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 6005, 6015, and 6023
of Public Law 102–240, $263,130,663 are hereby
cancelled.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idDDF649816F3D432A85CFC38BA92DE8BB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Planning Capacity Grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For activities eligible under sections 134
and 135 of title 23, United States Code, and sections 5303 and 5304 of title 49
of such Code, $200,000,000, to remain available
through September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Transportation shall distribute funds provided under this heading as
discretionary grants to be awarded to a metropolitan planning organization, or
to a State, local, tribal government, or agency thereof, on a competitive basis
for activities that will improve surface transportation planning:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $50,000,000 of the funds provided
under this heading shall be for grants that improve planning for rural areas:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $12,000,000 of the funds provided under
this heading may be for grants that improve public involvement in surface
transportation planning:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
a grant funded under this heading shall be not greater than
$5,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal share of the costs for which an expenditure is made under this
heading shall be 80 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain up to 1 percent of the funds provided under this
section to fund the award and oversight of grants made under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds retained under the previous proviso, 50 percent shall be
transferred to the Federal Highway Administration and 50 percent shall be
transferred to the Federal Transit
Administration.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9EC66728F24345878BCC46B8E7010984"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal highway
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEE743482F19B42B9B1A41ABBE245918B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>120.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2C116533AEE549199DF038D8563729E5"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For fiscal year 2010, the Secretary of
Transportation shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58ACDE0C6C424A17829E38AE7240FCE5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not distribute from the obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways amounts authorized for administrative
expenses and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code;
programs funded from the administrative takedown authorized by section
104(a)(1) of title 23, United States Code (as in effect on the date before the
date of enactment of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users); the highway use tax evasion program; and the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF5C7774489584598B09DF66D1FB59C69"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not distribute from the obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways amounts authorized for administrative
expenses and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code;
programs funded from the administrative takedown authorized by section
104(a)(1) of title 23, United States Code (as in effect on the date before the
date of enactment of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users); the highway use tax evasion program; and the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H251CEE337EDE4F00BA8543B11BCCADDE"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the ratio that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0000A5EA563641508949F013B06888E8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the obligation limitation for Federal-aid
highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1)
and (2), bears to</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE2767B6B8ED04D6681A7D382D072E2F6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total of the sums authorized to be
appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs
(other than sums authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law described
in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection (b) and sums authorized to be
appropriated for section 105 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the
amount referred to in subsection (b)(10) for such fiscal year), less the
aggregate of the amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this
subsection;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E7FD71F0DFC4134B50FF5FB0C86136F"><enum>(4)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD7DDD792754E49C4BED09CAAFE318B63"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation for
Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under
paragraphs (1) and (2), for sections 1301, 1302, and 1934 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users;
sections 117 (but individually for each project numbered 1 through 3676 listed
in the table contained in section 1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible,
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users) and section 144(g) of
title 23, United States Code; and section 14501 of title 40, United States
Code, so that the amount of obligation authority available for each of such
sections is equal to the amount determined by multiplying the ratio determined
under paragraph (3) by the sums authorized to be appropriated for that section
for the fiscal year; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C31FE8EB7F9440D9DC755F14461F37F" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute
$2,000,000,000 for section 105 of title 23,
United States Code;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67605ACA5FBB46F5B109EE3EB4DD3A54"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation
provided for Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed
under paragraphs (1) and (2) and amounts distributed under paragraph (4), for
each of the programs that are allocated by the Secretary under the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
and title 23, United States Code (other than to programs to which paragraphs
(1) and (4) apply), by multiplying the ratio determined under paragraph (3) by
the amounts authorized to be appropriated for each such program for such fiscal
year; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCB62A8B657304F9E8C07081373DFB10F"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">distribute the obligation limitation
provided for Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed
under paragraphs (1) and (2) and amounts distributed under paragraphs (4) and
(5), for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs (other
than the amounts apportioned for the equity bonus program, but only to the
extent that the amounts apportioned for the equity bonus program for the fiscal
year are greater than $2,639,000,000, and the
Appalachian development highway system program) that are apportioned by the
Secretary under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users and title 23, United States Code, in the ratio
that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H22264C1A4CEE461D9F7EDEFDFCF27481"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">amounts authorized to be appropriated for
such programs that are apportioned to each State for such fiscal year, bear
to</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B111F83ECCF41469FCC970138F49885"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated for such programs that are apportioned to all States for such
fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5FF99E4948D946B691D4622D8C67C349"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exceptions From Obligation
Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The obligation
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations: (1) under
section 125 of title 23, United States Code; (2) under section 147 of the
Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978; (3) under section 9 of the
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981; (4) under subsections (b) and (j) of section
131 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982; (5) under subsections
(b) and (c) of section 149 of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation
Assistance Act of 1987; (6) under sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991; (7) under section 157 of title
23, United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date of the
enactment of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century; (8) under
section 105 of title 23, United States Code, as in effect for fiscal years 1998
through 2004, but only in an amount equal to
$639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years; (9)
for Federal-aid highway programs for which obligation authority was made
available under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century or
subsequent public laws for multiple years or to remain available until used,
but only to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or been
used; (10) under section 105 of title 23, United States Code, but only in an
amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2005 through 2010; and (11) under section 1603 of the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, to the
extent that funds obligated in accordance with that section were not subject to
a limitation on obligations at the time at which the funds were initially made
available for obligation.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1759793BE6DD4614BA426575EF05863F"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Redistribution of Unused Obligation
Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal year, revise
a distribution of the obligation limitation made available under subsection (a)
if the amount distributed cannot be obligated during that fiscal year and
redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in
addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year, giving
priority to those States having large unobligated balances of funds apportioned
under sections 104 and 144 of title 23, United States Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H754FEF63FF96430C98718F51335877A4"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applicability of Obligation Limitations to
Transportation Research Programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The obligation limitation shall apply to
transportation research programs carried out under chapter 5 of title 23,
United States Code, and title V (research title) of the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, except that
obligation authority made available for such programs under such limitation
shall remain available for a period of 3 fiscal years and shall be in addition
to the amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway
and highway safety construction programs for future fiscal years.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7B7F63952AF24D0CAC15E93B88711BBF"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Redistribution of Certain Authorized
Funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H740EB254650F4E8097AC959E2D4477E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 days after the date of
the distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the Secretary
shall distribute to the States any funds that</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E75700D51534E10AE0D6885CCCAFE99"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are authorized to be appropriated for such
fiscal year for Federal-aid highways programs; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB0E749226A64EBFA5942BC1A33220C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary determines will not be
allocated to the States, and will not be available for obligation, in such
fiscal year due to the imposition of any obligation limitation for such fiscal
year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAA92EB0CFBC64A4BA950C0C3CFDFD090"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ratio</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds shall be distributed under paragraph
(1) in the same ratio as the distribution of obligation authority under
subsection (a)(6).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC074CC40D9FB4BFA9DCC24588CA666A4"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds distributed under paragraph (1) shall
be available for any purposes described in section 133(b) of title 23, United
States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A238E3B76E446DEB82B352A5FBF7FF5"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special Limitation
Characteristics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obligation
limitation distributed for a fiscal year under subsection (a)(4) for the
provision specified in subsection (a)(4) shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H84227B4D614644C78C128D2F9BE600E6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">remain available until used for obligation
of funds for that provision; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3052A66ED0EF48A98ACF7FC6E333E190"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be in addition to the amount of any
limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety
construction programs for future fiscal years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EC7EC74AC284256AFD1542FCE18226B"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">High-priority Project Flexibility</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC6185B374FEB4AFCBDAF96E38052B814"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to paragraph (2), obligation
authority distributed for such fiscal year under subsection (a)(4) for each
project numbered 1 through 3676 listed in the table contained in section 1702
of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users may be obligated for any other project in such section in the
same State.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H57A63BBBCF054A8F809C1C1071E7289A"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Restoration</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Obligation authority used as described in
paragraph (1) shall be restored to the original purpose on the date on which
obligation authority is distributed under this section for the next fiscal year
following obligation under paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC46FC54CF5CD4BA6B045DA548AA70A4E"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation on Statutory
Construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this
section shall be construed to limit the distribution of obligation authority
under subsection (a)(4)(A) for each of the individual projects numbered greater
than 3676 listed in the table contained in section 1702 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F91F24CF445433E9A953D33693A00D0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds
received by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data
products, for necessary expenses incurred pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 111 may be
credited to the Federal-aid highways account for the purpose of reimbursing the
Bureau for such expenses:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such funds shall
be subject to the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways and highway
safety construction.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08D55E04097C4A32A1FDFF5630A97388" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not less than 15 days prior to waiving,
under his statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-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:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
shall provide an annual report to the Appropriations Committees of the Congress
on any waivers granted under the Buy America requirements.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9C91707C49294894907CEFF3C10671FA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>123.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6318AE141D9748929E3D0B8896EB1600"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAC9A4920FF49402E90C6DDA8C54A7226"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as of the date of enactment of this Act, is
not tolled;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF40DFD22A1114E15AF79F1559706C78E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is constructed with Federal assistance
provided under title 23, United States Code; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75F713B11F9244C1AE02F0C43FA979DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is in actual operation as of the date of
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A000E15270641FBBBF660414DC7B443"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exceptions</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62DE0D6EC0E74A2C9DE51A579FC5342B"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Number of toll lanes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 nontoll lanes as were in existence prior to that date.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95CCB9910D3645E1812119446D8720EE"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">High-occupancy vehicle lanes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 nontoll lane for purposes of determining whether a highway
will have fewer nontoll lanes than prior to the date of imposition of the toll,
if—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id394524D0214A497DAB5446817F77B488"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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 otherwise specified by the
appropriate county, town, municipal or other local government entity, or public
toll road or transit authority; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8FB9428177D740EF8BBCE7B1806534F2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each high-occupancy vehicle lane that was
converted to a toll lane was constructed as a temporary lane to be replaced by
a toll lane under a plan approved by the appropriate county, town, municipal or
other local government entity, or public toll road or transit authority.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC0B85D5C7C9A4F7C9506167251993B53" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>124.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is hereby appropriated to the
Secretary of Transportation for the necessary expenses of certain highway and
surface transportation projects, $175,269,000,
to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the amount
provided by this section shall be made available for the programs, projects,
and activities identified under this section in the Committee report
accompanying this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That funds provided by this section, at the request of a State, shall be
transferred by the Secretary of Transportation to another Federal agency:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
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.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H4D671C4DF785425C8350887345430DB8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal motor carrier safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5B6B4777B68C4C8FBD474852BB52BF43"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motor carrier safety operations and
programs</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD866F77059534FAE885FAED7181CB540"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H03E09937EBEB48F4A4D86EAFD316BC13"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE590DA73E30447718FE7A9C03FFE3250"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H02D5AC8BA8A34FD8A2C62D1ED6E77C73"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in the
implementation, execution and administration of motor carrier safety operations
and programs pursuant to section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, and
sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109–59,
$239,828,000, to be derived from the Highway
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account), together with advances and
reimbursements received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the
sum of which shall remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds
derived from the Highway Trust Fund in this Act shall be available for the
implementation, execution or administration of programs, the obligations for
which are in excess of $239,828,000, for
<quote>Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs</quote> of which
$8,586,000, to remain available for obligation
until September 30, 2012, is for the research and technology program and
$1,000,000 shall be available for commercial
motor vehicle operator's grants to carry out section 4134 of Public Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
an additional $20,050,000 shall be appropriated
from the General Fund for the execution and administration of motor carrier
safety operations and programs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds under this
heading for outreach and education shall be available for transfer:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall transmit to Congress a
report on March 30, 2011, and September 30, 2011, on the agency's ability to
meet its requirement to conduct compliance reviews on high-risk
carriers.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H26265F78F9F740098EEEF757C366E2EE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motor carrier safety
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDDCD71A81839431BB26EDE6053AB00BD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H75DF5E7480AD4BE08C103595BD796BA2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H21D33E3863F6498690E581DF463949AB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE371F8F023B445C8A910A55E77EE20A2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out sections 31102, 31104(a), 31106, 31107, 31109, 31309, 31313 of
title 49, United States Code, and sections 4126 and 4128 of Public Law 109–59,
$310,070,000, to be derived from the Highway
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds in
this Act shall be available for the implementation or execution of programs,
the obligations for which are in excess of
$310,070,000, for “Motor Carrier Safety Grants”;
of which $212,070,000 shall be available for the
motor carrier safety assistance program to carry out sections 31102 and
31104(a) of title 49, United States Code;
$25,000,000 shall be available for the
commercial driver's license improvements program to carry out section 31313 of
title 49, United States Code; $32,000,000 shall
be available for the border enforcement grants program to carry out section
31107 of title 49, United States Code;
$5,000,000 shall be available for the
performance and registration information system management program to carry out
sections 31106(b) and 31109 of title 49, United States Code;
$25,000,000 shall be available for the
commercial vehicle information systems and networks deployment program to carry
out section 4126 of Public Law 109–59;
$3,000,000 shall be available for the safety
data improvement program to carry out section 4128 of Public Law 109–59; and
$8,000,000 shall be available for the commercial
driver's license information system modernization program to carry out section
31309(e) of title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available for the motor carrier safety assistance program,
$35,000,000 shall be available for audits of new
entrant motor carriers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the amount made available under this heading for the commercial driver’s
license information system modernization program,
$3,000,000 may be made available for audits of
new entrant motor carriers to carry out section 4107(b) of Public Law 110–59,
and 31104(a) of title 49, United States Code, and
$5,000,000 shall be made available for the
commercial driver’s license improvements program to carry out section 31313 of
title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$18,900,000 in unobligated balances are
permanently rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9AE0D6ED46E947AB9F4411F0C3CD1BAD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motor Carrier
Safety</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H032DD5EDF91740C1BEE56F1B1CB4F5B3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB433E2A237C64F5A8E4819B6F2E646D0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under this
heading in prior appropriations Acts, $7,300,000
in unobligated balances are permanently
rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3F7E96935B6043C69C539F8F04DDBE82"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Motor Carrier Safety
Program</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H6BA8F30007D84B278D9172D28D8D6C63"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7E4F077831CA41F993F1BD67D4875609"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under this
heading in prior appropriations Acts,
$15,000,000 in unobligated balances are
permanently rescinded.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id4BF85244AE3C4E8D8C4F5A2BC850795E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—FEDERAL MOTOR
CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id662A0411ABF741F1A34F8DFB65E668BC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>135.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds appropriated or limited in this Act
shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in section 350 of
Public Law 107–87 and section 6901 of Public Law 110–28, including that the
Secretary submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees
annually on the safety and security of transportation into the United States by
Mexico-domiciled motor carriers.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H679C14B5B70A4DF99945B038263A50CC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National highway traffic safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDF6F8EFEF8D24947AA26B8DA816557EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and research</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to discharge the
functions of the Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety under
subtitle C of title X of Public Law 109–59 and chapter 301 and part C of
subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code,
$172,773,000, of which
$30,445,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2012, and $25,000,000 shall remain
available through September 30, 2014.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7439503027EB4F14BE378362F947CED9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and
research</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF817138415104515B64C1F481838605F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H83963A922280440EA1409256BCC769F8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA1A320A7F6E7416EAD7E248EB2C0F314"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403,
$117,376,000 to be derived from the Highway
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds in
this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs the total
obligations for which, in fiscal year 2011, are in excess of
$117,376,000 for programs authorized under 23
U.S.C. 403:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
within the $117,376,000 obligation limitation
for operations and research, $29,737,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2012 and shall be in addition to the
amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for future
years.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H55B2C6AD1E5D478BB96F2955930FD635"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National driver
register</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB6071604FBA742F8A9D4B0C2BC195851"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HCA24167E8F354A099CF656DC7D75B660"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H247A6E981C8D4E35B4DE632B843B566D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code,
$4,170,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds in
this Act shall be available for the implementation or execution of programs the
total obligations for which, in fiscal year 2011, are in excess of
$4,170,000 for the National Driver Register
authorized under such chapter.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA9786DD27B6B4DA0A6C31720E25712EF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National Driver Register
Modernization</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For an
additional amount for the <quote>National Driver Register</quote>as authorized
by chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code,
$2,530,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the funding made
available under this heading shall be used to
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>continue<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> the modernization of the
National Driver Register.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFBEF55F4E4D24AA0B695C90B7764542C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Highway traffic safety
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9D3C2839AF234434A840B44CF77F0BCF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authorization)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9289F8805CF74023899201817142E648"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H288D37435C994A68A27E5D9AE0C4470E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 402, 405, 406, 408, and 410 and
sections 2001(a)(11), 2009, 2010, and 2011 of Public Law 109–59, to remain
available until expended, $606,197,000 to be
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds in
this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs the total
obligations for which, in fiscal year 2011, are in excess of
$606,197,000 for programs authorized under 23
U.S.C. 402, 405, 406, 408, and 410 and sections 2001(a)(11), 2009, 2010, and
2011 of Public Law 109–59, of which $235,000,000
shall be for <quote>Highway Safety Programs</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 402;
$25,000,000 shall be for <quote>Occupant
Protection Incentive Grants</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 405;
$110,000,000 shall be for <quote>Safety Belt
Performance Grants</quote> under 23 U.S.C. 406, and such obligation limitation
shall remain available until September 30, 2012 in accordance with subsection
(f) of such section 406 and shall be in addition to the amount of any
limitation imposed on obligations for such grants for future fiscal years, of
which up to $50,000,000 may be made available by
the Secretary as grants to States that enact and enforce laws to prevent
distracted driving; $34,500,000 shall be for
<quote>State Traffic Safety Information System Improvements</quote> under 23
U.S.C. 408; $139,000,000 shall be for
<quote>Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures Incentive Grant Program</quote>
under 23 U.S.C. 410; $19,697,000 shall be for
<quote>Administrative Expenses</quote> under section 2001(a)(11) of Public Law
109–59; $29,000,000 shall be for <quote>High
Visibility Enforcement Program</quote> under section 2009 of Public Law 109–59;
$7,000,000 shall be for <quote>Motorcyclist
Safety</quote> under section 2010 of Public Law 109–59; and
$7,000,000 shall be for <quote>Child Safety and
Child Booster Seat Safety Incentive Grants</quote> under section 2011 of Public
Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available for grants to States that enact and enforce laws to
prevent distracted driving, up to $5,000,000 may
be available for the development, production, and use of broadcast and print
media advertising for distracted driving prevention:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of these funds shall be used for construction, rehabilitation, or
remodeling costs, or for office furnishings and fixtures for State, local or
private buildings or structures:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $500,000 of the funds made
available for section 410 <quote>Alcohol-Impaired Driving Countermeasures
Grants</quote> shall be available for technical assistance to the States:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $750,000 of the funds made
available for the <quote>High Visibility Enforcement Program</quote> shall be
available for the evaluation required under section 2009(f) of Public Law
109–59.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H69C00146E80045AABC57D42BFE2791C5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—national highway
traffic safety administration</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H007AC0743EDC492BBE509A9A95FF17DE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including
rescissions)</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1630EAFB535C4592BC6FDA9CC0317F6F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>140.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law
or limitation on the use of funds made available under section 403 of title 23,
United States Code, an additional $130,000 shall
be made available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, out of
the amount limited for section 402 of title 23, United States Code, to pay for
travel and related expenses for State management reviews and to pay for core
competency development training and related expenses for highway safety
staff.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F95C17EF3034F1AA358E5B4084B59E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>141.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The limitations on obligations for the
programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act
shall not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made
available in previous public laws for multiple years but only to the extent
that the obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9DF23E762964F749208401B92D47EEC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>142.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under the
heading <quote>Operations and Research (Liquidation of Contract Authorization)
(Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)</quote> in prior
appropriations Acts, $1,829,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05FD6C824B04422186DBE8A8B20196D8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>143.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under the
heading <quote>National Driver Register (Liquidation of Contract Authorization)
(Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)</quote> in prior
appropriations Acts, $78,000 in unobligated
balances are permanently rescinded.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H858A7EF69A844A1F8CC0B9436BF4D76D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>144.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under the
heading <quote>Highway Traffic Safety Grants (Liquidation of Contract
Authorization) (Limitation on Obligations) (Highway Trust Fund)</quote> in
prior appropriations Acts, $79,843,000 in
unobligated balances are permanently rescinded.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H1EAC9E90ECD44A6A94D86F6410EFF217"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal railroad
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8C5CEBFF73944EF4BCC206A618B46CBD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safety and operations<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Federal
Railroad Administration, not otherwise provided for,
$205,098,000, of which
$8,380,000 shall remain available through
September 30, 2012, and $34,093,000 shall remain
available until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1282C12E42454256A9566DE15AB01A26"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Railroad research and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
expenses for railroad research and development,
