94 STAT. 1696
Fiscal year limitation. Federal-aid highways.
West Seattle bridge, Wash.
Funding allocation formula.
PUBLIC LAW 96-400—Oct. 9, 1980
rates generally applicable to other persons at peak hours: Provided, That the Secretary, in prescribing the terms and conditions for the provision of such assistance shall (1) permit applicants to continue the use of preferential fare systems for elderly or handicapped persons where those systems were in effect on or prior to November 26, 1974, (2) allow applicants a reasonable time to expand the coverage of operating preferential fare systems as appropriate, (3) allow applicants to continue to use preferential fare systems incorporating the offering of a free return ride upon payment of the generally applicable full fare where any such applicant's existing fare collection system does not reasonably permit the collection of half fares, and (4) allow applicants to define the eligibility of "handicapped persons" for the purposes of preferential fares in conformity with other Federal laws and regulations governing eligibility for benefits for disabled persons. SEC. 309. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 310. None of the funds provided under or included in this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs, the obligations for which are in excess of $8,750,000,000 for "Federal-Aid Highways" in fiscal year 1981: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to obligations for emergency relief authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125: Provided further, for replacement of the West Seattle bridge in the State of Washington, $50,000,000 to be made available from obligations authorized by 23 U.S.C. 125 on August 4, 1978: Provided further. That this limitation shall not become effective if subsequent legislation containing an obligation limitation on "Federal-Aid Highways" for fiscal year 1981 is enacted into law by September 30, 1980: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of Transportation shall, not later than 60 days after date of enactment of this Act, designate under 23 U.S.C. 103(e)(l) as a route on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways 3.03 miles in the State of Missouri extending 1-170 southward from 1-70 to tie into U.S. 40 and 6.25 miles in the State of Alabama connecting I-IO and 1-65 in the vicinity of Mobile-Prichard: Provided further. That there shall be no obligation constraints placed upon ongoing emergency projects funded under the Discretionary Bridge Replacement Fund or the Emergency Relief Fund. (a) For fiscal year 1981, the Secretary of Transportation shall control the obligation of the limitation imposed by the above allocation according to the following formula: 80 per centum in the ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to a State for fiscal year 1981 bears to the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to all the States for such fiscal year; the remaining 20 per centum not so allocated, in the order in which States having obligated all such sums so allocated submit projects on or after August 1, 1981, to the Secretary of Transportation for his approval and in the amounts for such projects. Ob) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall— (1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which have been apportioned or allocated to a State, except in those instances in which a State indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code;
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