Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

Summary

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1990 for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 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 and equipment, research, engineering, and development; (2) grants-in-aid for airports (liquidation of contract authorization); and (3) 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) motor carrier safety; (7) the Baltimore-Washington Parkway; (8) an intermodal urban demonstration project as part of the Federal-aid highway program; (9) highway safety and economic development demonstration projects; (10) a coordinated highway improvement project in the vicinity of Pontiac and East Lansing, Michigan; (11) a highway-railroad grade crossing safety demonstration project in Mineola, New York; (12) a highway widening demonstration project in the vicinity of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; (13) a bridge improvement demonstration project in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Florida; (14) a highway widening and improvement demonstration project between Paintsville and Prestonburg, Kentucky; (15) a highway capacity improvement demonstration project in Jackson County, Florida; (16) a climbing lane safety demonstration project in Tioga County, Pennsylvania; (17) an industrial corridor safety demonstration project between Wabash and Huntington, Indiana; (18) a highway widening demonstration project in Oklahoma; (19) a highway bypass demonstration project near Jasper, Alabama; (20) a bridge demonstration project in Owensboro, Kentucky; (21) a High Occupancy Vehicle lane demonstration project in Northern Virginia; (22) an urban highway corridor demonstration project (including a bicycle transportation demonstration project) and an urban airport access safety demonstration project in southeast Michigan; (23) the construction of the Ebensburg, Pennsylvania bypass; (24) a bridge rehabilitation demonstration project near Chester, Illinois; and (25) certain preliminary engineering highway demonstration projects. Sets a limit on direct loans from the Right-of-Way Revolving Fund. 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; (5) grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation; and (6) the settlement of promissory notes pursuant to the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973. 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 1990. Makes appropriations for Conrail commuter transition assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a specified amount in loans to the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railroad to replace existing jointed rail with continuous welded rail between Joliet, Illinois and Granite City, Illinois. 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 1990 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 official reception and representation expenses; (5) the Department of the Treasury for Saint Lawrence Seaway 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 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 of Transportation 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 120 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. Directs the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to publish in the Federal Register within 14 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 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 100 percent or more the rental payments made during FY 1989. Reduces the FY 1990 obligations and outlays of the Federal Buildings Fund by revenue reduction to such Fund by the rental payments limitations. Declares inapplicable to the Virginia Street Bridge in Charleston, West Virginia, certain appropriations earmarked for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Provides that funds appropriated for the Mass Transit Capital Fund shall be available to pay obligations incurred in implementing the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987. Requires the Federal Aviation Administration to satisfy specified air traffic controller work force staffing requirements by September 30, 1990. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to make certain compensation payments under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Mandates that all airport grant letters of intent in excess of $10,000,000 shall be submitted for approval to certain congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to transfer funds appropriated to any office of the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary upon approval by specified congressional committees. Restricts to four percent any increase or decrease in appropriation by such transfer. Requires FY 1990 pay raises for programs funded in this Act to be absorbed within appropriate levels. Amends the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a highway safety improvement demonstration project in the Village of Alsip, Illinois. Prohibits any of the funds in this Act from being available for the establishment of a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation Scheme. Authorizes airports to transfer, without consideration, to the FAA instrument landing systems which have been purchased by such airports with airport improvement program grant funds. Repeals a provision of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989, relating to the prohibition on the use of funds provided under such Act for the design and construction of certain interchanges on I-66 in Florida. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to reimburse the State of California for the Federal share of the fair market value of the right of way incorporated into specified highway construction projects.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

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• Reported in House (text)

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• Referred in Senate (text)

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• Public Print (text)

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• Enrolled Bill (text)

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• Engrossed in House (text)

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 22 November 1989

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• House receded and concurred with amendment

  summary · EN · 1 November 1989

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 27 September 1989

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 7 September 1989

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 3 August 1989

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 26 July 1989

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