$40,000,000, to remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H05C155D7E070455A93E572DC945303BC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Railroad rehabilitation and improvement
financing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue to the Secretary of the
Treasury notes or other obligations pursuant to section 512 of the Railroad
Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–210), as
amended, in such amounts and at such times as may be necessary to pay any
amounts required pursuant to the guarantee of the principal amount of
obligations under sections 511 through 513 of such Act, such authority to exist
as long as any such guaranteed obligation is outstanding:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That pursuant to section
502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or loan guarantee commitments
shall be made using Federal funds for the credit risk premium during fiscal
year 2011.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1C98C3A2E211402EBBC96456E0636EC9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Railroad Safety Technology
Program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses
of carrying out section 20158 of title 49, United States Code,
$150,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That to be eligible for
assistance under this heading, an entity need not have developed plans required
under subsection 20156(e)(2) of title 49, United States Code, and section 20157
of such title.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HEAE7537C70AA4B7482A293CFC8073F9F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital assistance for high speed rail
corridors and intercity passenger rail service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To enable the Secretary of Transportation to
make grants for high-speed rail projects as authorized under section 26106 of
title 49, United States Code, capital investment grants to support intercity
passenger rail service as authorized under section 24406 of title 49, United
States Code, and congestion grants as authorized under section 24105 of title
49, United States Code, and to enter into cooperative agreements for these
purposes as authorized, $1,000,000,000, to
remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>up to<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>$50,000,000
of funds provided under this paragraph are available to the Administrator of
the Federal Railroad Administration to fund the award and oversight by the
Administrator of grants and cooperative agreements for intercity and high-speed
rail:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $30,000,000 of the funds provided under
this paragraph are available to the Administrator for the purposes of
conducting research and demonstrating technologies supporting the development
of high-speed rail in the United States, including the demonstration of
next-generation rolling stock fleet technology and the implementation of the
Rail Cooperative Research Program authorized by section 24910 of title 49,
United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the national rail plan shall include a map depicting all high-speed rail
service envisioned in the plan and the estimated cost to complete that service:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>up to<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>$50,000,000
of the funds provided under this paragraph may be used for planning activities
that lead directly to the development of a passenger rail corridor investment
plan consistent with the requirements established by the Administrator or a
State rail plan consistent with chapter 227 of title 49, United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain a portion of the funds made available for planning
activities under the previous proviso to facilitate the preparation of a
service development plan and related environmental impact statement for
high-speed corridors located in multiple States:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than 85 percent of the funds provided under this heading shall be for
cooperative agreements that lead to the development of entire segments or
phases of intercity or high-speed rail corridors:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
at least 30 days prior to issuing a letter of intent or cooperative agreement
pursuant to section 24402(f) of title 49, United States Code, for a major
corridor development program, the Secretary shall provide to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations written notification consisting of a
business and public investment case for the proposed corridor program which
shall include: a comprehensive analysis of the monetary and nonmonetary costs
and benefits of the corridor development program; an assessment of ridership,
passenger travel time reductions, congestion relief benefits, environmental
benefits, economic benefits, and other public benefits; operating financial
forecasts for the program; a full capital cost estimation for the entire
project, including the amount, source and security of non-Federal funds to
complete the project; a summary of the grants management plan and an evaluation
of the grantee's ability to sustain the project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Federal share payable of the costs for which a grant or cooperative
agreements is made under this heading shall be determined in accordance with
the provisions of Public Law 110–432, except that the local share of
expenditures shall be no less than 10 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in addition to the provisions of title 49, United States Code, that apply to
each of the individual programs funded under this heading, subsections
24402(a)(2), 24402(f), 24402(i), and 24403(a) and (c) of title 49, United
States Code, shall also apply to the provision of funds provided under this
heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
recipients of grants under this paragraph shall conduct all procurement
transactions using such grant funds in a manner that provides full and open
competition, as determined by the Secretary, in compliance with existing labor
agreements.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HFE6C552B773A47F8A911C1A64A77D081"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operating subsidy grants to the national
railroad passenger corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To enable the Secretary of Transportation to
make quarterly grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for the
operation of intercity passenger rail, as authorized by section 101 of the
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law
110–432), $563,000,000, to remain available
until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the amounts
available under this paragraph shall be available for the Secretary to approve
funding to cover operating losses for the Corporation only after receiving and
reviewing a grant request for each specific train route:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each such grant request shall be accompanied by a detailed financial analysis,
revenue projection, and capital expenditure projection justifying the Federal
support to the Secretary’s satisfaction:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall
transmit to the Secretary and the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
a plan to achieve savings through operating efficiencies including, but not
limited to, modifications to food and beverage service and first class service:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Amtrak Inspector General shall provide semiannual reports to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations on the estimated savings accrued as a
result of all operational reforms instituted by the Corporation and estimations
of possible future savings:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall
transmit, in electronic format, to the Secretary, the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation the annual budget and business plan and the 5-Year Financial
Plan for fiscal year 2011 required under section 204 of the Passenger Rail
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan, and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall also include a
separate accounting of ridership, revenues, and capital and operating expenses
for the Northeast Corridor; commuter service; long-distance Amtrak service;
State-supported service; each intercity train route, including Autotrain; and
commercial activities including contract operations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall include a
description of work to be funded, along with cost estimates and an estimated
timetable for completion of the projects covered by these plans:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan shall include annual
information on the maintenance, refurbishment, replacement, and expansion for
all Amtrak rolling stock consistent with the comprehensive fleet plan:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Corporation shall provide semiannual reports in electronic format regarding
the pending business plan, which shall describe the work completed to date, any
changes to the business plan, and the reasons for such changes, and shall
identify all sole-source contract awards which shall be accompanied by a
justification as to why said contract was awarded on a sole-source basis:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Corporation’s budget, business plan, 5-Year Financial Plan, semiannual
reports, and all subsequent supplemental plans shall be displayed on the
Corporation’s Web site within a reasonable timeframe following their submission
to the appropriate entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be obligated or expended until the
Corporation agrees to continue abiding by the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, 5,
9, and 11 of the summary of conditions for the direct loan agreement of June
28, 2002, in the same manner as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
concurrent with the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2012, the
Corporation shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a
budget request for fiscal year 2012 in similar format and substance to those
submitted by executive agencies of the Federal
Government.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE0B6D9CEBB7C441F8F34F0CD87497A07"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital and debt service grants to the
national railroad passenger corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To enable the Secretary of Transportation to
make grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for capital
investments as authorized by section 101(c) and 219(b) of the Passenger Rail
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110–432),
$1,400,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which not to exceed $305,000,000
shall be for debt service obligations as authorized by section 102 of such Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That after an initial
distribution of up to $200,000,000, which shall
be used by the Corporation as a working capital account, all remaining funds
shall be provided to the Corporation only on a reimbursable basis:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may retain up to one-half of 1 percent of the funds provided
under this heading to fund the costs of project management oversight of capital
projects funded by grants provided under this heading, as authorized by
subsection 101(d) of division B of Public Law 110–432:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall approve funding for capital expenditures, including advance
purchase orders of materials, for the Corporation only after receiving and
reviewing a grant request for each specific capital project justifying the
Federal support to the Secretary's satisfaction:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be used to subsidize operating losses
of the Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds under this heading may be used for capital projects not
approved by the Secretary of Transportation or on the Corporation's fiscal year
2011 business plan.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9593EFCDA8CE4FF99DC89DB75462748E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal railroad
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD8CCF7352B724D208CB749C2626EDA33" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>151.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may purchase promotional
items of nominal value for use in public outreach activities to accomplish the
purposes of 49 U.S.C. 20134:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
shall prescribe guidelines for the administration of such purchases and
use.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H13133C1136DE4310ADD336AC74E8AE0C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>152.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hereafter, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, funds provided in this Act for the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation shall immediately cease to be available to said
Corporation in the event that the Corporation contracts to have services
provided at or from any location outside the United States. For purposes of
this section, the word <quote>services</quote> shall mean any service that was,
as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time or part-time Amtrak employee whose
base of employment is located within the United States.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F7ADD3977DD424098B68A662118D460" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>153.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation may receive
and expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, from
non-United States Government sources to repair damages to or replace United
States Government owned automated track inspection cars and equipment as a
result of third party liability for such damages, and any amounts collected
under this section shall be credited directly to the Safety and Operations
account of the Federal Railroad Administration, and shall remain available
until expended for the repair, operation and maintenance of automated track
inspection cars and equipment in connection with the automated track inspection
program.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5BBEB46946DE4DEFBE77D2E06968E94C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>154.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator of the Federal Railroad
Administration shall submit a report on May 31, 2011, to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations detailing the Administrator's efforts at improving
the on-time performance of Amtrak intercity rail service operating on
non-Amtrak owned property. Such reports shall compare the most recent actual
on-time performance data to pre-established on-time performance goals that the
Administrator shall set for each rail service, identified by route. Such
reports shall also include whatever other information and data regarding the
on-time performance of Amtrak trains the Administrator deems to be
appropriate.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFB2A54DCE15F4C90BDE76B45B27909C9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal transit
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H854F46018C3D4DFC9C425B4AD2A7B5EE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1D83B9D845DE4ABD9B313C7E322F45C3"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary administrative expenses of the
Federal Transit Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49,
United States Code, $106,981,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That for an additional
amount to carry out public transportation fixed guideway safety oversight
activities, $5,000,000, if legislation
authorizing such activities is enacted into law prior to September 30, 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the funds available under this heading, not to exceed
$2,000,000 shall be available for travel:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds provided or limited in this Act may be used to create a
permanent office of transit security under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
upon submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2012 President's budget, the
Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress the annual report on new
starts, including proposed allocations of funds for fiscal year
2012.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5FCD1D8B843441A39BC245AA083158D5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formula and Bus
Grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0F5DDB560C1548B8A6CC1B62DED7BC1C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(liquidation of contract
authority)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC2E95A9420954A9B8A72FFBC0FC4269A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(limitation on
obligations)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAB9787A18A53445EBD901B6EC0B17E80"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(highway trust
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H12412F75C03545A39A1501E0B42AEE4B"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment of obligations incurred in
carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311,
5316, 5317, 5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 and section 3038 of Public Law 105–178,
as amended, $9,200,000,000 to be derived from
the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available
until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds available for
the implementation or execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305,
5307, 5308, 5309, 5310, 5311, 5316, 5317, 5320, 5335, 5339, and 5340 and
section 3038 of Public Law 105–178, as amended, shall not exceed total
obligations of $8,360,565,000 in fiscal year
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2011.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HCB276BDB0D154043B2A7FFD60BF40E65"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and university research
centers<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out 49
U.S.C. <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>5306,
5312–5315, 5322<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>,
and 5506, $69,750,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
$10,000,000 is available to carry out the
transit cooperative research program under section 5313 of title 49, United
States Code, $4,300,000 is available for the
National Transit Institute under section 5315 of title 49, United States Code,
and $7,000,000 is available for university
transportation centers program under section 5506 of title 49, United States
Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$48,450,000 is available to carry out national
research programs under sections 5312, 5313, 5314, and 5322 of title 49, United
States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds available to carry out section 5312 of title 49, United States
Code, $5,000,000 shall be available to the
Secretary to develop standards for asset management plans, provide technical
assistance to recipients engaged in the development or implementation of an
asset management plan, improve data collection through the National Transit
Database, and conduct a pilot program designed to identify the best practices
of asset management.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H347DCD9193FC4094BBE5EF6BC9FDBB9F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Capital investment
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC61E047D1DEB4622828D40212CFB1F49"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out section
5309 of title 49, United States Code,
$2,000,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which no less than $200,000,000 is
for section 5309(e) of such title.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H51C7F43607054B958253E835EE8C790B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants for Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse
Gas Reductions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For grants to
public transit agencies for capital investments that will reduce the energy
consumption or greenhouse gas emissions of their public transportation systems,
$100,000,000, to remain available through
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That priority shall be
given to projects that use innovative and potentially replicable approaches to
reducing energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall publish criteria on which to base the competition for any
grants awarded under this heading no sooner than 90 days after the enactment of
this Act, require applications for funding provided under this heading to be
submitted no sooner than 120 days after the publication of such criteria, and
announce all projects selected to be funded from funds provided under this
heading no sooner than September 15, 2011.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idE4B8451CCF8C4FCFA8FC7AA9B38E2F4D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"> WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT
AUTHORITY</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For grants to the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as authorized under section 601
of division B of Public Law 110–432,
$150,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary shall
approve grants for capital and preventive maintenance expenditures for the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority only after receiving and
reviewing a request for each specific project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
prior to approving such grants, the Secretary shall determine that the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has placed the highest priority
on those investments that will improve the safety of the
system.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5E6C5EFE223E48D081680228DFE704C9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—federal transit
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE255C1731E124F2181105BACA5F06B1E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>160.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The limitations on obligations for the
programs of the Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority
under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any other
authority previously made available for obligation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1A40BB9AEFCC425BB087A4E9BE28A112" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>161.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds appropriated or limited by this Act under <quote>Federal Transit
Administration, Capital Investment Grants</quote> and for bus and bus
facilities under <quote>Federal Transit Administration, Formula and Bus
Grants</quote> for projects specified in this Act or identified in reports
accompanying this Act not obligated by September 30, 2013, and other
recoveries, shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the
purposes for which they were originally provided.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF8C918397214CD6AA55AD57B690BF50" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>162.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
any funds appropriated before October 1, 2010, under any section of chapter 53
of title 49, United States Code, that remain available for expenditure, may be
transferred to and administered under the most recent appropriation heading for
any such section.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5741ADAD8AFC4D6299771086C6E248D3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>163.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
unobligated funds made available for new fixed guideway system projects under
the heading <quote>Federal Transit Administration, Capital investment
grants</quote> in any appropriations Act prior to this Act may be used during
this fiscal year to satisfy expenses incurred for such projects.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33777E9A663444C2A505FF2238FEBCBB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>164.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the amounts made available
under section 5327(c)(1) of title 49, United States Code, the Secretary may
use, for program management activities described in section 5327(c)(2), 1
percent of the amount made available to carry out section 5316 of title 49,
United States Code:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds made
available for program management oversight shall be used to oversee the
compliance of a recipient or subrecipient of Federal transit assistance
consistent with activities identified under section 5327(c)(2) and for purposes
of enforcement.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7A3366D7701F48AF830AFACF40D97C67" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>165.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H471F442E814C4ACCAF9383F3E1AB94BB"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
unobligated funds or recoveries under section 5309 of title 49, United States
Code, that are available to the Secretary of Transportation for reallocation
shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for
which they were originally provided.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE097D01ED1CE4350A6E45723A7D175CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>166.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii
ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(6)(B)
may be used to construct new vessels and facilities, or to improve existing
vessels and facilities, including both the passenger and vehicle-related
elements of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not more than
$4,000,000 of the funds made available pursuant
to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(6)(B) may be used by the City and County of Honolulu to
operate a passenger ferry boat service demonstration project to test the
viability of different intra-island ferry boat routes and technologies.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46B74545026047529FD06B21CB075532" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>167.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
for fiscal year 2011, the total estimated amount of future obligations of the
Government and contingent commitments to incur obligations covered by all
outstanding full funding grant agreements entered into on or before September
30, 2009, and all outstanding letters of intent and early systems work
agreements under subsection 5309(g) of title 49, United States Code, for major
new fixed guideway capital projects may be not more than the sum of the amount
authorized under subsections 5338(a)(3)(iv) and 5338(c) of such title for such
projects and an amount equivalent to the last 3 fiscal years of funding
allocated under subsections 5309(m)(1)(A) and (m)(2)(A)(ii) of such title, for
such projects, less an amount the Secretary reasonably estimates is necessary
for grants under subsection 5309(b)(1) of such title for those of such projects
that are not covered by a letter or agreement:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary may
enter into full funding grant agreements under subsection 5309(g)(2) of such
title for major new fixed guideway capital projects that contain contingent
commitments to incur obligations in such amounts as the Secretary determines
are appropriate.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B4EE8B6F36F414E94D709A9E6226E72" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>168.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds provided or limited under
this Act may be used to enforce regulations related to charter bus service
under part 604 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, for any transit agency
who during fiscal year 2008 was both initially granted a 60-day period to come
into compliance with part 604, and then was subsequently granted an exception
from said part.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA00F6A5AD0204FE29F77F98879C75B6D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>169.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
when evaluating the local share of the project authorized to be carried out
under section 3043(c)(86) of Public Law 109–59 (119 Stat. 1644) the Secretary
shall give consideration to all non-New Starts funds expended for engineering,
final design and construction of the Farrington Highway Guideway, Stations,
Maintenance Storage Facility and related elements advanced with 100 percent
non-New Starts funds.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H0250D3C086434497AAC46A65DCCC0842"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Saint lawrence seaway development
corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 commitments
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.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H90B31743C7D9445096BE0B930B0616FD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and
maintenance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8D77BFC96C7A4309867450E78B0042A0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(harbor maintenance trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses
for operations, maintenance, and capital asset renewal of those portions of the
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>St.<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> Lawrence Seaway owned,
operated, and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation,
$32,324,000, to be derived from the Harbor
Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law
99–662.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HD88A12AEF79A4C16B6E38A30F89B9634"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H00AB60185ED34A2580CFDB266E1BEF53"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime security program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to maintain and
preserve a U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the
United States, $174,000,000, to remain available
until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H772E38BE6B334E84B20503836D4DCC12"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operations and training</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of operations and
training activities authorized by law,
$172,754,000, of which
$11,007,000 shall remain available until
expended for maintenance and repair of training ships at State Maritime
Academies, and of which $30,900,000 shall remain
available until expended for capital improvements at the United States Merchant
Marine Academy, and of which <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>$6,000,000
shall be available until expended for the Secretary's reimbursement of
overcharged midshipmen fees and such action shall be final and
conclusive<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>That<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> 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 Secretary
for Budget and Programs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Superintendent, 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 Merchant Marine Academy, and the
Administrator of Maritime Administration shall hold all allotments made by the
Secretary of Transportation or the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs
under the previous proviso:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBC2DB5C7AE6448EE94FC61FD35F931EF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ship disposal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses related to the
disposal of obsolete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the
Maritime Administration, $10,000,000, to remain
available until expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC4BDEC75A480458DB55C494A7B41E196"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance to small shipyards</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To make grants to qualified shipyards as
authorized under section 3508 of Public Law 110–417 or section 54101 of title
46, United States Code, $25,000,000, to remain
available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That to be considered for
assistance, a qualified shipyard shall submit an application for assistance no
later than 60 days after enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
from applications submitted under the previous proviso, the Secretary of
Transportation shall make grants no later than 120 days after enactment of this
Act in such amounts as the Secretary determines:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed 2 percent of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be
available for necessary costs of grant
administration.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9EBBEB3801E04E6998B659A6A405755A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program
account</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H67996A1C0AA24B02BDBDB739C3D79424"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost of guaranteed loans, as
authorized, $9,000,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available for
administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, which shall
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for <quote>Operations and
Training</quote>, Maritime Administration.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H11449CA1357240739069D665DB254EDA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative provisions—maritime
administration</header>
</appropriations-small></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC909582F1ABA4DDFB9B3049262E4A71C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>175.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, 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, and payments received therefor shall be credited to the
appropriation charged with the cost thereof:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H1467C5C406AE4F169FA820866F8ED837"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pipeline and hazardous materials safety
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H75283F9312ED4951B749E41728188E87"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"> Operational
expenses</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9127764AE3724DF29B3C65AF171E24D5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(pipeline safety
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H6E7534CA1DBF47A3AA1EC31EB5A8EEF1"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary operational expenses of the
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
$22,383,000, of which
$639,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline
Safety Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
$1,000,000 shall be transferred to
<quote>Pipeline Safety</quote> in order to fund <quote>Pipeline Safety
Information Grants to Communities</quote> as authorized under section 60130 of
title 49, United States Code.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idC65137D9F43441E8B1DCC03D279E1BD3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hazardous materials safety</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary to discharge the
hazardous materials safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration, $50,434,000, of which
$6,497,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, 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 dissemination, and for travel expenses incurred in performance of hazardous
materials exemptions and approvals functions:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in fiscal year 2012, the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration shall propose to collect a reasonable fee for expenses
incurred for processing applications for, and ensuring compliance with the
terms of, special permits and approvals issued under 49 U.S.C.
