[House Report 106-355]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-355

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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED 
 AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2000, AND FOR OTHER 
                                PURPOSES

                                _______
                                

               September 30, 1999.--Ordered to be printed

                                _______


  Mr. Wolf, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

                           CONFERENCE REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 2084]

      The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
2084) ``making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes'', having met, after 
full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do 
recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
      That the House recede from its disagreement to the 
amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an 
amendment, as follows:
      In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said 
amendment, insert:
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                   Immediate Office of the Secretary

    For necessary expenses of the Immediate Office of the 
Secretary, $1,867,000.

                Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary

    For necessary expenses of the Immediate Office of the 
Deputy Secretary, $600,000.

                     Office of the General Counsel

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the General 
Counsel, $9,000,000.

              Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Policy, $2,824,000.

   Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International 
                                Affairs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, $7,650,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
there may be credited to this appropriation up to $1,250,000 in 
funds received in user fees.

       Office of the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs, $6,870,000, including not to 
exceed $45,000 for allocation within the Department for 
official reception and representation expenses as the Secretary 
may determine.

       Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Governmental Affairs, $2,039,000.

          Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration, $17,767,000.

                        Office of Public Affairs

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Public Affairs, 
$1,800,000.

                         Executive Secretariat

    For necessary expenses of the Executive Secretariat, 
$1,102,000.

                       Board of Contract Appeals

    For necessary expenses of the Board of Contract Appeals, 
$520,000.

         Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Small and 
Disadvantaged Business Utilization, $1,222,000.

                  Office of Intelligence and Security

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Intelligence and 
Security, $1,454,000.

                Office of the Chief Information Officer

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, $5,075,000.

                        Office of Intermodalism

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Intermodalism, 
$1,062,000.

                         Office of Civil Rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$7,200,000.

           Transportation Planning, Research, and Development

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation 
planning, research, systems development, development 
activities, and making grants, to remain available until 
expended, $3,300,000.

              Transportation Administrative Service Center

    Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays 
of the Transportation Administrative Service Center, not to 
exceed $148,673,000, shall be paid from appropriations made 
available to the Department of Transportation: Provided, That 
the preceding limitation shall not apply to activities 
associated with departmental Year 2000 conversion activities: 
Provided further, That such services shall be provided on a 
competitive basis to entities within the Department of 
Transportation: Provided further, That the above limitation on 
operating expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: 
Provided further, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an 
agency of the Department shall be transferred to the 
Transportation Administrative Service Center without the 
approval of the agency modal administrator: Provided further, 
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.

               Minority Business Resource Center Program

    For the cost of direct loans, $1,500,000, as authorized by 
49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these 
funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the 
principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $13,775,000. In 
addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
loan program, $400,000.

                       Minority Business Outreach

    For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center 
outreach activities, $2,900,000, of which $2,635,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for 
business opportunities related to any mode of transportation.

                              COAST GUARD

                           Operating Expenses

    For necessary expenses for the operation and maintenance of 
the Coast Guard, not otherwise provided for; purchase of not to 
exceed five passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; 
payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and section 229(b) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)); and recreation and welfare; 
$2,781,000,000, of which $300,000,000 shall be available for 
defense-related activities; and of which $25,000,000 shall be 
derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund: Provided, That 
none of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall 
be available for pay for administrative expenses in connection 
with shipping commissioners in the United States: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided in thisAct shall be 
available for expenses incurred for yacht documentation under 46 U.S.C. 
12109, except to the extent fees are collected from yacht owners and 
credited to this appropriation: Provided further, That the Commandant 
shall reduce both military and civilian employment levels for the 
purpose of complying with Executive Order No. 12839: Provided further, 
That up to $615,000 in user fees collected pursuant to section 1111 of 
Public Law 104-324 shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections in fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commandant of the Coast 
Guard may transfer certain parcels of real property located at Sitka, 
Japonski Island, Alaska to the State of Alaska for the purpose of 
airport expansion, provided that the Commandant determines that the 
Coast Guard has been indemnified for any loss, damage, or destruction 
of any structures or other improvements on the lands to be conveyed. No 
other provision of law shall otherwise make the real property 
improvements on Japonski Island ineligible for Federal funding by 
virtue of any consideration received by the Coast Guard for such 
improvements: Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act 
shall be available for the Coast Guard to plan, finalize, or implement 
any regulation that would promulgate new maritime user fees not 
specifically authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this 
Act: Provided further, That the Secretary of Transportation may use any 
surplus funds that are made available to the Secretary, to the maximum 
extent practicable, for drug interdiction activities of the Coast 
Guard.

              Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements

    For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction, 
renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore 
facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related 
thereto, $389,326,000, of which $20,000,000 shall be derived 
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which $134,560,000 
shall be available to acquire, repair, renovate or improve 
vessels, small boats and related equipment, to remain available 
until September 30, 2004; $44,210,000 shall be available to 
acquire new aircraft and increase aviation capability, to 
remain available until September 30, 2002; $51,626,000 shall be 
available for other equipment, to remain available until 
September 30, 2002; $63,800,000 shall be available for shore 
facilities and aids to navigation facilities, to remain 
available until September 30, 2002; $50,930,000 shall be 
available for personnel compensation and benefits and related 
costs, to remain available until September 30, 2001; and 
$44,200,000 for the Integrated Deepwater Systems program, to 
remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That the 
Commandant of the Coast Guard is authorized to dispose of, by 
sale at fair market value, all rights, title, and interest of 
any United States entity on behalf of the Coast Guard in HU-25 
aircraft and Coast Guard property, and improvements thereto, in 
South Haven, Michigan; ESMT Manasquan, New Jersey; Petaluma, 
California; ESMT Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Station Clair 
Flats, Michigan; and Aids to Navigation Team Huron, Ohio: 
Provided further, That all proceeds from the sale of properties 
listed under this heading, and from the sale of HU-25 aircraft, 
shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting 
collections and made available only for the Integrated 
Deepwater Systems program, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2002: Provided further, That obligations 
made pursuant to the provisions of this Act for the Integrated 
Deepwater Systems program may not exceed $50,000,000 during 
fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That upon initial 
submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2001 President's 
budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to the 
Congress a comprehensive capital investment plan for the United 
States Coast Guard which includes funding for each budget line 
item for fiscal years 2001 through 2005, with total funding for 
each year of the plan constrained to the funding targets for 
thoseyears as estimated and approved by the Office of 
Management and Budget.

                Environmental Compliance and Restoration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Coast Guard's 
environmental compliance and restoration functions under 
chapter 19 of title 14, United States Code, $17,000,000, to 
remain available until expended.

                         Alteration of Bridges

    For necessary expenses for alteration or removal of 
obstructive bridges, $15,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                              Retired Pay

    For retired pay, including the payment of obligations 
therefor otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this 
purpose, and payments under the Retired Serviceman's Family 
Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans, and for payments for 
medical care of retired personnel and their dependents under 
the Dependents Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), 
$730,327,000.

                            Reserve Training


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For all necessary expenses of the Coast Guard Reserve, as 
authorized by law; maintenance and operation of facilities; and 
supplies, equipment, and services; $72,000,000: Provided, That 
no more than $21,500,000 of funds made available under this 
heading may be transferred to Coast Guard ``Operating 
expenses'' or otherwise made available to reimburse the Coast 
Guard for financial support of the Coast Guard Reserve: 
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act may be 
used by the Coast Guard to assess direct charges on the Coast 
Guard Reserves for items or activities which were not so 
charged during fiscal year 1997.

              Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
applied scientific research, development, test, and evaluation; 
maintenance, rehabilitation, lease and operation of facilities 
and equipment, as authorized by law, $19,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $3,500,000 shall be derived 
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund: Provided, That there 
may be credited to and used for the purposes of this 
appropriation funds received from State and local governments, 
other public authorities, private sources, and foreign 
countries, for expenses incurred for research, development, 
testing, and evaluation.

                    FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

                               Operations


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


    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, and carrying out the provisions of subchapter I of 
chapter 471 of title 49, United States Code, or other 
provisions of law authorizing the obligation of funds for 
similar programs of airport and airway development or 
improvement, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 104-264, $5,900,000,000 from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall 
be available for the Federal Aviation Administration to plan, 
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: Provided further, That there 
may be credited to this appropriation 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 stationcertificates, or for tests 
related thereto, or for processing major repair or alteration forms: 
Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be for the contract tower cost-sharing program and 
$600,000 shall be for the Centennial of Flight Commission: Provided 
further, 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: Provided further, That none of the funds in 
this Act shall be available for new applicants for the second career 
training program: Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act 
shall be available for paying premium pay under 5 U.S.C. 5546(a) to any 
Federal Aviation Administration employee unless such employee actually 
performed work during the time corresponding to such premium pay: 
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
or expended to operate a manned auxiliary flight service station in the 
contiguous United States: Provided further, That none of the funds in 
this Act may be used for the Federal Aviation Administration to enter 
into a multiyear lease greater than 5 years in length or greater than 
$100,000,000 in value unless such lease is specifically authorized by 
the Congress and appropriations have been provided to fully cover the 
Federal Government's contingent liabilities: Provided further, That no 
more than $24,162,700 of funds appropriated to the Federal Aviation 
Administration in this Act may be used for activities conducted by, or 
coordinated through, the Transportation Administrative Service Center: 
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act for aeronautical 
charting and cartography are available for activities conducted by, or 
coordinated through, the Transportation Administrative Service Center: 
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act may be used for 
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to sign a lease for satellite 
services related to the global positioning system (GPS) wide area 
augmentation system until the administrator of the FAA certifies in 
writing to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that FAA 
has conducted a lease versus buy analysis which indicates that such 
lease will result in the lowest overall cost to the agency.

                        Facilities and Equipment


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, and improvement by contract or 
purchase, and hire of air navigation 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; and 
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 head; 
to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$2,075,000,000, of which $1,780,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2002, and of which $295,000,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2000: Provided, 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 and 
modernization of air navigation facilities: Provided further, 
That upon initial submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 
2001 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 2001 through 
2005, 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: Provided 
further,That none of the funds in this Act may be used for the 
Federal Aviation Administration to enter into a capital lease agreement 
unless appropriations have been provided to fully cover the Federal 
Government's contingent liabilities at the time the lease agreement is 
signed.

                        Facilities and Equipment


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


                              (rescission)


    Of the amount provided under this heading in Public Law 
105-66, $30,000,000 are rescinded.

                 Research, Engineering, and Development


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


    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, $156,495,000, 
to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to 
remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That there 
may be credited to this appropriation funds received from 
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and 
private sources, for expenses incurred for research, 
engineering, and development.

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                    (airport and airway trust fund)


    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 administration of such programs; for administration of 
programs under section 40117; 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, $1,750,000,000, to be derived 
from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to remain available 
until expended: Provided, 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 
$1,950,000,000 in fiscal year 2000, notwithstanding section 
47117(h) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not more than 
$45,000,000 of funds limited under this heading shall be 
obligated for administration: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event of a 
lapse in authorization of the grants program under this 
heading, funding available under Federal Aviation 
Administration, ``Operations'' may be obligated for 
administration during the time period of the lapse in 
authorization, at the rate corresponding to the maximum annual 
obligation level of $45,000,000: Provided further, That total 
obligations from all sources in fiscal year 2000 for 
administration may not exceed $45,000,000.

                   Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund

    The Secretary of Transportation is hereby authorized to 
make such expenditures and investments, within the limits of 
funds available pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 44307, and in accordance 
with section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as may be necessary in carrying out 
the program for aviation insurance activities under chapter 443 
of title 49, United States Code.

                     FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION

                 Limitation on Administrative Expenses

    Necessary expenses for administration and operation of the 
Federal Highway Administration not to exceed $376,072,000 shall 
be paid in accordance with law from appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Federal Highway Administration 
together with advances and reimbursements received by the 
Federal Highway Administration: Provided, That $70,484,000 
shall be available to carry out the functions and operations of 
the Office ofMotor Carriers: Provided further, That of the 
funds available under section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code: 
$6,000,000 shall be available for Commercial Remote Sensing Products 
and Spatial Information Technologies under section 5113 of Public Law 
105-178, as amended; $5,000,000 shall be available for Nationwide 
Differential Global Positioning System program, as authorized; 
$8,000,000 shall be available for National Historic Covered Bridge 
Preservation Program under section 1224 of Public Law 105-178, as 
amended; $15,000,000 shall be available to the University of Alabama in 
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for research activities at the Transportation 
Research Institute and to construct a building to house the Institute, 
and shall remain available until expended; $18,300,000 shall be 
available for the Indian Reservation Roads Program under section 204 of 
title 23, United States Code; $16,400,000 shall be available for the 
Public Lands Highways Program under section 204 of title 23, United 
States Code; $11,000,000 shall be available for the Park Roads and 
Parkways Program under section 204 of title 23, United States Code; 
$1,300,000 shall be available for the Refuge Road Program under section 
204 of title 23, United States Code; $10,000,000 shall be available for 
the Transportation and Community and System Preservation pilot program 
under section 1221 of Public Law 105-178; and $7,500,000 shall be 
available for ``Child Passenger Protection Education Grants'' under 
section 2003(b) of Public Law 105-178, as amended.

                          Federal-Aid Highways


                      (limitation on obligations)


                          (highway trust fund)


    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 $27,701,350,000 for Federal-aid highways 
and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year 2000: 
Provided, That within the $27,701,350,000 obligation limitation 
on Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction 
programs, not more than $391,450,000 shall be available for the 
implementation or execution of programs for transportation 
research (sections 502, 503, 504, 506, 507, and 508 of title 
23, United States Code, as amended; section 5505 of title 49, 
United States Code, as amended; and sections 5112 and 5204-5209 
of Public Law 105-178) for fiscal year 2000; not more than 
$20,000,000 shall be available for the implementation or 
execution of programs for the Magnetic Levitation 
Transportation Technology Deployment Program (section 1218 of 
Public Law 105-178) for fiscal year 2000, of which not to 
exceed $1,000,000 shall be available to the Federal Railroad 
Administration for administrative expenses and technical 
assistance in connection with such program; not more than 
$31,000,000 shall be available for the implementation or 
execution of programs for the Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics (section 111 of title 49, United States Code) for 
fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That within the 
$211,200,000 obligation limitation on Intelligent 
Transportation Systems, the following sums shall be made 
available for Intelligent Transportation System projects in the 
following specified areas:
            Albuquerque, New Mexico, $2,000,000;
            Arapahoe County, Colorado, $1,000,000;
            Branson, Missouri, $1,000,000;
            Central Pennsylvania, $1,000,000;
            Charlotte, North Carolina, $1,000,000;
            Chicago, Illinois, $1,000,000;
            City of Superior and Douglas County, Wisconsin, 
        $1,000,000;
            Clay County, Missouri, $300,000;
            Clearwater, Florida, $3,500,000;
            College Station, Texas, $1,000,000;
            Central Ohio, $1,000,000;
            Commonwealth of Virginia, $4,000,000;
            Corpus Christi, Texas, $1,500,000;
            Delaware River, Pennsylvania, $1,000,000;
            Fairfield, California, $750,000;
            Fargo, North Dakota, $1,000,000;
            Florida Bay County, Florida, $1,000,000;
            Fort Worth, Texas, $2,500,000;
            Grand Forks, North Dakota, $500,000;
            Greater Metropolitan Capital Region, DC, 
        $5,000,000;
            Greater Yellowstone, Montana, $1,000,000;
            Houma, Louisiana, $1,000,000;
            Houston, Texas, $1,500,000;
            Huntsville, Alabama, $500,000;
            Inglewood, California, $1,000,000;
            Jefferson County, Colorado, $1,500,000;
            Kansas City, Missouri, $1,000,000;
            Las Vegas, Nevada, $2,800,000;
            Los Angeles, California, $1,000,000;
            Miami, Florida, $1,000,000;
            Mission Viejo, California, $1,000,000;
            Monroe County, New York, $1,000,000;
            Nashville, Tennessee, $1,000,000;
            Northeast Florida, $1,000,000;
            Oakland, California, $500,000;
            Oakland County, Michigan, $1,000,000;
            Oxford, Mississippi, $1,500,000;
            Pennsylvania Turnpike, Pennsylvania, $2,500,000;
            Pueblo, Colorado, $1,000,000;
            Puget Sound, Washington, $1,000,000;
            Reno/Tahoe, California/Nevada, $500,000;
            Rensselaer County, New York, $1,000,000;
            Sacramento County, California, $1,000,000;
            Salt Lake City, Utah, $3,000,000;
            San Francisco, California, $1,000,000;
            Santa Clara, California, $1,000,000;
            Santa Teresa, New Mexico, $1,000,000;
            Seattle, Washington, $2,100,000;
            Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, $2,500,000;
            Shreveport, Louisiana, $1,000,000;
            Silicon Valley, California, $1,000,000;
            Southeast Michigan, $2,000,000;
            Spokane, Washington, $500,000;
            St. Louis, Missouri, $1,000,000;
            State of Alabama, $1,300,000;
            State of Alaska, $3,000,000;
            State of Arizona, $1,000,000;
            State of Colorado, $1,500,000;
            State of Delaware, $2,000,000;
            State of Idaho, $2,000,000;
            State of Illinois, $1,500,000;
            State of Maryland, $2,000,000;
            State of Minnesota, $7,000,000;
            State of Montana, $1,000,000;
            State of Nebraska, $500,000;
            State of Oregon, $1,000,000;
            State of Texas, $4,000,000;
            State of Vermont rural systems, $1,000,000;
            States of New Jersey and New York, $2,000,000;
            Statewide Transcom/Transmit upgrades, New Jersey, 
        $4,000,000;
            Tacoma Puyallup, Washington, $500,000;
            Thurston, Washington, $1,000,000;
            Towamencin, Pennsylvania, $600,000;
            Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, 
        $1,500,000;
            Wayne County, Michigan, $1,000,000:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding Public Law 105-178 as 
amended, funds authorized under section 110 of title 23, United 
States Code, for fiscal year 2000 shall be apportioned based on 
each State's percentage share of funding provided for under 
section 105 of title 23, United States Code, for fiscal year 
2000, except that before such apportionments are made, 
$90,000,000 shall be set aside for projects authorized under 
section 1602 of Public Law 105-178 as amended, and $8,000,000 
shall be set aside for the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge 
project authorized by section 404 of the Woodrow Wilson 
Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995 as amended. Of the funds 
to be apportioned under section 110 for fiscal year 2000, the 
Secretary shall ensure that such funds are apportioned for the 
Interstate Maintenance program, the National Highway system 
program, the bridge program, the surface transportation 
program, and the congestion mitigation and air quality program 
in the same ratio that each State is apportioned funds for such 
program in fiscal year 2000 but for this section: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall, at the request of the State of Nevada, 
transfer up to $10,000,000 of Minimum Guarantee apportionments, 
and an equal amount of obligation authority, to the State of 
California for use on High Priority Project No. 829 ``Widen I-
15 in San Bernardino County'', section 1602 of Public Law 105-
178.

                          Federal-Aid Highways


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                          (highway trust fund)


    For carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States 
Code, that are attributable to Federal-aid highways, including 
the National Scenic and Recreational Highway as authorized by 
23 U.S.C. 148, not otherwise provided, including reimbursement 
for sums expended pursuant to the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 308, 
$26,000,000,000 or so much thereof as may be available in and 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund, to remain available until 
expended.

                      Motor Carrier Safety Grants


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                          (highway trust fund)


    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 49 
U.S.C. 31102, $105,000,000, to be derived from the Highway 
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
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 $105,000,000 for ``Motor Carrier Safety 
Grants''.

             NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

                        Operations and Research

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the 
Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety under 
chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, and part C of 
subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, $87,400,000 of 
which $62,928,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2002: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be obligated or expended to plan, finalize, or implement 
any rulemaking to add to section 575.104 of title 49 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations any requirement pertaining to a 
grading standard that is different from the three grading 
standards (treadwear, traction, and temperature resistance) 
already in effect.

                        Operations and Research


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                      (limitation on obligations)


                          (highway trust fund)


    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the 
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, to remain available until 
expended, $72,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust 
Fund: Provided, 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 2000 are in excess of 
$72,000,000 for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403.

                        National Driver Register


                          (highway trust fund)


    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the 
Secretary with respect to the National Driver Register under 
chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, $2,000,000, to be 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available 
until expended.

                     Highway Traffic Safety Grants


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                      (limitation on obligations)


                          (highway trust fund)


    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for payment of 
obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 23 
U.S.C. 402, 405, 410, and 411 to remain available until 
expended, $206,800,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust 
Fund: Provided, 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 2000, are in excess of 
$206,800,000 for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 402, 405, 
410, and 411 of which $152,800,000 shall be for ``Highway 
Safety Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 402, $10,000,000 shall be for 
``Occupant Protection Incentive Grants'' under 23 U.S.C. 405, 
$36,000,000 shall be for ``Alcohol-Impaired Driving 
Countermeasures Grants'' under 23 U.S.C. 410, $8,000,000 shall 
be for the ``State Highway Safety Data Grants'' under 23 U.S.C. 
411: Provided further, 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: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$7,640,000 of the funds made available for section 402, not to 
exceed $500,000 of the funds made available for section 405, 
not to exceed $1,800,000 of the funds made available for 
section 410, and not to exceed $400,000 of the funds made 
available for section 411 shall be available to NHTSA for 
administering highway safety grants under chapter 4 of title 
23, U.S.C.: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of 
the funds made available for section 410 ``Alcohol-Impaired 
DrivingCountermeasures Grants'' shall be available for 
technical assistance to the States.

                    FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

                         Safety and Operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad 
Administration, not otherwise provided for, $94,288,000, of 
which $6,800,000 shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That, as part of the Washington Union Station 
transaction in which the Secretary assumed the first deed of 
trust on the property and, where the Union Station 
Redevelopment Corporation or any successor is obligated to make 
payments on such deed of trust on the Secretary's behalf, 
including payments on and after September 30, 1988, the 
Secretary is authorized to receive such payments directly from 
the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, credit them to the 
appropriation charged for the first deed of trust, and make 
payments on the first deed of trust with those funds: Provided 
further, That such additional sums as may be necessary for 
payment on the first deed of trust may be advanced by the 
Administrator from unobligated balances available to the 
Federal Railroad Administration, to be reimbursed from payments 
received from the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation.

                   Railroad Research and Development

    For necessary expenses for railroad research and 
development, $22,464,000, to remain available until expended.

            Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Program

    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: Provided, 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 2000.

                    Next Generation High-Speed Rail

    For necessary expenses for the Next Generation High-Speed 
Rail program as authorized under 49 U.S.C. 26101 and 26102, 
$27,200,000, to remain available until expended.

                     Alaska Railroad Rehabilitation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to 
the Alaska Railroad, $10,000,000 shall be for capital 
rehabilitation and improvements benefiting its passenger 
operations, to remain available until expended.

                     Rhode Island Rail Development

    For the costs associated with construction of a third track 
on the Northeast Corridor between Davisville and Central Falls, 
Rhode Island, with sufficient clearance to accommodate double 
stack freight cars, $10,000,000 to be matched by the State of 
Rhode Island or its designee on a dollar-for-dollar basis and 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That none of the 
funds made available under this head shall be obligated until 
the enactment of authorizing legislation for the ``Rhode Island 
Rail Development'' program.

     Capital Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation

    For necessary expenses of capital improvements of the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation as authorized by 49 
U.S.C. 24104(a), $571,000,000 to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall not obligate more 
than $228,400,000 prior to September 30, 2000.

                     FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

                        Administrative Expenses

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal 
Transit Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of 
title 49, United States Code, $12,000,000: Provided, That no 
more than $60,000,000 of budget authority shall be available 
for these purposes: Provided further, That the Federal Transit 
Administration will reimburse the Department of Transportation 
Inspector General $1,500,000 for costs associated with the 
audit and review of new fixed guideway systems.

                             Formula Grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5308, 
5310, 5311, 5327, and section 3038 of Public Law 105-178, 
$619,600,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That no more than $3,098,000,000 of budget authority shall be 
available for these purposes: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 3008 of Public Law 105-178, the 
$50,000,000 to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308 shall be transferred to 
and merged with funding provided for the replacement, 
rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and 
the construction of bus-related facilities under ``Federal 
Transit Administration, Capital investment grants''.

                   University Transportation Research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5505, 
$1,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
no more than $6,000,000 of budget authority shall be available 
for these purposes.

                     Transit Planning and Research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, 
5305, 5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 5322, 
$21,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
no more than $107,000,000 of budget authority shall be 
available for these purposes: Provided further, That $5,250,000 
is available to provide rural transportation assistance (49 
U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)); $4,000,000 is available to carry out 
programs under the National Transit Institute (49 U.S.C. 5315); 
$8,250,000 is available to carry out transit cooperative 
research programs (49 U.S.C. 5313(a)); $49,632,000 is available 
for metropolitan planning (49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, and 5305); 
$10,368,000 is available for state planning (49 U.S.C. 
5313(b)); and $29,500,000 is available for the national 
planning and research program (49 U.S.C. 5314): Provided 
further, That of the total budget authority made available for 
the national planning and research program, the Federal Transit 
Administration shall provide the following amounts for the 
projects and activities listed below:
            Zinc-air battery bus technology demonstration, 
        $1,000,000;
            Electric vehicle information sharing and technology 
        transfer program, $750,000;
            Portland, ME independent transportation network, 
        $500,000;
            Wheeling, WV mobility study, $250,000;
            Project ACTION, $3,000,000;
            Washoe County, NV transit technology, $1,250,000;
            Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority advanced 
        electric transit buses and related infrastructure, 
        $1,500,000;
            Palm Springs, CA fuel cell buses, $1,000,000;
            Gloucester, MA intermodal technology center, 
        $1,500,000;
            Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority 
        advanced propulsion control system, $3,000,000;
            Advanced transportation and alternative fuel 
        technology consortium (CALSTART), $3,250,000;
            Safety and security programs, $5,450,000;
            International program, $1,000,000;
            Santa Barbara Electric Transit Institute, $500,000;
            Hennepin County community transportation, 
        Minnesota, $1,000,000;
            Pittsfield economic development authority electric 
        bus program, $1,350,000; and
            Citizens for Modern Transit, Missouri, $300,000.

                      Trust Fund Share of Expenses


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                          (highway trust fund)


    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for payment of 
obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 5303-5308, 5310-
5315, 5317(b), 5322, 5327, 5334, 5505, and sections 3037 and 
3038 of Public Law 105-178, $4,929,270,000, to remain available 
until expended, and to be derived from the Mass Transit Account 
of the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That $2,478,400,000 shall 
be paid to the Federal Transit Administration's formula grants 
account: Provided further, That $86,000,000 shall be paid to 
the Federal Transit Administration's transit planning and 
research account: Provided further, That $48,000,000 shall be 
paid to the Federal Transit Administration's administrative 
expenses account: Provided further, That $4,800,000 shall be 
paid to the Federal Transit Administration's university 
transportation research account: Provided further, That 
$60,000,000 shall be paid to the Federal Transit 
Administration's job access and reverse commute grants program: 
Provided further, That$1,960,800,000 shall be paid to the 
Federal Transit Administration's capital investment grants account.

                       Capital Investment Grants


                     (including transfer of funds)


