Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988

Summary

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1988 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation for salaries and expenses, transportation planning, research, and development, and the Working Capital Fund; (2) payments to air carriers; and (3) the Coast Guard for operating expenses, acquisition, construction, and improvements, for alteration or removal of obstructive bridges, for retired pay, reserve training, research, development, test, and evaluation, the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, the Deepwater Port Liability Fund, and recreational boating safety assistance. Appropriates funds for the necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for: (1) operations, facilities, engineering, and research and development; (2) grants-in-aid for airports (liquidation of contract authorization); (3) the Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund; and (4) the aircraft purchase loan guarantee program. Appropriates funds to the Federal Highway Administration for: (1) general operating expenses; (2) highway safety research and development; (3) highway-related safety grants; (4) railroad-highway crossings demonstration projects; (5) Federal-aid highways; (6) the Right-of-Way Revolving Fund; (7) motor carrier safety; (8) the Baltimore-Washington Parkway; (9) an expressway gap closing demonstration project in north-central California; (10) an intermodal urban demonstration project as part of the Federal-aid highway program; (11) highway safety and economic development demonstration projects; (12) a coordinated highway improvement project in the vicinity of Pontiac and East Lansing, Michigan; (13) a highway-railroad grade crossing safety demonstration project in Mineola, New York; (14) a bridge improvement demonstration project in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Florida; (15) a vehicular and pedestrian safety demonstration project in Northampton and Huntington, Massachusetts; (16) a highway bridge relocation demonstration project in Northampton and Huntington, Massachusetts; (17) a highway bypass demonstration project in the vicinity of Prunedale, California; and (18) a highway widening and improvement demonstration project between Paintsville and Prestonburg, Kentucky. Appropriates funds to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for operations and research and highway traffic safety grants. Appropriates funds to the Federal Railroad Administration for: (1) the Office of the Administrator; (2) railroad safety; (3) railroad research and development; (4) the Northeast Corridor improvement program; and (5) grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Authorizes the issuance of notes to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment of loan guarantees from railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing funds. Prohibits commitments to guarantee new loans for railroad rehabilitation and improvement during FY 1988. Makes appropriations for the settlement of promissory notes to be derived from the proceeds of railroad litigation settlements. Appropriates funds to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration for: (1) administrative expenses; (2) research, training, and human resources; (3) formula grants; (4) discretionary grants; (5) the mass transit capital fund; (6) Interstate transfer grants; and (7) the Washington Metro. Appropriates funds to: (1) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation for administrative expenses, operations and maintenance; (2) the Research and Special Programs Administration (including the pipeline safety program); and (3) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the National Transportation Safety Board; (3) the Interstate Commerce Commission for salaries and expenses (with a limit on payments for directed rail service); (4) the Panama Canal Commission for operating expenses and capital outlay; (5) the Department of the Treasury for certain toll rebates; and (6) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for interest payments. Title III: General Provisions - Permits the apportionment of funds appropriated for the Panama Canal Commission. Permits the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide for the expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of FAA personnel stationed outside the United States when the Secretary of Transportation determines that adequate schooling is unavailable in the locality and that adequate schools are not accessible by public transportation. Prohibits the use of Panama Canal Commission appropriations unless in conformance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to plan or execute any program to compensate non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings under this Act. Prohibits appropriated funds from being available beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Prohibits the use of funds for the planning or implementation of any change in the current Federal status of the Transportation Systems Center or of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. Limits the use of appropriated funds for consulting services to those contracts that are a matter of public record and are available for public inspection. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways according to a specified formula. Sets an obligation limitation upon the amounts distributed to the States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide the States with authority to prevent lapses of authorized appropriations apportioned to them for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction; (2) redistribute funds from States which will not obligate funds to those States which are able to obligate funds; and (3) not distribute amounts authorized for administrative expenses, the Federal lands highway program, and the strategic highway research program. Prescribes guidelines under which the States may obligate certain amounts within a specified time period for Federal-aid highways, highway safety construction, and highway assistance. Limits the use of appropriated funds for salaries and expenses to 138 political appointees in the Department of Transportation. Limits expenditures for advisory committees. Conditions the use of appropriated funds for the Woodward light rail line in Detroit, Michigan, upon approval in accordance with Michigan law of a source of operating funds. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for any costs related to the Central Automated Transit System (Downtown People Mover) in Detroit, Michigan. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress by January 1 of each year regarding the safety enforcement activities of the FAA. Directs the Department of Transportation to submit a long-range, multi-modal national transportation strategic planning study to the Congress before October 1, 1989. Directs the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to publish in the Federal Register within seven calendar days of obligation an announcement of certain grants obligated under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for a national policy specifying that only a single type of visual glideslope indicator can be funded through the airport improvement program. Directs the FAA to satisfy specified air traffic controller work force staffing requirements by September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to permit the obligation of a certain apportionment for the State of Florida for operating expenses of the Tri-County Commuter Rail Project (in the area of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties) during each year that Interstate 95 is under reconstruction in such area. Denies the use of funds under this Act for rental payments to the General Services Administration which exceed by four percent or more the rental payments made during FY 1987. Declares inapplicable to the Southside Bridge in Charleston, West Virginia, certain appropriations earmarked for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Designates as "United States Highway 377" a certain portion of Oklahoma State Route 99. Requires the FAA to adopt regulations mandating the use of automatic altitude reporting equipment by all aircraft operating in certain controlled airspace. Prohibits the availability of appropriations to the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority unless it prohibits all smoking on the Long Island Railroad.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 29 October 1987

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 9 October 1987

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 13 July 1987

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 7 July 1987

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