5117.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7DA3465665B2460995222CE220D409EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pipeline
safety</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HBB028E471F8C44E091BB9570660C822D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(pipeline safety
fund)</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id130834FB2CB641539514562CBCF553DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(oil spill liability trust
fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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, $111,111,000, of which
$18,905,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 2013; and
of which $92,206,000 shall be derived from the
Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $51,206,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2013.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB0076844816144879B512AEC45E48A27"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Emergency preparedness
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idB72E207546FE44D8AA84BB01D6783A31"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(emergency preparedness fund)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses to carry out 49
U.S.C. 5128(b), $188,000, to be derived from the
Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain available until September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not more than
$28,318,000 shall be made available for
obligation in fiscal year 2011 from amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(I)
and 5128(b)–(c):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
none of the funds made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5128(b), or 5128(c)
shall be made available for obligation by individuals other than the Secretary
of Transportation, or his designee.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id1F82D83727554BA69355D40DDE27A4D0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and innovative technology
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id5988DBBA5E374B1CBCA54278D26DD9FD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Research and
Innovative Technology Administration,
$16,900,000, of which
$10,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, 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.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id26E72F24D80142049CF841DC9F5A399E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of inspector
general</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idDD8D277E5FA74B20ABD6F0DB3DFC5E88"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Inspector General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of
1978, as amended, $86,406,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Inspector
General shall have all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties
specified in the Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to
investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government
(18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by the
Department:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the funds made available under this heading
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>may<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> be used to investigate,
pursuant to section 41712 of title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or
deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and foreign
air carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compliance of domestic and foreign
air carriers with respect to item (1) of this
proviso.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H59D77C95861C4C05BE63B03A5D5D1D92"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Surface transportation
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idFDB43AF1B4DB4822A6693E44C1F8245A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Surface
Transportation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$29,934,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000
from fees established by the Chairman of the Surface Transportation Board shall
be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections and used for
necessary and authorized expenses under this heading:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced on a
dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting collections are received during
fiscal year 2011, to result in a final appropriation from the general fund
estimated at no more than
$28,684,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H5F9227399058477098E1BBADE8FCE8EA"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General provisions—Department of
transportation</header>
</appropriations-intermediate></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H01EC10FEF28C4E7A829CB7478F2BA9CA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>180.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the current fiscal year applicable
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available for
maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and
aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in
foreign countries on official department business; and uniforms or allowances
therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3D2A8336DE924E9698E7AD55A07345DA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>181.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriations contained in this Act for
the Department of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate
equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID09833B0F5BC44017AF1E45F8A3A16FCF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>182.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be
available for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and Presidential
appointees in the Department of Transportation:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the
personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on temporary detail outside
the Department of Transportation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID873E31024453420CAE404E8149B703A5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>183.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H76BD3E4D10064AEBB0D185692DB73642" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>184.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H854CDA2B0FF04C8F8A4298F979811F58"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No recipient of funds made available in
this Act shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C.
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection with a
motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as provided in 18
U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H770F5D75760845D2AD34931E9413756B"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subsection (a), the
Secretary shall not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a
State is in noncompliance with this provision.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4AA26E98D6A34491A638114A5A72D749" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>185.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds received by the Federal Highway
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad
Administration from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities,
and private sources for expenses incurred for training may be credited
respectively to the Federal Highway Administration's <quote>Federal-Aid
Highways</quote> account, the Federal Transit Administration's <quote>Research
and University Research Centers</quote> account, and to the Federal Railroad
Administration's <quote>Safety and Operations</quote> account, except for State
rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C.
20105.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H33DD38AB76C940AFA1AAF19E1F74EF70" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>186.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds provided or limited in this Act under
the appropriate accounts within the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal
Railroad Administration and the Federal Transit Administration shall be for the
eligible programs, projects and activities in the corresponding amounts
identified in the committee report accompanying this Act for <quote>Ferry Boats
and Ferry Terminal Facilities</quote>, <quote>Federal Lands</quote>,
<quote>Interstate Maintenance Discretionary</quote>, <quote>Transportation,
Community and System Preservation Program</quote>, <quote>Delta Region
Transportation Development Program</quote>, <quote>Rail Line Relocation and
Improvement Program</quote>, <quote>Rail-highway crossing hazard
eliminations</quote>, <quote>Capital Investment Grants</quote>,
<quote>Alternatives analysis</quote>', and <quote>Bus and bus
facilities</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3A879B3F0FB743D88E879C3E56521CAC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>187.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, rule or regulation, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to allow
the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department to redeem
or repurchase such stock upon the payment to the Department of an amount
determined by the Secretary.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EF90967E8C94526A7458305E291E71E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>188.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act to the
Department of Transportation may be used to make a grant unless the Secretary
of Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
not less than 3 full business days before any project competitively selected to
receive a discretionary grant award, any discretionary grant award, letter of
intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling
$1,000,000 or more is announced by the
department or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant
program of the Federal Highway Administration including the emergency relief
program; (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation
Administration; (3) any grant from the Federal Railroad Administration; or (4)
any program of the Federal Transit Administration other than the formula grants
and fixed guideway modernization programs:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary
gives concurrent notification to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations for any <quote>quick release</quote> of funds from the emergency
relief program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That no notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation.
In addition, none of the funds in this Act to the Department of Transportation
may be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary of Transportation
notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full
business days before any announcement of a project competitively selected to
receive a discretionary grant award from a program with an annual budget equal
to or exceeding $50,000,000.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8FC4F59EFF4A4CA69EBFEADA3C4F3E38" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>189.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor
fees and other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building space, and
miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations of the Department of
Transportation and allocated to elements of the Department of Transportation
using fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be available until
expended.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2DD267D20D474E389ED25917B12DD3C6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>190.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available in this or any other
Act that the Secretary determines represent improper payments by the Department
of Transportation to a third-party contractor under a financial assistance
award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be available—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE19C68403ACA444D8F6C288BBC1B2E9D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to reimburse the actual expenses incurred
by the Department of Transportation in recovering improper payments; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5DD8F9954B5E43118465645AADB209E6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to pay contractors for services provided in
recovering improper payments or contractor support in the implementation of the
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That amounts in excess
of that required for paragraphs (1) and (2)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5290A838957F4C2BAD6DF155367901A7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be credited to and merged with the
appropriation from which the improper payments were made, and shall be
available for the purposes and period for which such appropriations are
available; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07631A4B116E42E89A114738AD804EF4"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if no such appropriation remains available,
shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That prior to the transfer of any such recovery to an appropriations account,
the Secretary shall notify to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
of the amount and reasons for such transfer:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That for purposes of this section, the term <quote>improper payments</quote>,
has the same meaning as that provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public Law
107–300.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1DEE5FC4C1494F9FBC822A32EB320495" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>191.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogramming
action that requires notice to be provided to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations, said reprogramming action shall be approved or denied solely
by the Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary may
provide notice to other congressional committees of the action of the
Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 30 days
following the date on which the reprogramming action has been approved or
denied by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2C812EB33F994C35B6DE91A3B9C138A9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>192.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation Board
of the Department of Transportation to charge or collect any filing fee for
rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the
amount authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under section 1914
of title 28, United States Code.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H89214E9572A54778939203CB5CAC1743" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>193.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31,
United States Code, in addition to authority provided by section 327 of title
49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is hereby
authorized to provide payments in advance to vendors that are necessary to
carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit program under
Executive Order 13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109–59:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Department
shall include adequate safeguards in the contract with the vendors to ensure
timely and high-quality performance under the contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEAAB2F0F7EEC4724B21B876133E18C14" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>194.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id5283431BBB424040AAF1FC4E1874A0BA"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the explanatory statement contained in
House Report 106–940 accompanying Public Law 106–346 (114 Stat. 1356A), in the
table of projects under the heading <quote>Capital Investments Grants</quote>,
the item relating to <quote>Lowell, Massachusetts-Nashua, New Hampshire
Commuter Rail Project</quote> is deemed to be amended by inserting <quote>and
Manchester</quote> after <quote>Nashua</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3511C8430A248B98FE1C3164E8A96A6"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds made available under the Federal Transit Administration Capital
Investment Grants Account in fiscal year 2008 (Public Law 110–161) for METRA
Connects Southeast Service, Illinois, METRA Star Line, Illinois, METRA Union
Pacific Northwest Line, Illinois, METRA Union Pacific West Line, Illinois and
funds made available in fiscal year 2009 (Public Law 111–8) for METRA,
Illinois, shall be made available until September 30, 2012.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA1CD178EBC834311918A314B294333EC"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the
$1,000,000 appropriated under the heading
<quote>General Provisions</quote> in Public Law 108–7 for Juneau Heliport,
Alaska, the unobligated balance shall be available for improvements to bridges
owned by the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE7644AB848224513A82C230D9ED34B5F"><enum>(d)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
funds made available in Public Law 111–8 for <quote>Phase 3 Rail Rehabilitation
in Redwood Falls, MN</quote> shall be available for obligation and expenditure
for <quote>Minnesota Valley Regional Rail Authority, MN.</quote></text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA3382B29F7145EEB24F5047CCEA2947"><enum>(e)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds made available for the City of Las
Vegas, NV <quote>Bonneville Clark Couplet</quote> through Department of
Transportation Appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2009 (Public Law 111–8) and
fiscal year 2010 (Public Law 111–17) that remain unobligated or unexpended
shall be made available to the <quote>Decatur Boulevard/Charleston Boulevard
Intersection Improvements</quote> in Las Vegas, Nevada.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1CD7562D5C744256956BB8BE88EE5931"><enum>(f)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the explanatory statement referenced in
section 186 of division K of Public Law 110–161, the item relating to
<quote>Walton Boulevard Bridge widening, MI</quote> is deemed to be amended by
striking <quote>Walton Boulevard Bridge widening, MI</quote> and inserting
<quote>Avon Road Bridge and Livernois Road Bridge Reconstruction,
MI</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83F07AA6192D405389370DFD633ED030"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the amounts made available for the Interstate 579 Cap–Urban Green Space and
Park Plaza, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the explanatory statement accompanying
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Public Law 111–117; 123 Stat. 3034),
shall be used for projects for street, traffic flow, pedestrian, and
streetscape improvements in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0FCB508D919A456393250462FE34523E"><enum>(h)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The explanatory statement referenced in
section 186 of title I of division A of Public Law 111–117 for
<quote>Alternative analysis</quote> under <quote>Federal Transit
Administration—Formula and Bus Grants</quote> is deemed to be amended by
striking <quote>Hudson-Bergen MOS–2 Northern NJ</quote> and inserting
<quote>Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Extension Route 440, Jersey City,
NJ.</quote></text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFCA8759AFB684A808C1C7FE2A3F076D2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the explanatory statement referenced in
section 186 of title I of division I of Public Law 111–8, the item relating to
<quote>Starkweather Creek Parkway Bike Path, WI</quote> in the table of
projects under the heading <quote>Transportation, Community, and System
Preservation Program</quote> is deemed to be amended by striking
<quote>Starkweather Creek Parkway Bike Path, WI</quote> and inserting
<quote>Military Ridge Trail/Cannonball Path multi-purpose bike and pedestrian
bridge, WI</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE331659500B34756A9056640C5FAB896"><enum>(j)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public Law 111–8 is amended by striking
<quote>Construct On/Off Ramps Connecting I–20 to Cotton Flat Road</quote> and
inserting <quote>Make Improvements to the I–20/250 Loop Interchange
Project</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7190E4125C584BD7A7721192B901BAA3"><enum>(k)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Transportation shall not
reallocate capital investment funds made available for the I–69 HOV/BRT,
Mississippi, project and section 5309 bus funds made available to the LOU
Public Transit System, Oxford, MS, in Public Law 110–161 and the accompanying
explanatory statement.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id715C2503686F4EF0872D12003B64D753"><enum>(l)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts provided for Provo Orem Bus Rapid
Transit, in Public Law 110–161 shall not be reallocated and shall be made
available for Provo Orem Bus Rapid Transit and intermodal terminals.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID52ce5e01a6214058950f1c90fb0e915a"><enum>(m)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funding provided for <quote>Pierce Transit
Peninsula Park & Ride, WA</quote> under Bus and Bus Facilities in Public
Law 110–161 shall be made available for <quote>Pierce Transit Vehicle
Replacement</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5191163872c84641a79b4020c7e7b9d5"><enum>(n)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The explanatory statement accompanying the
Fiscal Year 2003 Consolidated Appropriations Act shall be deemed to be amended
by striking <quote>Ways to Work—EPIC Yakima</quote> and inserting <quote>Ways
to Work, Metropolitan Family Service, SW Washington</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6b48100b432d4f189c60164a928760ac"><enum>(o)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The explanatory statement accompanying the
Fiscal Year 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act shall be deemed to be amended
by striking <quote>Ellensburg Interchange I–90, Milepost 108.31,
Washington</quote> and inserting <quote>I–90 Ellensburg vicinity—US 97 and
local roadway improvements</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID77b0ff7cf9434e74848a42f0abd97976"><enum>(p)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The explanatory statement accompanying the
Fiscal Year 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act shall be deemed to be amended
by striking <quote>SR 31, All Weather Roadway Construction and Widening, Pend
Oreille County, Washington</quote> and inserting <quote>SR 31 Corridor
Improvements and local transportation projects (Pend Oreille
County)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C24191E1F1D4C9CB6ED16AD96BEC782"><enum>(q)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the funding made available for the Schuylkill Valley Metro project through the
Department of Transportation Appropriations Acts for Federal Fiscal Year 2007,
2008 and 2009 shall remain available for that project during Federal fiscal
years 2010 and 2011.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB02D578D9EB54413AAC97CF87A4EAC3D"><enum>(r)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the $10,976,000 appropriated for the CORRIDORone
Regional Rail Project in Pennsylvania under the Capital Investment Grants
account in division K of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law
110–161) shall be available for obligation until September 30, 2012.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7E502DD405374DF99B4C0C9402F19D7C"><enum>(s)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of the $2,500,000 appropriated for the
Alle-Kiski Connector Bridge in Department of Transportation Appropriations Act,
2005, Public Law 108–447, $2,100,000 shall be
available for right of way, design, and construction activities for the Hulton
Bridge in Oakmont, Pennsylvania and $400,000
shall be available for a feasibility study for construction of the Alle-Kiski
Connector Bridge.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87C308A6916A4BA1AF5D639F994A39B9"><enum>(t)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the funding made available for the Franklin Street Station Restoration (BARTA)
through the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act of Federal Fiscal
Year 2008 shall remain available for that project during Federal fiscal year
2011.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4704241C33C94ECFA32A2891F4E300E5"><enum>(u)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds provided for <quote>I–85 NB Viaduct
at SR 400 NB—Exit Lane, GA</quote> in Public Law 111–8 shall be made available
for <quote>I–285/Ashford Dunwoody Interchange Reconstruction</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC646DF30D0264CDF8233EA2A07F23ABC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>195.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id4F21458DE8234EC8A609EC043A11634E"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3044(a) of Public Law 109–59 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB2E1740EE79343DF942187ECBD2DB053"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By striking the project description in item
422 and inserting, <quote>Anchorage People Mover transit needs, Anchorage,
AK.</quote></text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD60C7D785B314DB18FBF301BB5549DFC"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By striking the project description in item
160 and inserting, <quote>Nebraska Statewide Vehicles, Facilities and Related
Equipment</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id923902CF875C45ACBC76FB71D466CECB"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By striking the project description in item
586 and inserting, <quote>Nebraska Department of Roads—Statewide Vehicles,
Facilities and Related Equipment</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5BAC189E724545F7950EE4C0F46830C6"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All amounts made available in item 422 of
section 3044(a) of Public Law 109–59 which have not been obligated by September
30, 2010 shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2012.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id065433FB28E648239014963F844790EA"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3046(a)(22) of Public Law 109–59 is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id54158B3EC6DE48FB9715EFDCE9C83928"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the paragraph heading, by striking
“<header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">fuel cell-powered
bus</header-in-text>” and inserting “<header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">hydrogen-powered transit</header-in-text>”; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD26B40E1E3BD4E25B725B2409A961DF1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">By striking <quote>Fuel Cell-Powered
Bus</quote> and inserting <quote>Hydrogen-Powered Transit</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0156AAD33B974C6E899EBB36B702F631"><enum>(d)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Transportation shall not reallocate any funding made available
for item 22 of section 3046 of Public Law 109–59.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id083AD279CF1245D39C948643C9805B99"><enum>(e)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In section 1702 of Public Law 109–59,
Project Authorizations, under item No. 400, strike the existing text under
Project Description and insert in lieu thereof <quote>Road, sidewalk, and
drainage construction and improvements, City of Unalaska.</quote></text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6B8EE1BBD1D47BE9CB7D068603DD69E"><enum>(f)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table contained in section 1702 of the
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (119 Stat 1256) is amended in item 1399 by striking the project
description and inserting <quote>I–40 Frontage Road Reconstruction in the City
of Gallup</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1C17F8B613E54B76A1C3BE92584ABECD"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table contained in section 1702 of the
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (119 Stat. 1256) is amended in item 54 by striking the project
description and inserting <quote>Study of a direct link to 1–80 and Iowa
Highway 92, in proximity to Pella</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7BDACD5CDA804178B853DF3C880DFDF9"><enum>(h)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table contained in section 1934(c) of
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy
for Users (119 Stat. 1485) is amended in item 105 by striking the project
description and inserting <quote>Study of a direct link to 1–80 and Iowa
Highway 92, in proximity to Pella</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC384531AECB46BE9F7E335E802B90EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts made available for the Cuming
Street Transportation Improvement Project in items 4497 and 4506 of section
1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59) and in item 276 of section 1934(c) of such
Act may be expended for—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8E8C25E462714B768CEC2A95BEAD3425"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">lighting, landscaping, and pedestrian
enhancements on Cuming Street from 16th Street to 30th Street and on Burt
Street from 31st Street to Florence Boulevard, including burial of certain over
head utilities;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id003D6C6A6F45459E8D4506AD8CBD1209"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">pedestrian safety improvements on 24th
Street from Cuming Street to Davenport Street, including the incorporation of
traffic circles at Cass Street and Davenport Street and adjacent lighting,
landscaping, and safety enhancements; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFF428E735AFD4D3E8037D28AF41E949F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the reconfiguration of the Dodge
Street/Douglas Street transition curve in conjunction with 30th Street.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85DE6FC68B764BD9BE0F077C70019D97"><enum>(j)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1702 of the SAFETEA–LU: A Legacy
for Users (Public Law 109–59, 119 Stat. 114, 1278; Public Law 110–244, 122