    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308, 5309, 
5318, and 5327, $490,200,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That no more than $2,451,000,000 of budget 
authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, there 
shall be available for fixed guideway modernization, 
$980,400,000; there shall be available for the replacement, 
rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and 
the construction of bus-related facilities, $490,200,000, 
together with $50,000,000 transferred from ``Federal Transit 
Administration, Formula grants'', to be available for the 
following projects in amounts specified below:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 No.               State                     Project          Conference
------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1 Alaska                         Anchorage Ship Creek    $4,500,000
                                     intermodal facility.
   2 Alaska                         Fairbanks intermodal     2,000,000
                                     rail/bus transfer
                                     facility.
   3 Alaska                         Juneau downtown mass     1,500,000
                                     transit facility.
   4 Alaska                         North Star Borough-      3,000,000
                                     Fairbanks intermodal
                                     facility.
   5 Alaska                         Wasilla intermodal       1,000,000
                                     facility.
   6 Alaska                         Whittier intermodal      1,155,000
                                     facility and
                                     pedestrian overpass.
   7 Alabama                        Alabama statewide        2,500,000
                                     rural bus needs.
   8 Alabama                        Baldwin Rural Area       1,000,000
                                     Transportation
                                     System buses.
   9 Alabama                        Birmingham intermodal    2,000,000
                                     facility.
  10 Alabama                        Birmingham-Jefferson     1,250,000
                                     County buses.
  11 Alabama                        Cullman, buses.......      500,000
  12 Alabama                        Dothan Wiregrass         1,000,000
                                     Transit Authority
                                     vehicles and transit
                                     facility.
  13 Alabama                        Escambia County buses      100,000
                                     and bus facility.
  14 Alabama                        Gees Bend Ferry            100,000
                                     facilities, Wilcox
                                     County.
  15 Alabama                        Marshall County,           500,000
                                     buses.
  16 Alabama                        Huntsville Airport       3,500,000
                                     international
                                     intermodal center.
  17 Alabama                        Huntsville,              1,250,000
                                     intermodal facility.
  18 Alabama                        Huntsville Space and     3,500,000
                                     Rocket Center
                                     intermodal center.
  19 Alabama                        Jasper buses.........       50,000
  20 Alabama                        Jefferson State            200,000
                                     Community College/
                                     University of
                                     Montevallo
                                     pedestrian walkway.
  21 Alabama                        Mobile waterfront        5,000,000
                                     terminal complex.
  22 Alabama                        Montgomery Union         3,500,000
                                     Station intermodal
                                     center and buses.
  23 Alabama                        Valley bus and bus         110,000
                                     facilities.
  24 Arkansas                       Arkansas Highway and     2,000,000
                                     Transit Department
                                     buses.
  25 Arkansas                       Arkansas state safety      800,000
                                     and preventative
                                     maintenance facility.
  26 Arkansas                       Fayetteville,              500,000
                                     University of
                                     Arkansas Transit
                                     System buses.
  27 Arkansas                       Hot Springs,             1,560,000
                                     transportation depot
                                     and plaza.
  28 Arkansas                       Little Rock, Central       300,000
                                     Arkansas Transit
                                     buses.
  29 Arizona                        Phoenix bus and bus      3,750,000
                                     facilities.
  30 Arizona                        Phoenix South Central      500,000
                                     Avenue transit
                                     facility.
  31 Arizona                        San Luis, bus........       70,000
  32 Arizona                        Tucson buses.........    2,555,000
  33 Arizona                        Yuma paratransit           125,000
                                     buses.
  34 California                     California Mountain         80,000
                                     Area Regional
                                     Transit Authority
                                     fueling stations.
  35 California                     Culver City, CityBus     1,250,000
                                     buses.
  36 California                     Davis, Unitrans            625,000
                                     transit maintenance
                                     facility.
  37 California                     Healdsburg,              1,000,000
                                     intermodal facility.
  38 California                     I-5 Corridor             1,250,000
                                     intermodal transit
                                     centers.
  39 California                     Livermore automatic      1,000,000
                                     vehicle locator
                                     program.
  40 California                     Lodi, multimodal           850,000
                                     facility.
  41 California                     Los Angeles County       3,000,000
                                     Metropolitan
                                     transportation
                                     authority buses.
  42 California                     Los Angeles County       1,750,000
                                     Foothill Transit
                                     buses and HEV
                                     vehicles.
  43 California                     Los Angeles Municipal    2,250,000
                                     Transit Operators
                                     Coalition.
  44 California                     Los Angeles, Union       1,250,000
                                     Station Gateway
                                     Intermodal Transit
                                     Center.
  45 California                     Maywood, Commerce,         800,000
                                     Bell, Cudahy,
                                     California buses and
                                     bus facilities.
  46 California                     Modesto, bus               625,000
                                     maintenance facility.
  47 California                     Monterey, Monterey-        625,000
                                     Salinas buses.
  48 California                     Orange County, bus       2,000,000
                                     and bus facilities.
  49 California                     Perris bus               1,250,000
                                     maintenance facility.
  50 California                     Redlands, trolley          800,000
                                     project.
  51 California                     Sacramento CNG buses.    1,250,000
  52 California                     San Bernardino           1,000,000
                                     Valley, CNG buses.
  53 California                     San Bernardino train     3,000,000
                                     station.
  54 California                     San Diego North          3,000,000
                                     County buses and CNG
                                     fueling station.
  55 California                     Contra Costa County        250,000
                                     Connection buses.
  56 California                     San Francisco, Islais    1,250,000
                                     Creek maintenance
                                     facility.
  57 California                     Santa Barbara buses      1,750,000
                                     and bus facility.
  58 California                     Santa Clarita bus        1,250,000
                                     maintenance facility.
  59 California                     Santa Cruz buses and     1,755,000
                                     bus facilities.
  60 California                     Santa Maria Valley/        240,000
                                     Santa Barbara
                                     County, buses.
  61 California                     Santa Rosa/Cotati,         750,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Facilities.
  62 California                     Westminster senior         150,000
                                     citizen vans.
  63 California                     Windsor, Intermodal        750,000
                                     Facility.
  64 California                     Woodland Hills,            625,000
                                     Warner Center
                                     Transportation Hub.
  65 Colorado                       Boulder/Denver, RTD        625,000
                                     buses.
  66 Colorado                       Colorado Association     8,000,000
                                     of Transit Agencies.
  67 Colorado                       Denver, Stapleton        1,250,000
                                     Intermodal Center.
  68 Connecticut                    New Haven bus            2,250,000
                                     facility.
  69 Connecticut                    Norwich buses........    2,250,000
  70 Connecticut                    Waterbury, bus           2,250,000
                                     facility.
  71 Dist. of Columbia              Fuel cell bus and bus    4,850,000
                                     facilities program,
                                     Georgetown
                                     University.
  72 Dist. of Columbia              Washington, D.C.         2,500,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Center, District.
  73 Delaware                       New Castle County        2,000,000
                                     buses and bus
                                     facilities.
  74 Delaware                       Delaware buses and         500,000
                                     bus facility.
  75 Florida                        Daytona Beach,           2,500,000
                                     Intermodal Center.
  76 Florida                        Gainesville hybrid-        500,000
                                     electric buses and
                                     facilities.
  77 Florida                        Jacksonville buses       1,000,000
                                     and bus facilities.
  78 Florida                        Lakeland, Citrus         1,250,000
                                     Connection transit
                                     vehicles and related
                                     equipment.
  79 Florida                        Miami Beach, electric      750,000
                                     shuttle service.
  80 Florida                        Miami-Dade Transit       2,750,000
                                     buses.
  81 Florida                        Orlando, Lynx buses      2,000,000
                                     and bus facilities.
  82 Florida                        Orlando, Downtown        2,500,000
                                     Intermodal Facility.
  83 Florida                        Palm Beach, buses....    1,000,000
  84 Florida                        Tampa HARTline buses.      500,000
  85 Georgia                        Atlanta, MARTA buses.   13,500,000
  86 Georgia                        Chatham Area Transit     3,500,000
                                     Bus Transfer Center
                                     and buses.
  87 Georgia                        Georgia Regional         2,000,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Authority buses.
  88 Georgia                        Georgia statewide        2,750,000
                                     buses and bus-
                                     related facilities.
  89 Hawaii                         Hawaii buses and bus     2,250,000
                                     facilities.
  90 Hawaii                         Honolulu, bus            2,000,000
                                     facility and buses.
  91 Iowa                           Ames transit facility      700,000
                                     expansion.
  92 Iowa                           Cedar Rapids             3,500,000
                                     intermodal facility.
  93 Iowa                           Clinton transit            500,000
                                     facility expansion.
  94 Iowa                           Fort Dodge,                885,000
                                     Intermodal Facility
                                     (Phase II).
  95 Iowa                           Iowa City intermodal     1,500,000
                                     facility.
  96 Iowa                           Iowa statewide buses     2,500,000
                                     and bus facilities.
  97 Iowa                           Iowa/Illinois Transit    1,000,000
                                     Consortium bus
                                     safety and security.
  98 Illinois                       East Moline transit        650,000
                                     center.
  99 Illinois                       Illinois statewide       8,200,000
                                     buses and bus-
                                     related equipment.
 100 Indiana                        Gary, Transit            1,250,000
                                     Consortium buses.
 101 Indiana                        Indianapolis buses...    5,000,000
 102 Indiana                        South Bend Urban         1,250,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Facility.
 103 Indiana                        West Lafayette bus       1,750,000
                                     transfer station/
                                     terminal (Wabash
                                     Landing).
 104 Kansas                         Girard, buses and          700,000
                                     vans.
 105 Kansas                         Johnson County,            250,000
                                     farebox equipment.
 106 Kansas                         Kansas City buses....      750,000
 107 Kansas                         Kansas Public Transit    1,500,000
                                     Association buses
                                     and bus facilities.
 108 Kansas                         Girard Southeast           480,000
                                     Kansas Community
                                     Action Agency
                                     maintenance facility.
 109 Kansas                         Topeka Transit             600,000
                                     downtown transfer
                                     facility.
 110 Kansas                         Wichita, buses and       2,500,000
                                     bus facilities.
 111 Kentucky                       Transit Authority of     2,500,000
                                     Northern Kentucky
                                     (TANK) buses.
 112 Kentucky                       Kentucky (southern       1,000,000
                                     and eastern) transit
                                     vehicles.
 113 Kentucky                       Lexington (LexTran),     1,000,000
                                     maintenance facility.
 114 Kentucky                       River City, buses....    1,500,000
 115 Louisiana                      Louisiana statewide      5,000,000
                                     buses and bus-
                                     related facilities.
 116 Massachusetts                  Attleboro intermodal       500,000
                                     transit facility.
 117 Massachusetts                  Brockton intermodal      1,100,000
                                     transportation
                                     center.
 118 Massachusetts                  Greenfield Montague,       500,000
                                     buses.
 119 Massachusetts                  Merrimack Valley           467,500
                                     Regional Transit
                                     Authority bus
                                     facilities.
 120 Massachusetts                  Montachusett, bus and    1,250,000
                                     park-and-ride
                                     facilities.
 121 Massachusetts                  Pioneer Valley,            650,000
                                     alternative fuel and
                                     paratransit vehicles.
 122 Massachusetts                  Pittsfield intermodal    3,600,000
                                     center.
 123 Massachusetts                  Springfield, Union       1,250,000
                                     Station.
 124 Massachusetts                  Swampscott, buses....       65,000
 125 Massachusetts                  Westfield, intermodal      500,000
                                     transportation
                                     facility.
 126 Massachusetts                  Worcester, Union         2,500,000
                                     Station Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 127 Maryland                       Maryland statewide      11,500,000
                                     bus facilities and
                                     buses.
 128 Michigan                       Detroit, transfer        3,963,000
                                     terminal facilities.
 129 Michigan                       Detroit, EZ Ride           287,000
                                     program.
 130 Michigan                       Menominee-Delta-           250,000
                                     Schoolcraft buses.
 131 Michigan                       Michigan statewide      22,500,000
                                     buses.
 132 Michigan                       Port Huron, CNG            500,000
                                     fueling station.
 133 Minnesota                      Duluth, Transit          1,000,000
                                     Authority community
                                     circulation vehicles.
 134 Minnesota                      Duluth, Transit            500,000
                                     Authority
                                     intelligent
                                     transportation
                                     systems.
 135 Minnesota                      Duluth, Transit            500,000
                                     Authority Transit
                                     Hub.
 136 Minnesota                      Greater Minnesota          500,000
                                     transit authorities.
 137 Minnesota                      Northstar Corridor,     10,000,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Facilities and buses.
 138 Minnesota                      Twin Cities             10,000,000
                                     metropolitan buses
                                     and bus facilities.
 139 Missouri                       Columbia buses and         500,000
                                     vans.
 140 Missouri                       Southeast Missouri       1,250,000
                                     transportation
                                     service rural,
                                     elderly, disabled
                                     service.
 141 Missouri                       Franklin County buses      200,000
                                     and bus facilities.
 142 Missouri                       Jackson County buses       500,000
                                     and bus facilities.
 143 Missouri                       Kansas City Area         2,500,000
                                     Transit Authority
                                     buses and Troost
                                     transit center.
 144 Missouri                       Missouri statewide       3,500,000
                                     bus and bus
                                     facilities.
 145 Missouri                       OATS Transit.........    1,500,000
 146 Missouri                       St. Joseph buses and       500,000
                                     vans.
 147 Missouri                       St. Louis, buses.....    2,000,000
 148 Missouri                       St. Louis, Bi-state      1,250,000
                                     Intermodal Center.
 149 Missouri                       Southwest Missouri       1,000,000
                                     State University
                                     park and ride
                                     facility.
 150 Mississippi                    Harrison County          3,000,000
                                     multimodal center.
 151 Mississippi                    Jackson, maintenance     1,000,000
                                     and administration
                                     facility project.
 152 Mississippi                    North Delta planning     1,200,000
                                     and development
                                     district, buses and
                                     bus facilities.
 153 Montana                        Missoula urban             600,000
                                     transportation
                                     district buses.
 154 North Carolina                 Greensboro multimodal    3,339,000
                                     center.
 155 North Carolina                 Greensboro, Transit      1,500,000
                                     Authority buses.
 156 North Carolina                 North Carolina           2,492,000
                                     statewide buses and
                                     bus facilities.
 157 North Dakota                   North Dakota             1,000,000
                                     statewide buses and
                                     bus-related
                                     facilities.
 158 New Hampshire                  New Hampshire            3,000,000
                                     statewide transit
                                     systems.
 159 New Jersey                     New Jersey Transit       5,000,000
                                     alternative fuel
                                     buses.
 160 New Jersey                     New Jersey Transit       1,750,000
                                     jitney shuttle buses.
 161 New Jersey                     Newark intermodal and    1,650,000
                                     arena access
                                     improvements.
 162 New Jersey                     Newark, Morris &         1,250,000
                                     Essex Station access
                                     and buses.
 163 New Jersey                     South Amboy, Regional    1,250,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Initiative.
 164 New Mexico                     Albuquerque West Side    2,000,000
                                     transit facility.
 165 New Mexico                     Albuquerque, buses...    1,250,000
 166 New Mexico                     Las Cruces buses and       750,000
                                     bus facilities.
 167 New Mexico                     Northern New Mexico      2,750,000
                                     Transit Express/Park
                                     and Ride buses.
 168 New Mexico                     Santa Fe, buses and      2,000,000
                                     bus facilities.
 169 Nevada                         Clark County Regional    2,500,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Commission buses and
                                     bus facilities.
 170 Nevada                         Lake Tahoe CNG buses.      700,000
 171 Nevada                         Washoe County transit    2,250,000
                                     improvements.
 172 New York                       Babylon Intermodal       1,250,000
                                     Center.
 173 New York                       Buffalo, Auditorium      2,000,000
                                     Intermodal Center.
 174 New York                       Dutchess County, Loop      521,000
                                     System buses.
 175 New York                       Ithaca intermodal        1,125,000
                                     transportation
                                     center.
 176 New York                       Ithaca, TCAT bus         1,250,000
                                     technology
                                     improvements.
 177 New York                       Long Island, CNG         1,250,000
                                     transit vehicles and
                                     facilities and bus
                                     replacement.
 178 New York                       Mineola/Hicksville,      1,250,000
                                     LIRR intermodal
                                     centers.
 179 New York                       New York City Midtown    1,000,000
                                     West 38th Street
                                     ferry terminal.
 180 New York                       New York, West 72nd      1,750,000
                                     St. Intermodal
                                     Station.
 181 New York                       Putnam County, vans..      470,000
 182 New York                       Rensselaer intermodal    6,000,000
                                     bus facility.
 183 New York                       Rochester buses and      1,000,000
                                     bus facility.
 184 New York                       Syracuse, buses......    3,000,000
 185 New York                       Utica Union Station..    2,100,000
 186 New York                       Westchester County       1,250,000
                                     DOT, articulated
                                     buses.
 187 New York                       Westchester County,        979,000
                                     Bee-Line transit
                                     system fareboxes.
 188 New York                       Westchester County,      1,000,000
                                     Bee-Line transit
                                     system shuttle buses.
 189 Ohio                           Cleveland, Triskett        625,000
                                     Garage bus
                                     maintenance facility.
 190 Ohio                           Dayton, Multimodal       4,125,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 191 Ohio                           Ohio statewide buses     9,010,250
                                     and bus facilities.
 192 Oklahoma                       Oklahoma statewide       5,000,000
                                     bus facilities and
                                     buses.
 193 Oregon                         Corvallis buses and        300,000
                                     automated passenger
                                     information system.
 194 Oregon                         Lane County, Bus         4,400,000
                                     Rapid Transit, buses
                                     and facilities.
 195 Oregon                         Lincoln County             250,000
                                     Transit District
                                     buses.
 196 Oregon                         Portland, Tri-Met bus      650,000
                                     maintenance facility.
 197 Oregon                         Portland, Tri-Met        1,750,000
                                     buses.
 198 Oregon                         Salem Area Mass            500,000
                                     Transit District
                                     natural gas buses.
 199 Oregon                         Sandy buses..........      100,000
 200 Oregon                         South Metro Area           200,000
                                     Rapid Transit
                                     (SMART) maintenance
                                     facility.
 201 Oregon                         Sunset Empire Transit      300,000
                                     District intermodal
                                     transit facility.
 202 Pennsylvania                   Allegheny County         1,500,000
                                     buses.
 203 Pennsylvania                   Altoona bus testing..    3,000,000
 204 Pennsylvania                   Altoona, Metro             842,000
                                     Transit Authority
                                     buses and transit
                                     system improvements.
 205 Pennsylvania                   Armstrong County-Mid-      150,000
                                     County, bus
                                     facilities and buses.
 206 Pennsylvania                   Bethlehem, intermodal    1,000,000
                                     facility.
 207 Pennsylvania                   Cambria County, bus        575,000
                                     facilities and buses.
 208 Pennsylvania                   Centre Area              1,250,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Authority buses.
 209 Pennsylvania                   Chester County, Paoli    1,000,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 210 Pennsylvania                   Erie, Metropolitan       1,000,000
                                     Transit Authority
                                     buses.
 211 Pennsylvania                   Fayette County,          1,270,000
                                     intermodal
                                     facilities and buses.
 212 Pennsylvania                   Lackawanna County          600,000
                                     Transit System buses.
 213 Pennsylvania                   Lackawanna County,       1,000,000
                                     intermodal bus
                                     facility.
 214 Pennsylvania                   Mid-Mon Valley buses       250,000
                                     and bus facilities.
 215 Pennsylvania                   Norristown, parking      1,000,000
                                     garage (SEPTA).
 216 Pennsylvania                   Philadelphia,            5,000,000
                                     Frankford
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 217 Pennsylvania                   Philadelphia,            1,250,000
                                     Intermodal 30th
                                     Street Station.
 218 Pennsylvania                   Reading, BARTA           1,750,000
                                     Intermodal
                                     Transportation
                                     Facility.
 219 Pennsylvania                   Robinson, Towne          1,500,000
                                     Center Intermodal
                                     Facility.
 220 Pennsylvania                   Somerset County bus        175,000
                                     facilities and buses.
 221 Pennsylvania                   Towamencin Township,     1,500,000
                                     Intermodal Bus
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 222 Pennsylvania                   Washington County          630,000
                                     intermodal
                                     facilities.
 223 Pennsylvania                   Westmoreland County,       200,000
                                     Intermodal Facility.
 224 Pennsylvania                   Wilkes-Barre,            1,250,000
                                     Intermodal Facility.
 225 Pennsylvania                   Williamsport bus         1,200,000
                                     facility.
 226 Puerto Rico                    San Juan Intermodal        600,000
                                     access.
 227 Rhode Island                   Providence, buses and    3,294,000
                                     bus maintenance
                                     facility.
 228 South Carolina                 Central Midlands COG/    2,700,000
                                     Columbia transit
                                     system.
 229 South Carolina                 Charleston Area          1,900,000
                                     regional
                                     transportation
                                     authority.
 230 South Carolina                 Clemson Area Transit       550,000
                                     buses and bus
                                     equipment.
 231 South Carolina                 Greenville transit         500,000
                                     authority.
 232 South Carolina                 Pee Dee buses and          900,000
                                     facilities.
 233 South Carolina                 Santee-Wateree             400,000
                                     regional
                                     transportation
                                     authority.
 234 South Carolina                 South Carolina           1,220,000
                                     Statewide Virtual
                                     Transit Enterprise.
 235 South Carolina                 Transit Management of      600,000
                                     Spartanburg,
                                     Incorporated
                                     (SPARTA).
 236 South Dakota                   South Dakota             1,500,000
                                     statewide bus
                                     facilities and buses.
 237 Tennessee                      Southern Coalition       3,500,000
                                     for Advanced
                                     Transportation
                                     (SCAT) (TN, GA, FL,
                                     AL) electric buses.
 238 Texas                          Austin buses.........    1,750,000
 239 Texas                          Beaumont Municipal       1,000,000
                                     Transit System buses
                                     and bus facilities.
 240 Texas                          Brazos Transit           1,000,000
                                     Authority buses and
                                     bus facilities.
 241 Texas                          El Paso Sun Metro        1,000,000
                                     buses.
 242 Texas                          Fort Worth bus           2,500,000
                                     replacement
                                     (including CNG
                                     vehicles) and
                                     paratransit vehicles.
 243 Texas                          Forth Worth              3,100,000
                                     intermodal
                                     transportation
                                     center.
 244 Texas                          Galveston buses and      1,000,000
                                     bus facilities.
 245 Texas                          Texas statewide small    5,000,000
                                     urban and rural
                                     buses.
 246 Utah                           Ogden Intermodal           800,000
                                     Center.
 247 Utah                           Salt Lake City           2,500,000
                                     Olympics bus
                                     facilities.
 248 Utah                           Salt Lake City           2,500,000
                                     Olympics regional
                                     park and ride lots.
 249 Utah                           Salt Lake City             500,000
                                     Olympics transit bus
                                     loan project.
 250 Utah                           Utah Transit             1,500,000
                                     Authority,
                                     intermodal
                                     facilities.
 251 Utah                           Utah Transit             6,500,000
                                     Authority/Park City
                                     Transit, buses.
 252 Virginia                       Alexandria, bus          1,000,000
                                     maintenance facility.
 253 Virginia                       Richmond, GRTC bus       1,250,000
                                     maintenance facility.
 254 Virginia                       Statewide buses and      8,435,000
                                     bus facilities.
 255 Vermont                        Burlington multimodal    2,700,000
                                     center.
 256 Vermont                        Chittenden County          800,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Authority buses.
 257 Vermont                        Essex Junction             500,000
                                     multimodal station
                                     rehabilitation.
 258 Vermont                        Killington-Sherburne       250,000
                                     satellite bus
                                     facility.
 259 Washington                     Bremerton multimodal       750,000
                                     center--Sinclair's
                                     Landing.
 260 Washington                     Sequim Clallam           1,000,000
                                     Transit multimodal
                                     center.
 261 Washington                     Everett, Multimodal      1,950,000
                                     Transportation
                                     Center.
 262 Washington                     Grant County, Grant        500,000
                                     Transit Authority.
 263 Washington                     Grays Harbor County,     1,250,000
                                     buses and equipment.
 264 Washington                     King County Metro        2,000,000
                                     King Street Station.
 265 Washington                     King County Metro        1,500,000
                                     Atlantic and Central
                                     buses.
 266 Washington                     King County park and     1,350,000
                                     ride expansion.
 267 Washington                     Mount Vernon, buses      1,750,000
                                     and bus related
                                     facilities.
 268 Washington                     Pierce County Transit      500,000
                                     buses and bus
                                     facilities.
 269 Washington                     Seattle, intermodal      1,250,000
                                     transportation
                                     terminal.
 270 Washington                     Snohomish County,        1,250,000
                                     Community Transit
                                     buses, equipment and
                                     facilities.
 271 Washington                     Spokane, HEV buses...    1,500,000
 272 Washington                     Tacoma Dome Station..      250,000
 273 Washington                     Vancouver Clark          1,000,000
                                     County (C-TRAN) bus
                                     facilities.
 274 Washington                     Washington State DOT     2,000,000
                                     combined small
                                     transit system buses
                                     and bus facilities.
 275 Wisconsin                      Milwaukee County,        6,000,000
                                     buses.
 276 Wisconsin                      Wisconsin statewide     14,250,000
                                     bus facilities and
                                     buses.
 277 West Virginia                  Huntington intermodal   12,000,000
                                     facility.
 278 West Virginia                  Parkersburg,             4,500,000
                                     intermodal
                                     transportation
                                     facility.
 279 West Virginia                  West Virginia           5,000,000;
                                     Statewide Intermodal
                                     Facility and buses.
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and there shall be available for new fixed guideway systems 
$980,400,000, to be available as follows:
            $10,400,000 for Alaska or Hawaii ferry projects;
            $45,142,000 for the Atlanta, Georgia, North line 
        extension project;
            $1,000,000 for the Austin, Texas capital metro 
        northwest/north central corridor project;
            $4,750,000 for the Baltimore central LRT double 
        track project;
            $3,000,000 for the Birmingham, Alabama transit 
        corridor;
            $1,000,000 for the Boston Urban Ring project;
            $500,000 for the Calais, Maine branch rail line 
        regional transit program;
            $2,500,000 for the Canton-Akron-Cleveland commuter 
        rail project;
            $2,500,000 for the Charleston, South Carolina 
        Monobeam corridor project;
            $4,000,000 for the Charlotte, North Carolina, 
        north-south corridor transitway project;
            $25,000,000 for the Chicago METRA commuter rail 
        project;
            $3,500,000 for the Chicago Transit Authority 
        Douglas branch line project;
            $3,500,000 for the Chicago Transit Authority 
        Ravenswood branch line project;
            $1,000,000 for the Cincinnati northeast/northern 
        Kentucky corridor project;
            $3,500,000 for the Clark County, Nevada, fixed 
        guideway project, together with unobligated funds 
        provided in Public Law 103-331 for the ``Burlington to 
        Gloucester, New Jersey line'';
            $1,000,000 for the Cleveland Euclid corridor 
        improvement project;
            $1,000,000 for the Colorado Roaring Fork Valley 
        project;
            $50,000,000 for the Dallas north central light rail 
        extension project;
            $1,000,000 for the Dayton, Ohio, light rail study;
            $3,000,000 for the Denver Southeast corridor 
        project;
            $35,000,000 for the Denver Southwest corridor 
        project;
            $25,000,000 for the Dulles corridor project;
            $10,000,000 for the Fort Lauderdale, Florida Tri-
        County commuter rail project;
            $1,500,000 for the Galveston, Texas rail trolley 
        extension project;
            $10,000,000 for the Girdwood, Alaska commuter rail 
        project;
            $7,000,000 for the Greater Albuquerque mass transit 
        project;
            $500,000 for the Harrisburg-Lancaster capital area 
        transit corridor 1 commuter rail project;
            $3,000,000 for the Houston advanced transit 
        program;
            $52,770,000 for the Houston regional bus project;
            $1,000,000 for the Indianapolis, Indiana Northeast 
        Downtown corridor project;
            $1,000,000 for the Johnson County, Kansas, I-35 
        commuter rail project;
            $1,000,000 for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee rail 
        extension project;
            $500,000 for the Knoxville-Memphis commuter rail 
        feasibility study;
            $2,000,000 for the Long Island Railroad East Side 
        access project;
            $1,000,000 for the Los Angeles-San Diego LOSSAN 
        corridor project;
            $4,000,000 for the Los Angeles Mid-City and East 
        Side corridors projects;
            $50,000,000 for the Los Angeles North Hollywood 
        extension project;
            $1,000,000 for the Lowell, Massachusetts-Nashua, 
        New Hampshire commuter rail project;
            $703,000 for the MARC commuter rail project;
            $1,500,000 for MARC expansion projects--Silver 
        Spring intermodal and Penn-Camden rail connection;
            $1,000,000 for the Massachusetts North Shore 
        corridor project;
            $2,500,000 for the Memphis, Tennessee, Medical 
        Center rail extension project;
            $1,500,000 for the Miami-Dade Transit east-west 
        multimodal corridor project;
            $1,000,000 for the Nashville, Tennessee, commuter 
        rail project;
            $99,000,000 for the New Jersey Hudson Bergen 
        project;
            $5,000,000 for the New Jersey/New York Trans-Hudson 
        Midtown corridor;
            $1,000,000 for the New Orleans Canal Street 
        corridor project;
            $12,000,000 for the Newark rail link MOS-1 project;
            $1,000,000 for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach corridor 
        project;
            $4,000,000 for the Northern Indiana south shore 
        commuter rail project;
            $2,000,000 for the Oceanside-Escondido, California 
        light rail system;
            $10,000,000 for temporary and permanent Olympic 
        transportation infrastructure investments: Provided, 
        That these funds shall be allocated by the Secretary 
        based on the approved transportation management plan 
        for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games: 
        Provided further, That none of these funds shall be 
        available for rail extensions;
            $1,000,000 for the Orange County, California, 
        transitway project;
            $5,000,000 for the Orlando Lynx light rail project 
        (phase 1);
            $500,000 for the Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade 
        counties rail corridor;
            $4,000,000 for the Philadelphia-Reading SETPA 
        Schuylkill Valley metro project;
            $1,000,000 for the Philadelphia SEPTA cross-county 
        metro;
            $5,000,000 for the Phoenix metropolitan area 
        transit project;
            $2,500,000 for the Pinellas County, Florida, 
        mobility initiative project;
            $10,000,000 for the Pittsburgh North Shore-central 
        business district corridor project;
            $8,000,000 for the Pittsburgh stage II light rail 
        project;
            $11,062,000 for the Portland Westside light rail 
        transit project;
            $25,000,000 for the Puget Sound RTA Link light rail 
        project;
            $5,000,000 for the Puget Sound RTA Sounder commuter 
        rail project;
            $8,000,000 for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill 
        Triangle transit project;
            $25,000,000 for the Sacramento south corridor LRT 
        project;
            $37,928,000 for the Utah north/south light rail 
        project;
            $1,000,000 for the San Bernardino, California 
        Metrolink project;
            $5,000,000 for the San Diego Mid Coast corridor 
        project;
            $20,000,000 for the San Diego Mission Valley East 
        light rail transit project;
            $65,000,000 for the San Francisco BART extension to 
        the airport project;
            $20,000,000 for the San Jose Tasman West light rail 
        project;
            $32,000,000 for the San Juan Tren Urbano project;
            $3,000,000 for the Santa Fe/El Dorado, New Mexico 
        rail link;
            $53,895,000 for the South Boston piers transitway;
            $1,000,000 for the South Dekalb-Lindbergh, Georgia, 
        corridor project;
            $2,000,000 for the Spokane, Washington, South 
        Valley corridor light rail project;
            $2,500,000 for the St. Louis, Missouri, MetroLink 
        cross county corridor project;
            $50,000,000 for the St. Louis-St. Clair County 
        MetroLink light rail (phase II) extension project;
            $1,000,000 for the Stamford, Connecticut fixed 
        guideway connector;
            $1,000,000 for the Stockton, California Altamont 
        commuter rail project;
            $1,000,000 for the Tampa Bay regional rail project;
            $3,000,000 for the Twin Cities Transitways 
        projects;
            $42,800,000 for the Twin Cities Transitways--
        Hiawatha corridor project;
            $2,200,000 for the Virginia Railway Express 
        commuter rail project;
            $4,750,000 for the Washington Metro-Blue Line 
        extension-Addison Road (Largo) project;
            $1,000,000 for the West Trenton, New Jersey, rail 
        project;
            $2,000,000 for the Whitehall ferry terminal 
        reconstruction project;
            $1,000,000 for the Wilmington, Delaware downtown 
        transit connector; and
            $500,000 for the Wilsonville to Washington County, 
        Oregon connection to Westside.

                          Discretionary Grants


                (liquidation of contract authorization)


                          (highway trust fund)


    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for payment of 
previous obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 
5338(b), $1,500,000,000, to remain available until expended and 
to be derived from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway 
Trust Fund.

                 Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out section 3037 of the 
Federal Transit Act of 1998, $15,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That no more than $75,000,000 of 
budget authority shall be available for these purposes.

             SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

             Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and 
in accord with law, and to make such contracts and 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.

                       Operations and Maintenance


                    (harbor maintenance trust fund)


    For necessary expenses for operations and maintenance of 
those portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway operated and 
maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 
Corporation, $12,042,000, to be derived from the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662.

              RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION

                     Research and Special Programs

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the 
Research and Special Programs Administration, $32,061,000, of 
which $645,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund, 
and of which $3,704,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2002: Provided, That up to $1,200,000 in fees collected 
under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the general fund 
of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available 
until expended, funds received from States, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources 
for expenses incurred for training, for reports publication and 
dissemination, and for travel expenses incurred in performance 
of hazardous materials exemptions and approvals functions.

                            Pipeline Safety


                         (pipeline safety fund)


                    (oil spill liability trust fund)


    For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the 
pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a 
pipeline safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and 
to discharge the pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $36,879,000, of which $5,479,000 shall 
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2002; of which $30,000,000 
shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which 
$17,394,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2002; 
and of which $1,400,000 shall be derived from amounts 
previously collected under 49 U.S.C. 60301: Provided, That 
amounts previously collected under 49 U.S.C. 60301 shall be 
available for damage prevention grants to States and public 
education activities.

                     Emergency Preparedness Grants


                     (emergency preparedness fund)


    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5127(c), 
$200,000, to be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, 
to remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That 
none of the funds made available by49 U.S.C. 5116(i) and 
5127(d) shall be made available for obligation by individuals other 
than the Secretary of Transportation, or his designee.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

                         Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $44,840,000: Provided, 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: Provided further, That the funds made available 
under this heading shall be used to investigate pursuant to 
section 41712 of title 49, United States Code, relating to 
unfair or deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition 
by domestic and foreign air carriers and ticket agents: 
Provided further, That it is the sense of the Senate, that for 
purposes of the preceding proviso, the terms ``unfair or 
deceptive practices'' and ``unfair methods of competition'' 
include the failure to disclose to a passenger or a ticket 
agent whether the flight on which the passenger is ticketed or 
has requested to purchase a ticket is overbooked, unless the 
Secretary certifies such disclosure by a carrier is 
technologically infeasible: Provided further, That the funds 
made available under this heading shall be used: (1) to 
investigate pursuant to section 41712 of title 49, United 
States Code, relating to unfair or deceptive practices and 
unfair methods of competition by air carriers and foreign air 
carriers; (2) for monitoring by the Inspector General of the 
compliance of domestic and foreign air carriers with respect to 
paragraph (1) of this proviso; and (3) for the submission to 
the appropriate committees of Congress by the Inspector 
General, not later than July 15, 2000, of a report on the 
extent to which actual or potential barriers exist to consumer 
access to comparative price and service information from 
independent sources on the purchase of passenger air 
transportation: Provided further, That it is the sense of the 
Senate, that for purposes of the preceding proviso, the terms 
``unfair or deceptive practices'' and ``unfair methods of 
competition'' mean the offering for sale to the public for any 
route, class, and time of service through any technology or 
means of communication a fare that is different than that 
offered through other technology or means of communication: 
Provided further, That it is the sense of the Senate that funds 
made available under this heading shall be used for the 
submission to the appropriate committees of Congress by the 
Inspector General a report on the extent to which air carriers 
and foreign air carriers deny travel to airline consumers with 
nonrefundable tickets from one carrier to another.

                      SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $17,000,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 
to exceed $1,600,000 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: Provided further, 
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 2000, to result in 
a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at no 
more than $15,400,000.

                                TITLE II

                            RELATED AGENCIES

       ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Architectural and 
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, as authorizedby 
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, $4,633,000: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may 
be credited to this appropriation funds received for publications and 
training expenses.

                  NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD

                         Salaries and Expenses

    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) $57,000,000, of which 
not to exceed $2,000 may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses.

