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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 1462

Urban Discretionary Grant Program.

Repeals.

52 Stat. 205.

Maryland Transportation Authority.

Greater Rockford Airport Authority. 49 USC 1115 note.

East Baton Rouge, La. 50 USC app. 1622c.

PUBLIC LAW 97-102—DEC. 23, 1981

an appropriate resolution adopted by the House Public Works and Transportation Committee or the Senate Commerce Committee. SEC. 325. Notwithst£m(^g any other provision of law, the Secretary shall, with re^a^ to the Urban Discretionary Grant Program of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, promptly issue a letter of intent for the Dade County, Florida, Circulator System for $63,642,666, and, in addition, shall promptly issue a letter of intent for nonrail projects in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan region for $76,800,000 and £dso issue a letter of intent for the Southeast Michigan Central Automated Transit System for 110 million 1981 dollars. SEC. 326. (a) The Act entitled "An Act authorizing the State of Maryland, by and through its State Roads Commission or the successors of said Commission, to construct, maintain, and operate certain bridges across streams, rivers, and navigable waters which are wholly or partly within the State", approved April 7, 1938, and the Act of June 16, 1948 (62 Stat. 463, Public Law 654, 80th Congress), as amended by the Act of November 17, 1967 (81 Stat. 466, Public Law 144,90th Congress) are hereby repealed. (b) The State of Maryland, by and through the Maryland Transportation Authority or the successors of such Authority, is authorized, subject to all applicable Federal laws, (1) to continue to collect tolls after the date of enactment of this Act from its existing transportation facilities projects, as defined on the date of enactment of this Act in the laws of the State of Maryland, and (2) to use the revenues from such tolls for transportation projects of the type which the State or the Maryland Transportation Authority is authorized to construct, operate* or maintain under the laws of the State of Maryland as such laws exist on the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 327. (a) Notwithstanding section 16 of the Federal Airport Act (as in effect on November 25, 1947), the Secretary of Transportation is authorized, subject to the provisions of section 13 of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50 App. U.S.C. 1622(g)), and the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, to grant release from any of the terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions contained in a deed of conveyance dated November 25, 1947, under which the United States conveyed certain property to the Greater Rockford Airport Authority for airport purposes and in deeds of conveyance dated May 28, 1948, and April 21, 1949, under which the United States conveyed certain property of the city of Liberal, Kansas for airport purposes. do) Any release granted by the Secretary of Transportation under subsection (a) shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) the Greater Rockford Airport Authority or the city of Liberal, Kansas, as the case may be, shall agree that in conveying any interest in the property which the United States conveyed pursuant to the deeds described in subsection (a), the Greater Kockford Airport Authority or the city of Liberal, Kansas, as the case may be, will receive an amount which is equal to the fair market value; and (2) any such amount so received shall be used for the development, improvement, operation, or maintenance of a public aiiport. SEC. 328. (a) Notwithstanding section 13(g) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (50 App. U.S.C. 1622(g)) and section 4 of the Act of October 1, 1949 (50 App. U.S.C. 1622(c)), the Secretary of Transportation, if requested, shall, as to the property described in subsection (f), grant a release to the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from all of the terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions contained in the deed