BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM AMENDMENTS.

SEC. 312. BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM AMENDMENTS. (a) Funding of Partial Programs of Projects.—Section 9(e)(2) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “A grant may be made under this section to carry out, in whole or in part, a program of projects.”. (b) Transit Advertising Revenues.— (1) Exclusion from operating revenues.—Section 9(k)(1) of such Act is amended by inserting after the third sentence the following new sentence: “For purposes of the preceding sentence, ‘revenues from the operation of a public mass transportation system’ shall not include the amount of any revenues derived by such system from the sale of advertising and concessions which is in excess of the amount of such revenues derived by such system from the sale of advertising and concessions in fiscal year 1985.”. (2) Annual report.—Section 9(e) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(4) Each recipient (including any person receiving funds from a Governor under this section) shall submit to the Secretary annually a report on the revenues such recipient derives from the sale of advertising and concessions.”. (c) Operating Assistance Limitation for Small Urbanized Areas.—Section 9(k)(2) of such Act is amended— (1) by inserting “(A)” after “(2)”; (2) by striking out the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, an urbanized area that first became an urbanized area under the 1980 census or thereafter may use each fiscal year for operating assistance not to exceed an amount equal to ⅔ of its apportionment during the first full year it received funds under this section.”; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following: “(B) Beginning on October 1, 1988, the amount of funds apportioned under this section that may be used for operating assistance by urbanized areas of less than 200,000 population shall be increased on October 1 of each year by an amount determined by multiplying the amount applicable to each such urbanized area as determined under subparagraph (A) (excluding any increases under this subparagraph) by the percentage of the increase (if any) in the Consumer Price Index during the most recent calendar year. The amount of funds apportioned under this section that each urbanized area of less than 200,000 population that was a recipient of funds under this section during fiscal year 1987 may use for operating assistance shall be increased by 32.2 percent on October 1, 1987. The increases provided for by this subparagraph shall be cumulative. “(C) As used in subparagraph (B), the term ‘Consumer Price Index’ means the Consumer Price Index for all-urban consumers published by the Department of Labor.”. 101 STAT. 229 (d) Transfers of Apportionments.—Section 9(n)(1) of such Act is amended— (1) by striking out “with populations of three hundred thousand or less” in the first sentence; and (2) by inserting after the third sentence the following: “Any amounts of a State’s apportionment that remain available for obligation at the beginning of the 90-day period before the expiration of the period of availability of such amounts shall be available to the Governor for use throughout the State.”. (e) Date of Apportionment.—Section 9 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(q) Date of Apportionment.—The Secretary shall apportion funds appropriated to carry out this section for any fiscal year in accordance with the provisions of this section not later than the 10th day following the date on which such funds are appropriated or October 1 of such fiscal year, whichever is later. The Secretary shall publish apportionments of such appropriated funds, including amounts attributable to each urbanized area above 50,000 population as well as the amount attributable to each State of the multistate urbanized area, on the apportionment date established by the preceding sentence.”. (f) Technical Amendments.—(1) Section 9(e) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(5) No grant shall be made under this section to any recipient in Grants, any fiscal year unless the Secretary has accepted a certification for such fiscal year submitted by such person pursuant to this subsection.”. (2) Section 9(g) of such Act is amended by striking out paragraph (4) . (3) Section 9(1) of such Act is repealed.