                               TITLE III

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS


                     (including transfers of funds)


    Sec. 301. 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).
    Sec. 302. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 
2000 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall be 
absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or previous 
appropriations Acts.
    Sec. 303. Funds appropriated under this Act for 
expenditures by the Federal Aviation Administration shall be 
available: (1) except as otherwise authorized by title VIII of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7701 et seq.), for expenses of primary and secondary schooling 
for dependents of Federal Aviation Administration personnel 
stationed outside the continental United States at costs for 
any given area not in excess of those of the Department of 
Defense for the same area, when it is determined by the 
Secretary that the schools, if any, available in the locality 
are unable to provide adequately for the education of such 
dependents; and (2) for transportation of said dependents 
between schools serving the area that they attend and their 
places of residence when the Secretary, under such regulations 
as may be prescribed, determines that such schools are not 
accessible by public means of transportation on a regular 
basis.
    Sec. 304. 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.
    Sec. 305. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for salaries and expenses of more than 100 political and 
Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation: 
Provided, That none of the personnel covered by this provision 
may be assigned on temporary detail outside the Department of 
Transportation.
    Sec. 306. 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.
    Sec. 307. 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.
    Sec. 308. The Secretary of Transportation may enter into 
grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions with any 
person, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, any 
unit of State or local government, any educational institution, 
and any other entity in execution of the Technology 
Reinvestment Project authorized under the Defense Conversion, 
Reinvestment and Transition Assistance Act of 1992 and related 
legislation: Provided, That the authority provided in this 
section may be exercised without regard to section 3324 of 
title 31, United States Code.
    Sec. 309. 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.
    Sec. 310. (a) For fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall--
            (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation 
        for Federal-aid Highways amounts authorized for 
        administrative expenses and programs funded from the 
        administrative takedown authorized by section 104(a) of 
        title 23, United States Code, for the highway use tax 
        evasion program, and amounts provided under section 110 
        of title 23, United States Code, and for the Bureau of 
        Transportation Statistics.
            (2) not distribute an amount from the obligation 
        limitation for Federal-aid Highways that is equal to 
        the unobligated balance of amounts made availablefrom 
the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for 
Federal-aid highways and highway safety programs for the previous 
fiscal year the funds for which are allocated by the Secretary;
            (3) determine the ratio that--
                    (A) the obligation limitation for Federal-
                aid Highways less the aggregate of amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2), bears 
                to
                    (B) 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 
                sections set forth in paragraphs (1) through 
                (7) 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)(8)) for such 
                fiscal year less the aggregate of the amounts 
                not distributed under paragraph (1) of this 
                subsection;
            (4) distribute the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid Highways less the aggregate amounts not 
        distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) for section 
        117 of title 23, United States Code (relating to high 
        priority projects program), section 201 of the 
        Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, the 
        Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge Authority Act of 1995, 
        and $2,000,000,000 for such fiscal year under section 
        105 of title 23, United States Code (relating to 
        minimum guarantee) 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 such section (except in the case 
        of section 105, $2,000,000,000) for such fiscal year;
            (5) 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 
        title 23, United States Code (other than activities to 
        which paragraph (1) applies and programs to which 
        paragraph (4) applies) by multiplying the ratio 
        determined under paragraph (3) by the sums authorized 
        to be appropriated for such program for such fiscal 
        year; and
            (6) 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 minimum guarantee program, but only to 
        the extent that amounts apportioned for the minimum 
        guarantee program for such fiscal year exceed 
        $2,639,000,000, and the Appalachian development highway 
        system program) that are apportioned by the Secretary 
        under title 23, United States Code, in the ratio that--
                    (A) sums authorized to be appropriated for 
                such programs that are apportioned to each 
                State for such fiscal year, bear to
                    (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 
                appropriated for such programs that are 
                apportioned to all States for such fiscal year.
    (b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--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 sections 131(b) and 131(j) of 
the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982; (5) under 
sections 149(b) and 149(c) of the Surface Transportation and 
Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987; (6) under section 
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; 
and (8) under section 105 of title 23, United States Code (but, only in 
an amount equal to $639,000,000 for such fiscal year).
    (c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall after 
August 1 for such fiscal year revise a distribution of the 
obligation limitation made available under subsection (a) if a 
State will not obligate the amount distributed 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, 
section 160 (as in effect on the day before the enactment of 
the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century) of title 
23, United States Code, and under section 1015 of the 
Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 1943-
1945).
    (d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to 
Transportation Research Programs.--The obligation limitation 
shall apply to transportation research programs carried out 
under chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, except that 
obligation authority made available for such programs under 
such limitation shall remain available for a period of 3 fiscal 
years.
    (e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--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: (1) that are authorized to be 
appropriated for such fiscal year for Federal-aid highways 
programs (other than the program under section 160 of title 23, 
United States Code) and for carrying out subchapter I of 
chapter 311 of title 49, United States Code, and highway-
related programs under chapter 4 of title 23, United States 
Code; and (2) that 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. Such distribution 
to the States shall be made in the same ratio as the 
distribution of obligation authority under subsection (a)(6). 
The funds so distributed shall be available for any purposes 
described in section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
    (f) Special Rule.--Obligation limitation distributed for a 
fiscal year under subsection (a)(4) of this section for a 
section set forth in subsection (a)(4) shall remain available 
until used 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.
    Sec. 311. 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.
    Sec. 312. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to 
implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 313. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to plan, finalize, or implement regulations that would 
establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles 
wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and 
the San Francisco Traffic Separation Scheme.
    Sec. 314. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
airports may transfer, without consideration, to the Federal 
Aviation Administration (FAA) instrument landing systems (along 
with associated approach lighting equipment and runway visual 
range equipment) which conform to FAA design and performance 
specifications, the purchase of which was assisted by a Federal 
airport-aid program, airport development aid program or airport 
improvement program grant. The FAA shall accept such equipment, 
which shall thereafter be operated and maintained by the FAA in 
accordance with agency criteria.
    Sec. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to award a multiyear contract for production end items that: 
(1) includes economic order quantity or long lead time material 
procurement in excess of $10,000,000 in any 1 year of the 
contract; (2) includes a cancellation charge greater than 
$10,000,000 which at the time of obligation has not been 
appropriated to the limits of the Government's liability; or 
(3) includes a requirement that permits performance under the 
contract during the second and subsequent years of the contract 
without conditioning such performance upon the appropriation of 
funds: Provided, That this limitation does not apply to a 
contract in which the Federal Government incurs no financial 
liability from not buying additional systems, subsystems, or 
components beyond the basic contract requirements.
    Sec. 316. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except for fixed guideway modernization projects, funds made 
available by this Act under ``Federal Transit Administration, 
Capital investment grants'' for projects specified in this Act 
or identified in reports accompanying this Act not obligated by 
September 30, 2002, and other recoveries, shall be made 
available for other projects under 49 U.S.C. 5309.
    Sec. 317. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
funds appropriated before October 1, 1999, 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.
    Sec. 318. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
compensate in excess of 320 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 2000.
    Sec. 319. Funds provided in this Act for the Transportation 
Administrative Service Center (TASC) shall be reduced by 
$15,000,000, which limits fiscal year 2000 TASC obligational 
authority for elements of the Department of Transportation 
funded in this Act to no more than $133,673,000: Provided, That 
such reductions from the budget request shall be allocated by 
the Department of Transportation to each appropriations account 
in proportion to the amount included in each account for the 
Transportation Administrative Service Center.
    Sec. 320. 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 ``Federal-Aid Highways'' 
account, the Federal Transit Administration's ``Transit 
Planning and Research'' account, and to the Federal Railroad 
Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for 
State rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant 
to 49 U.S.C. 20105.
    Sec. 321. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to prepare, propose, or promulgate any regulations pursuant to 
title V of the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act 
(49 U.S.C. 32901 et seq.) prescribing corporate average fuel 
economy standards for automobiles, as defined in such title, in 
any model year that differs from standards promulgated for such 
automobiles prior to the enactment of this section.
    Sec. 322. Temporary Air Service Interruptions. (a) 
Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act to carry out section 47114(c)(1) of title 
49, United States Code, may be available for apportionment to 
an airport sponsor described in subsection (b) in fiscal year 
2000 in an amount equal to the amount apportioned to that 
sponsor in fiscal year 1999.
    (b) Covered Airport Sponsors.--An airport sponsor referred 
to in subsection (a) is an airport sponsor withrespect to whose 
primary airport the Secretary of Transportation found that--
            (1) passenger boardings at the airport fell below 
        10,000 in the calendar year used to calculate the 
        apportionment;
            (2) the airport had at least 10,000 passenger 
        boardings in the calendar year prior to the calendar 
        year used to calculate apportionments to airport 
        sponsors in a fiscal year; and
            (3) the cause of the shortfall in passenger 
        boardings was a temporary but significant interruption 
        in service by an air carrier to that airport due to an 
        employment action, natural disaster, or other event 
        unrelated to the demand for air transportation at the 
        affected airport.
    Sec. 323. Section 3021 of Public Law 105-178 is amended in 
subsection (a)--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``single-
        State'';
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``Any'' and 
        all that follows through ``United States Code'' and 
        inserting ``The funds made available to the State of 
        Oklahoma and the State of Vermont to carry out sections 
        5307 and 5311 of title 49, United States Code''.
    Sec. 324. 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: Provided, 
That such funds shall be subject to the obligation limitation 
for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction.
    Sec. 325. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated or 
expended for employee training which: (a) does not meet 
identified needs for knowledge, skills and abilities bearing 
directly upon the performance of official duties; (b) contains 
elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or 
psychological stress in some participants; (c) does not require 
prior employee notification of the content and methods to be 
used in the training and written end of course evaluations; (d) 
contains any methods or content associated with religious or 
quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' belief systems as 
defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice N-
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; (e) is offensive to, or 
designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle 
outside the workplace; or (f) includes content related to human 
immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome 
(HIV/AIDS) other than that necessary to make employees more 
aware of the medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the 
workplace rights of HIV-positive employees.
    Sec. 326. None of the funds in this Act shall, in the 
absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly 
or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, 
telegraph, telephone, letter, printed or written material, 
radio, television, video presentation, electronic 
communications, or other device, intended or designed to 
influence in any manner a Member of Congress or of a State 
legislature to favor or oppose by vote or otherwise, any 
legislation or appropriation by Congress or a State legislature 
after the introduction of any bill or resolution in Congress 
proposing such legislation or appropriation, or after the 
introduction of any bill or resolution in a State legislature 
proposing such legislation or appropriation: Provided, That 
this shall not prevent officers or employees of the Department 
of Transportation or related agencies funded in this Act from 
communicating to Members of Congress or to Congress, on the 
request of any Member, or to members of State legislature, or 
to a State legislature, through the proper official channels, 
requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem 
necessary for the efficient conduct of business.
    Sec. 327. (a) In General.--None of the funds made available 
in this Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity 
agrees that in expending the funds the entity will comply with 
the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    (b) Sense of the Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
            (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and 
        products.--In the case of any equipment or product that 
        may be authorized to be purchased with financial 
        assistance provided using funds made available in this 
        Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities 
        receiving the assistance should, in expending the 
        assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and 
        products to the greatest extent practicable.
            (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In 
        providing financial assistance using funds made 
        available in this Act, the head of each Federal agency 
        shall provide to each recipient of the assistance a 
        notice describing the statement made in paragraph (1) 
        by the Congress.
    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling 
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined 
by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally 
affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or 
any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in 
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United 
States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract 
or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, 
pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility 
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 
48, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 328. Not to exceed $1,000,000 of the funds provided in 
this Act for the Department of Transportation shall be 
available for the necessary expenses of advisory committees: 
Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to advisory 
committees established for the purpose of conducting negotiated 
rulemaking in accordance with the Negotiated Rulemaking Act, 5 
U.S.C. 561-570a, or the Coast Guard's advisory council on roles 
and missions.
    Sec. 329. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, receipts, in amounts determined by the Secretary, 
collected from users of fitness centers operated by or for the 
Department of Transportation shall be available to support the 
operation and maintenance of those facilities.
    Sec. 330. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
to implement or enforce regulations that would result in the 
withdrawal of a slot from an air carrier at O'Hare 
International Airport under section 93.223 of title 14 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations in excess of the total slots 
withdrawn from that air carrier as of October 31, 1993 if such 
additional slot is to be allocated to an air carrier or foreign 
air carrier under section 93.217 of title 14 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 331. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available under this Act, and any prior year unobligated 
funds, for the Charleston, South Carolina Monobeam Corridor 
Project shall be transferred to and administered under the 
Transit Planning and Research account, subject to such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate.
    Sec. 332. Hereafter, notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 41742, no 
essential air service subsidies shall be provided to 
communities in the 48 contiguous States that are located fewer 
than 70 highway miles from the nearest large or medium hub 
airport, or that require a rate of subsidy per passenger in 
excess of $200 unless such point is greater than 210 miles from 
the nearest large or medium hub airport.
    Sec. 333. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees 
and other funds received by the Department from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of 
building space, and miscellaneous sourcesare to be credited to 
appropriations of the Department and allocated to elements of the 
Department using fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be 
available until December 31, 2000.
    Sec. 334. Notwithstanding any other provision 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.
    Sec. 335. For necessary expenses of the Amtrak Reform 
Council authorized under section 203 of Public Law 105-134, 
$750,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001: 
Provided, That the duties of the Amtrak Reform Council 
described in section 203(g)(1) of Public Law 105-134 shall 
include the identification of Amtrak routes which are 
candidates for closure or realignment, based on performance 
rankings developed by Amtrak which incorporate information on 
each route's fully allocated costs and ridership on core 
intercity passenger service, and which assume, for purposes of 
closure or realignment candidate identification, that federal 
subsidies for Amtrak will decline over the 4-year period from 
fiscal year 1999 to fiscal year 2002: Provided further, That 
these closure or realignment recommendations shall be included 
in the Amtrak Reform Council's annual report to the Congress 
required by section 203(h) of Public Law 105-134.
    Sec. 336. 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: 
Provided, That no appropriation shall be increased or decreased 
by more than 12 percent by all such transfers: Provided 
further, That any such transfer shall be submitted for approval 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 337. None of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for activities under the Aircraft Purchase Loan Guarantee 
Program during fiscal year 2000.
    Sec. 338. None of the funds appropriated or limited in this 
Act may be used to carry out the functions and operations of 
the Office of Motor Carriers within the Federal Highway 
Administration: Provided, That funds available to the Federal 
Highway Administration shall be transferred with the functions 
and operations of the Office of Motor Carriers should any of 
the functions and operations of that office be delegated by the 
Secretary outside of the Federal Highway Administration: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 104(c)(2) of 
title 49, United States Code, the Federal Highway Administrator 
shall not carry out the duties and functions vested in the 
Secretary under 49 U.S.C. 521(b)(5).
    Sec. 339. Section 3027 of the Transportation Equity Act for 
the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 5307 note; 112 Stat. 336) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Government Share for Operating Assistance to Certain 
Smaller Urbanized Areas.--Notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5307(e), a 
grant of the Government for operating expenses of a project 
under 49 U.S.C. 5307(b) in fiscal years 1999 and 2000 to any 
recipient that is providing transit services in an urbanized 
area with a population between 128,000 and 128,200, as 
determined in the 1990 census, and that had adopted a 5-year 
transit plan before September 1, 1998, may not be more than 80 
percent of the net project cost.''.
    Sec. 340. Funds provided in Public Law 104-205 for the 
Griffin light rail project shall be available for alternative 
analysis and environmental impact studies for other transit 
alternatives in the Griffin corridor from Hartford to Bradley 
International Airport.
    Sec. 341. Section 3030(c)(1)(A)(v) of the Transportation 
Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178) is amended 
by deleting ``Light Rail''.
    Sec. 342. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Federal share of projects funded under section3038(g)(1)(B) of 
Public Law 105-178 shall not exceed 90 percent of the project cost.
    Sec. 343. Of the funds made available to the Coast Guard in 
this Act under ``Acquisition, construction, and improvements'', 
$10,000,000 is only for necessary expenses to support a portion 
of the acquisition costs, currently estimated at $128,000,000, 
of a multi-mission vessel to replace the Mackinaw icebreaker in 
the Great Lakes, to remain available until September 30, 2005.
    Sec. 344. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be obligated or expended to extend a single hull tank vessel's 
double hull compliance date under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 
due to conversion of the vessel's single hull design by adding 
a double bottom or double side after August 18, 1990, unless 
specifically authorized by 46 U.S.C. 3703a(e).
    Sec. 345. None of the funds in this Act may be used for the 
planning or development of the California State Route 710 
Freeway extension project through South Pasadena, California 
(as approved in the Record of Decision on State Route 710 
Freeway, issued by the United States Department of 
Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, on April 13, 
1998).
    Sec. 346. Hereafter, none of the funds made available under 
this Act or any other Act, may be used to implement, carry out, 
or enforce any regulation issued under section 41705 of title 
49, United States Code, including any regulation contained in 
part 382 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, or any other 
provision of law (including any Act of Congress, regulation, or 
Executive order or any official guidance or correspondence 
thereto), that requires or encourages an air carrier (as that 
term is defined in section 40102 of title 49, United States 
Code) to, on intrastate or interstate air transportation (as 
those terms are defined in section 40102 of title 49, United 
States Code)--
            (1) provide a peanut-free buffer zone or any other 
        related peanut-restricted area; or
            (2) restrict the distribution of peanuts,
until 90 days after submission to the Congress and the 
Secretary of a peer-reviewed scientific study that determines 
that there are severe reactions by passengers to peanuts as a 
result of contact with very small airborne peanut particles of 
the kind that passengers might encounter in an aircraft.
    Sec. 347. Section 5309(g)(1)(B) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after ``Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate'' the following: ``and 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations''.
    Sec. 348. Section 1212(g) of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178), as amended, is 
amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading, by inserting ``and 
        New Jersey'' after ``Minnesota''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or the State of New Jersey'' 
        after ``Minnesota''.
    Sec. 349. (a) Requirement To Convey.--The Commandant of the 
Coast Guard shall convey, without consideration, to the 
University of New Hampshire (in this section referred to as the 
``University'') all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to a parcel of real property (including any 
improvements thereon) located in New Castle, New Hampshire, 
consisting of approximately five acres and including a pier.
    (b) Identification of Property.--The Commandant shall 
determine, identify, and describe the property to be conveyed 
under this section.
    (c) Easements, Rights-of-Way, and Rights.--(1) The 
Commandant shall, in connection with the conveyance required by 
subsection (a), grant to the University such easements and 
rights-of-way as the Commandant considers necessary to permit 
access to the property conveyed under that subsection.
    (2) The Commandant shall, in connection with such 
conveyance, reserve in favor of the United States such 
easements and rights as the Commandant considers necessary to 
protect the interests of the United States, including easements 
or rights regarding access to property and utilities.
    (d) Conditions of Conveyance.--The conveyance required by 
subsection (a) shall be subject to the following conditions:
            (1) That the University not convey, assign, 
        exchange, or encumber the property conveyed, or any 
        part thereof, unless such conveyance, assignment, 
        exchange, or encumbrance--
                    (A) is made without consideration; or
                    (B) is otherwise approved by the 
                Commandant.
            (2) That the University not interfere or allow 
        interference in any manner with the maintenance or 
        operation of Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor, New 
        Hampshire, without the express written permission of 
        the Commandant.
            (3) That the University use the property for 
        educational, research, or other public purposes.
    (e) Maintenance of Property.--The University, or any 
subsequent owner of the property conveyed under subsection (a) 
pursuant to a conveyance, assignment, or exchange referred to 
in subsection (d)(1), shall maintain the property in a proper, 
substantial, and workmanlike manner, and in accordance with any 
conditions established by the Commandant, pursuant to the 
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 470 et 
seq.), and other applicable laws.
    (f) Reversionary Interest.--All right, title, and interest 
in and to the property conveyed under this section (including 
any improvements thereon) shall revert to the United States, 
and the United States shall have the right of immediate entry 
thereon, if--
            (1) the property, or any part thereof, ceases to be 
        used for educational, research, or other public 
        purposes by the University;
            (2) the University conveys, assigns, exchanges, or 
        encumbers the property conveyed, or part thereof, for 
        consideration or without the approval of the 
        Commandant;
            (3) the Commandant notifies the owner of the 
        property that the property is needed for national 
        security purposes and a period of 30 days elapses after 
        such notice; or
            (4) any other term or condition established by the 
        Commandant under this section with respect to the 
        property is violated.
    Sec. 350. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this 
Act shall disseminate driver's license personal information as 
defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3) except as provided in subsection 
(b) of this section or motor vehicle records as defined in 18 
U.S.C. 2725(1) for any use not permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721.
    (b) No recipient of funds made available in this Act shall 
disseminate a person's driver's license photograph, social 
security number, and medical or disability information from a 
motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1) without 
the express consent of the person to whom such information 
pertains, except for uses permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721(1), 
2721(4), 2721(6), and 2721(9): Provided, That subsection (b) 
shall not in any way affect the use of organ donation 
information on an individual's driver's license or affect the 
administration of organ donation initiatives in the States.
    (c) 18 U.S.C. 2721(b)(11) is amended by striking all after 
``records'' and inserting the following: ``if the State has 
obtained the express consent of the person to whom such 
personal information pertains.''.
    (d) 18 U.S.C. 2721(b)(12) is amended by striking all after 
``solicitations'' and inserting the following: ``if the State 
has obtained the express consent of the person to whom such 
personal information pertains.''.
    (e) No State may condition or burden in any way the 
issuance of a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(1) upon the receipt of consent described in paragraphs (b) 
and (c).
    (f) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary 
shall not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee 
if a State is in noncompliance with this provision.
    (g) Effective Dates.--
            (1) Subsections (a) and (e) shall be effective upon 
        the date of the enactment of this Act, excluding the 
        States of Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Oklahoma that 
        shall be in compliance with this subsection within 90 
        days after the United States Supreme Court has issued a 
        final decision on Reno vs. Condon;
            (2) Subsections (b), (c), and (d) shall be 
        effective on June 1, 2000, excluding the States of 
        Arkansas, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and 
        Texas that shall be in compliance with subsections (b), 
        (c), and (d) within 90 days of the next convening of 
        the State legislature and excluding the States of 
        Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Oklahoma that shall be 
        in compliance within 90 days following the day of 
        issuance of a final decision on Reno vs. Condon by the 
        United States Supreme Court if the State legislature is 
        in session, or within 90 days of the next convening of 
        the State legislature following the issuance of such 
        final decision if the State legislature is not in 
        session.
    Sec. 351. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
within the funds provided in this Act for the Federal Highway 
Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, $10,000,000 may be made available for 
completion of the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS): 
Provided, That such funds shall be subject to reprogramming 
guidelines.
    Sec. 352. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
section 1107(b) of Public Law 102-240 is amended by striking 
``Construction of a replacement bridge at Watervale Bridge #63, 
Harford County, MD'' and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: ``For improvements to Bottom Road Bridge, Vinegar 
Hill Road Bridge and Southampton Road Bridge, Harford County, 
MD''.
    Sec. 353. (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following 
findings:
            (1) The survival of American culture is dependent 
        upon the survival of the sacred institution of 
        marriage.
            (2) The decennial census is required by section 2 
        of article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, 
        and has been conducted in every decade since 1790.
            (3) The decennial census has included marital 
        status among the information sought from every American 
        household since 1880.
            (4) The 2000 decennial census will mark the first 
        decennial census since 1880 in which marital status 
        will not be a question included on the census 
        questionnaire distributed to the majority of American 
        households.
            (5) The United States Census Bureau has removed 
        marital status from the short form census questionnaire 
        to be distributed to the majority of American 
        households in the 2000 decennial census and placed that 
        category of information on the long form census 
        questionnaire to be distributed only to a sample of the 
        population in that decennial census.
            (6) Every year more than $100,000,000,000 in 
        Federal funds are allocated based on the data collected 
        by the Census Bureau.
            (7) Recorded data on marital status provides a 
        basic foundation for the development of Federal policy.
            (8) Census data showing an exact account of the 
        numbers of persons who are married, single, or divorced 
        provides critical information which serves as an 
        indicator on the prevalence of marriage in society.
    (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
that the United States Census Bureau--
            (1) has wrongfully decided not to include marital 
        status on the census questionnaire to be distributed to 
        the majority of Americans for the 2000 decennial 
        census; and
            (2) should include marital status on the short form 
        census questionnaire to be distributed to the majority 
        of American households for the 2000 decennial census.
    Sec. 354. It is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary 
should expeditiously amend title 14, chapter II, part 250, Code 
of Federal Regulations, so as to double the applicable 
penalties for involuntary denied boardings and allow those 
passengers that are involuntarily denied boarding the option of 
obtaining a prompt cash refund for the full value of their 
airline ticket.
    Sec. 355. Section 656(b) of division C of the Omnibus 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997 is repealed.
    Sec. 356. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount made available pursuant to Public Law 105-277 for the 
Pittsburgh North Shore central business district transit 
options MIS project may be used to fund any aspect of 
preliminary engineering, costs associated with an environmental 
impact statement, or a major investment study for that project.
    Sec. 357. (a) Notwithstanding the January 4, 1977, decision 
of the Secretary of Transportation that approved construction 
of Interstate Highway 66 between the Capital Beltway and 
Rosslyn, Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, in accordance 
with existing Federal and State law, shall hereafter have 
authority for operation, maintenance, and construction of 
Interstate Route 66 between Rosslyn and the Capital Beltway, 
except as noted in paragraph (b).
    (b) The conditions in the Secretary's January 4, 1997 
decision, that exclude heavy duty trucks and permit use by 
vehicles bound to or from Washington Dulles International 
Airport in the peak direction during peak hours, shall remain 
in effect.
    Sec. 358. Noise Barriers, Georgia. Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
approve the use of funds apportioned under paragraphs (1) and 
(3) of section 104(b) of title 23, United States Code, for 
construction of Type II noise barriers at the locations 
identified in section 1215(h) and items 540 and 967 of the 
table contained in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity 
Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 211, 292), and at the 
following locations: On the east side of I-285 extending from 
Northlake Parkway to Chamblee Tucker Road in Dekalb County, 
Georgia; and on the east side of I-185 between Macon Road and 
Airport Thruway.
    Sec. 359. Item number 44 of the table contained in section 
1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 
Stat. 258) is amended by striking ``Saratoga'' and inserting 
``North Creek''.
    Sec. 360. Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii ferry 
boats or ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
5309(m)(2)(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.
    Sec. 361. High Priority Projects. (a) Project 
Authorizations.--The table contained in section 1602 of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 257-
323) is amended--
            (1) in item number 174 by striking ``5.375'' and 
        inserting ``5.25'';
            (2) in item 478 by striking ``2.375'' and inserting 
        ``2.25'';
            (3) in item 948 by striking ``5.375'' and inserting 
        ``5.25'';
            (4) in item 1008 by striking ``3.875'' and 
        inserting ``3.75'';
            (5) in item 1210 by striking ``6.875'' and 
        inserting ``6.75'';
            (6) by striking item 1289 and inserting the 
        following:
      




  ``1289. Arkansas...........        Improve Highway 167       1.0'';
                                     from Fordyce,
                                     Arkansas, to Saline
                                     County line.........



            (7) in item 1319 by striking ``0.875'' and 
        inserting ``0.75'';
            (8) in item 1420--
                    (A) by inserting ``and development'' after 
                ``Conduct planning''; and
                    (B) by striking ``0.875'' and inserting 
                ``0.75''; and
            (9) by adding at the end the following new item:
      




  ``1851. Arkansas..........         Construction of and      5.25''.
                                     improvements to
                                     highway projects in
                                     the corridor
                                     designated by
                                     section
                                     1105(c)(18)(C)(ii)
                                     of the Intermodal
                                     Surface
                                     Transportation
                                     Efficiency Act of
                                     1991................



    (b) High Priority Corridors.--Section 1105(c)(18)(C)(ii) of 
the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
(112 Stat. 190) is amended by striking ``in the vicinity of'' 
and inserting ``east of Wilmar, Arkansas, and west of''.
    Sec. 362. Section 3030(d)(3) of the Transportation Equity 
Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania intermodal 
                facility.''.
    Sec. 363. Section 3030(b) of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 373-375) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(71) Dane County Corridor--East-West Madison Metropolitan 
Area.''.
    Sec. 364. Notwithstanding the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 
5309(e)(6), funds appropriated under this Act for the Douglas 
Branch project may be used for any purpose except construction: 
Provided, That in evaluating the Douglas Branch project under 
5309(e), the Federal Transit Administration shall use a ``no-
build'' alternative that assumes the current Douglas Branch has 
been closed due to poor condition, and a ``TSM'' alternative 
which assumes the Douglas Branch has been closed due to poor 
condition and enhanced bus service is provided.
    Sec. 365. (a) The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency (in this section referred to as the 
``Administrator'') shall make a grant for the purpose of 
conducting a study for the following purposes:
            (1) To develop and evaluate methods for calculating 
        reductions in emissions of precursors of ground level 
        ozone that are achieved within a geographic area as a 
        result of reduced vehicle-miles-traveled in the 
        geographic area.
            (2) To develop a design for the following proposal 
        for a pilot program:
                    (A) For the purpose of reducing such 
                emissions, employers electing to participate in 
                the pilot program would authorize and encourage 
                telecommuting by their employees. Pursuant to 
                methods developed and evaluated under paragraph 
                (1), credits would be issued to the 
                participating employers reflecting the amount 
                of reductions in such emissions achieved 
                through reduced vehicle-miles-traveled by their 
                telecommuting employees.
                    (B) For purposes of compliance with the 
                Clean Air Act, entities that are regulated 
                under such Act with respect to such emissions 
                would obtain the credits through a commercial 
                trading and exchange forum (established for 
                such purpose) and through direct trades and 
                exchangeswith participating employers and other 
                persons who hold the credits.
            (3) To determine whether, if the proposed pilot 
        program were to be carried out, the program--
                    (A) could provide significant incentives 
                for increasing the use of telecommuting, 
                thereby reducing vehicle-miles-traveled and 
                improving air quality; and
                    (B) could have positive effects on 
                national, State, and local transportation and 
                infrastructure policies, and on energy 
                conservation and consumption.
    (b) The Administrator shall ensure that the design 
developed under subsection (a)(2) includes recommendations for 
carrying out the proposed pilot program described in such 
subsection in each of the following geographic areas (which 
recommendations for an area shall be developed in consultation 
with State and local governments and business leaders and 
organizations in the designated areas): (1) The greater 
metropolitan region of the District of Columbia (including 
areas in the States of Maryland and Virginia). (2) The greater 
metropolitan region of Los Angeles, in the State of California. 
(3) The greater metropolitan region of Philadelphia, in the 
State of Pennsylvania (including areas in the State of New 
Jersey). (4) Two additional areas to be selected by the grantee 
under subsection (a), after consultation with the Administrator 
(or the designee of the Administrator).
    (c) The grant under subsection (a) shall be made to the 
National Environmental Policy Institute (a nonprofit private 
entity incorporated under the laws of and located in the 
District of Columbia). The grant may not be made in an amount 
exceeding $500,000.
    (d) The Administrator shall make the grant under subsection 
(a) not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. The Administrator shall require that, not later than 
180 days after receiving the first payment under the grant, the 
grantee under subsection (a) complete the study under such 
subsection and submit to the Administrator a report describing 
the methods developed and evaluated under paragraph (1) of such 
subsection, and containing the design required in paragraph (2) 
of such subsection and the determinations required in paragraph 
(3) of such subsection.
    (e) The Administrator shall carry out this section 
(including subsection (b)(3)) in collaboration with the 
Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Energy.
    (f) To carry out this section, $500,000 is hereby 
appropriated to the Department of Transportation, ``Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Policy'', to be transferred to and 
administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, to be 
available until expended.
    Sec. 366. Notwithstanding the Federal Airport Act (as in 
effect on April 3, 1956) or sections 47125 and 47153 of title 
49, United States Code, and subject to subsection (b), the 
Secretary of Transportation may waive any term contained in the 
deed of conveyance dated April 3, 1956, by which the United 
States conveyed lands to the City of Safford, Arizona, for use 
by the city for airport purposes: Provided, That no waiver may 
be made under subsection (a) if the waiver would result in the 
closure of an airport.
    Sec. 367. None of the funds in this Act may be used to make 
a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 
three full business days before 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 other than the emergency 
relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the 
Federal Aviation Administration; or (3) any program of the 
Federal Transit Administration other than the formula grants 
and fixed guideway modernization programs: Provided, That no 
notification shall involve funds that are not available for 
obligation.
    Sec. 368. Funds provided in the Department of 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts for 
fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for an intermodal facility in 
Eureka, California, shall be available for the expansion and 
rehabilitation of a bus maintenance facility in Humboldt 
County, California.
    Sec. 369. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
previously expended by the City of Moorhead and Moorhead 
Township on studies related to the 34th Street Corridor Project 
in Moorhead, Minnesota, shall be considered as the non-Federal 
match for obligation of funds available under section 1602, 
item 1404 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 
Century, as amended, associated with a study of alternatives to 
rail relocation.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Transportation 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000''.
    And the Senate agree to the same.

                                   Frank R. Wolf,
                                   Tom DeLay,
                                   Ralph Regula,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Ron Packard,
                                   Sonny Callahan,
                                   Todd Tiahrt,
                                   Robert B. Aderholt,
                                   Kay Granger,
                                   Bill Young,
                                   Martin Olav Sabo,
                                   John W. Olver,
                                   Ed Pastor,
                                   Carolyn C. Kilpatrick,
                                   Jose E. Serrano,
                                   Mike Forbes,
                                   David Obey,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Richard C. Shelby,
                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Christopher S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Robert F. Bennett,
                                   Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Frank R. Lautenberg,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   Barbara A. Mikulski,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   Herb Kohl,
                                   Patty Murray,
                                   Daniel K. Inouye,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.
       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

      The managers on the part of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of 
the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 
2084) making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, submit the 
following joint statement to the House of Representatives and 
the Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed 
upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying 
conference report.
      The Senate deleted the entire House bill after the 
enacting clause and inserted the Senate bill. The conference 
agreement includes a revised bill.

                        Congressional Directives

      The conferees agree that Executive Branch propensities 
cannot substitute for Congress' own statements concerning the 
best evidence of Congressional intentions; that is, the 
official reports of the Congress. Report language included by 
the House (House Report 106-180) or the Senate (Senate Report 
106-55 accompanying the companion measure S. 1143) that is not 
changed by the conference is approved by the committee of 
conference. The statement of the managers, while repeating some 
report language for emphasis, is not intended to negate the 
language referred to above unless expressly provided herein.

                     Program, Project, and Activity

      During fiscal year 2000, for the purposes of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 
99-177), as amended, with respect to funds provided for the 
Department of Transportation and related agencies, the terms 
``program, project, and activity'' shall mean any item for 
which a dollar amount is contained in an appropriations Act 
(including joint resolutions providing continuing 
appropriations) or accompanying reports of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, or accompanying conference 
reports and joint explanatory statements of the committee of 
conference. In addition, the reductions made pursuant to any 
sequestration order to funds appropriated for ``Federal 
Aviation Administration, Facilities and equipment'' and for 
``Coast Guard, Acquisition, construction, and improvements'' 
shall be applied equally to each ``budget item'' that is listed 
under said accounts in the budget justifications submitted to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as modified 
by subsequent appropriations Acts and accompanying committee 
reports, conference reports, or joint explanatory statements of 
the committee of conference. The conferees recognize that 
adjustments to the above allocations may be required due to 
changing program requirements or priorities. The conferees 
expect any such adjustment, if required, to be accomplished 
only through the normal reprogramming process.

                Staffing Increases Provided by Congress

      The conferees direct the Department of Transportation to 
fill expeditiously any positions added in the conference 
agreement, without regard to agency-specific staffing targets 
which may have been previously established to meet the mandated 
government-wide staffing reductions. The conferees support the 
overall staffing reductions, and have made reductions in the 
conference agreement that more than offset staffing increases 
provided for a small number of specific activities.

