Federal Highway Administration

Federal Highway Administration federal-aid highways (highway trust fund) For the Emergency Fund authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125 to cover expenses arising from the January 1996 flooding in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Northwest States and other disasters, $300,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress: Provided further, That such amount is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 125(b)(1) shall not apply to projects relating to the January 1996 flooding in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and North-west States.