Stat. 1571, 1579) is amended by striking the project description in item 576
and inserting <quote>Design, right-of-way acquisition and construction of
Nebraska Highway 35 between Norfolk and South Sioux City and for design,
right-of-way acquisition and construction of an interchange east of Dakota
Avenue on I–129.</quote></text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ADDB7869BF346DAA7D10777DC8E086B"><enum>(k)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1702 of the SAFETEA–LU: A Legacy
for Users (Public Law 109–59, 199 Stat. 1144, 1429; Public Law 110–224, 122
Stat. 1571, 1595) is amended by striking the project description in item 4507
and inserting <quote>Design, right-of-way acquisition and construction of
Nebraska Highway 35 between Norfolk and south Sioux City and for design,
right-of-way acquisition and construction of an interchange east of Dakota
Avenue on I–129</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA83C40C067954A249A3BF8975ABF0742"><enum>(l)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In Public Law 109–59, the table contained
in section 1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (119 Stat. 1256) is amended in item number 2406
(119 Stat. 1350) by striking <quote>in Fort Worth</quote> in the project
description and inserting <quote>, or construct SH 199 (Henderson St.) through
the Trinity Uptown Project between the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity
River, in Fort Worth</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27F662F854884BF99A5CF6DDCD2DED04"><enum>(m)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id6B9A33F17FA54EE399800D0D761CA29F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The project description in item 3730 under
section 1702 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59, 119 Stat. 1400) is amended
by adding at the end the following: <quote>(to include the Montgomery Outer
Loop)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id51D883A427854886BDD79CE5C58FA991"><enum>(n)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The project description in item 16 under
section 1934(c) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (Public Law 109–59, 119 Stat. 1486) is amended
by adding at the end the following: <quote>(to include the Montgomery Outer
Loop)</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C6B3702F02F420381C3783F33DC38F3"><enum>(o)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The SAFETEA–LU (Public Law 109–59) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52866E53C8B0468E925701DF8B221E38"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 1702—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8B40C15D83A540ABBEA4698761792E4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking project number 4892 (119 Stat.
1443); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id622CF8B5C07D448D84746FD957BE75AC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in project number 4924 (119 Stat. 444), by
striking the project amount and inserting
<quote>$6,149,733.82</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9CB73B12FEF484298BFC7EF9FEA6002"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 1934—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC2BDE7669A3A436E86A7710D77E3B25D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking project number 374 (119 Stat.
1505); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB0FBCA6854A14819A2A23A397CA14FE1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in project number 382 (119 Stat. 1505), by
striking the project amount and inserting
<quote>$20,446,640</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0ed4c2b1e42d42ee84202e20dcf6af6a"><enum>(p)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Item 3557 of section 1702 of Public Law
109–59 is amended by striking <quote>Improve Mill Plain Blvd between SE 172nd
and SE 192nd in Vancouver</quote> and inserting <quote>Extend 18th Street
between 87th Avenue and NE 192nd Avenue in Vancouver</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf3093883941546a7bc6994e548f0c9bf"><enum>(q)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Item 744 of section 1702 of Public Law
109–59 is amended by striking <quote>Widen I–5 through Lewis County</quote> and
inserting <quote>I–5 Frontage Road and I–5 Interchange Improvements in Lewis
County</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1a674eda46264c8295bf0b2215ed92f4"><enum>(r)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Item 2827 of section 1702 of Public Law
109–59 is amended by striking <quote>Construct SR 9 Pedestrian Overpass in
Arlington</quote> and inserting <quote>State Route 9/Crown Ridge Blvd.
Improvements</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID821931354fe649c08beae9fa6f495497"><enum>(s)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Item 249 of section 1702 of Public Law
109–59 is amended by striking <quote>Complete preliminary engineering and
environmental analysis for SR14 through Camas and Washougal</quote> and
inserting <quote>Complete preliminary engineering, environmental and
construction for SR 14 through Camas and Washougal</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5F74C52783994FE0BD60398CA030018E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>196.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall continue an independent
and comprehensive study and analysis to supplement that authorized under
section 108, division C, of Public Law 111–8:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That additional funding
will help to engage stakeholders and Federal partners by creating a
multi-agency task force funded to formulate DOT’s coordination with the
Departments of Energy, Commerce and Agriculture to ensure a comprehensive
understanding of the full value of river flow support to users in the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That subjects of analysis shall include energy (including hydropower and
generation cooling), and water transport (including water-compelled rates,
projected total transportation congestion considerations, transportation energy
efficiency, air quality and carbon emissions) and water users (including the
number and distribution of people, households, municipalities, and business
throughout the Missouri and Mississippi River basins who use river water for
multiple purposes):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That in addition to understanding current value, the Department is directed to
work with appropriate Federal partners to develop recommendations on how to
minimize impediments to growth and maximize water value of benefits related to
energy production and efficiency, congestion relief, trade and transport
efficiency, and air quality:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That the Department of Transportation shall provide its analysis and
recommendations to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the White House, and the
Congress no later than January 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That $2,000,000 is available until expended for
such purposes.</text>
<appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3DF89350F72D4BFC8DC61521212FCE9A"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the
<short-title>Department of Transportation Appropriations
Act, 2011</short-title>.</text>
</appropriations-small></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Department of housing and urban
development</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="IDF1FC8500CCA44AF2982B212A9B18C51E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Management and
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HA5FB2AFD0A31406FA3F80EAF2E1A8CB7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Executive direction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries and expenses for
Executive Direction, $30,265,000, of which not
to exceed $7,674,000 shall be available for the
immediate Office of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary; not to exceed
$1,706,000 shall be available for the Office of
Hearings and Appeals; not to exceed $719,000
shall be available for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization; not to exceed $999,000 shall be
available for the immediate Office of the Chief Financial Officer; not to
exceed $1,503,000 shall be available for the
immediate Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed
$2,709,000 shall be available to the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations; not
to exceed $4,861,000 shall be available for the
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs; not to exceed
$2,163,000 shall be available to the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing; not to exceed
$1,755,000 shall be available to the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development; not to exceed
$3,565,000 shall be available to the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Housing, Federal Housing Commissioner; not to
exceed $1,117,000 shall be available to the
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research; and not
to exceed $945,000 shall be available to the
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>; and
not to exceed $549,000 shall be available to the
Office of the Chief Operating Officer<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development is authorized to transfer funds
appropriated for any office funded under this heading to any other office
funded under this heading following the written notification to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall provide the Committees on Appropriations quarterly written
notification regarding the status of pending congressional reports:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall provide all signed reports required by Congress
electronically:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made
available under this paragraph for the immediate Office of the Secretary shall
be available for official reception and representation expenses as the
Secretary may determine.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="IDE4706A1979884C08B86B6DE7507D56B7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administration, operations and
management</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
salaries and expenses for administration, operations and management for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
$528,845,635, of which not to exceed
$65,120,000 shall be available for the personnel
compensation and benefits of the Office of
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>the Chief Human
Capital Officer;<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>
not to exceed $9,122,000 shall be available for
the personnel compensation and benefits of the Office of Departmental
Operations and Coordination; not to exceed
$49,090,000 shall be available for the personnel
compensation and benefits of the Office of Field Policy and Management; not to
exceed $15,931,635 shall be available for the
personnel compensation and benefits of the Office of the Chief Procurement
Officer; not to exceed $33,831,000 shall be
available for the personnel compensation and benefits of the remaining staff in
the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; not to exceed
$86,482,000 shall be available for the personnel
compensation and benefits of the remaining staff in the Office of the General
Counsel; not to exceed $3,296,000 shall be
available for the personnel compensation and benefits of the Office of
Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; not to exceed
$1,316,000 shall be available for the personnel
compensation and benefits for the Center for Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives; not to exceed $2,887,000 shall be
available for the personnel compensation and benefits for the Office of
Sustainability; not to exceed $4,445,000 shall
be available for the personnel compensation and benefits for the Office of
Strategic Planning and Management; not to exceed
$4,875,000 shall be available for the personnel
compensation and benefits for the Office of the Chief Disaster and Emergency
Management Officer; and not to exceed
$252,450,000 shall be available for nonpersonnel
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, funds provided
under this heading may be used for necessary administrative and
nonadministrative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
not otherwise provided for, including purchase of uniforms, or allowances
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger motor
vehicles; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated under this
heading may be used for advertising and promotional activities that support the
housing mission area.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H26A0E847B60D48C1A576EF1A66FB0DC0"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Personnel compensation and
benefits</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H63D6E698251241789C4D0AD0D71F0612"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public and indian housing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary personnel compensation and
benefits expenses of the Office of Public and Indian Housing,
$195,508,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9DC61FAC83544461A34E25887C4F412C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community planning and
development</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
personnel compensation and benefits expenses of the Office of Community
Planning and Development mission area,
$105,281,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDBA3B41098A041BABEAB86A78517B6A7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary personnel compensation and
benefits expenses of the Office of Housing,
$395,917,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HADA7F22F9045467D971845C138D45E3A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of the government national mortgage
association</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
personnel compensation and benefits expenses of the Office of the Government
National Mortgage Association, $16,000,000, to
be derived from the GNMA guarantees of mortgage backed securities guaranteed
loan receipt account.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H5027CC92109447679E6FCBDA174A15EC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy development and
research</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
personnel compensation and benefits expenses of the Office of Policy
Development and Research,
$22,556,421.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE45FE60F18AB4AC3B986CDE4385B6065"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing and equal
opportunity</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
personnel compensation and benefits expenses of the Office of Fair Housing and
Equal Opportunity,
$70,363,435.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H663536F58B3F428E82A53CA00136940B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of healthy homes and lead hazard
control</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary
personnel compensation and benefits expenses of the Office of Healthy Homes and
Lead Hazard Control,
$7,151,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="id23935BD75C544D01AC6E2F2998F8B07D"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public and Indian
housing</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H400F0256D5584330815AFC546B892CC2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Tenant-based rental
assistance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H80DAB0FC7133434BB965F75E2DD0AB81"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For activities and assistance for the
provision of tenant-based rental assistance authorized under the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (<quote>the
Act</quote> herein), not otherwise provided for,
$15,495,663,183, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2010 (in addition to the
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under
this heading that will become available on October 1, 2010), and
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts made
available under this heading are provided as
follows:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F88C3349E2447B99B1E7B2F07EDD4B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$17,165,000,000
shall be available for renewals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual
contributions contracts (including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any
provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) and
including renewal of other special purpose vouchers initially funded in fiscal
years 2009 <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>and
2010<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> (such as
Family Unification, Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers and
Non-elderly Disabled Vouchers):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any
carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2011<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> funding cycle shall provide
renewal funding for each public housing agency based on
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>validated<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> voucher management system (VMS)
leasing and cost data for calendar year 2010 and by applying the most recent
Annual Adjustment Factor as established by the Secretary, and by making any
necessary adjustments for the costs associated with
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>the<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> first-time
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>renewal of
vouchers under this paragraph<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> including tenant protection,
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>and<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> HOPE VI vouchers:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That none of the funds provided under this paragraph may be used to fund a
total number of unit months under lease which exceeds a public housing agency's
authorized level of units under contract, except for public housing agencies
participating in the Moving to Work demonstration, which are instead governed
by the terms and conditions of their MTW agreements:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the amount
specified under this paragraph, pro rate each public housing agency's
allocation otherwise established pursuant to this paragraph:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That except as provided in the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>following<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> provisos, the entire amount
specified under this paragraph shall be obligated to the public housing
agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method described above, and the
Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of their annual budget not later
than 60 days after enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary may extend the 60-day notification period with the prior
written approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That public housing agencies participating in the Moving to Work demonstration
shall be funded pursuant to their Moving to Work agreements and shall be
subject to the same pro rata adjustments under the previous provisos:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That up to $150,000,000 shall be available only:
(1) to adjust the allocations for public housing agencies, after application
for an adjustment by a public housing agency that experienced a significant
increase, as determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of tenant-based
rental assistance resulting from unforeseen circumstances or from portability
under section 8(r) of the Act; (2) for vouchers that were not in use during the
12-month period in order to be available to meet a commitment pursuant to
section 8(o)(13) of the Act; (3) for any increase in the costs associated with
deposits to family self-sufficiency program escrow accounts; (4) for one-time
adjustments of renewal funding for public housing agencies in receivership with
approved fungibility plans for calendar year 2009 as authorized in section
11003 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 110–329); or (5) to adjust allocations for
public housing agencies to prevent termination of assistance to families
receiving assistance under the disaster voucher program, as authorized by
Public Law 109–148 under the heading <quote>Tenant-Based Rental
Assistance</quote>:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall allocate amounts under the previous proviso based on
need as determined by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the amounts made available under this paragraph, up to
$100,000,000 may be transferred to and merged
with the appropriation for <quote>Transformation Initiative</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4683388305214C4CAAD72348CB8E0991"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$125,000,000
shall be for section 8 rental assistance for relocation and replacement of
housing units that are demolished or disposed of pursuant to the Omnibus
Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–134),
conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section 8, the family
unification program under section 8(x) of the Act, relocation of witnesses in
connection with efforts to combat crime in public and assisted housing pursuant
to a request from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers
under any provision of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of
the Act, HOPE VI vouchers, mandatory and voluntary conversions, and tenant
protection assistance including replacement and relocation assistance or for
project based assistance to prevent the displacement of unassisted elderly
tenants currently residing in section 202 properties financed between 1959 and
1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106–569, as amended, or under
the authority as provided under this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary may
provide replacement vouchers for all units that were occupied only within the
previous 24 months that cease to be available as assisted housing, subject only
to the availability of funds;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CB90B6A37B94E9183207B15A8FD0589"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$1,851,000,000
shall be for administrative and other expenses of public housing agencies in
administering the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which up
to $50,000,000 shall be available to the
Secretary to allocate to public housing agencies that need additional funds to
administer their section 8 programs, including fees associated with section 8
tenant protection rental assistance, the administration of disaster related
vouchers, Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers, and other incremental
vouchers:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That no less than
$1,741,000,000 of the amount provided in this
paragraph shall be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar year
2011 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and related Appropriation
Act provisions) as in effect immediately before the enactment of the Quality
Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–276):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That if the amounts made available under this paragraph are insufficient to pay
the amounts determined under the previous proviso, the Secretary may decrease
the amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all
agencies receiving funding under this paragraph or may, to the extent necessary
to provide full payment of amounts determined under the previous proviso,
utilize unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryovers, remaining
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development
under this heading, for fiscal year 2010 and prior fiscal years,
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That amounts provided under this paragraph shall be only for activities related
to the provision of tenant-based rental assistance authorized under section 8,
including related development activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That of the total amount provided under this paragraph,
$60,000,000 shall be available for family
self-sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC8B22C12503F42B499CC2CEEC2CD97DE"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$15,000,000
for incremental voucher assistance through the Family Unification Program:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the assistance
made available under this paragraph shall continue to remain available for
family unification upon turnover:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make such funding
available, notwithstanding section 204 (competition provision) of this title,
to entities with demonstrated experience and resources for supportive
services<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>;<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6DBE6B069AF8433B87B8461043A091F3"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$113,663,183
for renewal of tenant-based assistance contracts under section 811 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) entered into
prior to fiscal year 2007;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B4F57D39682415EB3796269534DFCF5"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$75,000,000
for incremental rental voucher assistance for use through a supported housing
program administered in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs as
authorized under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development shall make such funding available,
notwithstanding section 204 (competition provision) of this title, to public
housing agencies that partner with eligible VA Medical Centers or other
entities as designated by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs,
based on geographical need for such assistance as identified by the Secretary
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency administrative
performance, and other factors as specified by the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of
Veterans Affairs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may waive, or specify
alternative requirements for (in consultation with the Secretary of the
Department of Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or regulation
that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development administers in connection
with the use of funds made available under this paragraph (except for
requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and
the environment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or
alternative requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and
administration of such voucher assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That assistance made available under this paragraph shall continue to remain
available for homeless veterans upon turn-over<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>;<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87F6C4EB84F946EA986A74FCFE4C057A"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">up to
$66,000,000 for incremental tenant-based
assistance for eligible families assisted under the Disaster Housing Assistance
Program for Hurricanes Ike and
Gustav:<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That these vouchers will
not be re-issued when families leave the program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H68DB6DC0E82F4D96B6572254179FB6FB"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$85,000,000
for incremental voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, including related administrative expenses, for two
competitive demonstration programs to address the needs of families and
individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, as defined by the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to be administered by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development in conjunction with the Department
of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That one demonstration
program shall make funding available to public housing agencies that: (1)
partner with eligible State or local entities responsible for distributing
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other health and human
services as designated by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Services, and (2) partner with school homelessness liaisons funded through the
Department of Education's Education for Homeless Children and Youths program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the other demonstration program shall make funding available to public
housing agencies that partner with eligible state Medicaid agencies and State
behavioral health entities as designated by the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services to provide housing in conjunction with Medicaid case
management, substance abuse treatment, and mental health services:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make the funding
specified in this subsection available through such allocation procedures as
the Secretary determines to be appropriate, notwithstanding section 213 of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 1439) and section 204
(competition provision) of this title, to entities with demonstrated experience
and that meet such other requirements as determined by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may waive, or specify
alternative requirements for any provision of any statute or regulation that
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development administers in connection with
the use of funds made available under this paragraph (except for requirements
related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the
environment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or
alternative requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and
administration of such voucher assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register any waiver of any
statute or regulation that the Secretary administers pursuant to this
subsection no later than 10 days before the effective date of such waiver:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That assistance made available under this subsection shall continue to remain
available for these purposes upon turn-over.</text>