                 TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement provides a total program level 
of $60,852,000 for the salaries and expenses of the various 
offices comprising the Office of the Secretary. A consolidated 
appropriations request for these offices has not been approved, 
rather individual appropriations have been provided for each of 
the offices within the Office of the Secretary, as proposed by 
both the House and Senate.
      The conference agreement includes a provision (sec. 336) 
which authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds appropriated 
for any office in the Office of the Secretary to any other 
office of the Office of the Secretary, provided that no 
appropriation shall be increased or decreased by more than 12 
percent by all such transfers and that such transfers shall be 
submitted for approval to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
available for any new position not specifically requested in 
the budget and approved by the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.

                   immediate office of the secretary

      The conference agreement provides $1,867,000 for expenses 
of the Immediate Office of the Secretary as proposed by the 
House instead of $1,900,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                immediate office of the deputy secretary

      The conference agreement provides $600,000 for expenses 
of the Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary as proposed by 
the Senate instead of $612,000 as proposed by the House.

                     office of the general counsel

      The conference agreement provides $9,000,000 for expenses 
of the Office of the General Counsel as proposed by both the 
House and Senate. The conferees concur in the staffing 
reductions recommended by the House.

              office of the assistant secretary for policy

      The conference agreement provides $2,824,000 for the 
expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy 
instead of $2,900,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House 
proposed to merge this office into a new office, the office of 
the assistant secretary for transportation policy and 
intermodalism. The conference agreement deletes $50,000 for a 
radio navigation staff position and $50,000 for a 
transportation industry analyst.

   office of the assistant secretary for aviation and international 
                                affairs

      The conference agreement provides $7,650,000 for expenses 
of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and 
International Affairs instead of $7,700,000 as proposed by the 
Senate and $7,632,000 as proposed by the House.

       office of the assistant secretary for budget and programs

      The conference agreement provides $6,870,000 for expenses 
of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Budget and 
Programs as proposed by the Senate instead of $6,770,000 as 
proposed by the House. The conferees have agreed to increase 
the amount available for official reception and representation 
expenses to $45,000, as proposed by the Senate. The House bill 
limited funds for such expenses to $40,000.

       office of the assistant secretary for governmental affairs

      The conference agreement provides $2,039,000 for expenses 
of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental 
Affairs as proposed by the House instead of $2,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement includes a provision (sec. 367) 
that requires the Secretary of Transportation to notify the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 
three full business days before 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 other than the emergency 
relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the 
Federal Aviation Administration; or (3) any program of the 
Federal Transit Administration other than the formula grants 
and fixed guideway modernization program. In its notification 
to the Committees, the conferees direct the department to 
include: (1) the amount of the award; (2) the appropriation 
from which the award is being made; (3) the identification of 
the grantee; (4) a complete description of the project; (5) the 
expected date of the official announcement to be made by the 
department or its modal administrations; and (6) the 
congressional district in which the grantee is located. 
Moreover, the department shall not submit grant announcements 
for funds that are not available for obligation.

          office of the assistant secretary for administration

      The conference agreement provides $17,767,000 for 
expenses of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Administration as proposed by the House instead of $18,600,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The conferees concur in the staffing 
and program recommendations proposed by the House.

                        office of public affairs

      The conference agreement provides $1,800,000 for expenses 
of the Office of Public Affairs as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $1,836,000 as proposed by the House.

                         EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT

      The conference agreement provides $1,102,000 for expenses 
of the Executive Secretariat as proposed by the House instead 
of $1,110,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                       BOARD OF CONTRACT APPEALS

      The conference agreement provides $520,000 for expenses 
of the Board of Contract Appeals as proposed by the House 
instead of $560,000 as proposed by the Senate.

         OFFICE OF SMALL AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS UTILIZATION

      The conference agreement provides $1,222,000 for expenses 
of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization 
as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

                  OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

      The conference agreement provides $1,454,000 for expenses 
of the Office of Intelligence and Security as proposed by the 
House. The Senate bill did not include an appropriation for 
this office, but recommended that funding for this office be 
derived from funds appropriated to the Federal Aviation 
Administration and the Coast Guard.

                OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

      The conference agreement provides $5,075,000 for expenses 
of the Office of the Chief Information Officer instead of 
$5,000,000 as proposed by the House and $5,100,000 as proposed 
by the Senate.

                        OFFICE OF INTERMODALISM

      The conference agreement provides an appropriation of 
$1,062,000 for the Office of Intermodalism. The Senate bill 
recommended that funds for this office be derived from funds 
made available to the Federal Highway Administration and the 
House proposed to merge this office with the office of the 
assistant secretary for transportation policy. The conference 
agreement deletes $125,000 requested for web site development.

    OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORTATION POLICY AND 
                             INTERMODALISM

      The conference agreement deletes the appropriation of 
$3,781,000 proposed by the House for expenses of a new office, 
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy 
and Intermodalism. The Senate bill contained no similar 
appropriation.

                         OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS

      The conference agreement includes $7,200,000 for expenses 
of the Office of Civil Rights as proposed by the Senate instead 
of $7,742,000 as proposed by the House.

           TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

      The conference agreement includes $3,300,000 for 
transportation planning, research and development as proposed 
by the Senate instead of $2,950,000 as proposed by the House. 
None of the funds under this heading are to be available for a 
center on environmental analysis and forecasting.

              TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTER

      The conference agreement includes a limitation of 
$148,673,000 on activities of the transportation administrative 
service center (TASC) instead of $157,965,000 as proposed by 
the House and $169,953,000 as proposed by the Senate. The 
conferees concur in the recommendations of the House to 
eliminate the transportation computer center, to disallow the 
transfer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration's Office of Aeronautical Charting and 
Cartography to the TASC and to disallow requested staffing 
increases. The conferees have also agreed to reduce the 
limitation for the transportation administrative service center 
by amounts attributed to the departmental accounting and 
financial information system (DAFIS). The conferees expect the 
department's modal administrations to reimburse the Federal 
Aviation Administration directly for these services rather than 
using the transportation administrative service center to 
provide the reimbursement.

               MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM

      The conference agreement includes a limitation on direct 
loans of $13,775,000 and provides subsidy and administrative 
costs totaling $1,900,000, as proposed by both the House and 
the Senate.

                       MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH

      The conference agreement provides $2,900,000 for minority 
business outreach activities, as proposed by both the House and 
the Senate.

                              Coast Guard

                           Operating Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $2,781,000,000 for 
Coast Guard operating expenses instead of $2,791,000,000 as 
proposed by the House and $2,772,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement is $160,000,000 below the 
budget estimate. However, when this appropriation is combined 
with unobligated funds provided in fiscal year 1999 
supplemental appropriations, the Coast Guard will have 
available 100 percent of its budget request. The conferees 
believe this will be sufficient to cover the Coast Guard's most 
pressing needs in the coming year. The agreement specifies that 
$300,000,000 of the total is available only for defense-related 
activities, as proposed by the House, instead of $534,000,000 
proposed by the Senate. The agreement does not include language 
proposed by the Senate which would have allowed a transfer of 
up to $60,000,000 from the FAA's operating budget to augment 
the Coast Guard's drug interdiction activities. The bill does 
not include language proposed by the Senate which would have 
required the Coast Guard to reimburse the Office of Inspector 
General for Coast Guard-related audits and investigations. The 
bill modifies a provision proposed by the Senate to allow the 
Secretary to apply surplus funds to augment drug interdiction 
activities of the Coast Guard and includes a provision allowing 
the Commandant to transfer real property at Sitka, Alaska to 
the State of Alaska for the purpose of airport expansion.
      Specific reductions.--Reductions agreed to by the 
conferees reflect the Coast Guard's spending plan for 
supplemental military personnel funds provided during fiscal 
year 1999 and to protect vital funding needed for field 
operations. Reductions are largely allocated to administrative 
areas.
      National ballast water management program.--The conferees 
agree that, of the funds provided, $3,500,000 is available only 
to continue the national ballast water management program. The 
House bill included $4,000,000 for this purpose; the Senate 
bill included $3,000,000.
      Air facilities.--The conferees agree that, of the funds 
provided, $3,133,000 is only to continue operations of air 
facilities on Long Island New York, and Muskegon, Michigan; and 
$5,505,000 is only for operations of a new facility to support 
Southern Lake Michigan, as proposed by the House. Funds for the 
Southern Lake Michigan facility are solely for a facility 
located in Waukegan, Illinois. The conferees understand that 
this is the Coast Guard's preferred site.
      Commercial fishing vessel safety.--The conferees do not 
agree with House direction to allocate $1,500,000 to the 
commercial fishing vessel safety program.
      Maritime boundary patrols, Alaska economic zone.--The 
conferees commend the Coast Guard's handling of several recent 
incursions by foreign fishing vessels, including the Gissar, 
along the U.S.-Russia maritime boundary. These incidents, 
however, highlight the need to maintain adequate Coast Guard 
resources in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. The 
conferees direct the Coast Guard to submit a report to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2000, 
which details the adequacy of existing enforcement resources, 
the availability of support assets, and strategies for more 
effective protection of the United States' exclusive economic 
zone along the U.S.-Russia maritime boundary.
      St. Clair Lake Coast Guard Station.--The conferees agree 
that, of the funds provided, $100,000 shall be used by the 
Coast Guard to purchase equipment for the acquisition of ice 
rescue equipment, including airboats if determined to be 
necessary, at the St. Clair Shores Coast Guard Station in 
Michigan for ice rescues on Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair 
River.
      Uniformed Services Family Health Plan.--The conferees 
understand that the Coast Guard has reversed its position and 
will continue dependent and retiree enrollment in the Uniform 
Services Family Health Plan (USFHP). Given this policy change, 
the conferees do not agree with the Senate direction to 
allocate $3,000,000 only for retiree and dependent enrollment 
in USFHP.
      Training and education.--The conferees accept the 
recommendation and funding level of $71,793,000 as proposed by 
the House and the administration for training and education. 
The Senate proposed $70,634,000 for this budget activity.
      The following table compares the House and Senate bills 
and the conference agreement for items in conference:


              Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements

      The conference agreement includes $389,326,000 for 
acquisition, construction, and improvement programs of the 
Coast Guard instead of $410,000,000 proposed by the House and 
$370,426,000 proposed by the Senate. Consistent with past years 
and the House and Senate bills, the conference agreement 
distributes funds in the bill by budget activity. The agreement 
includes language proposed by the House requiring submission of 
a multiyear capital investment plan.
      Distress systems modernization.--The conferees are 
concerned over reports that this program may be slowing down 
due to internal restructuring which calls for a more complex 
systems integration approach. The conferees note that this 
long-overdue program was just recently accelerated due to 
tragic accidents. It is important that the service modernize 
the current distress system without further delay.
      Integrated deepwater systems.--The conference agreement 
provides $44,200,000 for the integrated deepwater systems 
program as proposed by the Senate instead of $40,000,000 as 
proposed by the House. The conferees agree that this should be 
established as a separate budget activity, since it involves 
assets which cut across all other aspects of the AC&I budget. 
The conferees do not agree with the Senate's proposal to 
establish a revolving fund in the Treasury for this program, 
but agree that the Coast Guard may supplement appropriated 
funds through offsetting collections from the sale of HU-25 
aircraft and specific properties listed in the bill, with total 
fiscal year 2000 obligations not to exceed $50,000,000.
      Unalaska Pier.--The Coast Guard is authorized to transfer 
funds and project management authority to the City of Unalaska, 
Alaska for purposes of renovating and extending the city dock 
at Unalaska.
      A table showing the distribution of this appropriation by 
project as included in the fiscal year 2000 budget estimate, 
House bill, Senate bill, and the conference agreement follows:


                Environmental Compliance and Restoration

      The conference agreement includes $17,000,000 for 
environmental compliance, instead of $18,000,000 as proposed by 
the House and $12,450,000 as proposed by the Senate. To the 
maximum extent possible, the reduction should be allocated to 
general training and education activities, and not to site-
specific projects.

                         Alteration of Bridges

      The conference agreement includes $15,000,000 for 
alteration of bridges deemed hazardous to marine navigation as 
proposed by the House instead of $14,000,000 proposed by the 
Senate. The conference agreement distributes these funds as 
follows:
        Bridge and location                         Conference agreement
New Orleans, LA, Florida Avenue RR/HW Bridge............      $3,000,000
Brunswick, GA, Sidney Lanier Highway Bridge.............       7,000,000
Charleston, SC, Limehouse Bridge........................       1,000,000
Mobile, AL, Fourteen Mile Bridge........................       2,000,000
Morris, IL, EJ&E Railroad Bridge........................       2,000,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................      15,000,000

                              Retired Pay

      The conference agreement includes $730,327,000 for Coast 
Guard retired pay as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$721,000,000 as proposed by the House. This is scored as a 
mandatory program for federal budget purposes.

                            Reserve Training

      The conference agreement provides $72,000,000 for reserve 
training as proposed by both the House and the Senate. The 
agreement also allows the Reserves to reimburse the Coast Guard 
operating account up to $21,500,000 for Coast Guard support of 
Reserve activities. The House bill proposed a limitation of 
$23,000,000; the Senate bill proposed to maintain the fiscal 
year 1999 limitation of $20,000,000. The conferees agree that 
all efforts should be made to achieve and maintain a Selected 
Reserve level of at least 8,000 during fiscal year 2000.

              Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

      The conference agreement provides $19,000,000 for Coast 
Guard research, development, test, and evaluation instead of 
$21,039,000 as proposed by the House and $17,000,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The conferees agree that within the 
funding provided, $500,000 is to address ship ballast water 
exchange issues and $500,000 is to apply submarine acoustic 
monitoring technology to Coast Guard counter drug operations. 
Each of these activities was proposed, at higher funding 
levels, by the Senate.

               Federal Aviation Administration Operations

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement provides $5,900,000,000 for 
operating expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration 
instead of no funds as proposed by the House and $5,857,450,000 
as proposed by the Senate. The House-reported bill included an 
appropriation of $5,925,000,000, but these funds were deleted 
on the House floor due to lack of authorization. This 
appropriation is in addition to amounts made available as a 
mandatory appropriation of user fees in the Federal Aviation 
Administration Reauthorization Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-
264). All funding is to be derived from the airport and airway 
trust fund, as proposed by the Senate and included in the 
House-reported bill. The conference agreement deletes the 
permissive transfer from the Coast Guard's operating expenses 
proposed by the Senate, and includes restrictions on funding 
for the transportation administrative service center and the 
office of aeronautical charting and cartography included in the 
House-reported bill. The bill allocates $600,000 only for the 
Centennial of Flight Commission, as included in the House-
reported bill, and deletes the requirement for FAA to reimburse 
the Office of Inspector General $19,000,000 for aviation-
related audits and investigations proposed by the Senate.
      Transportation administrative service center 
limitation.--The conferees agree to limit FAA's fiscal year 
2000 contribution to the transportation administrative service 
center (TASC) to $24,162,700 instead of $28,600,000 in the 
House-reported bill. The Senate included no similar limitation. 
The limitation is below the fiscal year 1999 level because the 
conferees agree to exclude costs from the calculation relating 
to the Departmental Accounting and Financial Information System 
(DAFIS). The department is encouraged to eliminate any TASC 
role in FAA's administration of the DAFIS system.
      Limitations on leases.--The conference agreement 
continues limitations on multiyear leases and leases for global 
positioning system satellite services enacted in fiscal year 
1999 and included in the House-reported bill. The Senate bill 
included no similar limitations.
      Contribution to essential air service program.--The 
conferees direct FAA to transfer funds to the essential air 
service (EAS) and rural airport program from the ``Operations'' 
appropriation in the event of a shortfall in overflight user 
fee collections. Current law stipulates that the FAA must pay 
these costs if a shortfall in collections causes funding to 
drop below $50,000,000 for the EAS program. This has occurred 
in each of the past two years. In the first year, the FAA paid 
such expenses from the ``Operations'' appropriation. In the 
second year, the agency used the ``Facilities and equipment'' 
appropriation. The conferees believe it is more appropriate 
that such funds come from the operating account, given the 
nature of the activities being financed and FAA's original 
ruling. This is particularly important in fiscal year 2000, 
since the conference agreement provides a significant increase 
for FAA's operating account and flat funding for the capital 
appropriation.
      Office of aeronautical charting and cartography.--The 
conferees agree with a limitation in the House-reported bill 
that funds for this office may not be available for activities 
conducted by, or coordinated through, the TASC. The conferees 
see no programmatic benefit to this action, and believe the 
proposal does not fit within the general purpose of the TASC.
      The following table compares the conference agreement to 
the levels proposed in the House-reported and Senate bills by 
budget activity:


      Franchise fund.--The conferees agree not to allow 
expansion of the FAA franchise fund during fiscal year 2000.
      Aircraft firefighting training.--The conferees do not 
agree with Senate direction allocating $1,500,000 for aircraft 
firefighting training at the Rocky Mountain Emergency Services 
Training Center.
      Interagency Alaska aviation safety initiative.--The 
conferees are aware of the cooperative National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health approach employed by the NTSB, 
FAA, and other federal, state and private parties to improve 
safety through cooperative review and enhancement of safety 
procedures and practices. The conference agreement supports the 
FAA's participation in this interagency initiative on aviation 
safety in Alaska. It is the conferees' understanding that FAA's 
involvement in this initiative in fiscal year 2000 requires a 
resource commitment of approximately $250,000. The conferees 
anticipate similar involvement by the NTSB.
      Contract tower program.--The conferees do not agree with 
Senate direction requiring the establishment of an air traffic 
control tower in Salisbury, Maryland. However, it is the 
conferees' understanding that the contract towers listed in the 
Senate report, including Salisbury, Maryland, are eligible for 
the existing contract tower program and should receive 
consideration for funding. The agency is encouraged to continue 
operating contract towers at locations listed in the Senate 
report, as long as such operations are consistent with existing 
program criteria and provided the locations maintain a benefit-
cost ratio of at least 1.0. The conferees further direct FAA to 
work with local officials to establish contract towers or 
tower-related operational services at locations listed in the 
Senate report, as long as such establishment is consistent with 
existing program criteria.
      Last year, the FAA was directed to conduct a study of 
extending the contract tower program to existing air traffic 
control towers without radar capability. The conferees 
understand the draft report indicates that annual savings of 
$30,000,000 to $50,000,000 are achievable except for a 
provision in the current labor agreement which requires the 
agency to employ a minimum level of 15,000 government air 
traffic controllers. The DOT Inspector General recently 
reported ``FAA has a responsibility to operate in a cost 
effective manner. By concluding that no net savings related to 
further expanding the contract tower program will occur, FAA is 
denying itself an opportunity to reduce operations costs and/or 
offset potential cost increases . . . FAA should revise the 
[draft] study's conclusions and recognize the substantial 
savings that expanding the federal contract tower program 
offers''. The DOT Inspector General is requested to review the 
feasibility and benefits of expanding the contract tower 
program, notwithstanding the current minimum staffing 
agreement, and report to the Congress no later than March 1, 
2000.
      Airspace redesign.--The conference agreement fully funds 
the requested $9,622,000 for costs associated with redesign of 
the nation's airspace. The conferees direct that none of these 
funds be internally reprogrammed to other purposes and that not 
less than $6,600,000 of the amount provided be used in direct 
support of the New York/New Jersey airspace redesign effort.
      MARC.--Funding of $2,000,000 is provided for the Mid-
America Aviation Resource Consortium, as proposed in the House-
reported bill.
      Outagamie County Regional Airport.--The conferees do not 
agree with Senate direction concerning Outagamie County 
Regional Airport.
      Reprogrammings.--The conferees affirm the importance of 
the existing reprogramming reporting agreements, which request 
the department to submit, on a quarterly basis, line-by-line 
accounts of all reprogramming actions, whether below or above 
Congressional approval thresholds.
      Cost accounting system.--The conferees agree that, in its 
effort to establish a new cost accounting system (CAS), the FAA 
shall collect source time and labor data in a manner consistent 
with the labor and cost allocation schemes being otherwise 
developed within the CAS. Any system the FAA deploys for the 
capture of time and labor data should be automated to the 
maximum extent possible, to eliminate manual error and provide 
for reconciliation with the CAS. The conferees encourage the 
agency to begin serious discussions with its labor unions 
regarding the need to capture time and attendance data in a 
manner consistent with the objectives of the CAS.
      Interim incentive pay.--The conferees do not agree with 
the proposal of the House to begin a phaseout of interim 
incentive pay (IIP), and consequently restore the reduction of 
$12,190,000 in the House-reported bill.
      Controller-in-charge.--The conference agreement accepts 
the position of the House-reported bill that further transition 
to the controller-in-charge (CIC) concept, as included in last 
year's labor agreement with the National Air Traffic 
Controllers Association (NATCA), shall be deferred during 
fiscal year 2000. FAA's own study in 1992 found that 
operational errors increased when the number of air traffic 
supervisors decreased. Since operational errors, air traffic 
volume and complexity continue to rise, the conferees agree 
with the House that any change in ATC floor-level supervision 
should be approached very cautiously. The conferees are not 
convinced that the necessary steps have been taken and verified 
to ensure the public safety if further CIC transition is 
allowed at this time. FAA estimates the number of supervisors 
at the end of fiscal year 1999 to be 2,025, which is down from 
approximately 2,060 the year before. The conferees expect no 
further decline during fiscal year 2000.
      Within-grade increases/grade-to-grade increases.--Last 
year's NATCA agreement eliminated within-grade and grade-to-
grade increases for bargaining unit employees and replaced them 
with performance-based increases such as an ``organizational 
success increase'' (OSI) and a ``quality step increase'' (QSI), 
to be developed as part of the agency's core compensation plan. 
However, since the agency has reached no agreement on how to 
implement the new performance increases, they have informally 
agreed to distribute these funds on a formula basis. This takes 
a step backward from performance-based compensation by 
replacing an experience-based increase with an automatic 
general increase. The conferees disapprove funding budgeted for 
grade increases or performance-based increases for bargaining 
unit members until the agency reaches agreement with NATCA on 
implementation of performance-based increases such as OSI and 
QSI. The conferees are not against OSI and QSI payments, but 
are against formula-based distribution of these funds.
      Aviation safety program.--The conferees agree to provide 
an additional $500,000 for this program, as included in the 
House-reported bill. These and base funds included in the 
budget estimate are to be used exclusively for the design, 
production, and dissemination of training and educational 
materials used in the FAA's Aviation Safety Program for current 
pilots and aviation maintenance technicians. This activity is 
declared an item of special Congressional interest, and no 
funding should be reprogrammed to other activities without 
Congressional approval.
      Administration of airports.--The conference agreement 
deletes the $50,608,000 requested for administration of 
airports, and includes a limitation of $45,000,000 for these 
activities under ``Grants-in-aid for airports''.
      Integrated personnel and payroll system.--The conferees 
agree to provide full funding for development of the integrated 
personnel and payroll system (IPPS), as proposed by the Senate. 
The House had proposed a reduction in this program.
      General pay raise.--The conference agreement provides the 
additional $12,720,000 required to fund a 4.8 percent general 
pay raise, instead of the 4.4 percent originally proposed in 
the budget estimate. Congress has approved a final pay raise of 
4.8 percent for fiscal year 2000.
      RTCA.--The conference agreement maintains the House 
proposal to reduce funding for the Radio Technical Commission 
for Aeronautics (RTCA) by $135,000. The conferees share the 
concern of the House that the agency should not continue, on a 
sole source basis, the ``consensus-building'' and program 
planning/implementation activities of RTCA. Although originally 
tasked to provide advice on aviation ``black box'' technical 
requirements, RTCA has recently been chartered by FAA to act 
more broadly, to develop industry consensus and implementation 
plans for a variety of agency programs, including free flight 
phases one and two, equipment requirements for the future 
national airspace system, and overall reform of the agency's 
certification process. The conferees share the concern of the 
House that such a relationship between government and industry 
representatives raises questions about proper government 
control and independence. RTCA's task forces make technical 
recommendations, establish schedules, locations, and funding 
requirements, and the agency accepts those recommendations with 
few or no changes. This collaborative network of agency and 
industry officials appears to be unusual for a federal advisory 
committee. Therefore, the conferees direct FAA not to use RTCA 
for new ``consensus-building'' activities during fiscal year 
2000 and not to expand those currently underway, and direct the 
DOT Inspector General to conduct an investigation of the RTCA/
FAA relationship and a comparison of that relationship to other 
federal advisory committees. This report should be completed 
and submitted to the Congress not later than March 1, 2000.
      English language proficiency.--The conferees do not agree 
with the House recommendation to allocate $500,000 for the 
promotion of English language proficiency in international air 
traffic control. The FAA has used previous appropriations to 
establish a minimum level of English language proficiency. The 
agency is now working to validate this data and to raise the 
level of cooperation and effort in the international arena. The 
conferees agree that further work in this area can best be 
accomplished through the International Civil Aviation 
Organization (ICAO), whose work in this area is supported by 
the FAA and funded in part by the Department of State. The 
conferees have been assured by the FAA that the agency will 
continue to provide ICAO with leadership and active 
participation in this program.
      Fractional aircraft ownership.--The conference agreement 
deletes, without prejudice, language included in the Senate 
bill relating to the introduction of fractional aircraft 
ownership concepts for the execution of selected air 
transportation requirements. The conferees are intrigued by the 
concept and the possibility of improving the efficiency of 
aircraft use by the Department of Transportation, the various 
modal administrations, and several related agencies through 
fractional aircraft ownership concepts. The conferees direct 
the department to report by March 31, 2000 to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding the operational 
and cost advantages and tradeoffs inherent in replacing 
existing executive aircraft in the department's inventory with 
a mix of light to mid-size jets to determine the flexibility, 
efficiency, and cost benefits of fractional aircraft ownership 
or leasing for the government.

                        Facilities and Equipment

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement provides $2,075,000,000 for 
facilities and equipment instead of $2,045,652,000 as proposed 
by the Senate and $2,200,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      The following table provides a breakdown of the House and 
Senate bills and the conference agreement by program:


      Free flight phase one.--The following table compares the 
House and Senate proposed levels to the budget estimate and the 
conference agreement. The conference agreement represents a 
94.8 percent increase over the funding level provided for 
fiscal year 1999.

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                                                                        Fiscal year 2000--
                                   Fiscal year  ----------------------------------------------------------------
            Project               1999 enacted                                                      Conference
                                                    Estimate          House           Senate         agreement
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
URET...........................      $5,800,000     $83,175,000     $80,000,000     $83,175,000      $79,000,000
Conflict Probe.................      41,000,000  ..............  ..............  ...............  ..............
CTAS...........................       3,700,000  ..............  ..............  ...............  ..............
TMA/pFAST......................      30,500,000      59,825,000      59,825,000      59,825,000       59,825,000
CDM............................      11,200,000      29,400,000      29,400,000      29,400,000       29,400,000
SMA............................  ..............       6,000,000       4,000,000       6,000,000        4,000,000
Integration....................  ..............       6,400,000       6,400,000       6,400,000        5,400,000
DSP--NY/NJ.....................  ..............  ..............  ..............       2,000,000        2,000,000
Safe Flight 21.................  ..............  ..............  ..............      16,000,000   ..............
    (Capstone).................  ..............  ..............  ..............      (6,000,000)  ..............
    (Ohio Valley)..............  ..............  ..............  ..............     (10,000,000)  ..............
                                --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Total....................      92,200,000     184,800,000     179,625,000     202,800,000      179,625,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      The conference agreement provides a total of $4,500,000 
for the departure spacing program (DSP), including $2,500,000 
in base funds and $2,000,000 above the budget estimate. The 
additional funds are to expand the program through installation 
of equipment at Teterboro, White Plains, New York Center, and 
the Air Traffic Control System Command Center.
      Safe flight 21.--The conference agreement provides 
$16,000,000 for this program, including $6,000,000 for the 
Capstone Project in Alaska and $10,000,000 for the Ohio Valley 
Project.
      Oceanic automation system.--The conferees agree to 
provide $27,000,000 for the oceanic automation system, and 
direct FAA to develop and acquire this system by traditional 
acquisition methods instead of by lease, as proposed by the 
House. The FAA's proposal to acquire this equipment through an 
operating lease would burden the FAA's already-strained 
operating budget with the requirement for an additional 
$100,000,000 over the first five years, which the conferees 
find to be unrealistic. Also, the conferees are reluctant to 
establish this policy in the absence of clear FAA criteria to 
determine when it is appropriate for modernization efforts to 
be funded by lease from the operations budget. Without such a 
policy the lines between FAA's operating and capital budgets 
begin to blur, just at the time when the agency is working hard 
to get a clearer picture of its capital assets, spending, and 
requirements. In addition, the agency's 1998 financial 
statement shows $103,000,000 in unfunded capital lease 
liabilities, so it is not advisable for the agency to expand in 
this area either. The conferees agree that oceanic system 
upgrades are urgently needed, and that FAA's previous 
acquisition programs in this area did not produce the desired 
results. However, these programs were developed prior to 
procurement reform, and under previous leadership. The 
conferees are confident that with its current leadership, FAA 
can apply procurement reform methods and learn from its past 
mistakes to put together an aggressive, accelerated schedule 
and streamlined requirements for this acquisition. The agency 
has stated that this effort requires little development effort, 
and that the requirements are well understood. This, too, 
supports the feasibility of an accelerated schedule. The 
funding provided is FAA's estimate of the amount required to 
execute this program in fiscal year 2000. The conferees would 
reconsider a lease for this program only if the agency puts 
forward a plan to cover in the lease the entire operation of 
these facilities, including air traffic control operations.
      Next generation navigation systems.--The conference 
agreement provides $94,000,000 for next generation navigation 
systems, which includes $80,000,000 for further development of 
the GPS wide area augmentation system (WAAS), $10,000,000 for 
further development of the LORAN-C navigation system, and 
$4,000,000 for development of low-cost gyroscope technologies. 
The FAA is directed not to reprogram any of the LORAN-C or low-
cost gyroscope funding to the WAAS program.
      Wide area augmentation system.--Last year, the Senate 
proposed broad restrictions on the WAAS program, which were 
dropped in conference when program supporters argued those 
restrictions could cause the termination of the program. While 
providing continued funding, the fiscal year 1999 conference 
report noted ``those proponents have not been able to provide 
compelling assurances that this program will be cost-effective 
beyond the initial phase, which is expected to become 
operational early next year. The serious and persistent 
technical concerns expressed in both the House and Senate 
reports await resolution by the FAA at an unknown cost and in 
an unknown timeframe . . . The conferees intend for FAA to take 
a ``time out'' at this point to reassess the justification for 
the program beyond that point . . . Congress will be unable to 
adequately judge the need for future appropriations for the 
wide-area and local-area augmentation systems (WAAS and LAAS, 
respectively) until FAA completes an up-to-date alternatives 
analysis which looks at various combinations of existing and 
new, ground-based and satellite-based technologies.'' The 
Appropriations Committees have waited over two years for this 
critical analysis, and warned several times that funding cannot 
be supported indefinitely without it.Despite this situation, 
the department still has not submitted this benefit-cost analysis for 
Congressional review. Further, the agency's budget request assumes the 
program will continue well beyond phase one, ignoring the Congressional 
direction to take a pause in the program until clear justification is 
provided. The bill includes funding of $80,000,000 for the WAAS 
program. The conferees do not believe this program should go 
unrestrained in the absence of compelling financial justification. 
However, once these documents are submitted and reviewed, the conferees 
agree to consider a reprogramming request to restore funding, subject 
to Congressional approval at that time.
      Next generation landing systems.--The conference 
agreement provides $20,000,000 for next generation landing 
systems, to be distributed as follows:

        Project                                                   Amount
Instrument landing systems (ILS)........................     $18,000,000
Transponder landing systems (TLS).......................       2,000,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
        Total...........................................      20,000,000

      Instrument landing systems.--Funding provided for 
instrument landing systems (ILS) shall be distributed as 
follows:

        Project                                                   Amount
Activities included in budget estimate........................$6,000,000
Baton Rouge, LA...............................................   800,000
Clearwater/St. Petersburg, FL................................. 3,500,000
Dulles International, VA...................................... 3,440,000
Harry Brown Airport, MI.......................................   500,000
Newark, NJ (LDA/glideslope)................................... 1,160,000
Evanston, WY..................................................   500,000
St. George, AK................................................   900,000
St. Louis Lambert, MO.........................................   700,000
McComb Airport, MS............................................   500,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

        Total.................................................18,000,000

      Instrument landing system, Pike County Airport, KY.--The 
conferees urge the FAA to give priority consideration to 
funding for an instrument landing system at the Pike County 
Airport in Kentucky, either using funds from this appropriation 
or from discretionary grants available under the Airport 
Improvement Program. The conferees understand that the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky has been working closely with FAA to 
obtain this system due to safety concerns brought about by the 
impact of weather and the mountainous terrain at this regional 
facility.
      Transponder landing system.--The conference agreement 
provides $2,000,000 for the transponder landing system. The 
conferees agree with directions in the House report, and direct 
FAA to utilize fiscal year 2000 funding by contract methods, 
and not through continued leasing.
      Local area augmentation system (LAAS).--The conferees 
believe that the work conducted by FAA under this program is 
more appropriately carried out with operating funds, since it 
involves review and oversight of industry development 
activities. The conferees have no objection to FAA's use of 
operating funds for this work.
      Airport surface detection equipment (ASDE).--Last year's 
conference report expressed the concern of the conferees that 
``FAA move expeditiously to develop and deploy advanced 
technologies to prevent runway incursions. For this reason, the 
conferees direct the FAA to give funding priority to advancing 
runway incursion technologies to the pre-production phase''. 
Despite this direction, however, the FAA has continued to move 
slowly in this program. The conference agreement provides 
$10,000,000 for the ASDE program, which includes $7,600,000 
only for acquisition of production version low-cost ASDE 
systems. The FAA's appeal to the conferees requested an 
additional $3,100,000 for this program, but the agency planned 
to use those funds to buy only a single, pre-production system. 
The conferees reiterate that technology is available and needed 
now to address the worsening problem of runway incursions. 
Further agency delays are not acceptable. By the end of fiscal 
year 2000, the conferees expect the FAA to have awarded at 
least one contract for production low-cost ASDE systems for 
deployment in the highest priority airports.
      Terminal air traffic control facilities replacement.--The 
conference agreement includes $78,900,000 for replacement of 
air traffic control towers and other terminal facilities. The 
following table compares the budget estimate, House and Senate 
recommended levels, and the conference agreement:

