apportionment

apportionment Sec. 111. (a) Section 104 of title 23, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) are amended by striking the words “star routes” each time they appear and inserting in lieu thereof “intercity mail routes where service is performed by motor vehicles”. (2) Paragraph (1) of subsection (b) is amended by striking out “one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “one-third in the ratio which the population of rural areas of each State bears to the total population of rural areas of all the States”. The last sentence of such paragraph is amended by inserting “(other than the District of Columbia)” immediately after “No State”. (3) Paragraph (2) of subsection (b) is amended by striking out “one-third in the ratio which the rural population of each State bears to the total rural population of all the States” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “one-third in the ratio which the population of rural areas of each State bears to the total population of rural areas of all of the States”. The last sentence or such paragraph is amended by inserting “(other than the District of Columbia)” immediately after “No State”. (4) Paragraph (6) of subsection (b) is amended by striking the word “urbanized” wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “urban”, and by adding at the end thereof the following: “No State shall receive less than one-half of 1 per centum of each year’s apportionment.” (5) Subsection (c) is amended by striking out “20 per centum” in each of the two places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof in each such place the following: “40 per centum” and by striking out “paragraph (1), (2), or (3)” and inserting in lieu thereof “paragraph (1) or (2)”. (6) Subsection (d) is amended to read as follows: “(d) Not more than 40 per centum of the amount apportioned in any fiscal year to each State in accordance with paragraph (3) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be transferred from the apportionment under one paragraph to the apportionment under the other paragraph if such transfer is requested by the State highway department and is approved by the Governor of such State and the Secretary as being in the public interest. Funds apportioned in accordance with paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of this section shall not be transferred from their allocation to any urbanized area of 200,000 population or more under section 150 of this title, without the approval of the 87 Stat. 257local officials of such urbanized area. The total of such transfers shall not increase the original apportionment under either of such paragraphs by more than 40 per centum.” (7) The last sentence of subsection (c) is hereby repealed. (b) Notwithstanding the amendments made by subsection (a) of this section, no State (other than the District of Columbia) shall receive an apportionment for the primary system which is less than the apportionment which such State received for such system for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973. In order to carry out this subsection, there is authorized to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund for the Federal-aid primary system, an additional $17,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $15,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976.