authorization of appropriations

authorization of appropriations Sec. 103. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act, except that— (1) the total of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of acquisition and development under the park management plan established pursuant to section 201(b) of this Act and emergency assistance under section 205(a)(1) of this Act shall not exceed $18,500,000; and (2) the total of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out section 302(b)(2) of this Act, for the payment of grants and loans under section 303 of this Act, for the acquisition of property under section 304 of this Act, and for carrying out any transportation program and any educational and cultural program described in section 302(c) of this Act shall not exceed $21,500,000. (b) No funds shall be authorized pursuant to this section prior to October 1, 1978. (c) Funds appropriated under subsection (a) of this section shall remain available until expended. (d) (1) Within 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and on each subsequent October 1 and March 1, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a statement certifying the aggregate amount of money expended by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Lowell, and by any nonprofit entity for activities in the city of Lowell consistent with the purpose of this Act during the period beginning on January 1, 1974, and ending on the date such statement is submitted. (2) The aggregate amount of funds made available by the Secretary to the Commission from funds appropriated under subsection (a)(2) of this section may not exceed the amount certified by the Secretary in the most, recent statement submitted to the Congress under paragraph (1) of this subsection.