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                                                                        Fiscal year 2000--
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
                    Location                                                                        Conference
                                                      Budget           House          Senate         agreement
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Swanton (Toledo), OH............................        $700,000        $700,000        $700,000        $700,000
Atlanta, GA.....................................       1,800,000       1,800,000       1,800,000       1,800,000
Boston Tracon, NH...............................      17,600,000  ..............      17,600,000      10,000,000
Roanoke, VA.....................................       4,900,000       4,900,000       4,900,000       4,900,000
Port Columbus, OH...............................      17,600,000      17,600,000      17,600,000      17,600,000
St. Louis, MO (ATCT)............................       1,600,000       1,600,000       1,600,000       1,600,000
St. Louis, MO (Tracon)..........................       3,800,000       3,800,000       3,800,000       3,800,000
Little Rock, AR.................................         740,000         740,000         740,000         740,000
Chicago O'Hare, IL..............................       2,900,000       2,900,000       2,900,000       2,900,000
Chicago Midway, IL..............................         411,000         411,000         411,000         411,000
Grand Canyon, AZ................................         243,000         243,000         243,000         243,000
Louisville, KY..................................       2,200,000       2,200,000       2,200,000       2,200,000
Seattle, WA.....................................      10,270,000      10,270,000      10,270,000      10,270,000
Worcester, MA...................................         370,000         370,000         370,000         370,000
Albany, NY......................................       1,032,000       1,032,000       1,032,000       1,032,000
N. Las Vegas, NV................................       2,354,000  ..............       2,354,000       2,354,000
LaGuardia, NY...................................       2,200,000       2,200,000       2,200,000       2,200,000
Portland, OR....................................          50,000          50,000          50,000          50,000
Covington, KY...................................         780,000         780,000         780,000         780,000
Birmingham, AL..................................       1,250,000       1,250,000       1,250,000       1,250,000
Houston Hobby, TX...............................         400,000         400,000         400,000         400,000
Pontiac, MI.....................................         600,000         600,000         600,000         600,000
Newark, NJ......................................       2,200,000  ..............       2,200,000       2,200,000
Phoenix, AZ.....................................  ..............       5,000,000  ..............       4,000,000
Richmond, VA....................................  ..............       3,500,000  ..............       3,000,000
Corpus Christi, TX..............................  ..............       2,000,000       1,000,000       1,500,000
Martin State, MD................................  ..............  ..............       1,000,000  ..............
Pangborn Memorial, WA...........................  ..............  ..............         500,000  ..............
Paine Field, WA.................................  ..............  ..............       1,000,000       1,000,000
Billings Logan, MT..............................  ..............  ..............       1,000,000       1,000,000
Unspecified reduction...........................  ..............  ..............       5,000,000  ..............
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................      76,000,000      64,346,000      75,500,000      78,900,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Control tower/tracon facilities improvement.--The 
conference agreement includes $2,600,000 for the cable loop 
relocation project at St. Louis Lambert Airport, as proposed by 
the House, and $200,000 for improvements at the Manchester, New 
Hampshire airport, as proposed by the Senate. The conferees do 
not provide the $2,500,000 proposed by the House for a new 
final approach sector at Dulles International Airport, because 
the FAA has implemented such a position in fiscal year 1999.
      Terminal automation.--The conference agreement provides 
$195,240,000 for the terminal automation program, which 
includes the standard terminal automation replacement system 
(STARS), ARTS color displays, and other associated activities. 
This fully funds the program at the level requested in the 
President's budget as proposed by the Senate, instead of 
$165,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      Air traffic management.--The conference agreement 
provides $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$42,000,000 proposed by the House. The conferees believe there 
is merit in exploring the possibility of privatizing the 
traffic management function currently within the FAA in order 
to affect operational improvements and efficiencies, and that 
further significant investment in upgrading the traffic 
management system should be deferred until completion of this 
analysis. The conferees direct FAA to task the National Academy 
of Sciences to conduct this analysis, to be completed as soon 
as practicable.
      Congressional directions.--The conferees do not agree 
with Senate directions regarding the OASIS, air navaids and ATC 
facilities, and NAS recovery communications programs.
      ARTCC building/plant improvements.--The agreement to 
provide $36,900,000 for this program includes $9,600,000 to 
continue the Honolulu CERAP relocation project as proposed by 
the Senate. The House had proposed no funding for this project.
      Remote radar capability.--The conference agreement 
provides $900,000 for this program, to be used for site 
analysis and site preparation activities to enable remote radar 
capability at Sonoma County and Napa County Airports and 
Livermore Municipal/Buchanan Field Airports in California.
      Automated surface observing system.--The $9,900,000 
provided for this program includes $2,000,000 for the 
commissioning of ASOS systems in rural Alaska and $100,000 for 
an Automated Weather Sensors System at the Sugar Land Municipal 
Airport in Texas.
      Flight service station modernization.--The conference 
agreement includes $1,700,000 for the further procurement and 
installation of video cameras for remote weather information in 
remote and mountainous terrain in Alaska and $300,000 for 
acquisition and support of the mike-in-hand weather reporting 
system in rural Alaska.
      GPS aeronautical band.--The conference agreement includes 
no funding for FAA's contribution to the development of new 
signals for the GPS satellite system. This was to be the first 
year of a $130,000,000 contribution by the FAA. The conferees 
are not against this effort per se. However, since most of the 
benefits will accrue to civil users other than aviation or the 
FAA, the conferees believe it is inappropriate for FAA to 
shoulder most of the burden, and inappropriate for aviation 
users to finance the activity from the airport and airway trust 
fund. However, the conferees would not object if the department 
received funding for this effort from non-DOT agencies and 
departments through interagency transfers, based upon a fair 
share of perceived civil benefits.
      Automated weather information programs.--To address the 
issue of weather related accidents at airports, the conferees 
believe it is critical to upgrade the existing automated 
weather information programs. Therefore, the conferees expect 
FAA to implement product improvements and upgrades to the 
current systems and to report to Congress on the agency's plans 
to accelerate the deployment of upgrade technology upon 
successful demonstration of the Automated Observation for 
Visibility, Cloud Height, and Cloud Coverage (AOVCC) system 
within 90 days of enactment of this Act.
      Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development.--The 
conference agreement provides $61,000,000 instead of 
$63,400,000 as proposed by the House and $60,100,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. In addition, the conferees accept the 
House's proposed ceiling of 320 technical staff years for this 
organization. However, the conferees clarify that the ceiling 
only applies to funds provided in this Act. Staffing financed 
by funding from other departments and agencies does not count 
toward this ceiling.

                        Facilities and Equipment

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

                              (Rescission)

      The conference agreement includes a rescission of 
$30,000,000 from Public Law 105-66 instead of two rescissions 
totaling $299,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House 
proposed no similar rescissions.

                 Research, Engineering, and Development

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement provides $156,495,000 for FAA 
research, engineering, and development instead of $173,000,000 
as proposed by the House and $150,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The following table shows the distribution of funds in 
the House and Senate bills and the conference agreement:


      Weather research.--The conferees agree to provide 
$19,300,000 for aviation weather research instead of 
$20,950,000 as proposed by the House and $16,765,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. The conferees direct that, of these 
funds, $11,000,000 is to be made available for the national 
laboratory program, $2,000,000 is available to continue Project 
Socrates, $700,000 is for the Center for Wind, Ice and Fog, and 
$3,100,000 is to continue the turbulence and windshear research 
project at Juneau, Alaska.
      Explosives and weapons detection and aircraft 
hardening.--The conference agreement includes $42,606,000 
instead of $50,859,000 as proposed by the House and $39,500,000 
as proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, $3,000,000 is to 
continue development of the pulsed fast neutron analysis (PFNA) 
cargo inspection system; $1,000,000 is for the Safe Skies 
initiative involving research and development of explosives and 
chemical or biological agents currently being conducted by the 
Institute of Biological Detection Systems; and $1,000,000 is 
for a dual view x-ray cargo explosive detection system 
demonstration for palletized cargo at Huntsville International 
Airport in Alabama. The conferees also encourage the FAA to 
continue demonstration and testing of a blast resistant 
hardened container for use on narrow body commercial aircraft.
      Human factors research.--The conference agreement 
provides $21,971,000 instead of $27,829,000 as proposed by the 
House and $20,207,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees 
note that recently the focus of ``ATC/AF human factors'' 
research has shifted away from today's human factors problems 
and toward problems which could occur from implementation of 
tomorrow's technologies. These technology development efforts 
have their own funding which could--and should--address these 
issues. The conferees do not believe RE&D funds are needed to 
supplement those programs, and should be reserved for 
addressing today's human factors issues. The conferees do not 
agree with the Senate's direction to withhold obligation of 
human factors funding until submission of data regarding 
relative accident rates based on pilot age. The conferees 
understand that the FAA has agreed to provide this data to the 
Senate.
      Fatigue countermeasures.--The conferees are concerned 
that FAA has still not made available to operational air 
traffic controllers educational materials regarding fatigue 
countermeasures. The Aviation Safety Reporting System and 
controller studies continue to cite fatigue as a significant 
factor in operational errors and other aviation incidents, and 
FAA's counterclockwise rotation schedule often exacerbates the 
problem. Given this situation, making controllers aware of 
available countermeasures is important. The conferees encourage 
FAA to accelerate the development and distribution of these 
materials.
      Winglet technology.--The conferees understand that the 
FAA is conducting research into the efficiency and advantages 
of advanced winglet technology with funding provided in fiscal 
year 1999. The FAA may request a reprogramming for further 
research in this area in fiscal year 2000, consistent with 
Department of Transportation reprogramming guidelines.
      Aging aircraft.--Of the funding provided, $5,000,000 is 
to continue and expand research activities at the National 
Institute for Aviation Research, as proposed by the House. The 
conferees make clear that these funds are for research, and not 
for construction or equipment procurement.
      Innovative/cooperative research.--The conference 
agreement provides no funding for this activity, which conducts 
``strategic partnering'' with industry. The conferees do not 
find this an appropriate use of RE&D funding.

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports

                (Liquidation of Contract Authorization)

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement includes a liquidating cash 
appropriation of $1,750,000,000, as proposed by the Senate 
instead of $1,867,000,000 as proposed by the House.
      Obligation limitation.--The conferees agree to an 
obligation limitation of $1,950,000,000 for the ``Grants-in-aid 
for airports'' program instead of $2,250,000,000 as proposed by 
the House and $2,000,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      Limitation on noise mitigation program.--The conference 
agreement deletes the limitation on the noise planning and 
mitigation program proposed by the Senate.
      Discretionary grants award process.--The conferees expect 
FAA to make AIP discretionary grant announcements not more than 
fifteen days after submissionto the office of the secretary of 
grant decisions, notwithstanding departmental guidelines and practices 
to the contrary. A recent GAO report found that, in some cases, awards 
were being delayed significantly in the office of the secretary due to 
slow administrative practices.
      Priority consideration.--The conferees agree that the FAA 
should give priority consideration to grant applications for 
projects listed in the House or Senate reports, or in this 
statement of the managers, in the categories of discretionary 
grants for which they are eligible. In addition to those 
airports and projects listed in the House and Senate reports, 
the conferees agree that the following projects shall receive 
priority consideration:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  Airport                              Project
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aurora Municipal Airport, Aurora, IL......  Runway reconstruction.
Tell City/Perry County Airport, Tell City,  Runway extension.
 IN.
Freeman Municipal Airport, Seymour, IN....  Apron/taxiway
                                             reconstruction.
Danbury Municipal, CT.....................  Hurricane-related repair.
Upper Cumberland Regional, Sparta-          Land acquisition and runway,
 Cookeville, TN.                             taxiway, and safety
                                             improvements.
Denver International, CO..................  Environmental and stormwater
                                             mitigation, taxiway B-4 and
                                             runway 25/5.
Montgomery Regional, AL...................  Crosswind runway extension
                                             and other safety
                                             improvements.
Jackson International, MS.................  Air cargo apron.
Abbeyville, AL............................  Runway and apron extensions
                                             and other safety
                                             improvements.
Mexico Muncipal Airport, Mexico, MO.......  Runway extension, safety
                                             improvements, and other
                                             capacity enhancement
                                             projects.
Rock County Airport, Janesville, WI.......  Runway extension and
                                             reconstruction; parallel
                                             taxiway; land acquisition;
                                             and associated lighting
                                             systems.
Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport,     Runway extension: planning,
 Martinsburg, WVA.                           engineering, and
                                             construction.
Seattle-Tacoma International, WA..........  Capacity expansion and
                                             safety improvements.
Waterbury/Oxford Airport, CT..............  Rehabilitation of taxiway A.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Danbury Municipal Airport, CT.--The conferees agree that 
Danbury Municipal Airport should receive priority consideration 
for discretionary funding under the Airport Improvement Program 
to provide for the urgent repair of damage caused by Hurricane 
Floyd estimated at $2,000,000.
      Waterbury/Oxford Airport, Waterbury, CT.--The conferees 
agree that the FAA shall give priority consideration to a 
discretionary grant request for the rehabilitation of taxiway A 
at Waterbury/Oxford Airport.
      Reimbursement for instrument landing system, Louisville 
International Airport, KY.--The FAA is directed to honor a 
previous commitment made to the sponsor of Louisville 
International Airport and reimburse the sponsor for costs 
related to acquisition and installation of an instrument 
landing system. The House conferees understood last year that 
the FAA was to provide a discretionary grant for this purpose, 
and consequently dropped bill language requiring reimbursement. 
However, rather than provide reimbursement in this manner, the 
agency advanced to the sponsor a payment under an existing 
letter of intent. The conferees believe that requiring the 
sponsor to absorb new activities within an existing LOI does 
not meet the intent of reimbursement.
      Administration.--The conference agreement allows FAA's 
expenses for administering the grants-in-aid program to be 
derived from this appropriation, as proposed by the Senate, 
instead of under the FAA's operating account. The conference 
agreement limits those expenses to $45,000,000, instead of 
$47,891,000 proposed by the Senate. The House bill included no 
funding for this program. The bill includes a provision 
allowing these expenses to be drawn from FAA's operating 
account in the event of a lapse in contract authorization for 
this program, at a rate not to exceed $45,000,000 for the 
fiscal year.
      Low frequency noise.--The managers recognize that the 
issue of low frequency airport noise is increasingly of concern 
in residential neighborhoods near the nation's airports. The 
managers urge the FAA to expedite efforts to research and 
define this problem, and to develop low frequency noise 
mitigation policies that appropriately address low frequency 
airport noise impacts on residential neighborhoods.

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports

                 (Rescission of Contract Authorization)

                    (Airport and Airway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement includes no rescission of 
contract authority as proposed by the Senate instead of 
$300,000,000 as proposed by the House.

                       Grants-in-Aid for Airports

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

      The conference agreement deletes the reduction in the 
fiscal year 1999 obligation limitation for grants-in-aid for 
airports proposed by the Senate. The House bill included no 
similar reduction.

                   Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund

      The conference agreement includes language proposed by 
the Senate authorizing continued expenditures and investments 
under the Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund for aviation 
insurance activities authorized under chapter 443 of title 49, 
United States Code. The House included no similar language.

                Aircraft Purchase Loan Guarantee Program

      The conference agreement includes a prohibition on 
funding for this program as a general provision, as proposed by 
the House, instead of under this heading as proposed by the 
Senate.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

      The conference agreement limits administrative expenses 
of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to $376,072,000 
instead of $356,380,000 as proposed by the House and 
$370,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the overall 
limitation, the conference agreement includes a limitation of 
$70,484,000 to carry out the functions and operations of the 
office of motor carriers as proposed by the House instead of 
$55,418,000 as proposed by the Senate.
      The conference agreement provides that certain sums be 
made available under section 104(a) of title 23, U.S.C. to 
carry out specified activities, as follows: $6,000,000 shall be 
available for commercial remote sensing products and spatial 
information technologies under section 5113 of Public Law 105-
178, as amended; $5,000,000 shall be available for the 
nationwide differential global positioning system program as 
authorized; $8,000,000 shall be available for the national 
historic covered bridge preservation program under section 1224 
of Public Law 105-178, as amended; $18,300,000 shall be 
available for the Indian reservation roads program under 
section 204 of title 23, U.S.C.; $16,400,000 shall be available 
for the public lands highways program under section 204 of 
title 23, U.S.C.; $11,000,000 shall be available for the Park 
Roads and Parkways Program under section 204 of title 23, 
U.S.C.; $1,300,000 shall be available for the refuge road 
program under section 204 of title 23, U.S.C.; $7,500,000 shall 
be made available for ``Child Passenger Protection Education 
Grants'' under section 2003(b) of Public Law 105-178, as 
amended; $10,000,000 shall be available for the transportation 
and community and system preservation program under section 
1221 of Public Law 105-178; and $15,000,000 shall be available 
to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the 
Transportation Research Institute.
      The recommended distribution by program and activity of 
the funding provided for FHWA's administrative expenses is as 
follows:

FHWA administrative expenses (excluding OMC)............    $300,890,000
    Accountwide adjustment..............................      -3,000,000
    Eliminate funding for the human resource information 
      system............................................        -802,000
    Eliminate funding for the community/federal 
      information partnership program...................      -6,000,000
    Advanced vehicle technology consortia program 
      (section 5111 of TEA21)...........................       5,000,000
    Eliminate funding for national rural development 
      program support...................................        -500,000
    Transportation management planning for the Salt Lake 
      City 2002 Winter Olympic Games (section 1223 of 
      TEA21)............................................       5,000,000
    Economic development highways initiative............       5,000,000
      Subtotal, FHWA (excluding OMC)....................     305,588,000
Motor carrier administrative expenses...................      61,234,000
    Additional resources for federal inspectors and 
      other safety-related activities...................       9,250,000
      Subtotal, motor carrier expenses..................      70,484,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total, FHWA administrative expenses...............     376,072,000

      Advanced vehicle technology consortia program.--The 
conference agreement provides $5,000,000 for the advanced 
vehicle technology consortia program. These funds shall be 
available to support a public/private partnership to design, 
develop, and deploy alternative fuel and propulsion systems 
focusing on medium and heavy vehicles. The conferees direct the 
FHWA to include with the fiscal year 2001 budget request a 
report that delineates a detailed strategic spending plan for 
the advanced vehicle consortia program. Moreover, the conferees 
direct that all development, demonstration and deployment 
projects to be funded within the advanced vehicle consortia 
program require at least a fifty percent non-federal match and 
that none of the funds provided for this program shall be used 
to advance magnetic levitation technology.
      Transportation management planning for the Salt Lake City 
2002 Winter Olympic Games.--The conference agreement includes 
$5,000,000 for transportation management planning for the Salt 
Lake City Winter Olympic Games, as authorized by section 
1223(c) of TEA21. These funds shall be available for planning 
activities and related temporary and permanent transportation 
infrastructure investments based on the transportation 
management plan approved by the Secretary.
      In addition, the conferees recommend that the Secretary 
give priority consideration when allocating discretionary 
highway funds to the following transportation projects to 
support the 2002 Winter Olympic Games:
            I-80: Kimball Junction--modification/reconstruction
            I-80: Silver Creek Junction--modification/
        reconstruction
            SR 248 reconstruction: US 40 to Park City
            Soldier Hollow Improvements: Wasatch County
            I-15 reconstruction: 10800 South to 600 North
            I-215: 3500 South--interchange reconfiguration
      Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center contracting.--The 
conferees direct the FHWA to identify and submit specific 
corrections it plans to take in response to the Inspector 
General's audit of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center 
contracting activities to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations by December 1, 1999.
      Central Artery/Ted Williams tunnel project.--On May 24, 
1999, the Inspector General reported that between 1992 and 
1997, the Massachusetts Highway Department paid premiums 
totaling $368,700,000 for an owner-controlled insurance program 
on the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel Project (Project) in 
Boston, Massachusetts. Insurance company audits showed the 
premiums should have been adjusted downward by a total of 
$166,700,000 with interest. Since ninety percent of the premium 
payments were made with federal funds, the federal share of the 
adjustments is $150,000,000. The Project intended to keep those 
funds, as well as other excess funds that might be paid into 
the insurance program through 2004, invested in its reserve 
trust account until the year 2017. By 2017, the balance of the 
reserves was projected to grow to $826,000,000. The Project's 
1998 finance plan used the full future value of the reserves as 
a ``credit'' to off-set construction costs and keep the ``net'' 
cost of the Project at $10.8 billion. The Inspector General 
concluded that there were no documented insurance-related needs 
that justified the continued holding of the federal money.
      In response to recommendations contained in the Inspector 
General's report, FHWA agreed to take action to use the 
accumulated adjustments and interest not needed for project 
costs during that time; and to issue guidance to ensure future 
premium adjustments are immediately returned and reserves for 
owner-controlled insurance programs do not exceed allowable 
amounts. Given FHWA's prior agreement to allow the excess 
premiums to be retained in investment accounts, the conferees 
agree that the FHWA's planned actions are reasonable. The 
conferees fully expect that there will be no delays in 
recovering excess funds or implementing the other agreed-upon 
actions. In particular, the conferees are concerned that 
guidance regarding federal funding of insurance on 
transportation projects must be adequate to ensure similar 
situations do not arise in the future. Therefore, the conferees 
direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue guidance to 
ensure: (1) the federal share of premium adjustments on all 
transportation projects is immediately applied to other project 
costs or returned to the U.S. Treasury, and (2) reserve account 
balances for insurance programs are adjusted annually so that 
reserves do not exceed the amount reasonably needed to pay 
outstanding claims. The conferees further direct the Inspector 
General, as a part of the continuing oversight of the Central 
Artery project, to monitor the implementation of FHWA's planned 
actions related to the Central Artery insurance program.
      Inspector General cost reimbursements.--The conference 
agreement provides up to $2,000,000 for Inspector General audit 
cost reimbursements. These funds are transferred from FHWA's 
administrative takedown as authorized under section 104(a) of 
title 23 to the Office of Inspector General.
      Office of motor carriers.--The conference agreement 
includes $70,484,000 for administrative expenses of the office 
of motor carriers as proposed by the House instead of 
$55,418,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees agree that 
this level is necessary to fund the critical investments in 
motor carrier programs as identified by the House. Within the 
funds provided, $200,000 shall be available to conduct the 
school transportation safety study and $350,000 shall be 
available for Operation Respond.

                 limitation on transportation research

      The conference agreement deletes the limitation on 
transportation research of $422,450,000 proposed by the House. 
The Senate bill contained no similar limitation under this 
heading. Funding for transportation research programs and 
activities is included within the overall limitation on 
federal-aid highways, as proposed by the Senate.

                          federal-aid highways

      The conference agreement limits obligations for the 
federal-aid highways program to $27,701,350,000 as proposed by 
both the House and the Senate. The conference agreement also 
includes the following limitations within the overall 
limitation on obligations for the federal-aid highways program 
as proposed by the Senate: $391,450,000 for transportation 
research; $20,000,000 for the magnetic levitation 
transportation technology deployment program, of which not more 
than $1,000,000 shall be available to the Federal Railroad 
Administration for administrative expenses and technical 
assistance; $31,000,000 for the Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics; and $211,200,000 for intelligent transportation 
systems. The House bill contained no similar sub-limitations.
      The conference agreement deletes the provision proposed 
by the Senate providing $10,000,000 for the national historic 
covered bridge preservation program from the discretionary 
bridge program and $5,000,000 for the nationwide differential 
global positioning system from funds made available for 
intelligent transportation systems. These set-asides are 
addressed under ``Federal Highway Administration, Limitation on 
administrative expenses''.
      The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by 
the Senate that requires the Secretary, at the request of the 
State of Nevada, to transfer up to $10,000,000 of its minimum 
guarantee apportionments, and an equal amount of obligation 
authority, to the State of California for use on high priority 
project numbered 829 in Public Law 105-178, relating to the 
widening of I-15 in San Bernardino County. This provision 
shall, in no way, affect the formulae for distributing contract 
authority and obligational authority to the states. The House 
bill contained no similar provision.
      The conference agreement also includes a provision, which 
after deducting $90,000,000 for high priority projects and 
$8,000,000 for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, distributes revenue 
aligned budget authority directly to the states consistent with 
each state's individual guaranteed share under section 1105 of 
Public Law 105-178. Such an approach maximizes resources 
flowing to the states.

                    surface transportation research

      Within the funds provided for surface transportation 
research, the conference agreement includes $65,000,000 for 
highway research and development for the following activities:

Safety..................................................     $14,200,000
Pavements...............................................      13,050,000
Structures..............................................      15,000,000
Environment.............................................       6,200,000
Policy..................................................       4,000,000
Planning................................................       4,000,000
Motor carrier...........................................       6,400,000
Advanced research.......................................         900,000
Highway operations......................................         750,000
Freight.................................................         500,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................      65,000,000

      Safety.--The conferees direct FHWA to ensure that safety 
research and development activities receive the same level of 
funding as provided in fiscal year 1999. Within the funds 
provided for safety research, the conferees encourage the FHWA 
to provide up to $100,000 to conduct research and to 
incorporate guidance in the National Manual of Uniform Traffic 
Control Device for highway/rail grade crossing pre-signal 
operations, and to advance a new traffic signal warrant for 
preemption requirements. The conferees also encourage the FHWA 
to provide up to $750,000 to evaluate and deploy a nationwide 
highway watch program to improve roadway safety.
      The Secretary of Transportation is encouraged to evaluate 
means of improving the safety of persons present at roadside 
emergency scenes, including motor vehicle accidents. The study 
should evaluate the effectiveness of state laws designed to 
improve the safety of persons present at roadside emergency 
scenes; determine the feasibility of requiring drivers 
operating motor vehicles approaching a roadside emergency scene 
to move to the farthest lane from the emergency scene and 
decrease motor speed to 10 miles per hour under the posted 
speed limit; and collect such statistics as may be necessary to 
assist policy makers in addressing issues of safety at roadside 
emergency scenes.
      Pavements.--Within the funds provided for pavements 
research, the conferees encourage the FHWA to provide up to 
$400,000 for geosynthetic material research; and up to 
$1,500,000 to study the potential benefits to federally funded 
highway projects and asphalt surfaces of early application of 
emulsified sealer/binder and research related to development of 
low cost pavement with flexibility to tolerate heaves in 
extreme climates. The conferees further encourage the FHWA to 
provide up to $1,000,000 to evaluate and promote the benefits 
of silica fume high performance concrete and to submit a report 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by 
September 30, 2001 of its findings. The FHWA is also encouraged 
to work with an academic and industry-led national consortium 
and to provide funding within available balances for an 
additional polymer additive project to demonstrate the use of 
polymer additives in pavement for civil infrastructure 
purposes, and researchers at the University of Mississippi to 
develop concepts and technologies that will lead to better 
constructed pavements. And lastly, the FHWA is encouraged to 
provide up to $1,250,000 for research costs associated with 
constructing a segment of highway utilizing a binder composed 
of polymer additives and to work with the South Carolina State 
University and Clemson University to further research in this 
area.
      Structures.--Within the funds provided for structures 
research, the conferees encourage the FHWA to provide up to 
$1,500,000 for the Utah Department of Transportation and the 
Utah Transportation Center to conduct research of load 
capacities of deteriorating bridges. The conferees also 
encourage the FHWA to provide up to $1,200,000 to develop 
advanced engineering and wood composites for bridge 
construction and to work with Cal State University at San Diego 
and the University of Maine. The conferees encourage the 
department to consider establishing an earthquake simulation 
facility at the Nevada test site for full-earthquake testing 
applications.
      The conferees encourage the FHWA to provide up to 
$2,000,000 to establish a center of excellence at the West 
Virginia University Constructed Facility Center. The conferees 
encourage the FHWA to work with Lehigh University and its 
center for advanced technology for large structural systems. 
FHWA is also encouraged to provide up to $1,000,000 for the 
development of technologyto prevent and mitigate alkali silica 
reactivity utilizing lithium salts. Lastly, FHWA is encouraged to 
support research into and deployment of the use of electronic control 
of magnets to reduce sound and vibration during major highway 
construction.
      Environment.--Within the funds provided for environment 
research, the conferees encourage the FHWA to collaborate with 
the National Environmental Research Center on its research 
strategy. FHWA is also encouraged to provide up to $300,000 for 
native vegetation research and up to $1,000,000 to support 
research to examine the levels and types of fine particulate 
matter produced by highway sources, and to develop improved 
tools to predict truck travel and resulting emissions on 
nitrous oxides. Up to $100,000 is provided to further the PM-10 
study within funds provided for highway research and 
development.
      Policy.--The FHWA is encouraged to develop a 
comprehensive program of international logistics training and 
operational testing to enhance the movement of freight through 
international corridors and facilities. In addition, the FHWA 
is encouraged to study cross state line planning and propose 
tools or processes that will facilitate the preliminary 
planning process in the absence of a memorandum of 
understanding between the affected states. None of the funds 
provided for any surface transportation subaccount may be used 
to support research into sustainability.
      Planning and real estate.--Within the funds provided for 
planning and real estate research, the conferees encourage the 
FHWA to be the lead agency in the next developmental phase of 
the National Transportation Network Analysis Capability at Los 
Alamos Laboratory.
      Freight.--The conference agreement provides $500,000 for 
freight research.
      Motor carrier research.--The conferees direct the FHWA to 
improve the budget justification materials in the area of motor 
carrier research. The conferees also direct that not more than 
$60,000 shall be available from all department funding sources 
for the international conference on motor carrier research. 
Within the funds available for motor carrier research, the 
conferees encourage the FHWA to provide up to $500,000 for the 
truck driver center initiative at Crowder College, Missouri. 
The FHWA is also encouraged to provide up to $1,000,000 to 
study the effects of shift changes on truck driver alertness.
      Interstate rest areas.--The conferees encourage the FHWA 
to study interstate rest areas and liability and maintenance 
costs issues and provide recommendations as to methods for 
states to ensure competitive alternatives for interstate 
travelers and to provide uniformity, rest area signage 
standards, and oasis identification conformity.
      Electronic control module technology.--The conferees 
encourage the FHWA to work with interested parties to explore a 
standard of protocol for electronic control module technologies 
for access to and the relevant data to be recorded in this 
area.
      Technology and deployment.--The conferees direct the FHWA 
to respond by December 1, 1999 to each of the recommendations 
presented in the Transportation Research Board report on 
technology deployment and report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations how FHWA will improve its 
mechanisms of technology transfer and evaluations. Within the 
funds provided for technology and deployment, the conferees 
encourage FHWA to provide up to $2,000,000 for the Center for 
Advanced Simulation Technology in New York and Auburn 
University for a transportation management plan.