</paragraph></appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H73A14FE32142433EA8658C92B0859796"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing certificate
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idFD41627451744E2C83151BAFFEE65577"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>(rescission)<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Unobligated balances, including recaptures
and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing
and Urban Development under this heading, the heading <quote>Annual
Contributions for Assisted Housing</quote> and the heading <quote>Project-Based
Rental Assistance</quote>, for fiscal year 2011 and prior years may be used for
renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for
performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for
which such funds were appropriated:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That any obligated
balances of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been
terminated shall be cancelled:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current fiscal year,
from project-based section 8 contracts from source years fiscal year 1975
through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount of additional new
budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby appropriated, to
remain available until expended, for the purposes set forth under this heading,
in addition to amounts otherwise available.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H216376FD3666439CAC964BAD7AF1B721"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing capital
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC59B944BEFD142A79D8F809B05B705F1"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program
to carry out capital and management activities for public housing agencies, as
authorized under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437g) (the <quote>Act</quote>) $2,510,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2011 the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development may not delegate to any Department official other
than the Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian
Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) regarding the
extension of the time periods under such section:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for purposes of such section 9(j), the term <quote>obligate</quote> means, with
respect to amounts, that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement that
will result in outlays, immediately or in the future:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $15,345,000 shall be to support the
ongoing Public Housing Financial and Physical Assessment activities of the Real
Estate Assessment Center (REAC):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount provided under this heading, not to exceed
$30,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary
to make grants, notwithstanding section 204 of this Act, to public housing
agencies for emergency capital needs including safety and security measures
necessary to address crime and drug-related activity as well as needs resulting
from unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and natural disasters excluding
Presidentially declared emergencies and natural disasters under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring
in fiscal year 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the amounts made available under the previous proviso, not less than
$10,000,000 shall be for safety and security
measures:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts provided under this heading up to
$40,000,000 may be for grants to be
competitively awarded to public housing agencies for the construction,
rehabilitation or purchase of facilities to be used to provide early education,
adult education, job training or other appropriate services to public housing
residents:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall publish a notice of
funding availability within 90 days of the enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
grantees shall demonstrate an ability to leverage other Federal, State, local
or private resources for the construction, rehabilitation or acquisition of
such facilities, and that selected grantees shall demonstrate a capacity to pay
the long-term costs of operating such facilities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount provided under this heading,
$50,000,000 shall be for supportive services,
service coordinators and congregate services as authorized by section 34 of the
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount provided under this heading up to
$8,820,000 is to support the costs of
administrative and judicial receiverships:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
from the funds made available under this heading, the Secretary shall provide
bonus awards in fiscal year 2011 to public housing agencies that are designated
high performers.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id4613F8BF669F4359906E108B31A9FF90"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing operating
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC4620C4398924E0588A588AB13FD3C4C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For 2011 payments to public housing agencies
for the operation and management of public housing, as authorized by section
9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)),
$4,829,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, in fiscal year 2009
and all fiscal years hereafter, no amounts under this heading in any
appropriations Act may be used for payments to public housing agencies for the
costs of operation and management of public housing for any year prior to the
current year of such Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0139409A5326499E90AB05F6EDFB5807"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Choice neighborhoods</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For competitive grants under the Choice
Neighborhoods Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) unless otherwise specified under this heading for
transformation, rehabilitation and replacement housing needs of both public and
HUD-assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of poverty into
functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods with appropriate services,
schools, public assets, transportation and access to jobs,
$250,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That grant funds may be
used for resident and community services, community development and affordable
housing needs in the community, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed
properties to affordable housing:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
grantees shall undertake comprehensive local planning with input from residents
and the community, and that grantees shall provide a match in State, local,
other Federal or private funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
grantees may include local governments, public housing authorities, and
nonprofits:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public entity:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
of the amount provided not less than
$135,000,000 shall be awarded to public housing
authorities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
such grantees shall create partnerships with other local organizations
including assisted housing owners, service agencies and resident organizations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall consult with the Secretaries of Education, Labor,
Transportation, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage
other appropriate Federal resources:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no more than 10 percent of funds made available under this heading may be
provided for planning grants to assist communities in developing comprehensive
strategies for implementing this program in conjunction with community notice
and input:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall develop and publish guidelines for the use of such
competitive funds, including but not limited to eligible activities, program
requirements, and performance metrics:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
all balances of amounts made available for the Choice Neighborhood Initiative
under the heading Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (HOPE
VI) in the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2010
shall be transferred to and merged with amounts made available under this
heading.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HE68C1FEEDB3940DCBC25921629FDD232"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native american housing block
grants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Native American
Housing Block Grants program, as authorized under title I of the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25
U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $700,000,000, to remain
available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, notwithstanding the
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, to
determine the amount of the allocation under title I of such Act for each
Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula under section 302 of such
Act with the need component based on single-race census data and with the need
component based on multi-race census data, and the amount of the allocation for
each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting allocation amounts:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts made available under this heading,
$3,500,000 shall be contracted for assistance
for a national organization representing Native American housing interests for
providing training and technical assistance to Indian housing authorities and
tribally designated housing entities as authorized under NAHASDA; and
$4,250,000 shall be to support the inspection of
Indian housing units, contract expertise, training, and technical assistance in
the training, oversight, and management of such Indian housing and tenant-based
assistance, including up to $300,000 for related
travel:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amount provided under this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be made available for the cost
of guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of
NAHASDA:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such costs, including the costs of modifying such notes and other obligations,
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize the total principal amount of any notes
and other obligations, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
$20,000,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7996523B0F394F2D8E945F286830C807"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native hawaiian housing block
grant</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Native Hawaiian
Housing Block Grant program, as authorized under title VIII of the Native
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4111
et seq.), $13,000,000, to remain available until
expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of this amount,
$300,000 shall be for training and technical
assistance activities, including up to $100,000
for related travel by Hawaii-based HUD employees.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAEB2EC161D16478D92CDE0D4CBD8040B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Indian housing loan guarantee fund program
account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost of
guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z),
$9,000,000, to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, up to $994,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $750,000 shall be for administrative
contract expenses including management processes and systems to carry out the
loan guarantee program.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H949970ED3C614AEE9E67EAFA463B6991"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Native hawaiian housing loan guarantee fund
program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost
of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184A of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z),
$1,044,000, to remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
$41,504,255.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HBE7E3C5848C546B980951220C25346E7"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community planning and
development</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDEBE98CD3EF54635AE24667476DA6CDF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing opportunities for persons with
aids</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8297120DE60F40059EEACD2242953A01"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For carrying out the Housing Opportunities
for Persons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity
Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), $340,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2012, except that amounts allocated
pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of such Act shall remain available until
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Secretary shall
renew all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing that were funded
under section 854(c)(3) of such Act that meet all program requirements before
awarding funds for new contracts and activities authorized under this
section.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H305F77851BF643F898CA12B393D0D386"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community development
fund</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H2A05D7D48F9745B0A854D8533453645D"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For assistance to units of State and local
government, and to other entities, for economic and community development
activities, and for other purposes,
$4,450,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2013, unless otherwise specified:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the total amount
provided, $3,990,000,000 is for carrying out the
community development block grant program under title I of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (the <quote>Act</quote> herein)
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
unless explicitly provided for under this heading (except for planning grants
provided in the second paragraph and amounts made available under the third
paragraph), not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds appropriated
under this heading shall be expended for planning and management development
and administration:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$65,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes
notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such Act, of which, notwithstanding any
other provision of law (including section 204 of this Act), up to
$3,960,000 may be used for emergencies that
constitute imminent threats to health and safety.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amount made available under this
heading, $173,000,000 shall be available for
grants for the Economic Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of
targeted economic investments in accordance with the terms and conditions
specified in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That none of the funds
provided under this paragraph may be used for program operations:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That, for fiscal years 2009, 2010 and 2011, no unobligated funds for EDI grants
may be used for any purpose except acquisition, planning, design, purchase of
equipment, revitalization, redevelopment or construction.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amount made available under this
heading, $22,000,000 shall be available for
neighborhood initiatives that are utilized to improve the conditions of
distressed and blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate investment,
economic diversification, and community revitalization in areas with population
outmigration or a stagnating or declining economic base, or to determine
whether housing benefits can be integrated more effectively with welfare reform
initiatives:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That amounts made
available under this paragraph shall be provided in accordance with the terms
and conditions specified in the explanatory statement accompanying this
Act.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The referenced explanatory
statement for item 113 under the heading <quote>Community Development
Fund</quote> in title III of division A of Public Law 109–115 is deemed to be
amended by striking <quote>a pedestrian bridge</quote> and inserting
<quote>pedestrian and disabled access
improvements</quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id416DD9D8107A43F2951318B4CEF12E31"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The referenced statement of the managers
under this heading in title II of division A of Public Law 111–117 is deemed to
be amended by striking <quote>World Trade Center of St. Louis, MO for the
construction of a commercialization center</quote> and inserting <quote>World
Trade Center of St. Louis, MO for equipment and the construction of a
commercialization center</quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="idBEB0502FE87B45B993F7D4EDD9BBB14D"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The referenced explanatory statement under
this heading in division I of Public Law 111–8 is deemed to be amended with
respect to <quote>Providence Community Action, RI</quote> by striking
<quote>for purchase of a building to provide transitional housing for homeless
families</quote>’ and inserting <quote>for purchase and renovation of a
building to provide transitional housing for homeless
families</quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id4CEE0BB8D8BE4A3386B01801B2AD7981"><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>The referenced explanatory
statement under this heading in title II of division I of Public Law 111–8 (123
Stat. 524), is deemed to be amended with respect to <quote>Jefferson County,
CO</quote> by striking <quote>for the purchase of a 15-unit apartment complex
located in Golden, CO to provide housing for homeless
veterans</quote><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> and inserting <quote>for the
construction, purchase, or renovation of a facility to provide housing for
homeless veterans</quote>.<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id412A5453D4CF42C5BDA08D6F233CB366"><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>The referenced explanatory
statement under this hearing in title II of division A of Public Law 111–117
(123 Stat. 3034), is deemed to be amended with respect to the item relating to
<quote>Jefferson County, CO</quote> by striking <quote>For the housing
authority to establish a new program of housing and supportive services for
homeless veterans</quote><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>and inserting <quote>for the
construction, purchase, or renovation of a facility to provide housing for
homeless veterans</quote>.<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amounts made available under this
heading, $150,000,000 shall be made available
for a Sustainable Communities Initiative to improve regional planning efforts
that integrate housing and transportation decisions, and increase the capacity
to improve land use and zoning:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That
$100,000,000 shall be for Regional Integrated
Planning Grants to support the linking of transportation and land use planning:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not less than $25,000,000 of the funding made
available for Regional Integrated Planning Grants shall be awarded to
metropolitan areas of less than 500,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$40,000,000 shall be for Community Challenge
Planning Grants to foster reform and reduce barriers to achieve affordable,
economically vital, and sustainable communities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary will consult with the Secretary of Transportation in evaluating
grant proposals:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
up to $10,000,000 shall be for a joint
Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Transportation
research effort that shall include a rigorous evaluation of the Regional
Integrated Planning Grants and Community Challenge Planning Grants programs, as
well as to provide funding for a clearinghouse and capacity-building efforts:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts made available under this heading,
$25,000,000 shall be made available for the
Rural Innovation Fund for grants to Indian tribes, State housing finance
agencies, State community and/or economic development agencies, local rural
nonprofits and community development corporations to address the problems of
concentrated rural housing distress and community poverty:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funding made available under the previous proviso, at least
$5,000,000 shall be made available to promote
economic development and entrepreneurship for federally recognized Indian
Tribes, through activities including the capitalization of revolving loan
programs and business planning and development, funding is also made available
for technical assistance to increase capacity through training and outreach
activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso> That
the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall publish a notice of
funding availability for the Rural Innovation Fund within 120 days of the
enactment of this Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts made available under this heading,
$25,000,000 is for grants pursuant to section
107 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.
5307).</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H41B7D5DAA4DC4E49B8061140DBC076A8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Community development loan guarantees
program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the cost
of guaranteed loans, $6,435,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2011, as authorized by section 108 of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5308):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That such costs,
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $275,000,000,
notwithstanding any aggregate limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed
in section 108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0AEFC92B53EE44378DA2E7C31192CC17"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Home investment partnerships
program</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HAE61A9F19EF54FB1AE2DCC84BB1B149B"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the HOME investment partnerships
program, as authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act, as amended,
$1,825,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2013:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, funds provided in
prior appropriations Acts for technical assistance, that were made available
for Community Housing Development Organizations technical assistance, and that
still remain available, may be used for HOME technical assistance
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were
appropriated.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H3F618804441A4461AA39F197DFD0ABFF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Self-help and assisted homeownership
opportunity program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the
Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program, as authorized under
section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as
amended, $82,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the total amount
provided under this heading, $27,000,000 shall
be made available to the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity
Program as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program
Extension Act of 1996, as amended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$50,000,000 shall be made available for the
second, third and fourth capacity building activities authorized under section
4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), of which not
less than $5,000,000 may be made available for
rural capacity-building activities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
$5,000,000 shall be made available for
capacity-building activities as authorized in sections 6301 through 6305 of
Public Law 110–246.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H718963EF2C7643A6931EE2F173BD4141"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Homeless assistance
grants</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H288E9FB2483A41728EECBF7619AD0333"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the emergency
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>solutions<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> grants program as authorized
under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as
amended; the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>continuum of care<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> program as authorized under
subtitle C of title IV of such Act; and the
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>rural housing
stability assistance<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> program as authorized under
subtitle D of title IV of such Act,
$2,055,000,000, of which
$2,050,000,000 shall remain available until
September 30, 2013, and of which $5,000,000
shall remain available until expended
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>for project-based
rental assistance with rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms and any
rental assistance amounts that are recaptured under such continuum of care
program shall remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That up to
$200,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading shall be available for such emergency solutions grants program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no less than $1,844,000,000 of the funds
appropriated under this heading shall be available for such continuum of care
and rural housing stability assistance programs:<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That up to
$6,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be available for the national homeless data analysis project:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for all match requirements applicable to funds made available under this
heading for this fiscal year and prior years, a grantee may use (or could have
used) as a source of match funds other funds administered by the Secretary and
other Federal agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory
prohibition on any such use of any such funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall renew on an annual basis expiring contracts or amendments
to contracts funded under the <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>continuum of<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> care program if the program is
determined to be needed under the applicable continuum of care and meets
appropriate program requirements and financial standards, as determined by the
Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
all awards of assistance under this heading shall be required to coordinate and
integrate homeless programs with other mainstream health, social services, and
employment programs for which homeless populations may be eligible, including
Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families, Food Stamps, and services funding through the Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce Investment Act, and the Welfare-to-Work
grant program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
all balances for Shelter Plus Care renewals previously funded from the Shelter
Plus Care Renewal account and transferred to this account shall be available,
if recaptured, for continuum of care renewals in fiscal year
2011.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFB347262BDF84041A1C1E998AD003461"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing
programs</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8EC83A130943439D92022ECC9768EFD5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Project-based rental
assistance</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H62D30A05332741B5B4718FA599A83B8A"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For activities and assistance for the
provision of project-based subsidy contracts under the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (<quote>the Act</quote>), not otherwise
provided for, $8,982,328,000, to remain
available until expended, shall be available on October 1,
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>2010 (in addition
to the $393,672,000 previously appropriated
under this heading that will become available October 1, 2010)<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>, and
$400,000,000, to remain available until
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2011:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the amounts made
available under this heading shall be available for expiring or terminating
section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate
rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section 8 project-based subsidy
contracts (including section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for
contracts entered into pursuant to section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units
in projects that are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency
Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing
Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administrative and
other expenses associated with project-based activities and assistance funded
under this paragraph:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed
$322,000,000 shall be available for
performance-based contract administrators for section 8 project-based
assistance:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso><italic> further</italic>,
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may also use such amounts
in the previous proviso for performance-based contract administrators for the
administration of: interest reduction payments pursuant to section 236(a) of
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent supplement payments
pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12
U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C.
