FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

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, $42,000,000. Formula Grants For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5310(a)(2), 5311, and 5336, to remain available until expended, $942,925,000: Provided, That no more than $2,052,925,000 of budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided further, That of the funds provided under this head for formula grants, no more than $400,000,000 may be used for operating assistance under 49 U.S.C. 5336(d): Provided further, That the limitation on operating assistance provided under this heading shall, for urbanized areas of less than 200,000 in population, be no less than seventy-109 STAT. 448five percent of the amount of operating assistance such areas are eligible to receive under Public Law 103–331: Provided further, That in the distribution of the limitation provided under this heading to urbanized areas that had a population under the 1990 census of 1,000,000 or more, the Secretary shall direct each such area to give priority consideration to the impact of reductions in operating assistance on smaller transit authorities operating within the area and to consider the needs and resources of such transit authorities when the limitation is distributed among all transit authorities operating in the area. University Transportation Centers For necessary expenses for university transportation centers as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5317(b), to remain available until expended, $6,000,000. Transit Planning and Research For necessary expenses for transit planning and research as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5303, 5311, 5313, 5314, and 5315, to remain available until expended, $85,500,000 of which $39,500,000 shall be for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5303, $4,500,000 for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2), $8,250,000 for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5313(b), $22,000,000 for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5314, $8,250,000 for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5313(a), and $3,000,000 for activities under 49 U.S.C. 5315. TRUST FUND SHARE OF EXPENSES (liquidation of contract authorization) (highway trust fund) For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 5338(a), $1,120,850,000, to remain available until expended and to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That $1,120,850,000 shall be paid from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund to the Federal Transit Administration’s formula grants account. Discretionary Grants (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 $1,665,000,000 in fiscal year 1996 for grants under the contract authority in 49 U.S.C. 5338(b): Provided, That there shall be available for fixed guideway modernization, $666,000,000; there shall be available for the replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities, $333,000,000; and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for fixed guideway modernization projects, $21,631,250 made available under Public Law 102–388 under “Federal Transit Administration, Discretionary Grants” for projects specified in that Act or identified in reports accompanying 109 STAT. 449 that Act, not obligated by September 30, 1995, shall be made available for new fixed guideway systems together with the $666,000,000 made available for new fixed guideway systems in this Act, to be available as follows: $42,410,000 for the Atlanta-North Springs project; $20,060,000 for the South Boston Piers (MOS–2) project; $4,250,000 for the Canton-Akron-Cleveland commuter rail project; $1,000,000 for the Cincinnati Northeast/Northern Kentucky rail line project; $16,941,000 for the Dallas South Oak Cliff LRT project; $3,000,000 for the DART North Central light rail extension project; $6,000,000 for the Dallas-Fort Worth RAILTRAN project; $10,000,000 for the Florida Tri-County commuter rail project; $22,630,000 for the Houston Regional Bus project; $9,720,625 for the Jacksonville ASE extension project; $85,000,000 for the Los Angeles Metro Rail (MOS–3); $8,500,000 for the Los Angeles-San Diego commuter rail project; $10,000,000 for the MARC commuter rail project; $15,315,000 for the Maryland Central Corridor LRT project; $2,000,000 for the Miami-North 27th Avenue project; $1,250,000 for the Memphis, Tennessee Regional Rail Plan; $80,250,000 for the New Jersey Urban Core-Secaucus project; $5,000,000 for the New Orleans Canal Street Corridor project; $126,725,125 for the New York Queens Connection project; $22,630,000 for the Pittsburgh Airport Phase 1 project; $130,140,000 for the Portland Westside LRT project; $2,000,000 for the Sacramento LRT extension project; $12,500,000 for the St. Louis Metro Link LRT project; $9,759,500 for the Salt Lake City light rail project, of which not more than $5,000,000 may be available for high-occupancy vehicle lane and intermodal corridor design costs; $10,000,000 for the San Francisco BART extension to the San Francisco airport project; $7,500,000 for the San Juan, Puerto Rico Tren Urbano project; $500,000 for the Tampa to Lakeland commuter rail project; $2,500,000 for the Whitehall ferry terminal, New York, New York; $14,400,000 for the Wisconsin central commuter project; and $5,650,000 for the Burlington-Charlotte, Vermont commuter rail project. Mass Transit Capital Fund (liquidation of contract authorization) (highway trust fund) For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 5338(b) administered by the Federal Transit Administration, 109 STAT. 450 $2,000,000,000 to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of section 14 of Public Law 96–184 and Public Law 101–551, $200,000,000, to remain available until expended.