                   INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

      The conference agreement provides a total of $211,200,000 
for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), of which 
$113,000,000 is available for ITS deployment and $98,200,000 is 
for ITS research and development. Within the funds made 
available for intelligent transportation systems, the 
conference agreement provides that not less than the following 
sums shall be available for intelligent transportation projects 
in these specified areas:

        Project location                                      Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico.......................................$2,000,000
Arapahoe County, Colorado..................................... 1,000,000
Branson, Missouri............................................. 1,000,000
Central, Pennsylvania......................................... 1,000,000
Charlotte, North Carolina..................................... 1,000,000
Chicago, Illinois............................................. 1,000,000
City of Superior and Douglas County, Wisconsin................ 1,000,000
Clay County, Missouri.........................................   300,000
Clearwater, Florida........................................... 3,500,000
College Station, Texas........................................ 1,000,000
Central, Ohio................................................. 1,000,000
Commonwealth of Virginia...................................... 4,000,000
Corpus Christi, Texas......................................... 1,500,000
Delaware River, Pennsylvania.................................. 1,000,000
Fairfield, California.........................................   750,000
Fargo, North Dakota........................................... 1,000,000
Florida Bay County, Florida................................... 1,000,000
Fort Worth, Texas............................................. 2,500,000
Grand Forks, North Dakota.....................................   500,000
Greater Metropolitan Capital Region, DC....................... 5,000,000
Greater Yellowstone, Montana.................................. 1,000,000
Houma, Louisiana.............................................. 1,000,000
Houston, Texas................................................ 1,500,000
Huntsville, Alabama...........................................   500,000
Inglewood, California......................................... 1,000,000
Jefferson County, Colorado.................................... 1,500,000
Kansas City, Missouri......................................... 1,000,000
Las Vegas, Nevada............................................. 2,800,000
Los Angeles, California....................................... 1,000,000
Miami, Florida................................................ 1,000,000
Mission Viejo, California..................................... 1,000,000
Monroe County, New York....................................... 1,000,000
Nashville, Tennessee.......................................... 1,000,000
Northeast Florida............................................. 1,000,000
Oakland, California...........................................   500,000
Oakland County, Michigan...................................... 1,000,000
Oxford, Mississippi........................................... 1,500,000
Pennsylvania Turnpike, Pennsylvania........................... 2,500,000
Pueblo, Colorado.............................................. 1,000,000
Puget Sound, Washington....................................... 1,000,000
Reno/Tahoe, California/Nevada.................................   500,000
Rensselaer County, New York................................... 1,000,000
Sacramento County, California................................. 1,000,000
Salt Lake City, Utah.......................................... 3,000,000
San Francisco, California..................................... 1,000,000
Santa Clara, California....................................... 1,000,000
Santa Teresa, New Mexico...................................... 1,000,000
Seattle, Washington........................................... 2,100,000
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia................................... 2,500,000
Shreveport, Louisiana......................................... 1,000,000
Silicon Valley, California.................................... 1,000,000
Southeast Michigan............................................ 2,000,000
Spokane, Washington...........................................   500,000
St. Louis, Missouri........................................... 1,000,000
State of Alabama.............................................. 1,300,000
State of Alaska............................................... 3,000,000
State of Arizona.............................................. 1,000,000
State of Colorado............................................. 1,500,000
State of Delaware............................................. 2,000,000
State of Idaho................................................ 2,000,000
State of Illinois............................................. 1,500,000
State of Maryland............................................. 2,000,000
State of Minnesota............................................ 7,000,000
State of Montana.............................................. 1,000,000
State of Nebraska.............................................   500,000
State of Oregon............................................... 1,000,000
State of Texas................................................ 4,000,000
State of Vermont rural systems................................ 1,000,000
States of New Jersey and New York............................. 2,000,000
Statewide Transcom/Transmit upgrades, New Jersey.............. 4,000,000
Tacoma Puyallup, Washington...................................   500,000
Thurston, Washington.......................................... 1,000,000
Towamencin, Pennsylvania......................................   600,000
Wausau-Stevens Point-Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.............. 1,500,000
Wayne County, Michigan........................................ 1,000,000

      Projects selected for funding shall contribute to the 
integration and interoperability of intelligent transportation 
systems, consistent with the criteria set forth in TEA21.
      Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.--The conference agreement 
includes $2,500,000 for Intelligent Transportation Systems 
(ITS) in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The conferees are 
encouraged by the opportunities to improve safety with ITS 
programs such as the collection and distribution of real time 
information, installation of dynamic message signs and safety 
monitors, coordination of emergency response, and other systems 
and encourage efforts with Shenandoah University, George Mason 
University and Virginia Tech.
      Washington, D.C.--The conference agreement includes 
$5,000,000 for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the 
national capital region. Within the amount provided, the 
conferees urge funding be made available to George Mason 
University to develop a system which coordinates ITS responses 
to major capital projects in Northern Virginia.
      The conference report provides $98,200,000 for ITS 
research and development activities, to be distributed by 
activity as follows:

Research and development................................     $47,450,000
Operational tests.......................................       6,650,000
Evaluations.............................................       7,000,000
Architecture and standards..............................      16,400,000
Integration.............................................      10,700,000
Mainstreaming...........................................       1,000,000
Program support.........................................       9,000,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................      98,200,000

      Within the funds for research and development, the 
conferees encourage the FHWA to work with Drexel University to 
focus on the link between intelligent transportation systems 
and transportation infrastructure.
      Within the funds provided for evaluations, the conferees 
encourage the FHWA to provide up to $1,000,000 for the testing 
and development of a smart commercial drivers license utilizing 
smart card and biometric elements to enhance safety and 
efficiency.
      The conferees encourage the FHWA to consider establishing 
a program to test passive technology and incorporate the 
results into the department's development and implementation of 
a national standards regime.

               FERRY BOATS AND FERRY TERMINAL FACILITIES

      Within the funds available for ferry boats and ferry 
terminal facilities, funds are to be available for the 
following projects and activities:

        Project                                               Conference
Hokes Bluff, Alabama ferry....................................  $350,000
LaPoint, Wisconsin ferry terminal.............................   575,000
McClelland, Virgelle, and Carter ferry sites, Montana......... 1,500,000
New Bedford, Massachusetts ferry terminal.....................   500,000
New London ferry terminal.....................................   800,000
North Carolina ferry system................................... 2,000,000
Penn's landing ferry, Pennsylvania............................ 1,500,000
Port Clinton, Ohio ferry and passenger terminal............... 1,000,000
Potomac River ferry...........................................   500,000
Savannah, Georgia water taxi..................................   500,000
Seattle Elliott Bay water taxi................................   500,000
State of Hawaii for intra-island ferry service from Barbers 
    Point to Honolulu Harbor.................................. 1,500,000

    MAGNETIC LEVITATION TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM

      Within the funds available for the magnetic levitation 
transportation technology deployment program, funds are to be 
available for the following projects and activities:

Administration................................................$1,000,000
Segmented rail phased induction electric magnetic motor 
    (SERAPHIM) project........................................ 1,000,000
Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.............. 3,500,000
Maryland Department of Transportation......................... 2,250,000
California-Nevada super speed train commission................ 2,250,000
Florida Department of Transportation.......................... 2,250,000
Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission..................... 2,250,000
Georgia/Atlanta Regional Commission........................... 2,250,000
State of California........................................... 2,250,000

      Segmented rail phased induction electric magnetic motor 
(SERAPHIM) project.--The conferees have provided $1,000,000 for 
the SERAPHIM project from program set-asides for low speed 
maglev research. This technology has been identified as a 
potential transit option for the Colorado intermountain fixed 
guideway authority, Denver International Airport to Eagle 
County Airport corridor.

           NATIONAL CORRIDOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

      Within the funds available for the national corridor 
planning and development program, funds are to be available for 
the following projects and activities:

        Project                                               Conference
Columbus port-of-entry realignment, Columbus, New Mexico......$1,000,000
Corridor 18, Texas............................................15,000,000
I-5, Washington............................................... 4,000,000
I-66, Kentucky................................................ 5,000,000
Mon-Fayette expressway, West Virginia.........................12,000,000
Route 2, New Hampshire, corridor planning..................... 1,500,000
Stevenson Expressway, Chicago, Illinois....................... 8,000,000
STH 29, Wisconsin development corridor, Chappewa Falls to Elk 
    Mound.....................................................12,000,000

      In addition, the conferees direct that $10,000,000 be 
available only to the states of Arizona, California, New Mexico 
and Texas for safety and enforcement enhancements such as 
portable scales, facilities, software, supplies, and equipment 
and leasing or purchase of land necessary to house additional 
OMCHS inspectors as well as to construct access and egress and 
other roadway improvements directly related to the efficient 
operation of the facilities.

      transportation and community and system preservation program

      The conference agreement provides a total of $35,000,000 
for the transportation and community and system preservation 
program, of which $10,000,000 are derived from the 
administrative takedown. Within the funds available for the 
transportation and community and system preservation program, 
funds are to be available for the following projects and 
activities:

        Project                                               Conference
Alabama Department of Transportation Statewide Dock Inventory 
    Assesssment...............................................  $400,000
Albuquerque Downtown Transportation Management Program........   600,000
Anchorage, Alaska Ship Creek redevelopment & port access 
    planning..................................................   500,000
Arlington County, Virginia pedestrian, bicycle access and 
    other transit improvements................................   500,000
Burlington, Vermont North Street revitalization project.......   400,000
City of New Haven, Connecticut trolley cars...................   250,000
City of Warwick, Rhode Island, Station Redevelopment Planning.   300,000
Community and environmental transportation acceptability 
    program of southern California............................   500,000
Concord, New Hampshire ``20/20 Vision'' small community 
    planning guide............................................   400,000
Denver, Colorado 16th Street Pedestrian Improvements..........   500,000
Desert Research Institute Air Quality Study...................   500,000
DuPage County, Illinois transportation alternatives 
    development...............................................   750,000
Fairbanks, Alaska Riverwalk Centennial Bridge community 
    connector project......................................... 1,000,000
Florence, Alabama pedestrian and other transportation 
    improvements.............................................. 1,000,000
Fort Worth, Texas corridor redevelopment and transit linkages. 1,500,000
Green Bay, Wisconsin pedestrian improvements and livable 
    communities projects......................................   750,000
Houston, Texas Main Street corridor livable communities.......   500,000
Jackson, Mississippi Pearl River Airport Connector Study...... 1,000,000
Kalispell, Montana Bus Barn Facility..........................   400,000
Knoxville, Tennessee electric transit project.................   500,000
Lufkin, Texas Small Town Livability Demonstration Project.....   400,000
Metrowest regional transportation study, Massachusetts........   250,000
Monmouth, County, New Jersey pedestrian improvements..........   300,000
Montclair New Jersey connection transit livable communities...   250,000
Muncie, Indiana community connectors..........................   250,000
New Rochelle, New York intermodal center......................   500,000
North Jersey transportation planning authority................   800,000
Northwest Michigan transportation use initiative..............   125,000
Omaha, Nebraska ``Back to the River'' community project and 
    pedestrian access......................................... 2,000,000
Pennsylvania Avenue traffic mitigation measures...............   500,000
Putnam County, West Virginia--Route 35 management plan........   450,000
Raton, New Mexico historic rehabilitation project.............   600,000
Richmond, Virginia Main Street intermodal facility............ 1,750,000
River Market/College Station, Arkansas livable communities....   750,000
San Francisco, California civic center plaza.................. 1,075,000
South Amboy, New Jersey regional multimodal transportation 
    initiative................................................   250,000
State of Oregon TCSP Program..................................   500,000
Utah-Colorado ``Isolated Empire'' Rail Connector Study........ 1,000,000
White Plains, New York TRANSCENTER pedestrian improvements.... 1,000,000

                      bridge discretionary program

      Within the funds available for the bridge discretionary 
program, funds are to be available for the following projects 
and activities:

        Project                                               Conference
Florida Memorial Bridge.................................     $12,000,000
Hoover Dam..............................................       9,000,000
Naheola Bridge, Alabama.................................       5,000,000
Paso Del Norte International Bridge.....................       1,200,000
Turner Diagonal Bridge, Kansas City, Kansas.............       3,000,000
Union Village Bridge, Thetford and Cambridge Junction 
    Bridge, Cambridge, Vermont..........................       2,000,000
US 82 to Mississippi River Bridge, Greenville, 
    Washington County, Mississippi......................       9,000,000
Williamston-Marietta Bridge, Wood County, West Virginia.       4,000,000
Witt-Penn Bridge, New Jersey............................       3,000,000

                             federal lands

      Within the funds available for federal lands, funds are 
to be available for the following projects and activities:

        Project                                               Conference
Austin Junction-Baker County Line section of US 26, 
    Oregon..............................................      $6,500,000
Big Mountain, Montana...................................       2,500,000
Blackstone Valley National Heritage Corridor, Rhode 
    Island..............................................       2,000,000
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska..........       1,500,000
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia.........       1,000,000
Chugach National Forest, Bird Creek road widening and 
    public safety project...............................       1,000,000
Daniel Boone Parkway, Kentucky..........................       2,000,000
Delaware River Water Gap National Recreational Area, New 
    Jersey..............................................       3,400,000
Donlin Creek access road, Alaska........................         500,000
Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge.................         400,000
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Shoreline Drive 
    improvements, West Virginia.........................       2,400,000
Highway 117 feasibility study, Louisiana................         500,000
Highway 323 upgrade between Alzada and Ekalaka, Montana.       2,200,000
Historic Columbia River Highway state trail, Oregon.....         500,000
Katmai National Park, Lake Camp access..................       1,100,000
Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge....................       1,100,000
Kenai Fjords National Park..............................       1,100,000
Kenai Peninsula road and trail improvements.............         500,000
Lemhi Pass Road, west of Clark Canyon dam, Montana......       2,000,000
New Mexico Route 4 Jemez Pueblo Bypass, New Mexico......         500,000
New River Gorge National River, pave and realign Cunard 
    Road, West Virginia.................................         960,000
North Fork Road in Columbia Falls, Montana..............       2,400,000
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site..................       2,000,000
Snoqualmie Valley, Washington (Forest Service)..........       2,000,000
Soldier Hollow improvements and Bear River migratory 
    bird refuge access road.............................       3,000,000
SR 248, Utah............................................       3,700,000
Timucuan Preserve Road, Florida.........................       1,000,000
US 89, west boundary to Bishoff Canyon, Idaho...........       2,000,000

      The conferees direct that the funds allocated above are 
to be derived from the FHWA's public lands discretionary 
program, and not from funds allocated to the National Park 
Service's regions.

                          federal-aid highways

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides a liquidating cash 
appropriation of $26,000,000,000 for the federal-aid highways 
program instead of $26,125,000,000 as proposed by the House and 
$26,300,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

                      motor carrier safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides a liquidating cash 
appropriation of $105,000,000 for motor carrier safety grants 
as proposed by the House. The Senate bill provided 
$155,000,000.

                      motor carrier safety grants

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement includes a limitation on 
obligations of $105,000,000 for motor carrier safety grants 
proposed by the House and the Senate. This agreement allocates 
funding in the following manner:

Basic motor carrier safety grants.......................     $75,881,250
Performance-based incentive grants......................       8,431,250
Border assistance and priority initiatives..............       9,500,000
State training and administration.......................       1,187,500
Information systems.....................................       3,200,000
Motor carrier analysis..................................       1,100,000
Implementation of PRISM.................................       4,875,000
Driver program..........................................         825,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................     105,000,000

      Commercial drivers license program.--The Office of Motor 
Carriers shall work with states to assure that they have the 
most up-to-date driving record for people that hold a 
commercial driver's license (CDL) and that this information can 
be easily transferred. A report on the office's efforts to the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees is due May 1, 2000.
      Also on May 1, 2000, the FHWA shall submit a report on 
their planned remedies to the vulnerabilities in the CDL 
program, as required in the Senate report accompanying the 
bill.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                        Operations and Research

      The conference agreement provides $87,400,000 from the 
general fund for highway and traffic safety activities as 
proposed by the House. The Senate did not provide a general 
fund appropriation for NHTSA's operations and research 
activities. Instead, the Senate provided $72,900,000 from the 
Highway Trust Fund for these activities.
      A total of $62,928,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2002 as proposed by the House. The Senate made 
$48,843,000 available until September 30, 2001.
      The agreement includes a provision that prohibits NHTSA 
from obligating or expending funds to plan, finalize, or 
implement any rulemakings that would add requirements 
pertaining to tire grading standards that are different from 
those standards already in effect. This provision was contained 
in both the House and Senate bills.

                        operations and research

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides $72,000,000 from the 
highway trust fund to carry out provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403 as 
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
      The following table summarizes the conference agreement 
for operations and research (general fund and highway trust 
fund combined) by budget activity:

Salaries and benefits...................................     $52,643,000
Travel..................................................       1,155,000
Operating expenses......................................      18,409,000
Contract programs:
    Safety performance..................................       3,429,000
    Safety assurance....................................       9,045,000
    Highway safety programs.............................      37,513,000
    Research and analysis...............................      48,901,000
    General administration..............................         645,000
Grant administration reimbursements.....................     -10,340,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................     161,400,000

      Staffing.--The conference agreement does not provide any 
funding for the 14 new staff requested by NHTSA. The agency 
currently has a number of vacancies that need to be filled 
prior to hiring new staff (-$890,000).
      Operating expenses.--Due to budget constraints, the 
conference agreement deletes all funds for the air bag on/off 
switch project because the requests for applications have not 
materialized as expected. NHTSA should report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations annually on the level of 
applications. Within the existing operating expense budget, 
NHTSA can fulfill legal data collection requirements for this 
project through the use of existing staff and funds.
      Travel.--The conference agreement deletes all of the 
requested travel increase except $30,000. This should be used 
to fund travel related to international harmonization 
activities (-$346,000).
      Human resource information system.--Funding is deleted 
for the human resource information system throughout the 
department (-$223,000).
      New car assessment program.--The conference agreement 
provides an increase for the new car assessment program 
(+$223,000) to assure that NHTSA has sufficient funds to 
conduct enough crash tests to provide consumers information on 
the majority of new vehicles.
      Safe Communities.--Funding has been deleted for the safe 
communities program, consistent with action taken by both the 
House and the Senate (-$1,401,000).
      Drivers license identification.--Funding has been denied 
for the drivers license identification program, consistent with 
action taken by both the House and the Senate (-$264,000).
      Head injury research.--Within the emergency medical 
services program, $750,000 shall be used to initiate the third 
phase of head injury prehospital protocols. The conferees 
encourage NHTSA to continue working with Aitkens Neuroscience 
Center during this phase of the program and to initiate 
training of emergency medical services personnel in as many 
states of possible.
      Aggressive driving.--A total of $1,000,000 has been 
provided to develop and implement a regional education and 
driver modification program to combat aggressive driving in 
Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
      Rural trauma.--The conference agreement allocates 
$875,000 to initiate a project at the University of South 
Alabama on rural vehicular trauma victims, as proposed by the 
Senate.
      Biomechanics.--At a minimum, NHTSA should continue to 
support the biomechanics program at the 1999 level. The 
conferees are very supportive of the work being conducted by 
the crash injury research and engineering network.
      The conference agreement has also provided $1,250,000 to 
fund the development of a comprehensive integrated research 
program in injury sciences at the University of Alabama at 
Birmingham, as detailed in the Senate report.
      State data program.--The conferees urge NHTSA to work 
with the State of Montana and Yellowstone County Traffic Safety 
Commission to develop a statewide hospital emergency department 
database and a statewide hospital discharge data system so that 
this state can begin participating in the Crash Outcome Data 
Evaluation System in the near future.
      Grant administration.--Under TEA21, NHTSA may draw up to 
five percent of its administrative costs for the grant program. 
The conference agreement reflects a five-percent draw down.

                        national driver register

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides $2,000,000 for the 
National Driver Register as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate. Of this funding, up to $250,000 may be used for the 
technology assessment authorized under section 2006 of TEA21.

                     highway traffic safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (Highway Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement provides $206,800,000 to 
liquidate contract authorizations for highway traffic safety 
grants, as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

                     highway traffic safety grants

                      (Limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement limits obligations for highway 
traffic safety grants to $206,800,000 as proposed by both the 
House and the Senate. A total of $10,340,000 has been provided 
for administration of the grant programs instead of $9,973,000 
as proposed by both the House and the Senate. Of this total, 
not more than $7,640,000 of the funds made available for 
section 402, not more than $500,000 of the funds made available 
for section 405, not more than $1,800,000 of the funds made 
available for section 410, and not more than $400,000 of the 
funds made available for section 411 shall be available to 
NHTSA for administering highway safety grants under chapter 4 
of title 23. This language is necessary to ensure that each 
grant program does not contribute more than five percent of the 
total administrative costs.
      As noted within the Federal Highway Administration, the 
conference agreement allocates $7,500,000 for child passenger 
protection education grants. The amount is the same as proposed 
by the Senate but the funding is not explicitly transferred, in 
bill language, to NHTSA as proposed by the Senate. The 
conferees believe that FHWA should make these funds available 
to NHTSA to carry out the provision of Public Law 105-178. The 
House bill contained no similar appropriation.
      The conference agreement retains bill language, proposed 
by both the House and Senate, that limits technical assistance 
to States from section 410 to $500,000.
      The conference agreement prohibits the use of funds for 
construction, rehabilitation or remodeling costs, or for office 
furnishings and fixtures for state,local, or private buildings 
or structures, as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
      The bill includes separate obligation limitations with 
the following funding allocations:

State and community grants..............................    $152,800,000
Occupant protection incentive grants....................      10,000,000
State highway data improvement grants...................       8,000,000
Alcohol incentive grants................................      36,000,000

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                         Safety and Operations

      The conference agreement appropriates $94,288,000 for 
safety and operations instead of $94,448,000 as proposed by the 
House and $91,789,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the total 
amount, $6,800,000 shall remain available until expended, as 
proposed by the House instead of $6,700,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      The following adjustments were made to the budget 
estimate:

Deny half-year funding for 7 new positions..............       -$400,000
Delete funding for human resource information system....        -253,000
Reduce contract support.................................        -250,000
Decrease funding for information technology initiative..        -771,000
Credit availability study...............................        +150,000
Operation lifesaver.....................................        +350,000
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                    ____________________________________________________
      Net adjustment to budget request..................      -1,174,000

      Restructuring and staffing flexibility implementation 
report.--The conferees direct FRA to provide a detailed report 
on the consolidation of offices of the Administrator, Railroad 
Safety, and the administrative activities of the research and 
next generation high-speed rail accounts over the first three 
quarters of fiscal year 2000. Using fiscal year 1999 end-of-
year staffing levels as a base, the agency shall chart how 
staffing flexibility is implemented, detailing the movements of 
personnel and staff hours among administrative, research, and 
safety activities. In addition, comparisons between the first 
three quarters of fiscal year 1999 and the first three quarters 
of fiscal year 2000 shall be made using the following measures: 
number of track miles inspected; number of freight miles 
inspected; number of site-specific safety inspections 
performed; number of enforcement cases closed; and amount of 
civil penalty assessments collected or settled.
      Fiscal year 2001 budget presentation.--The FRA is 
directed to provide supporting documentation in the fiscal year 
2001 budget justification at the same level of detail as that 
specified in the fiscal year 1999 budget.
      Information technology.--FRA shall submit a detailed 
spending plan for the agency's new information technology 
system, as specified in the Senate report, as part of its 
fiscal year 2001 budget justification.
      Small railroad investment needs and financial study 
options.--A total of $150,000 has been provided to study small 
railroad investment needs and financial options; to determine 
the public interest benefits associated with light density rail 
networks in the states and their contribution to a multi-modal 
transportation system; and to demonstrate the relationship of 
light density railroad services to the statutory 
responsibilities of the Secretary, including those under Title 
23.
      Operation lifesaver.--The conference agreement increases 
funding for Operation Lifesaver $350,000 above the budget 
request, for a total program level of $950,000. This funding 
will support initial work on a national public service campaign 
to increase awareness of highway-rail grade crossing safety and 
trespass prevention. The conferees stress the importance of 
implementing a unified campaign that has the financial and 
technical support of the railroad industry, FRA and the law 
enforcement community.
      Valley trains and tours.--The conferees continue to be 
supportive of scenic passenger rail service in Shenandoah 
County, Virginia and encourage FRA to continue participating in 
this effort with Valley trains and tours, the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, and Norfolk Southern.
      The conference report deletes two language provisions 
contained in the Senate bill: (1) requiring FRA to reimburse 
the Department of Transportation's Inspector General $1,000,000 
for the costs associated with rail audits and investigations; 
and (2) permitting the Administrator to transfer up to 10 
percent of the funds specified for the safety and operations 
office. The House bill contained no similar provisions.
      Bill language is included that authorizes the Secretary 
to receive payments from the Union Station Redevelopment 
Corporation, credit them to the first deed of trust, and make 
payments on the first deed of trust. These funds may be 
advanced by the Administrator from unobligated balances 
available to the Federal Railroad Administration and must be 
reimbursed from payments received by the Union Station 
Redevelopment Corporation. Both the House and Senate bills 
contained these provisions.

                   Railroad Research and Development

      The conference agreement provides $22,464,000 for 
railroad research and development instead of $21,300,000 as 
proposed by the House and $22,364,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      T-6.--The conference agreement provides $500,000 for the 
T-6 research vehicle.
      Full-scale crash test.--A total of $1,800,000 has been 
provided for the full-scale crash test of rail passenger 
equipment at the Transportation Test Center.
      Safety research.--A total of $1,000,000 has been 
allocated to four safety research programs: (1) $250,000 for 
the Center of Advanced Vehicle Technologies at the University 
of Alabama to test the interoperability of vehicle proximity 
alert systems; (2) $250,000 for Marshall University and the 
University of Nebraska to develop integrated track stability 
assessment and monitoring system using site-specific geo-
technical/spatial parameters and remote sensing technologies; 
(3) $250,000 for Montana State University at Bozeman to pilot 
real-time diagnostic monitoring of rail rolling stock; and (4) 
$250,000 to the University of Missouri-Rolla to work on 
advanced composite materials for use in repairing and 
rehabilitating aging railroad bridges.
      Railcar weight study.--The conferees encourage FRA to 
conduct a study regarding track and bridge requirements for 
handling 286,000-pound rail cars, as specified in the House 
report.

            Railroad rehabilitation and improvement program

      The conference agreement includes bill language proposed 
by both the House and Senate specifying that no new direct 
loans or loan guarantee commitments can be made using federal 
funds for the payment of any credit premium amount during 
fiscal year 2000. No federal appropriation is required since a 
non-federal infrastructure partner may contribute the subsidy 
amount required by the Credit Reform Act of 1990 in the form of 
a credit risk premium. Once received, statutorily established 
investigation charges are immediately available for appraisals 
and necessary determinations and findings.

                    Next generation high-speed rail

      The conference agreement provides $27,200,000 for the 
next generation high-speed rail program instead of $22,000,000 
as proposed by the House and $20,500,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The following table summarizes the conference agreement 
by budget activity:

Train control projects:
    Illinois project....................................      $6,500,000
    Michigan project....................................       3,000,000
    Alaska project......................................       5,000,000
    Transportation safety research alliance.............         500,000
Non-electric locomotives:
    Advanced locomotive propulsion system...............       4,000,000
    Prototype locomotives...............................       3,000,000
Grade crossings and innovative technologies:
    North Carolina sealed corridor......................         400,000
    Mitigating hazards..................................       2,500,000
    Low-cost technologies...............................       1,100,000
Track and structures....................................       1,200,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................      27,200,000

      Rail-highway crossing hazard eliminations.--Under section 
1103 of TEA21, an automatic set-aside of $5,250,000 a year is 
made available for the elimination of rail-highway crossing 
hazards. A limited number of rail corridors are eligible for 
these funds. Of these set-aside funds, the following 
allocations are made:

North Carolina's sealed corridor initiative...................  $750,000
High-speed rail corridor between Washington, D.C. and 
    Richmond, VA..............................................   750,000
High-speed rail corridor between Mobile, AL and New Orleans, 
    LA........................................................ 1,000,000
Along the Empire Corridor between Schenectady and New York 
    City, NY..................................................   500,000
High-speed rail corridor in Linn and Multnomah counties, OR...   500,000
Along the Stampede Pass, near Yakima, WA......................   750,000
State of Wisconsin............................................   750,000
Minneapolis/St. Paul to Chicago corridor......................   250,000

      Grade crossing safety.--FRA and the Federal Highway 
Administration (FHWA) should work with the states to identify 
the ten most deadly crossings in each state and identify ways 
that these crossings could be closed or reconfigured to reduce 
the dangers. The conferees believe that focusing on the most 
dangerous crossings in each state would greatly reduce the 
likelihood of fatal accidents. FRA and FHWA shall identify 
those crossings and the mitigations under consideration in a 
report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by 
August 1, 2000.
      In addition to these activities, FRA, in conjunction with 
NHTSA and FHWA, should initiate an evaluation assessing the 
costs, benefits, and impacts of state grade crossing safety 
laws. These evaluations should establish the basis for FRA to 
develop model state laws to promote grade crossing safety.

                     Alaska railroad rehabilitation

      The conference agreement provides $10,000,000 for the 
Alaska Railroad instead of $14,000,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. The House bill contained no similar appropriation. This 
funding should be used to continue ongoing track 
rehabilitation.

                     Rhode Island rail development

      Total funding for the Rhode Island rail development 
project is $10,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate. Language has been included which directs that 
obligation of these funds is subject to authorization of the 
program.

     Capital Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation

      The conference agreement provides $571,000,000 for 
capital grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak) as proposed by the Senate instead of $570,976,000 as 
proposed by the House. Bill language, as proposed by the House, 
is retained that limits the Secretary from obligating more than 
$228,400,000 of the funding provided to the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation prior to September 30, 2000. The Senate 
bill contained no similar provision.
      Vermont service.--The conferees direct Amtrak to provide 
a report to the Appropriations Committees on the capital costs 
necessary to upgrade the rail line between Hoosick Falls, New 
York and Burlington, Vermont to passenger rail standards no 
later than November 30, 1999.
      Fencing along the Northeast Corridor.--The conferees 
recognize that Amtrak has made progress in enhancing safety 
along the tracks where high-speed rail will be operating. 
Amtrak should continue to work closely with the Northeast 
Corridor community, as well as state transit officials and 
owners of the track, to identify danger spots and install 
perimeter fencing along the Corridor, wherever needed. In 
particular, Amtrak should continue to focus on increased 
community coordination in urbanized areas where there have been 
problems or community concerns have been expressed, such as 
Attleboro, Foxboro, Mansfield, and Sharon, Massachusetts. 
Amtrak should make it a high priority to ensure that the 
fencing improvements for these areas be completed before high-
speed rail is operational.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                        administrative expenses

      The conference agreement provides $60,000,000 for 
administrative expenses of the Federal Transit Administration 
as proposed by both the House and the Senate. Within the total, 
the conference agreement appropriates $12,000,000 from the 
general fund and $48,000,000 from the Highway Trust Fund, as 
proposed by both the House and the Senate. The conference 
agreement provides that the general fund appropriation shall be 
available through September 30, 2000, as proposed by the House.
      The agreement includes a provision that transfers 
$1,500,000 from funds made available for administrative 
expenses to the Inspector General to reimburse costs associated 
with audit and financial reviews of major transit projects, 
instead of $800,000 from project management oversight funds as 
proposed by the House. The Senate bill proposed that $9,000,000 
from funds under this heading shall be used to reimburse the 
Inspector General for costs associated with audits and 
investigations of all transit-related issues and systems.
      Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff years.--The conference 
agreement provides that the FTE level in fiscal year 2000 shall 
not rise in excess of 485 FTE, the same level as provided in 
fiscal year 1999. Additional staffing increases may be 
considered by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
through the regular reprogramming process.
      Information technology activities.--The conferees have 
deleted funding requested for the development of the human 
resources information system (-$200,000).
      In addition, the conferees have deferred consideration of 
several information technology activities (-$2,500,000), since 
the FTA has not been able to inform the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in a timely manner of the out-year 
financial requirements to complete systems review, development 
and acquisition. The House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations may consider providing funds for these 
activities through the regular reprogramming process.
      Project management oversight reviews.--The conferees 
agree that the FTA shall increase its financial management 
oversight reviews within the funds provided for section 23 
activities and direct the FTA to provide not less than 
$4,500,000 for such financial management oversight activities 
in fiscal year 2000.
      Full funding grant agreements.--The conference agreement 
includes a provision (sec. 347) that requires the FTA to notify 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as well as 
the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and 
the Senate Committee on Banking 60 days before executing a full 
funding grant agreement. In its notification to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, the conferees direct the 
FTA to include therein the following: (a) a copy of the 
proposed full funding grant agreement; (b) the total and annual 
federal appropriations required for that project; (c) yearly 
and total federal appropriations that can be reasonably planned 
or anticipated for future FFGAs for each fiscal year through 
2003; (d) a detailed analysis of annual commitments for current 
and anticipated FFGAs against the program authorization; and 
(e) a financial analysis of the project's cost and sponsor's 
ability to finance, which shall be conducted by an independent 
examiner and shall include an assessment of the capital cost 
estimate and the finance plan; the source and security of all 
public- and private-sector financial instruments, the project's 
operating plan which enumerates the project's future revenue 
and ridership forecasts, and planned contingencies and risks 
associated with the project.
      The conferees also direct the FTA to inform the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations before approving scope 
changes in any full funding grant agreement. When submitting 
such notification to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, the FTA shall include a finance plan that 
details how the project sponsor shall finance the costs to 
complete the revised project.
      FTA is directed to enter into full funding grant 
agreements only when there are no outstanding issues which 
would have a material effect on the estimated cost of the 
project or on the local financial commitment to complete the 
project under the terms of the agreement. Areas which FTA 
should consider in ensuring that this condition is met include: 
the degree of certainty, and any remaining risks in, capital 
cost estimates and the availability of adequate contingency 
funds to cover increases in capital costs due to uncertainty; 
any unresolved issues with respect to non-federal sources of 
funding for the project (e.g., the need for further legislative 
action, bond referenda, or other actions to finalize the 
availability of non-federal funds); and the need for 
acquisition of existing railroad rights-of-way. FTA should 
enter into new full funding grant agreements during the final 
design phase. While a specific level of final design approval 
cannot be specified because of differences in each project 
development process, the conferees agree that the agreement 
should be entered into only once there is no longer a risk that 
cost estimates are likely to change more than the estimated 
contingent amounts, and there is no longer a risk that a major 
part of the local funding will not be made available.
      Bus rapid transit.--Up to $2,000,000 of funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used, at the discretion 
of the Administrator, to support on-going activities related to 
bus rapid transit.