1715z–1(f)(2)); project rental assistance contracts for the elderly under
section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental
assistance contracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under
section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42
U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of
the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans under
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts recaptured under this heading, the heading <quote>Annual Contributions
for Assisted Housing</quote>, or the heading <quote>Housing Certificate
Fund</quote> may be used for renewals of or amendments to section 8
project-based contracts or for performance-based contract administrators,
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were
appropriated.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H22BBAA53072840E1B04B161587D94F26"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing for the
elderly</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H744C5D74A3564356AB9682F724CE4A6D"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For capital advances, including amendments
to capital advance contracts, for housing for the elderly, as authorized by
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for project rental
assistance for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including
amendments to contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts
for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, and for supportive services
associated with the housing, $825,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2014, of which up to
$582,000,000 shall be for capital advance and
project-based rental assistance awards:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That amounts for project
rental assistance contracts are to remain available for the liquidation of
valid obligations for 10 years following the date of such obligation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amount provided under this heading, up to
$90,000,000 shall be for service coordinators
and the continuation of existing congregate service grants for residents of
assisted housing projects, and of which up to
$25,000,000 shall be for grants under section
202b of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q–2) for conversion of eligible
projects under such section to assisted living or related use and for
substantial and emergency capital repairs as determined by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amount made available under this heading,
$20,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development only for making competitive grants to private
nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives for covering costs of
architectural and engineering work, site control, and other planning relating
to the development of supportive housing for the elderly that is eligible for
assistance under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q):
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts under this heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment Center
inspections and inspection-related activities associated with section 202
capital advance projects:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 governing the terms and
conditions of project rental assistance, except that the initial contract term
for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in
duration.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0AA25EFBE23D4D8AB482724066AFA4D3"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing for persons with
disabilities</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HC86E5978EAC8459CAAB7273D2CBE4232"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For capital advance contracts, including
amendments to capital advance contracts, for supportive housing for persons
with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) and for project rental
assistance for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under section
811(d)(2) of such Act, including amendments to contracts for such assistance
and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance for up to a 1-year term,
and for supportive services associated with the housing for persons with
disabilities as authorized by section 811(b)(1) of such Act,
$200,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2014:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That amounts for project
rental assistance contracts are to remain available for the liquidation of
valid obligations for 10 years following the date of such obligation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may waive the provisions of section 811 governing the terms and
conditions of project rental assistance, except that the initial contract term
for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts made available under this heading shall be available for Real Estate
Assessment Center inspections and inspection-related activities associated with
section 811 Capital Advance Projects.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H08432805C1FA41EC8EAEEBFA2FBB8ECC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Housing counseling assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For contracts, grants, and other assistance
excluding loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968, as amended,
$100,000,000, including up to
$2,500,000 for administrative contract services,
to remain available until September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That funds shall be used
for providing counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current and
prospective, with respect to property maintenance, financial
management/literacy, and such other matters as may be appropriate to assist
them in improving their housing conditions, meeting their financial needs, and
fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership; for program
administration; and for housing counselor
training.</text>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H45DA225077B14ED59744317AA54BAFE9"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other assisted housing
programs</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H1C2FB8BB078B4A1683808561BBDA0327"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rental housing assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For amendments to contracts under section
101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and
section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) in
State-aided, noninsured rental housing projects,
$40,600,000, to remain available until
expended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9DB6B5A4ADC74F25ABF77D3DC110F703"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rent
supplement</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HF21CCD23CFCC4D1F94D0EDF7ED2B2E2B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(rescission)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Of the amounts recaptured from terminated
contracts under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
(12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1715z–1) $40,600,000 are rescinded:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That no amounts may be
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD70546F8800F46539E2A2EB4482787DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment to manufactured housing fees trust
fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses as
authorized by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to
$14,000,000, to remain available until expended,
of which $7,000,000 is to be derived from the
Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not to exceed the
total amount appropriated under this heading shall be available from the
general fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and
make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to
section 620 of such Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the amount made available under this heading from the general fund shall be
reduced as such collections are received during fiscal year 2011 so as to
result in a final fiscal year 2011 appropriation from the general fund
estimated at not more than $7,000,000 and fees
pursuant to such section 620 shall be modified as necessary to ensure such a
final fiscal year 2011 appropriation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
for the dispute resolution and installation programs, the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development may assess and collect fees from any program participant:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
such collections shall be deposited into the Fund, and the Secretary, as
provided herein, may use such collections, as well as fees collected under
section 620, for necessary expenses of such Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of such Act, the Secretary may
carry out responsibilities of the Secretary under such Act through the use of
approved service providers that are paid directly by the recipients of their
services.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7B0EA1881B01463E974BCFB14BD50C8F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal housing
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H9F0293D78A9D45EB9C3F3C0CCCBBAC13"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mutual mortgage insurance program
account</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HB835C89D0D604208BF988B3B84FFC806"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfers of
funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>New<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> commitments to guarantee single
family loans insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed
$400,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for the cost of new
guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 255 of the National Housing Act (12
U.S.C. 1715z–20), $150,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
during fiscal year 2011, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the
purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall not
exceed $50,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the foregoing amount in the previous proviso shall be for loans to nonprofit
and governmental entities in connection with sales of single family real
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual
Mortgage Insurance Fund. For administrative contract expenses of the Federal
Housing Administration,
$220,000,000,<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>to remain available until
September 30,<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>
2012<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>, of which up
to $71,500,000 may be transferred to and merged
with the Working Capital Fund:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed
$200,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2011, an
additional $1,400 for administrative contract
expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000
in additional guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any
amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall
funds made available by this proviso exceed
$30,000,000.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H0F81CF5684124F9EB50615C3E0F50C8C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General and special risk program
account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">During fiscal year
2011, commitments to guarantee loans incurred under the General and Special
Risk Insurance Funds, as authorized by sections 238 and 519 of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed
$20,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any
part of which is to be guaranteed.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Gross obligations for the principal amount
of direct loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of
the National Housing Act, shall not exceed
$20,000,000, which shall be for loans to
nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with the sale of
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>single
family<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> real
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such
Act.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7A4E2224B6F14F51B30B4E53E756FEC5"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government national mortgage
association</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HD872670C6ED84168B0D89DD1D0CDC117"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Guarantees of mortgage-backed securities
loan guarantee program account</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">New commitments to issue guarantees to carry
out the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed
$500,000,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2012.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7BD3B3E4768B4ED7979DA838B7D3BEAC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy development and
research</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H7D5599AA8F06426485E76388DB1EDEB6"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research and technology</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For contracts, grants, and necessary
expenses of programs of research and studies relating to housing and urban
problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing
and Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968,
$62,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2012.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H03E0CA69D62B442896FA844CAB034D3B"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing and equal
opportunity</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H60B44452CAE6460D85E322FADF48D1C6"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fair housing activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For contracts, grants, and other assistance,
not otherwise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended,
$72,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2012, of which $42,500,000 shall be to carry
out activities pursuant to such section 561:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the funds made
available to carry out section 561, not less than
$10,000,000 shall be available to carry out
authorized activities, including training, education and enforcement in order
to protect the public from discriminatory lending practices and mortgage rescue
scams:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall publish a notice of funding availability for amounts made
available under the previous proviso within 60 days of the enactment of this
Act:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may assess and collect fees to
cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training Academy, and may use such funds to
provide such training:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
no funds made available under this heading shall be used to lobby the executive
or legislative branches of the Federal Government in connection with a specific
contract, grant or loan:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the funds made available under this heading,
$500,000 shall be available to the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development for the creation and promotion of translated
materials and other programs that support the assistance of persons with
limited English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H0431AD6CD36B4C6CA106FF5DA6320B0F"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of lead hazard control and healthy
homes</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H49B5CB8E9F8949B8B95CD4EAD830B84A"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Lead hazard reduction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as
authorized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction
Act of 1992, $140,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2012, of which not less than
$40,000,000 shall be for the Healthy Homes
Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1970 that shall include research, studies, testing, and
demonstration efforts, including education and outreach concerning lead-based
paint poisoning and other housing-related diseases and hazards:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for purposes of
environmental review, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and other provisions of the law that further the
purposes of such Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, Operation
Lead Elimination Action Plan (LEAP), or the Lead Technical Studies program
under this heading or under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under
this heading, shall be considered to be funds for a special project for
purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition
Reform Act of 1994:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the total amount made available under this heading,
$48,000,000 shall be made available on a
competitive basis for areas with the highest lead paint abatement needs:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each recipient of funds provided under the second proviso shall make a matching
contribution in an amount not less than 25 percent:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary may waive the matching requirement cited in the preceding proviso
on a case by case basis if the Secretary determines that such a waiver is
necessary to advance the purposes of this program:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
each applicant shall submit a detailed plan and strategy that demonstrates
adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to carry out the proposed
use of funds pursuant to a notice of funding availability:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
amounts made available under this heading in this or prior appropriations Acts,
and that still remain available, may be used for any purpose under this heading
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appropriated if a
program competition is undersubscribed and there are other program competitions
under this heading that are oversubscribed.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id5F1DAA96367B4CC18314A1C9528E4CA8"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">WORKING CAPITAL
FUND</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id9BD313B84A8B4CE2BAFD40BECA5B8C8F"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For additional capital for the Working
Capital Fund (42 U.S.C. 3535) for the maintenance of infrastructure for
Department-wide information technology systems, for the continuing operation
and maintenance of both Department-wide and program-specific information
systems, and for program-related maintenance activities,
$243,500,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2012:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That any amounts
transferred to this Fund under this Act shall remain available until expended:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appropriated by previously
enacted appropriations Acts may be used for the purposes specified under this
Fund, in addition to any other information technology the purposes for which
such amounts were appropriated.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HCE563E6DAEEE41E5887125852F5F0DFE"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Management and
administration</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H25885551E7DD45A6B30286EDEEF2D6CF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Office of inspector general</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary salaries and expenses of the
Office of Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $125,000,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Inspector
General shall have independent authority over all personnel issues within this
office.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H6570B61FFB954BF6A4DFAA76636CE4DD"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transformation
initiative</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H73AADA915E69485DAA856E0BB0850D14"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">(including transfer of funds)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses for combating
mortgage fraud, $20,000,000, to remain available
until expended.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In addition, of
the amounts made available in this Act under each of the following headings
under this title, the Secretary may transfer to, and merge with, this account
up to 1 percent from each such account, and such transferred amounts shall be
available until September 30, 2013, for (1) research, evaluation, and program
metrics; (2) program demonstrations; (3) technical assistance and capacity
building; and (4) information technology: <quote>Public Housing Capital
Fund</quote>, <added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><quote>Choice Neighborhoods
Initiative</quote>,<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase><quote>Housing Opportunities for
Persons With AIDS</quote>, <quote>Community Development Fund</quote>,
<quote>HOME Investment Partnerships Program</quote>, <quote>Housing for the
Elderly</quote>, <quote>Housing for Persons With Disabilities</quote>,
<quote>Housing Counseling Assistance</quote>, <quote>Payment to Manufactured
Housing Fees Trust Fund</quote>, <quote>Mutual Mortgage Insurance Program
Account</quote>, <quote>Lead Hazard Reduction</quote>, <quote>Rental Housing
Assistance</quote>, and <quote>Fair Housing Activities</quote>:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That of the amounts made
available under this paragraph, not less than
$80,000,000 and not more than
$180,000,000 shall be available for information
technology modernization, including development and deployment of a Next
Generation of Voucher Management System and development and deployment of
modernized Federal Housing Administration systems:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
not more than 25 percent of the funds made available for information technology
modernization may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the Committees on
Appropriations a plan for expenditure that (1) identifies for each
modernization project (a) the functional and performance capabilities to be
delivered and the mission benefits to be realized, (b) the estimated life-cycle
cost, and (c) key milestones to be met; (2) demonstrates that each
modernization project is (a) compliant with the department's enterprise
architecture, (b) being managed in accordance with applicable life-cycle
management policies and guidance, (c) subject to the department's capital
planning and investment control requirements, and (d) supported by an
adequately staffed project office; and (3) has been reviewed by the Government
Accountability Office:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
of the amounts made available under this paragraph, not less than
$60,000,000 shall be available for technical
assistance and capacity building:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
technical assistance activities shall include, technical assistance for HUD
programs, including HOME, Community Development Block Grant, homeless programs,
HOPWA, HOPE VI, Public Housing, the Housing Choice Voucher Program, Fair
Housing Initiative Program, Housing Counseling, Healthy Homes, Sustainable
Communities, and other technical assistance as determined by the Secretary:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Secretary shall submit a plan to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations for approval detailing how the funding provided under this
heading will be allocated to each of the four categories identified under this
heading and for what projects or activities funding will be used:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
following the initial approval of this plan, the Secretary may amend the plan
with the approval of the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic">:</added-phrase><proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That with respect to
amounts made available under this heading for research, evaluation, program
metrics, and program demonstrations, notwithstanding section 204 of this title,
the Secretary may make grants or enter into cooperative agreements that include
a substantial match contribution.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HBFEAC65AD8B1441FA0CD59AB4DAACC32"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">General provisions—Department of housing
and urban development</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1C4F31CE94F24FF499ED8F73BFFF27EC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fifty percent of the amounts of budget
authority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with
such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section
1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988
(42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded or in the case of cash, shall be
remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or cash
recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State
housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies with
projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which
settlement occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 percent
of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the
Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance their project
at a lower interest rate.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B5F50157CBD4A1288B3CC6B8EFA27D6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the amounts made available under
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2011 to investigate or prosecute under
the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more
persons, including the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action,
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or preventing action by
a Government official or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B14F8E129D149138958C3B63A3A38FD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H37F6E614B5844311B3DA277E09C6683A"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 854(c)(1)(A) of the
AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts made
available under this title for fiscal year 2011 that are allocated under such
section, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall allocate and make
a grant, in the amount determined under subsection (b), for any State
that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE73DCBC0C0664C6AB83D1C658CF493B5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">received an allocation in a prior fiscal
year under clause (ii) of such section; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H01898925707E40D184AA8D9148FD57C8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not otherwise eligible for an allocation
for fiscal year 2011 under such clause (ii) because the areas in the State
outside of the metropolitan statistical areas that qualify under clause (i) in
fiscal year 2011 do not have the number of cases of acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome (AIDS) required under such clause.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7BF27128B9F4B2CB08453BA93BEF3C8"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount of the allocation and grant for
any State described in subsection (a) shall be an amount based on the
cumulative number of AIDS cases in the areas of that State that are outside of
metropolitan statistical areas that qualify under clause (i) of such section
854(c)(1)(A) in fiscal year 2011, in proportion to AIDS cases among cities and
States that qualify under clauses (i) and (ii) of such section and States
deemed eligible under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD6E740A8F4BE46E5985E7F61F5519D05"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the amount allocated for fiscal year 2011 under section 854(c) of the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the City of New York, New
York, on behalf of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New Jersey
Metropolitan Division (hereafter <quote>metropolitan division</quote>) of the
New York-Newark-Edison, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, shall be
adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD60521C51AA74475AE4880EEEA1897D4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">allocating to the City of Jersey City, New
Jersey, the proportion of the metropolitan area's or division's amount that is
based on the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the
metropolitan area or division that is located in Hudson County, New Jersey, and
adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan division's high-incidence
bonus if this area in New Jersey also has a higher than average per capita
incidence of AIDS; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3050A1F53B0C48B5A5B3EC39B4DFB5DA"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">allocating to the City of Paterson, New
Jersey, the proportion of the metropolitan area's or division's amount that is
based on the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the
metropolitan area or division that is located in Bergen County and Passaic
County, New Jersey, and adjusting for the proportion of the metropolitan
division's high-incidence bonus if this area in New Jersey also has a higher
than average per capita incidence of AIDS. The recipient cities shall use
amounts allocated under this subsection to carry out eligible activities under
section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) in their
respective portions of the metropolitan division that is located in New
Jersey.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H66433C94D9D74C268260F46E83ACBB5B"><enum>(d)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the amount allocated for fiscal year 2011 under section 854(c) of the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) to areas with a higher than
average per capita incidence of AIDS, shall be adjusted by the Secretary on the
basis of area incidence reported over a 3-year period.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID067DE28F288B48BD9EC6FC69DFD15203" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as explicitly provided in law, any
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title II of
this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with section
102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (42
U.S.C. 3545).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5DAE698168EC49CBB82D50BC038FDF94" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section
402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee
basis, and for utilizing and making payment for services and facilities of the
Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage
Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank,
Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any
insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAD7607B30B8441DF90312D0114891A51" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Unless otherwise provided for in this Act
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program,
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget estimates
submitted to Congress.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID645F70C12C1241CBAE9CB340DF584399" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>207.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Corporations and agencies of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Government
Corporation Control Act, are hereby authorized to make such expenditures,
within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such
corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to make such contracts
and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by
section 104 of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 2011 for such corporation or agency except as
hereinafter provided:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That collections of
these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase
commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such
loans are in support of other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior
appropriations Acts), except that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage
insurance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or where loans or
mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the
United States Government.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4A23BBF1033D474EB51D0C679D1A7628" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>208.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess
funds in each program and activity within the jurisdiction of the Department
and shall submit additional, updated budget information to these Committees
upon request.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC6183076C047457BA37579F523F023E6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>209.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7EEE3CAD549E4F1F9CA655EBFCD4AAD4"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the amount allocated for fiscal year 2011 under section 854(c) of the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the City of Wilmington,
Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey
Metropolitan Division (hereafter <quote>metropolitan division</quote>), shall
be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by allocating to
the State of New Jersey the proportion of the metropolitan division's amount
that is based on the number of cases of AIDS reported in the portion of the
metropolitan division that is located in New Jersey, and adjusting for the
proportion of the metropolitan division's high-incidence bonus if this area in
New Jersey also has a higher than average per capita incidence of AIDS. The
State of New Jersey shall use amounts allocated to the State under this
subsection to carry out eligible activities under section 855 of the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) in the portion of the metropolitan
division that is located in New Jersey.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9ABA4DFF026F4D13AD8FFAFE6D6A6926"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall allocate to Wake County,
North Carolina, the amounts that otherwise would be allocated for fiscal year
2011 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C.
