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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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 16 August 1983

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• Senate agreed to House amendment with amendment

  summary · EN · 3 August 1983

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• Conference report filed in House

  summary · EN · 26 July 1983

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 15 July 1983

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 14 July 1983

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 22 June 1983

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 16 June 1983

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