                             formula grants

      The conference agreement provides a total program level 
of $3,098,000,000 for transit formula grants, as proposed by 
both the House and the Senate. Within this total, the 
conference agreement appropriates $619,600,000 from the general 
fund as proposed by both the House and the Senate. The 
conference agreement provides that the general fund 
appropriation shall be available until expended.
      The conference agreement provides that funding made 
available for the clean fuel formula grant program under this 
heading shall be transferred to and merged with funding 
provided for the replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of 
buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related 
facilities under ``Federal Transit Administration, Capital 
investment grants''.
      The FTA, when evaluating the local financial commitment 
of new rail extension or busway projects, shall consider the 
extent to which the projects' sponsors have used the 
appreciable increases in the formula grants apportionments for 
alternative analyses and preliminary engineering activities of 
such systems.

                   university transportation research

      The conference agreement provides a total program level 
of $6,000,000 for university transportation research as 
proposed by both theHouse and the Senate. Within the total, the 
conference agreement appropriates $1,200,000 from the general fund as 
proposed by both the House and the Senate. The conference agreement 
provides that the general fund appropriation shall be available until 
expended.

                     transit planning and research

      The conference agreement provides a total program level 
of $107,000,000 for transit planning and research as proposed 
by both the House and the Senate. Within the total, the 
conference agreement appropriates $21,000,000 from the general 
fund as proposed by both the House and Senate. The conference 
agreement provides that the general fund appropriation shall be 
available until expended.
      Within the funds appropriated for transit planning and 
research, $5,250,000 is provided for rural transportation 
assistance; $4,000,000 is provided for the National Transit 
Institute; $8,250,000 is provided for transit cooperative 
research; $49,632,000 is provided for metropolitan planning; 
$10,368,000 is provided for state planning and research; and 
$29,500,000 is provided for national planning and research.
      Transit cooperative research.--The FTA is directed to 
conduct an assessment of the benefits of new transit 
investments compared with investments in maintaining existing 
infrastructure. Such an assessment shall be conducted using 
funds provided for transit cooperative research.
      The transit cooperative research program is currently 
performing an analysis of the over-the-road bus accessibility 
program, which is to include data on the total capital needs of 
operators, compliance deadlines, and the current matching fund 
requirements. The House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
expect that the analysis will be completed and provided to the 
Committees by March 1, 2000.
      National planning and research.--Within the funding 
provided for national planning and research, the Federal 
Transit Administration shall make available the following 
amounts for the programs and activities listed below:

Zinc-air battery bus technology demonstration.................$1,000,000
Electric vehicle information sharing and technology transfer 
    program...................................................   750,000
Portland, Maine independent transportation network............   500,000
Wheeling, West Virginia mobility study........................   250,000
Washoe County, Nevada transit technology (TEA21).............. 1,250,000
MBTA, Massachusetts advanced electric transit buses and 
    related infrastructure (TEA21)............................ 1,500,000
Palm Springs, California fuel cell buses (TEA21).............. 1,000,000
Gloucester, Massachusetts intermodal technology center (TEA21) 1,500,000
SEPTA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania advanced propulsion control 
    system (TEA21)............................................ 3,000,000
Project ACTION (TEA21)........................................ 3,000,000
Advanced transportation and alternative fueled vehicle 
    technology consortium (CALSTART).......................... 3,250,000
International program......................................... 1,000,000
Safety and security programs.................................. 5,450,000
Santa Barbara Electric Transit Institute......................   500,000
Pittsfield economic development authority electric bus program 1,350,000
Citizens for modern transit, Missouri.........................   300,000
Hennepin County community transportation, Minnesota........... 1,000,000

      The conference agreement deletes funding requested for an 
information outreach program (-$200,000).
      The conferees direct the FTA to undertake a project, in 
partnership with the transit industry, to identify the common 
accident causal factors, how to collect data on those factors, 
and how such information collection might be incorporated into 
the National Transit Database safety collection process.
      International program.--The conference agreement includes 
$1,000,000 for the international program as authorized in 
section 5312(e) of title 49. The conferees have provided these 
funds to address transportation needs in the frontline states 
to the Kosovo conflict.
      Fuel cell bus and bus facilities program.--None of the 
funds available under this heading shall supplement funding 
provided under section 3015(b) of Public Law 105-178 for the 
fuel cell bus and bus facilities program.
      Transit data base.--The conferees are aware that state 
and local governments, transit industry personnel, and academic 
institutions rely heavily on operational data contained in the 
transit data base. The publication of this data is not timely, 
and excludes some performance statistics that may be 
particularly helpful to all parties. The conferees encourage 
the FTA to work with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to 
design a new transit data base, comprised of operational and 
performance measurements and financial data necessary to 
fulfill FTA's statutory responsibilities in distributing 
formula grants, while providing meaningful data for state and 
local governments, transit industry personnel, and academic 
institutions. Special attention should be paid to developing 
clear instructions to grantees and employing computer-based 
electronic data storage and access techniques. The NAS is 
encouraged to consult with the American Public Transit 
Association in developing the new transit data base model.
      FTA shall submit the recommended transit data base design 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and to the 
General Services Administration for review by May 31, 2000. FTA 
shall utilize existing administrative funds to implement the 
new transit data base design, and shall utilize the new design 
in the fiscal year 2001 cycle of federal grantee reports.

                      Trust Fund Share of Expenses

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides $4,929,270,000 in 
liquidating cash for the trust fund share of transit expenses 
instead of $4,638,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate.

                       Capital Investment Grants

                     (including transfer of funds)

      The conference agreement provides a total program level 
of $2,451,000,000 for capital investment grants, as proposed by 
both the House and the Senate. Within the total, the conference 
agreement appropriates $490,200,000 from the general fund as 
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
      Within the total program level, $980,400,000 is provided 
for fixed guideway modernization; $490,200,000 is provided for 
the replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and 
related equipment and the construction of bus-related 
facilities; and $980,400,000 is provided for new fixed guideway 
systems, as proposed by both the House and the Senate. Funds 
derived from the formula grants program totaling $50,000,000 
are to be transferred and merged with funds provided for the 
replacement, rehabilitation and purchase of buses and related 
equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities under 
this heading.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate that would have required the Administrator of the 
Federal Transit Administration, not later than 60 days after 
the enactment of this Act, to individually submit to the 
congressional transit appropriations and authorizing committees 
the recommended grant funding levels for the respective bus and 
bus-related facilities projects listed in the Senate bill. The 
House bill contained no similar provision.
      Three-year availability of section 5309 discretionary 
funds.--The conference agreement includes a provision that 
permits the administrator to reallocate discretionary new start 
and bus facilities funds from projects which remain unobligated 
after three years. The conferees, however, direct the FTA not 
to reallocate funds provided in the fiscal year 1997 Department 
of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 
the New Orleans Streetcar project; the New York Whitehall ferry 
terminal project; the Hartford, Connecticut Griffin line 
project; the Virginia Railway Express Quantico bridge project; 
the New Rochelle, New York intermodal facility; the San 
Joaquin, California downtown transit center project; and the 
Hood River, Oregon bus project.
      Should additional funds from previous appropriations Acts 
be available for reallocation, the FTA is directed to reprogram 
these funds after notification to and approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations and only to the extent that 
those projects are able to fully obligate additional resources 
in the course of fiscal year 2000. With respect to reallocation 
of discretionary bus funds, the FTA is directed to reallocate 
funds only to those projects identified in the Department of 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, 
after notification to and approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.
      Bus and bus facilities.--The conference agreement 
provides $490,200,000, together with $50,000,000 transferred 
from ``Federal Transit Administration, Formula grants'' and 
merged with funding provided under this heading for the 
replacement, rehabilitation and purchase of buses and related 
equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities. In 
addition, approximately $1,470,000 in recoveries is available 
for reallocation. Funds provided for buses and bus facilities 
are to be distributed as follows:

Bus and bus facilities project designations for fiscal year 2000

        State and project                                     Conference
Alaska--Anchorage Ship Creek intermodal facility..............$4,500,000
Alaska--Fairbanks intermodal rail/bus transfer facility....... 2,000,000
Alaska--Juneau downtown mass transit facility................. 1,500,000
Alaska--North Star Borough-Fairbanks intermodal facility...... 3,000,000
Alaska--Wasilla intermodal facility........................... 1,000,000
Alaska--Whittier intermodal facility and pedestrian overpass.. 1,155,000
Alabama--Alabama statewide rural bus needs.................... 2,500,000
Alabama--Baldwin Rural Area Transportation System buses....... 1,000,000
Alabama--Birmingham intermodal facility....................... 2,000,000
Alabama--Birmingham-Jefferson County buses.................... 1,250,000
Alabama--Cullman buses........................................   500,000
Alabama--Dothan Wiregrass Transit Authority vehicles and 
    transit facility.......................................... 1,000,000
Alabama--Escambia County buses and bus facility...............   100,000
Alabama--Gees Bend Ferry facilities, Wilcox County............   100,000
Alabama--Marshall County buses................................   500,000
Alabama--Huntsville International Airport intermodal center... 3,500,000
Alabama--Huntsville intermodal facility....................... 1,250,000
Alabama--Huntsville Space and Rocket Center intermodal center. 3,500,000
Alabama--Jasper buses.........................................    50,000
Alabama--Jefferson State Community College/University of 
    Montevallo pedestrian walkway.............................   200,000
Alabama--Mobile waterfront terminal complex................... 5,000,000
Alabama--Montgomery Union Station intermodal center and buses. 3,500,000
Alabama--Valley bus and bus facilities........................   110,000
Arkansas--Arkansas Highway and Transit Department buses....... 2,000,000
Arkansas--Arkansas state safety and preventative maintenance 
    facility..................................................   800,000
Arkansas--Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Transit System 
    buses.....................................................   500,000
Arkansas--Hot Springs, transportation depot and plaza......... 1,560,000
Arkansas--Little Rock, Central Arkansas Transit buses.........   300,000
Arizona--Phoenix bus and bus facilities....................... 3,750,000
Arizona--Phoenix South Central Avenue transit facility........   500,000
Arizona--San Luis bus.........................................    70,000
Arizona--Tucson buses......................................... 2,555,000
Arizona--Yuma paratransit buses...............................   125,000
California--California Mountain Area Regional Transit 
    Authority fueling stations................................    80,000
California--Culver City, CityBus buses........................ 1,250,000
California--Davis, Unitrans transit maintenance facility......   625,000
California--Healdsburg, intermodal facility................... 1,000,000
California--I-5 Corridor intermodal transit centers........... 1,250,000
California--Livermore automatic vehicle locator program....... 1,000,000
California--Lodi multimodal facility..........................   850,000
California--Los Angeles County Metropolitan transportation 
    authority buses........................................... 3,000,000
California--Los Angeles County Foothill Transit buses and HEV 
    vehicles.................................................. 1,750,000
California--Los Angeles Municipal Transit Operators Coalition. 2,250,000
California--Los Angeles, Union Station Gateway Intermodal 
    Transit Center............................................ 1,250,000
California--Maywood, Commerce, Bell, Cudahy, California buses 
    and bus facilities........................................   800,000
California--Modesto, bus maintenance facility.................   625,000
California--Monterey, Monterey-Salinas buses..................   625,000
California--Orange County, bus and bus facilities............. 2,000,000
California--Perris bus maintenance facility................... 1,250,000
California--Redlands trolley project..........................   800,000
California--Sacramento CNG buses.............................. 1,250,000
California--San Bernardino Valley CNG buses................... 1,000,000
California--San Bernardino train station...................... 3,000,000
California--San Diego North County buses and CNG fueling 
    station................................................... 3,000,000
California--Contra Costa County Connection buses..............   250,000
California--San Francisco, Islais Creek maintenance facility.. 1,250,000
California--Santa Barbara buses and bus facility.............. 1,750,000
California--Santa Clarita bus maintenance facility............ 1,250,000
California--Santa Cruz buses and bus facilities............... 1,755,000
California--Santa Maria Valley/Santa Barbara County buses.....   240,000
California--Santa Rosa/Cotati, Intermodal Transportation 
    Facilities................................................   750,000
California--Westminster senior citizen vans...................   150,000
California--Windsor, Intermodal Facility......................   750,000
California--Woodland Hills, Warner Center Transportation Hub..   625,000
Colorado--Boulder/Denver, RTD buses...........................   625,000
Colorado--Colorado Association of Transit Agencies............ 8,000,000
Colorado--Denver, Stapleton Intermodal Center................. 1,250,000
Connecticut--New Haven bus facility........................... 2,250,000
Connecticut--Norwich buses.................................... 2,250,000
Connecticut--Waterbury, bus facility.......................... 2,250,000
District of Columbia--Fuel cell bus and bus facilities 
    program, Georgetown University............................ 4,850,000
District of Columbia--Washington, D.C. Intermodal 
    Transportation Center, District........................... 2,500,000
Delaware--New Castle County buses and bus facilities.......... 2,000,000
Delaware--Delaware buses and bus facility.....................   500,000
Florida--Daytona Beach, Intermodal Center..................... 2,500,000
Florida--Gainesville hybrid-electric buses and facilities.....   500,000
Florida--Jacksonville buses and bus facilities................ 1,000,000
Florida--Lakeland, Citrus Connection transit vehicles and 
    related equipment......................................... 1,250,000
Florida--Miami Beach, electric shuttle service................   750,000
Florida--Miami-Dade Transit buses............................. 2,750,000
Florida--Orlando, Lynx buses and bus facilities............... 2,000,000
Florida--Orlando, Downtown Intermodal Facility................ 2,500,000
Florida--Palm Beach buses..................................... 1,000,000
Florida--Tampa HARTline buses.................................   500,000
Georgia--Atlanta, MARTA buses.................................13,500,000
Georgia--Chatham Area Transit Bus Transfer Center and buses... 3,500,000
Georgia--Georgia Regional Transportation Authority buses...... 2,000,000
Georgia--Georgia statewide buses and bus-related facilities... 2,750,000
Hawaii--Hawaii buses and bus facilities....................... 2,250,000
Hawaii--Honolulu, bus facility and buses...................... 2,000,000
Iowa--Ames transit facility expansion.........................   700,000
Iowa--Cedar Rapids intermodal facility........................ 3,500,000
Iowa--Clinton transit facility expansion......................   500,000
Iowa--Fort Dodge, Intermodal Facility (Phase II)..............   885,000
Iowa--Iowa City intermodal facility........................... 1,500,000
Iowa--Iowa statewide buses and bus facilities................. 2,500,000
Iowa--Iowa/Illinois Transit Consortium bus safety and security 1,000,000
Illinois--East Moline transit center..........................   650,000
Illinois--Illinois statewide buses and bus-related equipment.. 8,200,000
Indiana--Gary, Transit Consortium buses....................... 1,250,000
Indiana--Indianapolis buses................................... 5,000,000
Indiana--South Bend Urban Intermodal Transportation Facility.. 1,250,000
Indiana--West Lafayette bus transfer station/terminal (Wabash 
    Landing).................................................. 1,750,000
Kansas--Girard buses and vans.................................   700,000
Kansas--Johnson County farebox equipment......................   250,000
Kansas--Kansas City buses.....................................   750,000
Kansas--Kansas Public Transit Association buses and bus 
    facilities................................................ 1,500,000
Kansas--Girard, Southeast Kansas Community Action Agency 
    maintenance facility......................................   480,000
Kansas--Topeka Transit downtown transfer facility.............   600,000
Kansas--Wichita buses and bus facilities...................... 2,500,000
Kentucky--Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky (TANK) buses. 2,500,000
Kentucky--Kentucky (southern and eastern) transit vehicles.... 1,000,000
Kentucky--Lexington (LexTran) maintenance facility............ 1,000,000
Kentucky--River City buses.................................... 1,500,000
Louisiana--Louisiana statewide buses and bus-related 
    facilities................................................ 5,000,000
Massachusetts--Atteboro intermodal transit facility...........   500,000
Massachusetts--Brockton intermodal transportation center...... 1,100,000
Massachusetts--Greenfield Montague buses......................   500,000
Massachusetts--Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority bus 
    facilities................................................   467,500
Massachusetts--Montachusett buses and park-and-ride facilities 1,250,000
Massachusetts--Pioneer Valley alternative fuel and paratransit 
    vehicles..................................................   650,000
Massachusetts--Pittsfield intermodal center................... 3,600,000
Massachusetts--Springfield, Union Station..................... 1,250,000
Massachusetts--Swampscott buses...............................    65,000
Massachusetts--Westfield intermodal transportation facility...   500,000
Massachusetts--Worcester, Union Station Intermodal 
    Transportation Center..................................... 2,500,000
Maryland--Maryland statewide bus facilities and buses.........11,500,000
Michigan--Detroit, transfer terminal facilities............... 3,963,000
Michigan--Detroit, EZ Ride program............................   287,000
Michigan--Menominee-Delta-Schoolcraft buses...................   250,000
Michigan--Michigan statewide buses............................22,500,000
Michigan--Port Huron, CNG fueling station.....................   500,000
Minnesota--Duluth, Transit Authority community circulation 
    vehicles.................................................. 1,000,000
Minnesota--Duluth, Transit Authority intelligent 
    transportation systems....................................   500,000
Minnesota--Duluth, Transit Authority Transit Hub..............   500,000
Minnesota--Greater Minnesota transit authorities..............   500,000
Minnesota--Northstar Corridor, Intermodal Facilities and buses10,000,000
Minnesota--Twin Cities metropolitan buses and bus facilities..10,000,000
Missouri--Columbia buses and vans.............................   500,000
Missouri--Southeast Missouri transportation service rural, 
    elderly, disabled service................................. 1,250,000
Missouri--Franklin County buses and bus facilities............   200,000
Missouri--Jackson County buses and bus facilities.............   500,000
Missouri--Kansas City Area Transit Authority buses and Troost 
    transit center............................................ 2,500,000
Missouri--Missouri statewide bus and bus facilities........... 3,500,000
Missouri--OATS Transit........................................ 1,500,000
Missouri--St. Joseph buses and vans...........................   500,000
Missouri--St. Louis buses..................................... 2,000,000
Missouri--St. Louis, Bi-state Intermodal Center............... 1,250,000
Missouri--Southwest Missouri State University park and ride 
    facility.................................................. 1,000,000
Mississippi--Harrison County multimodal center................ 3,000,000
Mississippi--Jackson maintenance and administration facility 
    project................................................... 1,000,000
Mississippi--North Delta planning and development district, 
    buses and bus facilities.................................. 1,200,000
Montana--Missoula urban transportation district buses.........   600,000
North Carolina--Greensboro multimodal center.................. 3,339,000
North Carolina--Greensboro, Transit Authority buses........... 1,500,000
North Carolina--North Carolina statewide buses and bus 
    facilities................................................ 2,492,000
North Dakota--North Dakota statewide buses and bus-related 
    facilities................................................ 1,000,000
New Hampshire--New Hampshire statewide transit systems........ 3,000,000
New Jersey--New Jersey Transit alternative fuel buses......... 5,000,000
New Jersey--New Jersey Transit jitney shuttle buses........... 1,750,000
New Jersey--Newark intermodal and arena access improvements... 1,650,000
New Jersey--Newark, Morris & Essex Station access and buses... 1,250,000
New Jersey--South Amboy, Regional Intermodal Transportation 
    Initiative................................................ 1,250,000
New Mexico--Albuquerque West Side transit facility............ 2,000,000
New Mexico--Albuquerque buses................................. 1,250,000
New Mexico--Las Cruces buses and bus facilities...............   750,000
New Mexico--Northern New Mexico Transit Express/Park and Ride 
    buses..................................................... 2,750,000
New Mexico--Santa Fe buses and bus facilities................. 2,000,000
Nevada--Clark County Regional Transportation Commission buses 
    and bus facilities........................................ 2,500,000
Nevada--Lake Tahoe CNG buses..................................   700,000
Nevada--Washoe County transit improvements.................... 2,250,000
New York--Babylon Intermodal Center........................... 1,250,000
New York--Buffalo, Auditorium Intermodal Center............... 2,000,000
New York--Dutchess County, Loop System buses..................   521,000
New York--Ithaca intermodal transportation center............. 1,125,000
New York--Ithaca, TCAT bus technology improvements............ 1,250,000
New York--Long Island, CNG transit vehicles and facilities and 
    bus replacement........................................... 1,250,000
New York--Mineola/Hicksville, LIRR intermodal centers......... 1,250,000
New York--New York City, Midtown West 38th Street Ferry 
    Terminal.................................................. 1,000,000
New York--New York, West 72nd St. Intermodal Station.......... 1,750,000
New York--Putnam County vans..................................   470,000
New York--Rensselaer intermodal bus facility.................. 6,000,000
New York--Rochester buses and bus facility.................... 1,000,000
New York--Syracuse buses...................................... 3,000,000
New York--Utica Union Station................................. 2,100,000
New York--Westchester County DOT articulated buses............ 1,250,000
New York--Westchester County, Bee-Line transit system 
    fareboxes.................................................   979,000
New York--Westchester County, Bee-Line transit system shuttle 
    buses..................................................... 1,000,000
Ohio--Cleveland, Triskett Garage bus maintenance facility.....   625,000
Ohio--Dayton, Multimodal Transportation Center................ 4,125,000
Ohio--Ohio statewide buses and bus facilities................. 9,010,250
Oklahoma--Oklahoma statewide bus facilities and buses......... 5,000,000
Oregon--Corvallis buses and automated passenger information 
    system....................................................   300,000
Oregon--Lane County, Bus Rapid Transit, buses and facilities.. 4,400,000
Oregon--Lincoln County Transit District buses.................   250,000
Oregon--Portland, Tri-Met bus maintenance facility............   650,000
Oregon--Portland, Tri-Met buses............................... 1,750,000
Oregon--Salem Area Mass Transit District natural gas buses....   500,000
Oregon--Sandy buses...........................................   100,000
Oregon--South Metro Area Rapid Transit (SMART) maintenance 
    facility..................................................   200,000
Oregon--Sunset Empire Transit District intemodal transit 
    facility..................................................   300,000
Pennsylvania--Allegheny County buses.......................... 1,500,000
Pennsylvania--Altoona bus testing............................. 3,000,000
Pennsylvania--Altoona, Metro Transit Authority buses and 
    transit system improvements...............................   842,000
Pennsylvania--Armstrong County-Mid-County bus facilities and 
    buses.....................................................   150,000
Pennsylvania--Bethlehem intermodal facility................... 1,000,000
Pennsylvania--Cambria County, bus facilities and buses........   575,000
Pennsylvania--Centre Area Transportation Authority buses...... 1,250,000
Pennsylvania--Chester County, Paoli Transportation Center..... 1,000,000
Pennsylvania--Erie, Metropolitan Transit Authority buses...... 1,000,000
Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Intermodal facilities and buses. 1,270,000
Pennsylvania--Lackawanna County Transit System buses..........   600,000
Pennsylvania--Norristown parking garage (SEPTA)............... 1,000,000
Pennsylvania--Lackawanna County intermodal bus facility....... 1,000,000
Pennsylvania--Mid-Mon Valley buses and bus facilities.........   250,000
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Frankford Transportation Center... 5,000,000
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Intermodal 30th Street Station.... 1,250,000
Pennsylvania--Reading, BARTA Intermodal Transportation 
    Facility.................................................. 1,750,000
Pennsylvania--Robinson, Towne Center Intermodal Facility...... 1,500,000
Pennsylvania--Somerset County bus facilities and buses........   175,000
Pennsylvania--Towamencin Township, Intermodal Bus 
    Transportation Center..................................... 1,500,000
Pennsylvania--Washington County intermodal facilities.........   630,000
Pennsylvania--Westmoreland County, Intermodal Facility........   200,000
Pennsylvania--Wilkes-Barre, Intermodal Facility............... 1,250,000
Pennsylvania--Williamsport bus facility....................... 1,200,000
Puerto Rico--San Juan Intermodal access.......................   600,000
Rhode Island--Providence, buses and bus maintenance facility.. 3,294,000
South Carolina--Central Midlands COG/Columbia transit system.. 2,700,000
South Carolina--Charleston Area regional transportation 
    authority................................................. 1,900,000
South Carolina--Clemson Area Transit buses and bus equipment..   550,000
South Carolina--Greenville transit authority..................   500,000
South Carolina--Pee Dee buses and facilities..................   900,000
South Carolina--Santee-Wateree regional transportation 
    authority.................................................   400,000
South Carolina--South Carolina Statewide Virtual Transit 
    Enterprise................................................ 1,220,000
South Carolina--Transit Management of Spartanburg, 
    Incorporated (SPARTA).....................................   600,000
South Dakota--South Dakota statewide bus faciities and buses.. 1,500,000
Tennessee--Southern Coalition for Advanced Transportation 
    (SCAT) (TN, GA, FL, AL) electric buses.................... 3,500,000
Texas--Austin buses........................................... 1,750,000
Texas--Beaumont Municipal Transit System buses and bus 
    facilities................................................ 1,000,000
Texas--Brazos Transit Authority buses and bus facilities...... 1,000,000
Texas--El Paso Sun Metro buses................................ 1,000,000
Texas--Fort Worth bus replacement (including CNG vehicles) and 
    paratransit vehicles...................................... 2,500,000
Texas--Fort Worth intermodal transportation center............ 3,100,000
Texas--Galveston buses and bus facilities..................... 1,000,000
Texas--Texas statewide small urban and rural buses............ 5,000,000
Utah--Ogden Intermodal Center.................................   800,000
Utah--Salt Lake City Olympics bus facilities.................. 2,500,000
Utah--Salt Lake City Olympics regional park and ride lots..... 2,500,000
Utah--Salt Lake City Olympics transit bus loan project........   500,000
Utah--Utah Transit Authority, intermodal facilities........... 1,500,000
Utah--Utah Transit Authority/Park City Transit, buses......... 6,500,000
Virginia--Alexandria, bus maintenance facility................ 1,000,000
Virginia--Richmond, GRTC bus maintenance facility............. 1,250,000
Virginia--Virginia statewide buses and bus facilities......... 8,435,000
Vermont--Burlington multimodal center......................... 2,700,000
Vermont--Chittenden County Transportation Authority buses.....   800,000
Vermont--Essex Junction multi-modal station rehabilitation....   500,000
Vermont--Killington-Sherburne satellite bus facility..........   250,000
Washington--Bremerton multimodal center--Sinclair's Landing...   750,000
Washington--Sequim, Clallam Transit multimodal center......... 1,000,000
Washington--Everett, Multimodal Transportation Center......... 1,950,000
Washington--Grant County, Grant Transit Authority buses and 
    bus facilities............................................   500,000
Washington--Grays Harbor County buses and equipment........... 1,250,000
Washington--King County Metro King Street Station............. 2,000,000
Washington--King County Metro Atlantic and Central buses...... 1,500,000
Washington--King County park and ride expansion............... 1,350,000
Washington--Mount Vernon, buses and bus related facilities.... 1,750,000
Washington--Pierce County Transit buses and bus facilities....   500,000
Washington--Seattle, intermodal transportation terminal....... 1,250,000
Washington--Snohomish County, Community Transit buses, 
    equipment and facilities.................................. 1,250,000
Washington--Spokane HEV buses................................. 1,500,000
Washington--Tacoma Dome Station...............................   250,000
Washington--Vancouver Clark County (C-TRAN) bus facilities.... 1,000,000
Washington--Washington State DOT combined small transit system 
    buses and bus facilities.................................. 2,000,000
Wisconsin--Milwaukee County, buses............................ 6,000,000
Wisconsin--Wisconsin statewide bus facilities and buses.......14,250,000
West Virginia--Huntington intermodal facility.................12,000,000
West Virginia--Parkersburg intermodal transportation facility. 4,500,000
West Virginia--West Virginia Statewide intermodal facility and 
    buses..................................................... 5,000,000

      Commonwealth of Virginia.--The conference agreement 
includes $8,435,000 for the Commonwealth of Virginia for buses 
and bus facilities which shall be distributed as follows: 
Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission fleet 
replacement, $1,800,000; Prince William County Agency on the 
Aging bus replacement, $85,000; Loudoun Transit multi-modal 
facility, $1,000,000; Dulles Corridor Park-and-Ride Express Bus 
Program, $2,000,000; Alexandria Transit Center, $1,000,000; 
Fair Lakes League, $200,000; Richmond Main Street Station, 
$2,350,000.
      New fixed guideway systems.--The conference agreement 
provides for the following distribution of the recommended 
funding for new fixed guideway systems as follows:

        Project                                               Conference
Alaska or Hawaii ferry projects.........................     $10,400,000
Atlanta, Georgia North Line extension project...........      45,142,000
Austin, Texas capital metro northwest/north central 
    corridor project....................................       1,000,000
Baltimore central light rail double track project.......       4,750,000
Birmingham, Alabama Transit Corridor....................       3,000,000
Boston Urban Ring project...............................       1,000,000
Calais, Maine Branch Rail Line regional transit program.         500,000
Canton-Akron-Cleveland commuter rail project............       2,500,000
Charleston, South Carolina Monobeam corridor project....       2,500,000
Charlotte, North Carolina North-South Corridor 
    transitway project..................................       4,000,000
Chicago METRA commuter rail project.....................      25,000,000
Chicago Transit Authority Douglas branch line project...       3,500,000
Chicago Transit Authority Ravenswood branch line project       3,500,000
Cincinnati northeast/northern Kentucky corridor project.       1,000,000
Clark County, Nevada fixed guideway project.............       3,500,000
Cleveland Euclid corridor improvement project...........       1,000,000
Colorado Roaring Fork Valley project....................       1,000,000
Dallas north central light rail extension project.......      50,000,000
Dayton, Ohio light rail study...........................       1,000,000
Denver Southeast corridor project.......................       3,000,000
Denver Southwest corridor project.......................      35,000,000
Dulles corridor project.................................      25,000,000
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Tri-County commuter rail 
    project.............................................      10,000,000
Galveston, Texas rail trolley extension project.........       1,500,000
Girdwood, Alaska Commuter Rail Project..................      10,000,000
Greater Albuquerque mass transit project................       7,000,000
Harrisburg-Lancaster capital area transit corridor 1 
    commuter rail project...............................         500,000
Houston advanced transit program........................       3,000,000
Houston regional bus plan...............................      52,770,000
Indianapolis, Indiana Northeast Downtown corridor 
    project.............................................       1,000,000
Johnson County, Kansas I-35 commuter rail project.......       1,000,000
Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail project..........       1,000,000
Knoxville-Memphis commuter rail feasibility study.......         500,000
Long Island Railroad East Side access project...........       2,000,000
Los Angeles-San Diego LOSSAN corridor project...........       1,000,000
Los Angeles Mid-City and East Side corridors projects...       4,000,000
Los Angeles North Hollywood Extension...................      50,000,000
Lowell, Massachusetts--Nashua, New Hampshire commuter 
    rail project........................................       1,000,000
MARC commuter rail project..............................         703,000
MARC expansion projects: Silver Spring intermodal and 
    Penn-Camden rail connection.........................       1,500,000
Massachusetts North Shore corridor project..............       1,000,000
Memphis, Tennessee Medical Center rail extension project       2,500,000
Miami-Dade Transit east-west multimodal corridor project       1,500,000
Nashville, Tennessee commuter rail project..............       1,000,000
New Jersey Hudson Bergen project........................      99,000,000
New Jersey/New York Trans-Hudson Midtown corridor.......       5,000,000
New Orleans Canal Street corridor project...............       1,000,000
Newark rail link MOS-1 project..........................      12,000,000
Norfolk-Virginia Beach corridor project.................       1,000,000
Northern Indiana south shore commuter rail project......       4,000,000
Oceanside-Escondido, California light rail system.......       2,000,000
Olympic transportation infrastructure investments.......      10,000,000
Orange County, California transitway project............       1,000,000
Orlando Lynx light rail (phase 1) project...............       5,000,000
Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties rail 
    corridor............................................         500,000
Philadelphia-Reading SEPTA Schuylkill Valley metro 
    project.............................................       4,000,000
Philadelphia SEPTA cross county metro...................       1,000,000
Phoenix metropolitan area transit project...............       5,000,000
Pinellas County, Florida mobility initiative project....       2,500,000
Pittsburgh North Shore-central business district 
    corridor project....................................      10,000,000
Pittsburgh stage II light rail project..................       8,000,000
Portland Westside light rail transit project............      11,062,000
Puget Sound RTA Link light rail project.................      25,000,000
Puget Sound RTA Sounder commuter rail project...........       5,000,000
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle transit project.....       8,000,000
Sacramento south corridor LRT project...................      25,000,000
Salt Lake City, Utah north/south LRT project............      37,928,000
San Bernardino, California Metrolink project............       1,000,000
San Diego Mid Coast corridor project....................       5,000,000
San Diego Mission Valley East light rail project........      20,000,000
San Francisco BART extension to the airport project.....      65,000,000
San Jose Tasman West Light Rail.........................      20,000,000
San Juan Tren Urbano project............................      32,000,000
Santa Fe/El Dorado, New Mexico rail link................       3,000,000
South Boston piers transitway...........................      53,895,000
South Dekalb-Lindbergh, Georgia corridor project........       1,000,000
Spokane, Washington south valley corridor light rail 
    project.............................................       2,000,000
St. Louis-St. Clair County MetroLink light rail (phase 
    2) extension project................................      50,000,000
St. Louis, Missouri MetroLink cross county corridor 
    project.............................................       2,500,000
Stamford, Connecticut fixed guideway connector..........       1,000,000
Stockton, California Altamont commuter rail.............       1,000,000
Tampa Bay regional rail project.........................       1,000,000
Twin Cities Transitways-Hiawatha corridor project.......      42,800,000
Twin Cities Transitways projects........................       3,000,000
Virginia Railway Express commuter rail project..........       2,200,000
Washington Metro--Blue Line extension--Addison Road 
    [Largo] project.....................................       4,750,000
West Trenton, New Jersey rail project...................       1,000,000
Whitehall ferry terminal reconstruction project.........       2,000,000
Wilmington, Delaware downtown transit connector.........       1,000,000
Wilsonville to Washington County, Oregon connection to 
    Westside............................................         500,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................     980,400,000

      Atlanta-MARTA full funding grant agreement.--The 
Committee directs the Federal Transit Administration to amend 
the full funding grant agreement between the FTA and the 
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). This 
amendment should reflect section 3030(d)(2) of TEA21, and 
should increase the federal share of the full funding grant 
agreement from $305,010,000 to $370,540,000 for 28 additional 
rail cars and other scope enhancements. The FTA is directed to 
transfer the amount of $10,670,000 from available funds 
previously appropriated for the Dunwoody segment of the MARTA 
North Line to the North Line extension project authorized under 
TEA21.
      Dulles corridor project.--The conference agreement 
includes $25,000,000 for preliminary engineering and design on 
the Dulles corridor project.
      Girdwood, Alaska commuter rail project.--The conferees 
recognize the transit improvements required in the Anchorage 
area to support the Special Olympic Winter Games in 2001, 
including additional rail infrastructure to support rail 
transit from North Anchorage to Girdwood.
      Olympic transportation infrastructure investment.--The 
conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for temporary and 
permanent Olympic transportation infrastructure investments. 
These funds shall be allocated by the Secretary based on an 
approved transportation management plan for the Salt Lake City 
2002 Winter Olympic Games. None of these funds are to be 
available for rail extensions.
      Salt Lake City, Utah north/south LRT project.--The 
conference agreement includes $37,928,000 for the Salt Lake 
City, Utah north/south LRT project. The conferees agree that 
funds in excess of needs already appropriated for this project 
may be used for system enhancements, capacity improvements and 
other rail extensions.
      San Francisco BART extension to the airport project.--For 
fiscal year 2000, the conferees have provided $65,000,000 for 
the San Francisco BART extension to the airport project. The 
conferees direct that none of the funds provided in this Act 
for the San Francisco BART extension to the airport project 
shall be available until (1) the project sponsor produces a 
finance plan that clearly delineates the full costs-to-complete 
as identified by the project management oversight contractor 
and the manner in which the sponsor expects to pay those costs; 
(2) the FTA conducts a final review and accepts the plan and 
certifies to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
that the fiscal management of the project meets or exceeds 
accepted U.S. government standards; (3) the General Accounting 
Office and the Department of Transportation's Inspector General 
conduct an independent analysis of the plans and provide such 
analysis to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
within 60 days of FTA accepting the plan; and (4) the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations have concluded their review 
of the analysis within 60 days of the transmittal of the 
analysis to the Committees. Lastly, the conferees direct the 
FTA to conduct ongoing, continual financial management reviews 
of this project.
      San Juan Tren Urbano project.--The conference agreement 
provides $32,000,000 for the San Juan Tren Urbano project. The 
conferees direct that none of the funds provided in this Act 
for the San Juan Tren Urbano project shall be available until 
(1) the project sponsor produces a finance plan that clearly 
delineates the full costs-to-complete and the manner in which 
the sponsor expects to pay those costs; (2) the FHWA and FTA 
conduct a final review and accept the plan and certify to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that the fiscal 
management of the project meets or exceeds accepted U.S. 
government standards; (3) the General Accounting Office and the 
Department of Transportation's Inspector General conduct an 
independent analysis of the plans and provide such analysis to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 60 
days of FTA accepting the plan; and (4) the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations have concluded their review of the 
analysis within 60 days of the transmittal of the analysis to 
the Committees. Lastly, the conferees direct the FTA to conduct 
ongoing, continual financial management reviews of this 
project.
      South Boston Piers transitway project.--For fiscal year 
2000, $53,895,000 is appropriated for the South Boston Piers 
transitway project. The conferees direct that none of the funds 
provided in this Act for the South Boston Piers transitway 
project shall be available until (1) the project sponsor 
produces a finance plan that clearly delineates the full costs-
to-complete and the manner in which the sponsor expects to pay 
those costs; (2) the FHWA and the FTA conduct a final review 
and accept the plan and certify to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations that the fiscal management of the 
project meets or exceeds accepted U.S. government standards; 
(3) the General Accounting Office and the Department of 
Transportation's Inspector General conduct an independent 
analysis of the plans and provide such analysis to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 60 days of FTA 
accepting the plan; and (4) the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations have concluded their review of the analysis 
within 60 days of the transmittal of the analysis to the 
Committees. Lastly, the conferees direct the FTA to conduct 
ongoing, continual financial management reviews of this 
project.
      Virginia Railway Express commuter rail project.--The 
conference agreement provides $2,200,000 for the Virginia 
Railway Express commuter rail project, which shall be 
distributed as follows: Woodbridge Station improvements, 
$2,000,000; Quantico Station improvements, $200,000.