12903(c)) to the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the
Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Any amounts
allocated to Wake County shall be used to carry out eligible activities under
section 855 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) within such metropolitan statistical
area.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H87C195EC292A46DF8C8EDBCE1011D7FD"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development may adjust the allocation of the amounts that otherwise would
be allocated for fiscal year 2011 under section 854(c) of such Act, upon the
written request of an applicant, in conjunction with the State(s), for a
formula allocation on behalf of a metropolitan statistical area, to designate
the State or States in which the metropolitan statistical area is located as
the eligible grantee(s) of the allocation. In the case that a metropolitan
statistical area involves more than one State, such amounts allocated to each
State shall be in proportion to the number of cases of AIDS reported in the
portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in that State. Any amounts
allocated to a State under this section shall be used to carry out eligible
activities within the portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in
that State.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA2F32825B9E4827A86BCB495D3F04CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>210</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President's formal budget request for
fiscal year 2011, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development's
congressional budget justifications to be submitted to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall use the
identical account and sub-account structure provided under this Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9525D69E59BE415F8686C463EE58A2B8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A public housing agency or such other
entity that administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of
the county of Los Angeles, California, the States of Alaska, Iowa, and
Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public housing or a
recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a similar governing board of such
agency or entity as required under section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public
housing agency or other entity that administers Federal housing assistance
under section 8 for the Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles,
California and the States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi that chooses not to
include a resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 assistance on
the board of directors or a similar governing board shall establish an advisory
board of not less than six residents of public housing or recipients of section
8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the public housing agency or
other administering entity on issues related to public housing and section 8.
Such advisory board shall meet not less than quarterly.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6834FB55905441087B0B12F4DA97E0D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>212.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H451AFBEFDE444B5F857E7B3BFE71778D"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
subject to the conditions listed in subsection (b), for fiscal years 2011 and
2012, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the transfer
of some or all project-based assistance, debt and statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions, associated with one or more
multifamily housing project to another multifamily housing project or
projects.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8DFDF495613B4016BBD605C17A3F4487"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The transfer authorized in subsection (a)
is subject to the following conditions:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H665ECB76C84244FBBD1EB5F8EDE436A9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of low-income and very
low-income units and the net dollar amount of Federal assistance provided by
the transferring project shall remain the same in the receiving project or
projects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0D4916AF1644424DABA6A86637B1C17F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The transferring project shall, as
determined by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically
nonviable.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C17F1420185459FB9BCC7FB1D039C3E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The receiving project or projects shall
meet or exceed applicable physical standards established by the
Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1DDF3F6AD2BC49C48B7AAD1300142335"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The owner or mortgagor of the transferring
project shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the transferring
project and provide a certification of approval by all appropriate local
governmental officials.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD23683D5B0BA4A35B722DC33F475F2E1"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The tenants of the transferring project who
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project or
projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the transferring
project or projects until new units in the receiving project are available for
occupancy.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E95FBAB1A414557A90D4D14E357EBDB"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary determines that this transfer
is in the best interest of the tenants.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBDEC9DBE29314551BADC69D15D990942"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If either the transferring project or the
receiving project or projects meets the condition specified in subsection
(c)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting from additional
financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-insured
mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such project by the
Secretary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B8D17CD207D4CC78751B609767EF864"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the transferring project meets the
requirements of subsection (c)(2)(E), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving
project or projects shall execute and record either a continuation of the
existing use agreement or a new use agreement for the project where, in either
case, any use restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than the
existing use restrictions.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H46C1DBC10E9842508AD130C5C2E80915"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any financial risk to the FHA General and
Special Risk Insurance Fund, as determined by the Secretary, would be reduced
as a result of a transfer completed under this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H67216DEAD0E04AA09FBB171EFB0C588C"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary determines that Federal
liability with regard to this project will not be increased.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4127814C92884FB095C9AB6C82683542"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B8FBE326E2C411AAB4A584A1C3F0294"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <quote>low-income</quote> and
<quote>very low-income</quote> shall have the meanings provided by the statute
and/or regulations governing the program under which the project is insured or
assisted;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB87E190A0B7D4CC6967D9B045D1652F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>multifamily housing
project</quote> means housing that meets one of the following
conditions—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCAD3DAAE60C54F3DAFEF08FBAF0DE38F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is subject to a mortgage
insured under the National Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H989350504A014CF5A552F59FD66EF739"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that has project-based assistance
attached to the structure including projects undergoing mark to market debt
restructuring under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB56A46E5597A49479563C9A71F3F0632"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is assisted under section 202
of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales
National Affordable Housing Act;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3FA30C8BE7A34233A4AE8E904A99834F"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing that is assisted under section 202
of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section existed before the enactment of the
Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97701D3B00A24BA5A2550F5BD4D13C21"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing or vacant land that is subject to a
use agreement;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H00094E9BE8594E9A9CA9C752BF6C416C"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>project-based
assistance</quote> means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91C2E8C406D5420B94A7E94249315F21"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance provided under section 8(b) of
the United States Housing Act of 1937;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA804AB8009F45E18BE613A3F0701165"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance for housing constructed or
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance provided under section
8(b)(2) of such Act (as such section existed immediately before October 1,
1983);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H182CE3DF0AFD42AD810B01F52E8ADB34"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">rent supplement payments under section 101
of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC0AF76B9F39843169FE35D3EBEC09224"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">interest reduction payments under section
236 and/or additional assistance payments under section 236(f)(2) of the
National Housing Act; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBDD7D9798D284189AC36CC5DFEB10D22"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assistance payments made under section
202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H393382F859814B4382D3E8B36E051975"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>receiving project or
projects</quote> means the multifamily housing project or projects to which
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required use
low-income and very low-income restrictions are to be transferred;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE5D4BBF9D4C04B84AE83EF2341A64945"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>transferring
project</quote> means the multifamily housing project which is transferring
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt and the statutorily required
low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the receiving project or
projects; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA2FFE5C9942145149C70662BEC684103"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>Secretary</quote> means the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDAA3076C913A4CBF80DF3AF106D7FBE7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The funds made available for Native
Alaskans under the heading <quote>Native American Housing Block Grants</quote>
in title III of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing
block grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62EC4C5E3C094478BA32AC991636B383" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>214.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds provided under this title may be
used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that makes
applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C.
661 et seq.).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE0B6CEBCA3934C1B959F2DA11B3793D2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>215.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD01036891DE741BEA2E6ADE638ECBC7F"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No assistance shall be provided under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to any
individual who—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF32E712BDD4A4125848D53789CE81E9B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is enrolled as a student at an institution
of higher education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B3212FEBEEA481A8A32A418C0B7213E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is under 24 years of age;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C869838FAA14450AD0DC7C75949B7CC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not a veteran;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE049B75AA0CF473DB7D652996A8C60AE"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is unmarried;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC69292A69114F6BAEE422AFEDF5EBE0"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not have a dependent child;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91D0FDC2C1C24A8CB3D0C180A2F079ED"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not a person with disabilities, as such
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance under such section
8 as of November 30, 2005; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBAAB72487C5E4D489BC5C5643F470970"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not otherwise individually eligible, or
has parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive
assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F4BDB7BD0794D449B44356525D2550D"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of determining the eligibility
of a person to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess of amounts
received for tuition) that an individual receives under the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), from private sources, or an institution
of higher education (as defined under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income to that individual, except for a
person over the age of 23 with dependent children.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2AF55EBC32AD492097E3E5EDBC15B714" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>216.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the limitation in the first
sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–g)),
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, until September 30, 2011,
insure and enter into commitments to insure mortgages under section 255(g) of
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F831FAAF4B64886905FC17EC11D5BDD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>217.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
in fiscal year 2011, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that
is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with a
contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 or other Federal programs, the Secretary shall maintain any
rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of
1937 and other programs that are attached to any dwelling units in the
property. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation with the
tenants and the local government, that such a multifamily property owned or
held by the Secretary is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs
of rehabilitating and operating the property and all available Federal, State,
and local resources, including rent adjustments under section 524 of the
Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997
(<quote>MAHRAA</quote>) and (2) environmental conditions that cannot be
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation with
the tenants of that property, contract for project-based rental assistance
payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties, or
provide other rental assistance. The Secretary shall also take appropriate
steps to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to
foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies to
assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety
after written notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of
other available remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. After
disposition of any multifamily property described under this section, the
contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall be subject to the
requirements under section 524 of MAHRAA.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6302B41651D445B1916CF08E167D54E7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>218.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During fiscal year 2011, in the provision
of rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) in connection with a program to demonstrate the
economy and effectiveness of providing such assistance for use in assisted
living facilities that is carried out in the counties of the State of Michigan
notwithstanding paragraphs (3) and (18)(B)(iii) of such section 8(o), a family
residing in an assisted living facility in any such county, on behalf of which
a public housing agency provides assistance pursuant to section 8(o)(18) of
such Act, may be required, at the time the family initially receives such
assistance, to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of the monthly
adjusted income of the family by such a percentage or amount as the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development determines to be appropriate.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCD15A37569FC46A08881846DA8237C4B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>219.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall report quarterly to the House of Representatives and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on HUD's use of all sole-source contracts,
including terms of the contracts, cost, and a substantive rationale for using a
sole-source contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B5BE00DDAE64A709AC296D08DD9BFF6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>220.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the recipient of a grant under section 202b of the Housing Act of 1959 (12
U.S.C. 1701q) after December 26, 2000, in accordance with the unnumbered
paragraph at the end of section 202(b) of such Act, may, at its option,
establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own the project and may lend the
grant funds to such entity, which may be a private nonprofit organization
described in section 831 of the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity
Act of 2000.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE052EB443CFB46128F25488DC721E3C1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H8516EFB3E6C74CE7BB3231F485F604EF"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amounts provided under the subheading
<quote>Program Account</quote> under the heading <quote>Community Development
Loan Guarantees</quote> may be used to guarantee, or make commitments to
guarantee, notes, or other obligations issued by any State on behalf of
nonentitlement communities in the State in accordance with the requirements of
section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>in fiscal year
2011 and subsequent years<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, any State
receiving such a guarantee or commitment shall distribute all funds subject to
such guarantee to the units of general local government in nonentitlement areas
that received the commitment.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4F10832113FF4B06B4ACE58FD1863344"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall
promulgate regulations governing the administration of the funds described
under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H98FB2C43E6414F7DA62BD7AB3D506B27" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 24 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC17A0F46DF234A038931D7D932075E48"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (m)(1), by striking
<quote>fiscal year</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end
and inserting <quote>fiscal year 2011.</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95EC905C9EE142F48E9F64E893F120CD"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (o), by striking
<quote>September</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and
inserting <quote>September 30, 2011.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID35842060F34048A39EDCCC75C34D7F9C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Public housing agencies that own and
operate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset
management requirement imposed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in connection with the operating fund rule:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That an agency seeking
a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula
shall not be exempt from asset management requirements.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15E3F79419654F9EA5F81B717D463B24" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to the use of amounts provided
in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement and
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the Secretary
shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to asset management that
restricts or limits in any way the use of capital funds for central office
costs pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)):
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That a public housing
agency may not use capital funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities
that are eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the
operating fund in excess of the amounts permitted under section 9(g)(1) or
9(g)(2).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID59E077D6521F4B3F809A8A645A91D999" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>225.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No official or employee of the Department
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder
unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined that such
allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds control and has
received training in funds control procedures and directives. The Chief
Financial Officer shall ensure that, not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, a trained allotment holder shall be designated for each
HUD subaccount under the headings <quote>Executive Direction</quote> and
heading <quote>Administration, Operations, and Management</quote> as well as
each account receiving appropriations for <quote>personnel compensation and
benefits</quote> within the Department of Housing and Urban Development.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H64A0098EA5F74D779DD2EAEFD0A8781E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>226.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall report quarterly to the House of Representatives and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on the status of all section 8 project-based
housing, including the number of all project-based units by region as well as
an analysis of all federally subsidized housing being refinanced under the
Mark-to-Market program. The Secretary shall in the report identify all existing
units maintained by region as section 8 project-based units and all
project-based units that have opted out of section 8 or have otherwise been
eliminated as section 8 project-based units. The Secretary shall identify in
detail and by project all the efforts made by the Department to preserve all
section 8 project-based housing units and all the reasons for any units which
opted out or otherwise were lost as section 8 project-based units. Such
analysis shall include a review of the impact of the loss of any subsidized
units in that housing marketplace, such as the impact of cost and the loss of
available subsidized, low-income housing in areas with scarce housing resources
for low-income families.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAED54A1930F34CF5ADE8FC6588927CAB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>227.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment of attorney fees in program-related
litigation must be paid from individual program office personnel benefits and
compensation funding. The annual budget submission for program office personnel
benefit and compensation funding must include program-related litigation costs
for attorney fees as a separate line item request.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H19EC758AFA5F4C0FA25F85BE51D81C59" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>228.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development shall for fiscal year 2011 and subsequent fiscal years,
notify the public through the Federal Register and other means, as determined
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance or
notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund
administered by the Secretary that is to be competitively awarded.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>fiscal<added-phrase reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase> year 2011 and subsequent fiscal
years, the Secretary may make the NOFA available only on the Internet at the
appropriate Government Web site or Web site or through other electronic media,
as determined by the Secretary.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB1275E99F924553AE8CAC1F5C4D4138" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>229.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5620B0D569D34EA68700DCC1D9D1A659"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Approval of Prepayment of
Debt</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon request of the
project sponsor of a project assisted with a loan under section 202 of the
Housing Act of 1959 (as in effect before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act), for which the Secretary's consent to
prepayment is required, the Secretary may approve the prepayment of any
indebtedness to the Secretary relating to any remaining principal and interest
under the loan as part of a prepayment plan under which—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1335F19E4F84B68B4798D04D1BE821A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the project sponsor agrees to operate the
project until the maturity date of the original loan under terms at least as
advantageous to existing and future tenants as the terms required by the
original loan agreement or any project-based rental assistance payments
contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (or any other
project-based rental housing assistance programs of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, including the rent supplement program under section 101
of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s)) or any
successor project-based rental assistance program, except as provided by
subsection (a)(2)(B); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H526D20D9B19E4BE68EB54860DE3D083B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the prepayment may involve refinancing of
the loan if such refinancing results—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0484DA14D037456DBA84329EB582375E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in a lower interest rate on the principal
of the loan for the project and in reductions in debt service related to such
loan; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC295B2C5F50D4AA4884BFC9FB9DDE5A0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a project that is assisted
with a loan under such section 202 carrying an interest rate of 6 percent or
lower, a transaction under which—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2DCC37D7BCF545C3A3F4F3E61EF44D5B"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the project owner shall address the
physical needs of the project;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDEC5A7E031014344BF8E80A06A14FC21"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the prepayment plan for the transaction,
including the refinancing, shall meet a cost benefit analysis, as established
by the Secretary, that the benefit of the transaction outweighs the cost of the
transaction including any increases in rent charged to unassisted
tenants;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBAD5E45348954263A39D177CB622212D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the overall cost for providing rental
assistance under section 8 for the project (if any) is not increased, except,
upon approval by the Secretary to—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCC1261EEE12E4133B578DD0984A35078"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">mark-up-to-market contracts pursuant to
section 524(a)(3) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), as such section is carried out by the Secretary for
properties owned by nonprofit organizations; or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6DB68A4DE9F14AEFA34A21FE4DB39CFA"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">mark-up-to-budget contracts pursuant to
section 524(a)(4) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), as such section is carried out by the Secretary for
properties owned by eligible owners (as such term is defined in section 202(k)
of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(k));</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED7351D07F274580B82F7F4BEE99A0D3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the project owner may charge tenants rent
sufficient to meet debt service payments and operating cost requirements, as
approved by the Secretary, if project-based rental assistance is not available
or is insufficient for the debt service and operating cost of the project after
refinancing. Such approval by the Secretary—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81554D41230A4589B2841B545F096956"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be the basis for the owner to agree
to terminate the project-based rental assistance contract that is insufficient
for the debt service and operating cost of the project after refinancing;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F8AFFD969534F828567CA02D0F6F225"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be an eligibility event for the
project for purposes of section 8(t) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(t));</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HED18DDA56ED74F31BEA03C261549ACE0"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">units to be occupied by tenants assisted
under section 8(t) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f(t)) shall, upon termination of the occupancy of such tenants, become
eligible for project-based assistance under section 8(o)(13) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) without regard to the
percentage limitations provided in such section; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3ECF06D3D0D84E5AA0BC8B53567FD625"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">there shall be a use agreement of 20 years
from the date of the maturity date of the original 202 loan for all units,
including units to be occupied by tenants assisted under section 8(t) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE9BEEBF992C34B169A905B79A6048ACF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>230.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No property identified by the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development as surplus Federal property for use to assist the
homeless shall be made available to any homeless group unless the group is a
member in good standing under any of HUD's homeless assistance programs or is
in good standing with any other program which receives funds from any other
Federal or State agency or entity:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That an exception may
be made for an entity not involved with Federal homeless programs to use
surplus Federal property for the homeless only after the Secretary or another
responsible Federal agency has fully and comprehensively reviewed all relevant
finances of the entity, the track record of the entity in assisting the
homeless, the ability of the entity to manage the property, including all
costs, the ability of the entity to administer homeless programs in a manner
that is effective to meet the needs of the homeless population that is expected
to use the property and any other related issues that demonstrate a commitment
to assist the homeless:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall not require the entity to have cash in hand in order
to demonstrate financial ability but may rely on the entity's prior
demonstrated fund-raising ability or commitments for in-kind donations of goods
and services:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the Secretary shall make all such information and its decision regarding
the award of the surplus property available to the committees of jurisdiction,
including a full justification of the appropriateness of the use of the
property to assist the homeless as well as the appropriateness of the group
seeking to obtain the property to use such property to assist the homeless:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That, this section shall apply to properties in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 made
available as surplus Federal property for use to assist the homeless.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H511894F04CCD41A4BFCB2088268317CD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>231.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent of the funds
made available for personnel or nonpersonnel expenses under any account or any
set-aside within any account under this title under the general heading
<quote>Personnel Compensation and Benefits</quote>, and under the account
