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, $45,738,000: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the execution of contracts under section 5327(c) of title 49, United States Code, in an aggregate amount that exceeds $15,000,000. Formula Grants For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5310(a)(2), 5311, and 5336, to remain available until expended, $240,000,000: Provided, That no more than $2,500,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided further, That of the funds provided under this heading for formula grants, no more than $150,000,000 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 75 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, $92,000,000, of which $39,500,000 shall be for activities under Metropolitan Planning (49 U.S.C. 5303); $4,500,000 for activities under Rural Transit Assistance (49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)); $8,250,000 for activities under State Planning and Research (49 U.S.C. 5313(b)); $36,750,000 for activities including National Planning and Research (49 U.S.C. 5314 and 5313(a)); and $3,000,000 for National Transit Institute (49 U.S.C. 5315).111 STAT. 1437 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), $2,210,000,000, to remain available until expended and to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund: Provided, That $2,210,000,000 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 $2,000,000,000 in fiscal year 1998 for grants under the contract authority in 49 U.S.C. 5338(b): Provided, That there shall be available for fixed guideway modernization, $800,000,000; there shall be available for the replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities, $400,000,000; and there shall be available for new fixed guideway systems $800,000,000, to be available as follows: $44,600,000 for the Atlanta-North Springs project; $1,000,000 for the Austin Capital metro project; $46,250,000 for the Boston Piers MOS–2 project; $1,000,000 for the Boston urban ring project; $5,000,000 for the Burlington-Essex, Vermont commuter rail project; $2,000,000 for the Canton-Akron-Cleveland commuter rail project; $1,500,000 for the Charleston monobeam rail project; $1,000,000 for the Charlotte South corridor transitway project; $500,000 for the Cincinnati Northeast/Northem Kentucky rail line project; $5,000,000 for the Clark County, Nevada fixed guideway project; $800,000 for the Cleveland Blue Line extension to Highland Hills project; $700,000 for the Cleveland Berea Red Line extension to Hopkins International Airport; $1,000,000 for the Cleveland Waterfront Line extension project; $8,000,000 for the Dallas-Fort Worth RAILTRAN project; $11,000,000 for the DART North Central light rail extension project; $1,000,000 for the DeKalb County, Georgia light rail project; $23,000,000 for the Denver Southwest Corridor project; $20,000,000 for the New York East Side access project; $8,000,000 for the Florida Tri-County commuter rail project;111 STAT. 1438 $2,000,000 for the Galveston, Texas rail trolley system project; $1,000,000 for the Houston Advanced Regional Bus project; $51,100,000 for the Houston Regional Bus project; $1,250,000 for the Indianapolis Northeast corridor project; $3,000,000 for the Jackson, Mississippi intermodal corridor project; $61,500,000 for the Los Angeles MOS–3 project; $31,000,000 for MARC commuter rail improvements; $1,000,000 for the Memphis, Tennessee regional rail project; $5,000,000 for the Metro-Dade Transit east-west corridor project; $5,000,000 for the Miami-North 27th Avenue project; $1,000,000 for the Mission Valley East corridor project; $500,000 for the Nassau Hub rail link EIS project; $60,000,000 for the New Jersey Hudson-Bergen LRT project; $27,000,000 for the New Jersey Secaucus project; $6,000,000 for the New Orleans Canal Street corridor project; $2,000,000 for the New Orleans Desire Streetcar project; $12,000,000 for the North Carolina Research Triangle Park project; $4,000,000 for the Northern Indiana South Shore commuter rail project; $3,000,000 for the Oceanside-Escondido light rail project; $1,600,000 for the Oklahoma City MAPS corridor transit project; $2,000,000 for the Orange County transitway project; $31,800,000 for the Orlando Lynx light rail project; $500,000 for the Pennsylvania Strawberry Hill/Diamond Branch rail project; $4,000,000 for the Phoenix metropolitan area transit project; $5,000,000 for the Pittsburgh airport busway project; $63,400,000 for the Portland-Westside/Hillsboro project; $2,000,000 for the Roaring Fork Valley rail project; $20,300,000 for the Sacramento LRT project; $63,400,000 for the Salt Lake City South LRT project; $4,000,000 for the Salt Lake City regional commuter system project; $1,000,000 for the San Bernardino Metrolink project; $1,500,000 for the San Diego Mid-Coast corridor project; $29,900,000 for the San Francisco BART extension to the airport project; $15,000,000 for the San Juan Tren Urbano; $21,400,000 for the San Jose Tasman LRT project; $18,000,000 for the Seattle-Tacoma light rail and commuter rail projects; $30,000,000 for the St. Louis-St. Clair LRT extension project; $2,500,000 for the St. George Ferry terminal project; $500,000 for the Springfield-Branson, Missouri commuter rail project; $1,000,000 for the Tampa Bay regional rail project; $2,000,000 for the Tidewater, Virginia rail project;111 STAT. 1439 $1,000,000 for the Toledo, Ohio rail project; $12,000,000 for the Twin Cities transitways projects; $2,000,000 for the Virginia Rail Express Fredericksburg to Washington commuter rail project; $2,500,000 for the Whitehall ferry terminal project; and $3,000,000 for the Wisconsin central 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, $2,350,000,000, 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.