                          DISCRETIONARY GRANTS

                (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

                          (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

      The conference agreement includes $1,500,000,000 in 
liquidating cash for discretionary grants as proposed by both 
the House and the Senate.

                 JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS

      The conference agreement includes a total program level 
of $75,000,000 for job access and reverse commute grants. 
Within this total, the conference agreement appropriates 
$15,000,000 from the general fund. The conference agreement 
provides that the general fund appropriation shall be available 
until expended.
      The conference agreement provides for the following 
distribution of the recommended funding for job access and 
reverse commute grants as follows:

        Project                                               Conference
Albuquerque access to jobs..............................      $1,000,000
Alliance for children and families, Alabama.............       1,000,000
Atlanta regional commission, Georgia....................       1,000,000
Central Kenai peninsula public transportation task force         500,000
Chicago-DuPage area, Illinois...........................         100,000
Dallas, Texas...........................................       1,500,000
District of Columbia....................................       1,250,000
DuPage County, Illinois.................................         120,000
Gary, Indiana...........................................       1,000,000
Hillsborough area regional transit authority, Florida...         500,000
Indianapolis, Indiana...................................       1,000,000
Iowa public transit association.........................       2,700,000
JOBLINKS................................................       1,250,000
Kansas City, Kansas JOBLINKS............................         850,000
Kentucky human services transportation delivery system 
    (including Hardin County, Owensboro, Barren River, 
    central Kentucky community action agency, Audubon 
    area community services organization, Kentucky River 
    Foothills express, Blue Grass Ultra-transit 
    services, Lexington-Fayette county area), Kentucky..       2,500,000
Lafayette, Indiana......................................         200,000
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, 
    California..........................................       1,000,000
Loudoun County, Virginia................................         300,000
Lynchburg, Virginia.....................................         100,000
Mariba, Kentucky........................................         125,000
Matanuska-Susitna borough, Alaska.......................         300,000
Miami Dade Transit Authority, Florida...................       1,100,000
Mid-America regional council, Missouri..................       1,000,000
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.........................       1,500,000
National Welfare to Work Center at the University of 
    Illinois, Illinois..................................       1,000,000
Northern Tier community transportation, Massachusetts...         550,000
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana regional council of governments...         515,000
Palm Beach County, Florida..............................         500,000
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reverse commute grants.......       1,000,000
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reverse commute grants.........       1,000,000
San Bernardino, California..............................         600,000
San Diego metropolitan transit development board, 
    California..........................................         650,000
Southeast Missouri State University.....................         600,000
Springfield, Virginia...................................         350,000
State of Louisiana, small urbanized and rural areas.....       1,000,000
State of Maryland, Baltimore and Washington metropolitan 
    areas, small urban and rural areas..................       3,000,000
State of Nevada.........................................       1,500,000
State of New Jersey.....................................       2,000,000
State of South Carolina.................................       2,000,000
State of Tennessee, small urban areas...................       1,300,000
State of Vermont........................................       1,385,000
State of West Virginia..................................       1,000,000
State of Wisconsin......................................       4,000,000
Transportation opportunities training, Chicago, Illinois       1,000,000
Troy State University, Alabama--Rosa Parks Center.......       1,000,000
Westchester County, New York job access support centers.       1,000,000
Wichita, Kansas.........................................         725,000

      District of Columbia.--The conference agreement includes 
$1,250,000 of which $600,000 shall be made available for bus 
service connecting the Georgetown business district with the 
WMATA rail system.
      Joblinks.--The conference agreement provides $1,250,000 
for Joblinks, to be used for demonstration projects, technical 
assistance for demonstration projects and technical assistance 
to small and urban and rural community providers. This 
assistance may include a toll-free hotline, on site technical 
assistance and training, preparation of technical manuals and 
related assistance.

             Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

                       Operations and Maintenance

                    (Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund)

      The conference agreement appropriates $12,042,000 for 
operations and maintenance of the Saint Lawrence Seaway 
Development Corporation as proposed by the House. The Senate 
bill provided $11,496,000.

              Research and Special Programs Administration

                     Research and Special Programs

      The conference agreement appropriates $32,061,000 for 
research and special programs instead of $32,361,000 as 
proposed by the House and $30,752,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. Within this total, $3,704,000 is available until 
September 30, 2002, as proposed by the House instead of 
$3,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. In addition, $645,000 of 
the total funding shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety 
Fund as proposed by the House instead of $575,000 as proposed 
by the Senate. The following adjustments were made to the 
budget estimate:

Deny funding for 6 new positions........................       -$300,000
Delete funding for safe foods program...................        -300,000
Continue to fund Garrett Morgan program in-house........        -200,000
Reduction IRM contract support..........................        -228,000
Decrease funding for hazardous materials International 
    standards...........................................         -39,000
Hold funding for hazardous materials research at 1999 
    level...............................................         -34,000
Decrease round table funding............................        -150,000
Reduce budget and financial programs support............         -28,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
    Net adjustment to budget estimate...................     -$1,279,000

      Staff positions.--The conferees have deleted six new 
staff positions: the Chief Information Officer, an information 
resource specialist, two new safe foods contract positions, and 
two new emergency transportation specialists. All of these 
reductions were contained in either the House or Senate 
reports.
      Bill language is retained that permits up to $1,200,000 
in fees be collected and deposited in the general fund of the 
Treasury as offsetting receipts. Also, bill language is 
included that permits funds received from states, counties, 
municipalities, other public authorities and private sources 
for expenses incurred for training, reports publication and 
dissemination, and travel expenses incurred in the performance 
of hazardous materials exemptions and approval functions. Both 
of these provisions were contained in the House and Senate 
bills.

                            pipeline safety

                         (pipeline safety fund)

                    (oil spill liability trust fund)

      The conference agreement provides total funding of 
$36,879,000 for the pipeline safety program, instead of 
$37,392,000 as proposed by the House and $36,104,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. Within this total, $17,394,000 is 
available until September 30, 2002 instead of $17,074,000 as 
proposed by the House and $16,500,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.
      Of this total, the conference agreement specifies that 
$5,479,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust 
Fund, $30,000,000 from the Pipeline Safety Fund, and $1,400,000 
from the reserve fund. The House bill allocated $5,494,000 from 
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, $30,598,000 from the 
Pipeline Safety Fund, and $1,300,000 from the reserve fund. The 
Senate bill provided $4,704,000 from the Oil Spill Liability 
Trust Fund, $30,000,000 from the Pipeline Safety Fund, and 
$1,400,000 from the reserve fund.
      Bill language specifies that the reserve fund should be 
used for damage prevention grants to states and public 
education. The House bill permitted the reserve fund to be used 
for one-call notification, public education and damage control 
activities, while the Senate bill allowed the reserve fund to 
be used for one-call notification and public education 
activities.
      The following table reflects the total allocation for 
pipeline safety in fiscal year 2000:

Personnel, compensation, and benefits...................      $8,919,000
Administrative expenses.................................       3,902,000
Information and analysis................................       1,200,000
Risk assessment and technical studies...................       1,250,000
Compliance..............................................         300,000
Training and information dissemination..................         971,000
Emergency notification..................................         100,000
Public education........................................         400,000
Implement Oil Pollution Act.............................       2,443,000
Research and development................................       1,894,000
State grants............................................      13,000,000
Risk management grants..................................         500,000
One-call grants.........................................       1,000,000
Damage prevention grants................................       1,000,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................     $36,879,000

      Public education.--The conference agreement has increased 
funding for public education to $400,000. The additional funds 
shall be used to leverage private sector funds to advance the 
national one-call campaign. In addition, the conferees direct 
the Office of Pipeline Safety to use existing resources to 
support the formation and initial operation of a non-profit 
organization that will further the work of ``Common Ground'' 
and implement other innovative approaches to advance 
underground damage prevention.

                     emergency preparedness grants

      The conference agreement provides $200,000 for emergency 
preparedness grants as proposed by both the House and the 
Senate. The conference agreement deletes bill language proposed 
by the House that limits obligations for emergency preparedness 
to $14,300,000. The Senate bill carried no similar provision.

                      office of inspector general

                         salaries and expenses

      The conference agreement includes $44,840,000 as proposed 
by the House instead of $48,000,000 as proposed by the Senate, 
and deletes provisions recommended by the Senate which would 
have derived a portion of the funding by transfer from 
appropriations made to the modal administrations.
      The conference agreement includes provisions proposed by 
the Senate authorizing the use of funds to investigate unfair 
or deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition by air 
carriers, to monitor compliance with existing laws and 
regulations in this area, and to conduct a study of consumer 
access to price and service information in air transportation. 
The House had no similar provisions.
      The conference agreement includes a provision specifying 
that the Inspector General has the authority to investigate 
allegations of fraud by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the Department.

                      Surface Transportation Board

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $17,000,000 for 
salaries and expenses of the Surface Transportation Board as 
proposed by the House instead of $15,400,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. In addition, the conference agreement includes 
language, proposed by the House, which allows the Board to 
offset $1,600,000 of its appropriation from fees collected 
during the fiscal year. The Senate bill allowed the Board to 
collect $1,600,000 in fees to augment its appropriation.
      The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the 
Senate that allows any fees collected in excess of $1,600,000 
in fiscal year 2000 to be available for obligation on October 
1, 2000. The House bill did not contain a similar provision.
      Union Pacific/Southern Pacific merger.--The conferees are 
aware that the Board has continuing jurisdiction over the Union 
Pacific/Southern Pacific merger in connection with the STB 
Finance Docket No. 32760. If it becomes necessary for the Board 
to issue a rule regarding the environmental mitigation study 
for Wichita, Kansas, the Board shall base its final 
environmental mitigation conditions for Wichita on verifiable 
and appropriate assumptions. If there is any material change in 
the bases of the assumptions on which the final mitigation for 
Wichita is imposed, the conferees expect the Board to exercise 
that jurisdiction by reexamining the final environmental 
mitigation measures. Also, if the Union Pacific Corporation, 
its divisions, or subsidiaries materially change or are unable 
to achieve the assumptions the Board based its final mitigation 
measures on, then the Board should reopen Finance Docket 32760, 
if requested, and prescribe additional mitigation properly 
reflecting these changes, if shown to be appropriate.

                                TITLE II

                            RELATED AGENCIES

       Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement provides $4,633,000 for the 
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board as 
proposed by the House instead of $4,500,000 as proposed by the 
Senate.

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         Salaries and Expenses

      The conference agreement appropriates $57,000,000 for 
salaries and expenses of the National Transportation Safety 
Board as proposed by the House instead of $51,500,000 as 
proposed by the Senate. Within the funds provided, NTSB should 
participate in the interagency initiative on aviation safety in 
Alaska.

                             Emergency Fund

      The conference agreement deletes $1,000,000 provided by 
the Senate for the National Transportation Safety Board's 
emergency fund. The Board has not used any of its current 
emergency fund, so this appropriation is not needed. The House 
bill contained no similar appropriation.

                               TITLE III

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

      Sec. 301 allows funds for aircraft; motor vehicles; 
liability insurance; uniforms, or allowances, as authorized by 
law as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 302 requires pay raises to be funded within 
appropriated levels in this Act or previous appropriations Acts 
as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 303 allows funds for expenditures for primary and 
secondary schools and transportation for dependents of Federal 
Aviation Administration personnel stationed outside the 
continental United States as proposed by both the House and 
Senate.
      Sec. 304 limits appropriations for services authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109 to the rate for an Executive Level IV as proposed 
by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 305 prohibits funds in this Act for salaries and 
expenses of more than 100 political and Presidential appointees 
in the Department of Transportation and includes a provision 
that prohibits political and Presidential personnel to be 
assigned on temporary detail outside the Department of 
Transportation as proposed by both the Senate and House.
      Sec. 306 prohibits pay and other expenses for non-Federal 
parties in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in 
this Act as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 307 prohibits obligations beyond the current fiscal 
year and prohibits transfers of funds unless expressly so 
provided herein as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 308 allows the Secretary of the Department of 
Transportation to enter into grants, cooperative agreements, 
and other transactions involving the Technology Reinvestment 
Project as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 309 limits consulting service expenditures of public 
record in procurement contracts as proposed by both the House 
and Senate.
      Sec. 310 modifies the Senate language that pertains to 
the distribution of the Federal-aid highways program. The House 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 31l exempts previously made transit obligations from 
limitations on obligations as proposed by both the House and 
Senate.
      Sec. 312 prohibits funds for the National Highway Safety 
Advisory Commission as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 313 prohibits funds to establish a vessel traffic 
safety fairway less than five miles wide between Santa Barbara 
and San Francisco traffic separation schemes as proposed by 
both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 314 allows airports to transfer to the Federal 
Aviation Administration instrument landing systems as proposed 
by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 315 prohibits funds to award multiyear contracts for 
production end items that include certain specified provisions 
as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 316 allows funds for discretionary grants of the 
Federal Transit Administration for specific projects, except 
for fixed guideway modernization projects, not obligated by 
September 30, 2002, and other recoveries to be used for other 
projects under 49 U.S.C. 5309 as proposed by both the House and 
Senate.
      Sec. 317 allows transit funds appropriated before October 
1, 1999, and that remain available for expenditure to be 
transferred as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 318 prohibits funds to compensate in excess of 320 
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 as proposed by the House. The Senate proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 319 reduces funding by $15,000,000 for activities of 
the transportation administrative service center of the 
Department of Transportation and limits obligation authority of 
the center to $133,673,000. The House proposed reducing funding 
by $10,000,000 for activities of the center and limiting 
obligation authority to $147,965,000. The Senate proposed 
reducing funding by $60,000,000 for activities of the center 
and limiting obligation authority to $169,953,000.
      Sec. 320 allows funds received by the Federal Highway 
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and the Federal 
Railroad Administration from states, counties, municipalities, 
other public authorities, and private sources for expenses 
incurred for training may be credited to each agency's 
respective accounts as proposed by the House and Senate.
      Sec. 321 prohibits funds to be used to prepare, propose, 
or promulgate any regulation pursuant to title V of the Motor 
Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act prescribing corporate 
average fuel economy standards for automobiles as defined in 
such title, in any model year that differs from standards 
promulgated for such automobiles prior to enactment of this 
section as proposed by the House. The Senate proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 322 makes available funds for apportionment to the 
sponsors of primary airports taking account of temporary air 
service interruptions to those airports as proposed by the 
Senate. The House proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 323 amends section 3021 of Public Law 105-178 that 
allows the States of Oklahoma and Vermont flexible use of 
transportation funds under sections 5307 and 5311 of title 49, 
United States Code. The Senate proposed amending section 3021 
of Public Law 105-178 to allow the States of Oklahoma and 
Vermont flexible use of transportation funds under sections 
5307 and 5311 of title 49, United States Code, and sections 133 
and 149 of title 23, United States Code. The House proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 324 allows funds received by the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics to be subject to the obligation 
limitation for federal-aid highways and highway safety 
construction as proposed by both the House and Senate.
      Sec. 325 prohibits the use of funds for any type of 
training which: (1) does not meet needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly on the performance of official 
duties; (2) could be highly stressful or emotional to the 
students; (3) does not provide prior notification of content 
and methods to be used during the training; (4) contains any 
religious concepts or ideas; (5) attempts to modify a person's 
values or lifestyle; or (6) is for AIDS awareness training, 
except for raising awareness of medical ramifications of AIDS 
and workplace rights as proposed by the House. The Senate 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 326 prohibits the use of funds in this Act for 
activities designed to influence Congress or a state 
legislature on legislation or appropriations except through 
proper, official channels. The House proposed prohibiting funds 
for activities designed to influence Congress except through 
proper, official channels. The Senate proposed prohibiting 
funds in this Act for activities designed to influence 
Congress, any State legislature, or grant recipient. The 
conference agreement does not change underlying law that gives 
certain agencies, such as the National Transportation Safety 
Board and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 
the express authority to work with state legislatures.
      Sec. 327 requires compliance with the Buy American Act as 
proposed by the House. The Senate proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 328 limits necessary expenses of advisory committees 
to $1,000,000 of the funds provided in this Act to the 
Department of Transportation and includes a provision that 
excludes advisory committees established for conducting 
negotiated rulemaking in accordance with the Negotiated 
Rulemaking Act from the limitation as proposed by the Senate. 
The House proposed no similar limitation or provision.
      Sec. 329 permanently allows receipts collected from users 
of Department of Transportation fitness centers to be available 
to support operation and maintenance of those facilities. The 
House proposed a similar provision that was applicable only to 
fiscal year 2000.
      Sec. 330 prohibits funds to implement or enforce 
regulations that would result in slot allocations of 
international operations to any carrier at O'Hare International 
Airport in excess of the number of slots allocated to and 
scheduled by that carrier as of October 31, 1993, if that slot 
is withdrawn from an air carrier under existing regulations as 
proposed by the House. The Senate proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 331 provides that funds made available under this 
Act and prior year unobligated funds for the Charleston, South 
Carolina, monobeam corridor project shall be transferred and 
administered under the transit planning and research account. 
The Senate proposed allowing capital transit grant funds 
provided in this Act and in Public Laws 105-277 and 105-66 to 
be used for any aspect of the Charleston, South Carolina, 
monobeam corridor project. The House proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 332 permanently limits the number of communities 
that receive essential air service funding by excluding points 
in the 48 contiguous United States that are located 70 highway 
miles from the nearest large or medium hub airport, or that 
require a subsidy in excess of $200 per passenger, unless such 
a point is more than 210 miles from the nearest large or medium 
hub airport as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed a 
similar provision that was applicable only to fiscal year 2000.
      Sec. 333 credits to appropriations of the Department of 
Transportation rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees 
and other funds received by the Department from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of 
building space, and miscellaneous sources as proposed by both 
the House and Senate. Such funds received shall be available 
until December 31, 2000.
      Sec. 334 authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to 
allow issuers of any preferred stock to redeem or repurchase 
preferred stock sold to the Department of Transportation as 
proposed by the House and Senate.
      Sec. 335 provides $750,000 for the Amtrak Reform Council 
as proposed by the House instead of $950,000 as proposed by the 
Senate. Sec. 335 also includes provisions that amend section 
203 of Public Law 105-134 regarding the Amtrak Reform Council's 
recommendations on Amtrak routes identified for closure or 
realignment as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 336 authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to 
transfer appropriations by no more than 12 percent among the 
offices of the Office of the Secretary as proposed by the House 
instead of by no more than 12 per centum as proposed by the 
Senate.
      Sec. 337 prohibits funds in this Act for activities under 
the Aircraft Purchase Loan Guarantee Program as proposed by the 
House. The Senate proposed including this funding prohibition 
under Title I, Federal Aviation Administration.
      Sec. 338 prohibits funds to carry out the functions and 
operations of the office of motor carriers within the Federal 
Highway Administration and allows for the transfer of motor 
carrier funds and certain operations outside the Federal 
Highway Administration. The House proposed prohibiting funds to 
carry out the functions and operations of the office of motor 
carriers within the Federal Highway Administration. The Senate 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 339 provides that grants for operating assistance in 
fiscal years 1999 and 2000 under sec. 5307 of title 49, United 
States Code, for certainurbanized areas may not be more than 80 
percent of the net project cost as proposed by the House. The Senate 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 340 provides that funds provided for the Griffin 
light rail project in Public Law 104-205 shall be available for 
alternative analysis and environmental impact studies for other 
transit alternatives in the Griffin corridor from Hartford, 
Connecticut, to Bradley International Airport as proposed by 
the House. The Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 341 amends sec. 3030(c)(1)(A)(v) of Public Law 105-
178 by deleting ``light rail'' from the authorization for the 
Hartford City light rail connection as proposed by the House. 
The Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 342 provides that the federal share of projects 
funded under the over-the-road bus accessibility program shall 
be 90 percent of the project cost as proposed by the House. The 
Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 343 provides that $10,000,000 of the funding in this 
Act is only for the Coast Guard Mackinaw replacement vessel and 
is available until September 30, 2005, as proposed by the 
House. The Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 344 prohibits the Coast Guard from obligating or 
expending funds provided in this Act to allow an extension of a 
single hull tank vessel's double hull compliance date, unless 
specifically authorized by 4 U.S.C. 3703a(e). The House 
proposed prohibiting funds to review or issue a waiver for a 
vessel deemed to be equipped with a double bottom or double 
sides. The Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 345 prohibits funds in this Act for the planning or 
development of the California State Route 710 Freeway extension 
project through South Pasadena, California, as proposed by the 
House. The Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 346 permanently prohibits the Department of 
Transportation from creating ``peanut-free'' zones or 
restricting the distribution of peanuts aboard domestic 
aircraft until 90 days after submission of a peer-reviewed 
scientific study that determines that there are severe 
reactions by passengers to peanuts as a result of contact with 
very small airborne peanut particles. The Senate proposed a 
similar provision that was applicable only to fiscal year 2000. 
The House proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 347 requires the Federal Transit Administration to 
inform the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 60 
days before a new full funding grant agreement is executed as 
proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 348 amends section 1212(g) of Public Law 105-178 to 
provide the State of New Jersey highway project funding 
flexibility within the state as proposed by the Senate. The 
House proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 349 requires the Coast Guard to convey to the 
University of New Hampshire real property located in New 
Castle, New Hampshire, as proposed by the Senate. The House 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 350 modifies language proposed by the Senate that 
protects personal and related information on motor vehicle 
records. The Senate proposed prohibiting funds in this Act to 
execute a project agreement for any highway project in a state 
that sells drivers' license personal information and drivers' 
license photographs unless that state has established and 
implemented an opt-in process for such information and 
photographs. The prohibition on the sale of written personal 
information applies only if sold for purposes of surveys, 
marketing or solicitations. The House proposed no similar 
provision.
      It is the conferees' intent that personal information, 
such as name, address, and telephone number, can still be 
distributed as specified by the Driver Protection Privacy Act 
and this Act.
      Sec. 351 permits the reallocation of $10,000,000 from 
funds provided in this Act to the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration 
for completion of the National Advanced Driving Simulator 
(NADS). The Senate proposed $10,000,000 from funds provided in 
this Act for completion of NADS. The House proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 352 amends Public Law 102-240 as it relates to 
highway projects in Harford County, Maryland, as proposed by 
the Senate. The House proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 353 expresses the sense of the Senate that the 
United States Census Bureau should include marital status on 
the short form census questionnaire to be distributed to the 
majority of American households for the 2000 decennial census 
as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 354 expresses the sense of the Senate that the 
penalties for involuntarily bumping airline passengers should 
be doubled and that such passengers should obtain a prompt cash 
refund for the full value of their airline ticket as proposed 
by the Senate. The House proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 355 repeals section 656(b) of Public Law 104-208 as 
it relates to state-issued drivers' licenses and comparable 
identification documents as proposed by the Senate. The House 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 356 allows funds provided in Public Law 105-277 for 
the Pittsburgh North Shore central business district transit 
project to be used for preliminary engineering costs, an 
environmental impact statement, or a major investment study for 
that project as proposed by the Senate. The House proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 357 conforms the January 4, 1977, federal decision 
to existing Federal and state laws. The House and Senate 
proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 358 amends section 1602 of Public Law 105-178 to 
allow federal highway funds to be used to retrofit noise 
barriers in several locations in the State of Georgia. The 
House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 359 amends section 1602 of Public Law 105-178 as it 
pertains to a railroad corridor project in Saratoga, New York. 
The House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 360 pertains to the use of funds made available for 
Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities. The 
House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 361 amends section 1602 of Public Law 105-178 and 
section 1105 of Public Law 102-240 pertaining to high priority 
corridors in the State of Arkansas.
      Sec. 362 amends section 3030 of Public Law 105-178 to 
include the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, intermodal facility. The 
House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 363 amends section 3030(b) of Public Law 105-178 to 
authorize the Dane County Corridor-East-West Madison 
Metropolitan Area project. The House and Senate proposed no 
similar provision.
      Sec. 364 prohibits funds for construction of the Douglas 
Branch project and directs the Federal Transit Administration 
to use ``no build'' and ``TSM'' alternatives when evaluating 
the project. The House and Senate proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 365 provides $500,000 in grants to the Environmental 
Protection Agency to develop a pilot program which allows 
employers in designated regions to receive tradable air 
pollution credits for reduced vehicle-miles-traveled as a 
result of an employee telecommuting program. The House and 
Senate proposed no similar provision.
      The conferees direct that a $500,000 grant be awarded by 
the Environmental Protection Agency to the National 
Environmental Policy Institute, a nonprofit organization in 
Washington, D.C. The conferees direct the Environmental 
Protection Agency to work closely with the grantee, the 
Department of Transportation, and the Department of Energy. The 
conferees also direct that all parties work closely with state 
and local governments, and business organizations and leaders 
in the designated regions in this provision. The House and 
Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 366 pertains to conveyed lands by the United States 
to the City of Safford, Arizona, for use by the city for 
airport purposes. The House and Senate proposed no similar 
provision.
      Sec. 367 prohibits funds in this Act unless the Secretary 
of Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than three full business days before 
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. The 
House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 368 allows funds provided in fiscal years 1998 and 
1999 for an intermodal facility in Eureka, California, to be 
available for a bus maintenance facility in Humboldt County, 
California. The House and Senate proposed no similar provision.
      Sec. 369 relates to a study of alternatives to rail 
relocation in Moorhead, Minnesota. The House and Senate 
proposed no similar provision.
      The conference agreement deletes the House provision that 
prohibits funds to be used to issue a final standard under 
docket number NHTSA 98-3945 (relating to State-Issued Drivers 
Licenses and Comparable Identification Documents (Sec. 656(b) 
of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 
1996)).
      The conference agreement deletes the House provision that 
amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 and the 
Arctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act of 1984 as it 
pertains to Coast Guard icebreaking operations.
      The conference agreement deletes the House provision that 
prohibits the expenditure of funds to execute a letter of 
intent, letter of no prejudice, or full funding grant agreement 
for the West-East light rail system, or any segment thereof, or 
a downtown connector in Salt Lake City, Utah.
      The conference agreement deletes the House provision that 
reduces funds provided in this Act for the Transportation 
Administrative Service Center (TASC) by $1,000,000.
      The conference agreement deletes the House provision that 
reduces funds provided in this Act for the Amtrak Reform 
Council by $300,000.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that prohibits funds to be used for conducting the activities 
of the Surface Transportation Board other than those 
appropriated or from fees collected by the Board.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that relates to the non-governmental share of funds for the 
Salt Lake City/Airport to University (West-East) light rail 
project.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that allows the Department of Transportation to enter into a 
fractional aircraft ownership demonstration program. This 
program is addressed in the conference agreement under the 
Federal Aviation Administration.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal 
Aviation Administration should develop a national policy and 
related procedures concerning the interface of the terminal 
automated radar display and information system and en route 
surveillance systems for visual flight rule (VFR) air traffic 
control towers.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that prohibits funds to implement the cost sharing provisions 
of Sec. 5001(b) of Public Law 105-178 as it relates to 
fundamental properties of asphalts and modified asphalts (Sec. 
5117(b)(5)).
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that expresses the sense of the Senate regarding the need for 
reimbursement to the Village of Bourbonnais and Kankakee 
County, Illinois, for crash rescue and cleanup incurred in 
relation to the March 15, 1999, Amtrak train accident.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that provides that of the funds made available in this Act not 
less that $2,000,000 be available for Eastern West Virginia 
Regional Airport; not less than $400,000 for Concord, New 
Hampshire; and not less than $2,000,000 for Huntsville 
International Airport.
      The conference agreement deletes the Senate provision 
that provides that $20,000,000 be available in fiscal year 2001 
for the James A. Farley Post Office project in New York City.


                   conference total--with comparisons

      The total new budget (obligational) authority for the 
fiscal year 2000 recommended by the Committee of Conference, 
with comparisons to the fiscal year 1999 amount, the 2000 
budget estimates, and the House and Senate bills for 2000 
follow:

                        [In thousands of dollars]

New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 1999...      14,547,023
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal 
    year 2000...........................................      14,664,820
House bill, fiscal year 2000............................       8,356,275
Senate bill, fiscal year 2000...........................      13,945,522
Conference agreement, fiscal year 2000..................      14,372,057
Conference agreement compared with:
    New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 
      1999..............................................        -174,966
    Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, 
      fiscal year 2000..................................        -292,763
    House bill, fiscal year 2000........................      +6,015,782
    Senate bill, fiscal year 2000.......................        +426,535

                                   Frank R. Wolf,
                                   Tom DeLay,
                                   Ralph Regula,
                                   Harold Rogers,
                                   Ron Packard,
                                   Sonny Callahan,
                                   Todd Tiahrt,
                                   Robert B. Aderholt,
                                   Kay Granger,
                                   Bill Young,
                                   Martin Olav Sabo,
                                   John W. Olver,
                                   Ed Pastor,
                                   Carolyn C. Kilpatrick,
                                   Jose E. Serrano,
                                   Mike Forbes,
                                   David Obey,
                                 Managers on the Part of the House.

                                   Richard C. Shelby,
                                   Pete V. Domenici,
                                   Arlen Specter,
                                   Christopher S. Bond,
                                   Slade Gorton,
                                   Robert F. Bennett,
                                   Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
                                   Ted Stevens,
                                   Frank R. Lautenberg,
                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                   Barbara A. Mikulski,
                                   Harry Reid,
                                   Herb Kohl,
                                   Patty Murray,
                                   Daniel K. Inouye,
                                Managers on the Part of the Senate.

                                  
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