Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1984

Summary

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1984 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1984 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; and (2) the Coast Guard for operating expenses, acquisition, construction and improvements, alteration of bridges, retired pay, reserve training, research, development, test and evaluation, the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, the Deepwater Port Liability Fund, and the National Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Fund. Appropriates funds for the necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration for: (1) operations, facilities, engineering, and development; (2) grants-in-aid for airports; (3) operation, maintenance, and construction at the Metropolitan Washington airports; (4) headquarters administration; and (5) the Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund. Prohibits, during FY 1984, any commitments under the aircraft purchase loan guarantee program. Appropriates funds to the Federal Highway Administration for: (1) general operating expenses; (2) motor carrier safety; (3) highway safety research and development; (4) highway-related safety grants; (5) federal-aid highways; (6) railroad-highway crossings demonstration projects; and (7) the Right-of-Way Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for operations and research, and for 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) rail service assistance; (5) Conrail labor protection; (6) the Northeast Corridor improvement program; (7) grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation; and (8) Rock Island labor protection. Authorizes the issuance of notes to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment of loan guarantees from railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing funds. Sets the ceiling of FY 1984 total commitments to guarantee new loans for railroad rehabilitation and improvement. Authorizes expenditures for the redeemable preference shares program, including assistance for the Illinois Feeder line. Appropriates funds to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration for: (1) administrative expenses; (2) research, development, and demonstrations and university research and training; (3) discretionary grants; (4) formula grants; (5) liquidation of contract authorization; (6) the Washington Metro; and (7) interstate transfer grants. Appropriates funds to: (1) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation for administrative expenses; (2) the Research and Special Programs Administration for research and development and grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety program; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses and bid rigging investigative efforts. Continues the Alaska Railroad Revolving Fund. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the National Transportation Safety Board; (3) the Civil Aeronautics Board for salaries and expenses and payments to air carriers; (4) the Interstate Commerce Commission for salaries and expenses and payments for directed rail service; (5) the Panama Canal Commission for operating expenses and capital outlay; (6) the United States Railway Association; and (7) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for interest payments. Title III: General Provisions - 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 appropriated funds under this Act for formula grants for urban mass transit unless the applicants for such grants assure the Secretary that rates charged the elderly and handicapped persons during nonpeak hours do not exceed one-half the rates applicable to other persons at peak hours. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the planning or construction of rail-highway crossings at the School Street crossing in Groton, Connecticut, and the Broadway Extension Crossing in Stonington, Connecticut. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds: (1) to plan or execute any program to compensate non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings under this Act; or (2) to assist any State in imposing mandatory State inspection fees or sticker requirements on vehicles lawfully registered in another State, including certain vehicles engaged in interstate commercial transportation. Prohibits appropriated funds from being available beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Prohibits the approval of any project or action which would interfere with the reasonable needs of navigation on the Columbia Slough, Oregon. Releases the city of Gadsden, Alabama, from all the terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions contained in a certain deed which conveyed real property to such city for airport purposes. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to lower the annual passenger ceiling at Washington National Airport or to reduce the number of certified air carrier slots provided under the existing Metropolitan Washington Airport Policy. Prohibits the use of such funds to promulgate or enforce any rule with respect to the repayment of construction differential subsidy for the permanent release of vessels from certain restrictions under the Merchant Marine Act, 1936. Prohibits the use of funds to enforce any regulation on commercial motor vehicle length limitations under the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1972, which designates non-Interstate highways in Connecticut as qualifying Federal-aid Primary System highways. Limits the use of appropriated funds for consulting services to those contracts that are a matter of public record and available for public inspection and those contracts included in a publicly available list.

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Timeline

1. 1 February 1983

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Transportation.

   Source: Committee

2. 1 February 1983

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 3 February 1983

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

4. 26 April 1983

   Committee

   Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.

   Source: Committee

5. 24 May 1983

   Committee

   First Day of Subcommittee Mark-Up.

   Source: Committee

6. 16 June 1983

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

7. 16 June 1983

   Calendars

   Placed on Union Calendar No: 164.

   Source: Calendars

8. 16 June 1983

   Reported

   Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 98-246.

   Source: Committee

9. 16 June 1983

   Reported

   Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 98-246.

   Source: Committee

10. 16 June 1983

    Reported

    Ordered to be Reported.

    Source: Committee

11. 16 June 1983

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

12. 16 June 1983

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

13. 21 June 1983

    Reported

    Rules Committee Resolution H.Res.238 Reported to House.

    Source: Floor

14. 21 June 1983

    Floor

    Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving Points of Order Against Consideration of the Bill.

    Source: Floor

15. 22 June 1983

    Vote

    Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 250 - 156 (Record Vote No: 209).

    Source: Floor

16. 22 June 1983

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 250 - 156 (Record Vote No: 209).

