PUBLIC LAW 95-599—NOV. 6, 1978
92 STAT. 2735
Academy at its request any information which the Academy deems necessary for the purpose of conducting the investigation and study authorized by this section. PROHIBITIOIf
SEC. 215. None of the funds authorized by this title (including Passive restraint any amendment made by this title) shall be expended for the purchase, system. directly or indirectly, of any passive restraint system for any motor vehicle owned by any State (including a political subdivision of a State) or by the United States, except for a motor vehicle primarily used in an educational program. TITLE III SHORT TITLE
Federal Public Transportation Act of 1978.
SEC. 301. This title may be cited as the "Federal Public Trans- 49 USC 1601 note. portation Act of 1978". DISCRETIONARY GRANT OR LOAN PROGRAM
SEC. 302. (a) Section 3(a) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 is amended to read as follows: ^^ USC 1602. " (a)(1) The Secretary is authorized, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, to make grants or loans (directly, through the purchase of securities or equipment trust certificates, or otherwise) to assist States and local public bodies and agencies thereof i n financing— " (A) the construction of new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing fixed guideway systems, including the acquisition of real property, the initial acquisition of rolling stock needed for such systems, and the detailed alternative analyses relating to the development of such systems; " (B) the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use, by operation or lease or otherwise, in mass transportation service and the coordination of such service with highway and other transportation. Eligible facilities and equipment may include personal property such as buses and other rolling stock, and rail and bus facilities, and real property and improvements ( b u t not public highways other than fixed guideway facilities) needed for an efficient and coordinated public transportation system. N o project for the replacement or purchase of buses and related equipment or the construction of bus-related facilities shall be approved unless the Secretary finds that such project cannot be reasonably funded out of the apportionments under section 5(a)(4) of this Act; ^^^^•> P- 2741. " (C) the introduction into public transportation service of new technology in the form of innovative and improved products; " (D) transportation projects which enhance the effectiveness of any mass transportation project and are physically or functionally related to such mass transportation project or which create new or enhanced coordination between public transportation and other forms of transportation, either of which enhance urban economic development or incorporate private investment including commercial and residential development. The term "Eligible costs.
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