PUBLIC LAW 108–7—FEB. 20, 2003
117 STAT. 413
which shall thereafter be operated and maintained by FAA in accordance with agency criteria. SEC. 326. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Williams Gateway Airport shall transfer to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic control tower equipment, which shall thereafter be operated and maintained by FAA in accordance with agency criteria. SEC. 327. Section 218(a) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘reauthorization of the’’ before ‘‘Transportation’’. SEC. 328. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department to redeem or repurchase such stock upon the payment to the Department of an amount determined by the Secretary. SEC. 329. None of the funds in this Act may be used to make a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation, or the Secretary of the department in which the Transportation Security Administration is operating, notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is announced by the department or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the Federal Highway Administration other than the emergency relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation Administration; (3) any program of the Federal Transit Administration other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs; or (4) any port security grants totaling $500,000 or more of the Transportation Security Administration: Provided, That no notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation. SEC. 330. In addition to amounts otherwise made available in this Act, to enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for surface transportation projects, $90,600,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the surface transportation projects identified in the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference accompanying this Act are eligible for funding made available by the immediately preceding clause of this provision. SEC. 331. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for engineering work related to an additional runway at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. SEC. 332. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act shall be available for the design or construction of a light rail system in Houston, Texas. (b) Notwithstanding (a), amounts made available in this Act or previous Acts under the heading ‘‘Federal Transit Administration, Capital investment grants’’ for a Houston, Texas, Metro advanced transit plan project shall be available for obligation or expenditure subject to the following conditions: (1) Sufficient amounts shall be used for major investment studies in 4 major corridors. (2) The Texas Department of Transportation shall review and comment on the findings of the studies under paragraph (1). Any comments by such department on such findings shall be included in any final report on such studies.
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