    Source: Floor

17. 22 June 1983

    Passed

    House Agreed to Amendments Adopted by the Committee of the Whole.

    Source: Floor

18. 22 June 1983

    Floor

    Called up by House as Privileged Matter.

    Source: Floor

19. 22 June 1983

    Passed

    Rule Passed House.

    Source: Floor

20. 23 June 1983

    Introduced

    Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

    Source: IntroReferral

21. 12 July 1983

    Committee

    Subcommittee on Transportation Appropriations. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

22. 14 July 1983

    Calendars

    Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 284.

    Source: Calendars

23. 14 July 1983

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Andrews with amendments. With written report No. 98-179.

    Source: Committee

24. 14 July 1983

    Reported

    Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.

    Source: Committee

25. 15 July 1983

    Vote

    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 86-5. Record Vote No: 196.

    Source: Floor

26. 15 July 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Andrews; Cochran; Abdnor; Kasten; D'Amato; Hatfield; Chiles; Stennis; Eagleton.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

27. 15 July 1983

    Floor

    Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.

    Source: Floor

28. 18 July 1983

    Passed

    House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Lehman (FL), Sabo, Gray, Ratchford, Carr, Mrazek, Whitten, Coughlin, Conte, Edwards (AL), Pursell.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

29. 18 July 1983

    Passed

    House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

30. 18 July 1983

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.

    Source: NotUsed

31. 21 July 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

32. 21 July 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference committee actions: Conference held.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

33. 26 July 1983

    Passed

    Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

34. 26 July 1983

    Passed

    Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

35. 26 July 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference Report 98-318 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

36. 26 July 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report filed: Conference Report 98-318 Filed in House.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

37. 2 August 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 010, 014, 030, 047, 049, 055.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

38. 2 August 1983

    NotUsed

    Resolving differences -- House actions: House Receded and Concurred in Senate Amendments 010, 014, 030, 047, 049, 055.

    Source: NotUsed

39. 2 August 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    House receded and concurred with an amendment in Senate amendments 001, 023, 028, 036, 039, 041, 053, 060, 061, 064, 065, 066, 067, 069, and 070.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

40. 2 August 1983

    Passed

    House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

41. 2 August 1983

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

42. 3 August 1983

    Passed

    Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

43. 3 August 1983

    ResolvingDifferences

    Conference report considered in Senate.

    Source: ResolvingDifferences

44. 3 August 1983

    Passed

    Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to House amendments to Senate amendments Nos. 1, 23, 28, 36, 39, 41, 53, 60, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 69. By Voice Vote.

    Source: NotUsed

45. 5 August 1983

    Floor

    Presented to President.

    Source: Floor

46. 5 August 1983

    President

    Presented to President.

    Source: President

47. 5 August 1983

    Floor

    Measure Signed in Senate.

    Source: Floor

48. 15 August 1983

    Became law

    Became Public Law No: 98-78.

    Source: President

49. 15 August 1983

    President

    Signed by President.

    Source: President

50. 15 August 1983

    Became law

    Signed by President.

    Source: BecameLaw

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• Public Law (PDF)

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• Senate agreed to House amendment with amendment

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• Passed Senate amended

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

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• Passed House amended

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Sponsors

• Rep. Lehman, William [D-FL-17] · D · Sponsor
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Related records

• related to → A resolution waiving certain points of order against consideration of the bill (H.R. 3329) making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, and for other purposes.
• amends ← An amendment to increase Coast Guard research, development, test and evaluation funding from $22,000,000 to $23,500,000 and to provide that $500,000 be available only for the development and testing of a sealed electronic ocean dumping surveillance system.
• amends ← An amendment to reduce from $1,250,000,000 to $1,122,500,000 funds for grants under the contract authority of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. The intent of the amendment is to strike funds for the Los Angeles subway system.
• amends ← An amendment to provide that sums provided for the Access Control Demonstration Project not lapse until September 30, 1985.
• amends ← An amendment to increase from 40 per cent to 50 per cent the required local share of funds for rehabilitation on the main line track between Atlantic City, New Jersey and the main line of the Northeast Corridor.
• amends ← An amendment to strike provisions of the bill that permit funds to be used to rehabilitate and improve the main line track between Atlantic City, New Jersey and the main line of the Northeast Corridor if certain conditions are met.
• amends ← An amendment to add that citizens who reside in districts served by a mass transit system must be included in the preferential fare systems for elderly or handicapped persons. The amendment is to prevent regulations that designate residents of part of a district as being the only ones eligible for preferential fares.
• amends ← An amendment to strike all the language in Section 314 of the bill which prohibits the Transportation Department from lowering the passenger ceiling at National Airport.
• amends ← To strike "$718,000,000" and insert in lieu thereof "716,400,000", relating to funding for the Zephyr line.

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