headings <quote>Executive Direction</quote> and <quote>Administration,
Operations and Management</quote>, to any other such account or any other such
set-aside within any such account:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That any transfer over
5 percent must be submitted to and receive the prior written approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H446DDE7B41484E93AA9E6EB5E6A3EC44" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>232.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs,
administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be
considered a <quote>program of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development</quote> under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose of
income verifications and matching.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF9E9999024B64CC99FB1F0F738BD0882" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>233.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts made available for salaries
and expenses under all accounts under this title (except for the Office of
Inspector General account), a total of up to
$15,000,000 may be transferred to and merged
with amounts made available in the <quote>Working Capital Fund</quote> account
or the <quote>Transformation Initiative</quote> account under this title. Any
amounts transferred to the <quote>Transformation Initiative</quote> account
shall only be available for information technology requirements and shall
remain available until September 30, 2013.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFCECB865A1654BAF8045E9812B6C4ACD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>234.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203(c)(2)(B) of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(c)(2)(B)) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="LEXA-RepairidB8CD49D35A0144BCB65D4294FFEF09AA"><enum></enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD594276146A4B96A89731721C6D40ED"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><quote>In addition to the premium under
subparagraph (A), the Secretary may establish and collect annual premium
payments in an amount not exceeding 1.50 percent of the remaining insured
principal balance (excluding the portion of the remaining balance attributable
to the premium collected under subparagraph (A) and without taking into account
delinquent payments or prepayments). The Secretary, by publication of a notice
in the Federal Register, may establish or change the amount of the premium
under subparagraph (A) or the annual premium, and the period of the mortgage
term for which an annual premium amount shall apply.</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD2DCDDE3371D408584DB9229DABDA143" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>235.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II of division I of Public Law
108–447 and title III of Public Law 109–115 are each amended by striking the
item related to <quote>Flexible Subsidy Fund</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7A2EF6B8AFA248A79D0F01BA7AD1BF3D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>236.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idD1C9D81AD17D499B89A2D6ECFD699FF9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Loan Limit Floor Based on 2008
Levels</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For mortgages for
which the mortgagee issues credit approval for the borrower during fiscal year
2011, if the dollar amount limitation on the principal obligation of a mortgage
determined under section 203(b)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1709(b)(2)) for any size residence for any area is less than such dollar amount
limitation that was in effect for such size residence for such area for 2008
pursuant to section 202 of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 (Public Law
110–185; 122 Stat. 620), notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this
Act, the maximum dollar amount limitation on the principal obligation of a
mortgage for such size residence for such area for purposes of such section
203(b)(2) shall be considered (except for purposes of section 255(g) of such
Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(g))) to be such dollar amount limitation in effect for
such size residence for such area for 2008.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id137471E755D34A0D82B8C8EC60736F2A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Discretionary Authority for
Sub-Areas</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of law or of this joint resolution, if the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development determines, for any geographic area that is smaller than
an area for which dollar amount limitations on the principal obligation of a
mortgage are determined under section 203(b)(2) of the National Housing Act,
that a higher such maximum dollar amount limitation is warranted for any
particular size or sizes of residences in such sub-area by higher median home
prices in such sub-area, the Secretary may, for mortgages for which the
mortgagee issues credit approval for the borrower during fiscal year 2011,
increase the maximum dollar amount limitation for such size or sizes of
residences for such sub-area that is otherwise in effect (including pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section), but in no case to an amount that exceeds the
amount specified in section 202(a)(2) of the Economic Stimulus Act of
2008.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id695C89502FEA40009A6C522B976B4740" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>237.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idA681F17D20E44060ACE387C890D780EE"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Loan Limit Floor Based on 2008
Levels</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For mortgages
originated during fiscal year 2011, if the limitation on the maximum original
principal obligation of a mortgage that may be purchased by the Federal
National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
determined under section 302(b)(2) of the Federal National Mortgage Association
Charter Act (12 U.S.C. 1717(b)(2)) or section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home
Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1754(a)(2)) respectively, for any size
residence for any area is less than such maximum original principal obligation
limitation that was in effect for such size residence for such area for 2008
pursuant to section 201 of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 (Public Law
110–185; 122 Stat. 619), notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this
Act, the limitation on the maximum original principal obligation of a mortgage
for such Association and Corporation for such size residence for such area
shall be such maximum limitation in effect for such size residence for such
area for 2008.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7BF4AAD5FAE84D5DB67176AB4A1D1CBB"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Discretionary Authority for
Sub-Areas</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of law or of this Act, if the Director of the Federal Housing
Finance Agency determines, for any geographic area that is smaller than an area
for which limitations on the maximum original principal obligation of a
mortgage are determined for the Federal National Mortgage Association or the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, that a higher such maximum original
principal obligation limitation is warranted for any particular size or sizes
of residences in such sub-area by higher median home prices in such sub-area,
the Director may, for mortgages originated during fiscal year 2011, increase
the maximum original principal obligation limitation for such size or sizes of
residences for such sub-area that is otherwise in effect (including pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section) for such Association and Corporation, but in no
case to an amount that exceeds the amount specified in the matter following the
comma in section 201(a)(l)(B) of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF8BC71AF120A4FAABC6852B2FAE9BE06" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>238.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, for mortgages for which the mortgagee issues credit approval for the
borrower during fiscal year 2011, the second sentence of section 255(g) of the
National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–20(g)) shall be considered to require
that in no case may the benefits of insurance under such section 255 exceed 150
percent of the maximum dollar amount in effect under the sixth sentence of
section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (12 U.S.C.
1454(a)(2)).</text>
</section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">Related agencies</header>
<appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HFA485D64A2C34B93A47699BD1B1C7309"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Access
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8DC7297545844A0B8C6B61AEBD7BE8EC"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For expenses necessary for the Access Board,
as authorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended,
$7,367,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds
received for publications and training expenses.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="idAADC39531AB94498B0E9170B974FC665"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal maritime
commission</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="id9F260C888B494BBE88672908D2FF7974"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Federal
Maritime Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act,
1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. App. 1111), including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C.
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902, $25,498,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not to exceed
$2,000 shall be available for official reception
and representation expenses.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H7F654F4ED20B4127BA6CC1F3AE7610E2"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National railroad passenger corporation
office of inspector general</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H633C1F8B95EA42FA8044BA1A25A0AF84"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">office of inspector
general</header>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H831C354128F0409088349B827C464A4E"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the Office of
Inspector General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out
the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$19,500,000:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That the Inspector
General shall have all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties
specified in the Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to
investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government
(18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Inspector General may enter into contracts and other arrangements for
audits, studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies and with
private persons, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern the
obtaining of such services within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
the Inspector General may select, appoint, and employ such officers and
employees as may be necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and
duties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the applicable laws and
regulations that govern such selections, appointments, and employment within
Amtrak:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
concurrent with the President's budget request for fiscal year 2012, the
Inspector General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2012 in similar format and
substance to those submitted by executive agencies of the Federal
Government.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="HB67D308D7A7540D79ED583DB273966DF"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National transportation safety
board</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H8BFD940B166741C6A76E52277309F0DB"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Salaries and expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses of the National
Transportation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and
aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms,
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902),
$104,300,000, of which not to exceed
$2,000 may be used for official reception and
representation expenses. The amounts made available to the National
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts necessary to make lease
payments on an obligation incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital
lease.</text>
</appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H59D9877F36F64CFEB0AF9E221FD68144"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Neighborhood reinvestment
corporation</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="HDD74E58E9F714784B3D2BE110E203C4C"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Payment to the neighborhood reinvestment
corporation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For payment to the
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in neighborhood reinvestment
activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42
U.S.C. 8101–8107), $140,000,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental
housing program:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That in addition,
$35,000,000 shall be made available until
expended for capital grants to rehabilitate or finance the rehabilitation of
affordable housing units, including necessary administrative expenses:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>, That
in addition, $125,000,000 shall be made
available until expended to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for
mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities, under the following terms and
conditions:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H14B1135D3E1040B6AF4F1D51F0486466"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
(<quote>NRC</quote>), shall make grants to counseling intermediaries approved
by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be
determined by the NRC based on affordability and the economic conditions of an
area; a match also may be waived by the NRC based on the aforementioned
conditions) to provide mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance primarily to
States and areas with high rates of defaults and foreclosures to help eliminate
the default and foreclosure of mortgages of owner-occupied single-family homes
that are at risk of such foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates of
defaults and foreclosures, grants may also be provided to approved counseling
intermediaries based on a geographic analysis of the Nation by the NRC which
determines where there is a prevalence of mortgages that are risky and likely
to fail, including any trends for mortgages that are likely to default and face
foreclosure. A State Housing Finance Agency may also be eligible where the
State Housing Finance Agency meets all the requirements under this paragraph. A
HUD-approved counseling intermediary shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure
mitigation assistance counseling requirements, as determined by the NRC, and
shall be approved by HUD or the NRC as meeting these requirements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1FFC6D812FCA45CD8D5453B65169DDBE"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance
shall only be made available to homeowners of owner-occupied homes with
mortgages in default or in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be
subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will be provided such assistance
that shall consist of activities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and
result in the long-term affordability of the mortgage retained pursuant to such
activity or another positive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made available
under this paragraph may be provided directly to lenders or homeowners to
discharge outstanding mortgage balances or for any other direct debt reduction
payments.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H416A620B5CFF4C33B4B8AAA1219F6BC8"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mitigation
Assistance by approved counseling intermediaries and State Housing Finance
Agencies shall involve a reasonable analysis of the borrower's financial
situation, an evaluation of the current value of the property that is subject
to the mortgage, counseling regarding the assumption of the mortgage by another
non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible purchase of the mortgage
by a non-Federal third party, counseling and advice of all likely restructuring
and refinancing strategies or the approval of a work-out strategy by all
interested parties.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9D6AF75450984C2BB9EE064E7EDA47D5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the
total funds under this paragraph to its own charter members with expertise in
foreclosure prevention counseling, subject to a certification by the NRC that
the procedures for selection do not consist of any procedures or activities
that could be construed as an unacceptable conflict of interest or have the
appearance of impropriety.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02EBE08E81C941CBB5786D6B836B99CB"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">HUD-approved counseling entities and State
Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds under this paragraph shall have
demonstrated experience in successfully working with financial institutions as
well as borrowers facing default, delinquency and foreclosure as well as
documented counseling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful performance
and positive outcomes with documented counseling plans (including post mortgage
foreclosure mitigation counseling), loan workout agreements and loan
modification agreements. NRC may use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in
underserved areas.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DE20F4CDF004D63B57F8198CB8E4CD0"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under
this paragraph, up to $3,000,000 may be made
available to build the mortgage foreclosure and default mitigation counseling
capacity of counseling intermediaries through NRC training courses with
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their partners, except that private
financial institutions that participate in NRC training shall pay market rates
for such training.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62D58051C5224BF887D3424D2AEE0F02"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the total amount made available under
this paragraph, up to 4 percent may be used for associated administrative
expenses for the NRC to carry out activities provided under this
section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0C62CB689DC3479D9542B38C67D13EA3"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance
grants may include a budget for outreach and advertising, and training, as
determined by the NRC.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA206A7066A7E450085A098CEA6106446"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The NRC shall continue to report
bi-annually to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as well as the
Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee on its efforts
to mitigate mortgage default.</text>
</paragraph></appropriations-small><appropriations-intermediate commented="no" id="H6BD16C833F45451C88C08D13EAC51A40"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">United states interagency council on
homelessness</header>
</appropriations-intermediate><appropriations-small commented="no" id="H86AB6B1FC4DE40D2B54CAD8FF31CC987"><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Operating expenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For necessary expenses (including payment of
salaries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of
conference rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section
3109 of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency Council
on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title II of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended,
$2,680,000.</text><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><added-phrase committee-id="SSAP00" reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase>Section 209 of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11319) is amended by striking
the date specified in such section and inserting <quote>October 1,
2012</quote>.<added-phrase committee-id="SSAP00" reported-display-style="italic"></added-phrase></text>
</appropriations-small><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="no-display-inline">General provisions—this act</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1B2872B919A542888A85369E306A465E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2010 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall be absorbed within
the levels appropriated in this Act or previous appropriations Acts.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2D4A60DDB74E47589CCBAC74495B7291" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds in this Act shall be used
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA22F13D14D4A4370A1C6AAD05A7F8735" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>403.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds appropriated in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may
any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided
herein.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC86DD2948C294D26A2C79C06D11BC0AA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>404.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The expenditure of any appropriation under
this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract pursuant to
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or
under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19FEDAEA592A404F891750EF7DD426EA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>405.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations
Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2011, or provided from any accounts in
the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and available to the agencies
funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a
reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a
program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel for any
program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by
the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity by
either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for a different
purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; (6)
reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, office, bureau,
board, commission, agency, administration, or department different from the
budget justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or the
table accompanying the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, whichever
is more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That not later than 60
days after the date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act
shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of
the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for application of
reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the report shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation with a
separate column to display the President's budget request, adjustments made by
Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the
fiscal year enacted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each
appropriation both by object class and program, project, and activity as
detailed in the budget appendix for the respective appropriation; and (3) an
identification of items of special congressional interest:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That the amount appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency
shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each
day after the required date that the report has not been submitted to the
Congress.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID375A7FA5F610490587D7BB0BEF86A2C7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as otherwise specifically provided
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at
the end of fiscal year 2011 from appropriations made available for salaries and
expenses for fiscal year 2011 in this Act, shall remain available through
September 30, 2012, for each such account for the purposes authorized:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That a request shall be
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval
prior to the expenditure of such funds:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines
under section 405 of this Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID20089C13882B4874B820FF662658255B" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>407.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All Federal agencies and departments that
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations on all sole-source contracts by no later than July
30, 2011. Such report shall include the contractor, the amount of the contract
and the rationale for using a sole-source contract.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6FD35A95EA864DA9BC38790BF38785EE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>408.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H714AC14F6FCD4CDEA87B8763DC55C739"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CCA8FA27B9E4B4DA5860E01212DAC6F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not meet identified needs for
knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of
official duties;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5F630033AC9F489C890F59B86697B31F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains elements likely to induce high
levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some
participants;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1EFB2EC060EE4E108583737BA0BA7510"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">does not require prior employee
notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written
end of course evaluation;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H429BB31FECB44402845C40664B7AA7EF"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">contains any methods or content associated
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or <quote>new age</quote>
belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice
N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80EFAD91AA0340B5AA95C93F1620CFA4"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is offensive to, or designed to change,
participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E86FEA1533A4300B14AEAB2D149C1F7"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section shall prohibit,
restrict, or otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training bearing
directly upon the performance of official duties.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7023747F89CC453E8C26E0BE5B61D684" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>409.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds in this Act may be used to support
any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent
domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic></proviso>, That for purposes of
this section, public use shall not be construed to include economic development
that primarily benefits private entities:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic></proviso>,
That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway
projects as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public
(including energy-related, communication-related, water-related and
wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the
general public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions
that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and oversight by
the government, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public
health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be
considered a public use for purposes of eminent domain.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2BC26C48F33148EDB0ABC7B57AC5781E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>410.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the
United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer
authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2ADA21CDC782495CBE9DDE1BF1ABCFC9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>411.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a
position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has
left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily
completed his period of active military or naval service, and has within 90
days after his release from such service or from hospitalization continuing
after discharge for a period of not more than 1 year, made application for
restoration to his former position and has been certified by the Office of
Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his former
position and has not been restored thereto.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8374D25DAF88480BACB3F7BC642A3F56" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>412.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act
may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the
assistance 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 <quote>Buy American
Act</quote>).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID896376C5F71A4C728AD2D8A67A53AECD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>413.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No funds appropriated or otherwise made
available under this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that
has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C.
10a–10c).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCEE264CB30064A7FA3E5873A0AB61758" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>414.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of
sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE5437EB9AEF94032A3FDA9A6E79BD418" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>415.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to purchase a light bulb for an office building unless the
light bulb has, to the extent practicable, an Energy Star or Federal Energy
Management Program designation.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2727AD104DCD4534AB4AD8B9DEAE1083" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>416.</enum><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2F743736F76546BCBC8668C82B2ACB1F"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to establish, issue, implement, administer, or enforce any
prohibition or restriction on the establishment or effectiveness of any
occupancy preference for veterans in supportive housing for the elderly that:
(1) is provided assistance by the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
and (2)(A) is or would be located on property of the Department of Veterans
Affairs; or (B) is subject to an enhanced use lease with the Department of
Veterans Affairs.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE4075B8EE20C4F04BB9FD2F4C0B2AC85" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>417.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">None of the funds made available under this
Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries,
or allied organizations.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id89AA60E62D344AF4AD3D49D0A0F5BDD1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>418.</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After any notice of funding availability or
any other notice designed to solicit applications for funding issued by either
of the following departments for a competitive grant program with an annual
budget, including grants, equal to or exceeding
$100,000,000, the Secretary of the Department of
Transportation and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall post on
their Web sites the following information regarding any of the applicable
programs including, but not limited to, the primary purpose of the grant
program, the criteria for grant selection, and the process for the
decisionmaking by the Department:
<proviso><italic>Provided</italic>,</proviso> That once all valid
applications have been received by the Department for a program by a date
certain established by the Department, the Department shall post on its Web
site a summary of the primary information in each grant application, including
the applicant’s name, address, phone number, point of contact, and the primary
funding or other request of each grantee:
<proviso><italic>Provided further</italic>,</proviso>
That a department shall post on its Web site the name of all successful
grantees, the grant award amount, and the justification for the selection by
the department as well as the methodology for the award selections, including
how the selected awards are consistent with program goals, and as soon as is
available, a summary of all benchmarks and deadlines that are expected to be
met by a grantee.</text>
<appropriations-small commented="no" id="H574199AEF7B44155A61A23EF17601AEC"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the
<quote><short-title>Transportation, Housing and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2011</short-title></quote>.</text>
</appropriations-small></section>
July 23, 2010
Read twice and placed on
the calendar