SEC. 3. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the total of all obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year 1982 shall not exceed $8,000,000,000. This limitation shall not apply to obligations for emergency relief under section 125 of title 23, United States Code, or projects covered under section 320 of title 23, United States Code, section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, or section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981. No obligation constraints shall be placed upon any ongoing emergency project carried out under section 125 of title 23, United States Code, or section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978.

(b) For the fiscal year 1982, the Secretary shall distribute the limitation imposed by subsection (a) by allocation in the ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned to each State for such fiscal year bears to the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned to all the States for such fiscal year.

(c) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1981, no State shall obligate more than 35 per centum of the amount distributed to such State under subsection (b), and the total of all State obligations during such period shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total amount distributed to all States under such subsection.

(d) Notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c), the Secretary shall— (1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which have been apportioned to a State, except in those instances in which a State indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code;

(2) after August 1, 1982, revise a distribution of the funds made available under subsection (b) if a State will not obligate the amount distributed during that fiscal year and redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year; and

(3) not distribute amounts authorized for administrative expenses and forest highways.

SEC. 8. In any case in which the city of Santa Rosa, California, has incurred costs on behalf of the State of California for the acquisition, between the date of enactment of Public Law 94-154 and the date of enactment of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-280), of land which was utilized in a Federal-aid urban system project at an intersection with a segment of the Federal-aid primary system, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized, notwithstanding

any other provision of law, to reimburse the State of California from funds apportioned to the State of California under section 104(b)(6) of title 23, United States Code, 75 per centum of such costs.

SEC. 9. (a) The Secretary of Transportation may approve any project for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or rehabilitation of any bridge on the Interstate System which is both owned by the United States Government and located in two States and the District of Columbia, whenever both such States and the District shall submit to the Secretary for approval appropriate plans, specifications, and estimates for any such project.

(b) The Secretary of Transportation shall prior to approval of such project enter into an agreement with such States and the District for future maintenance and rehabilitation of the bridge.

(c) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated $60,000,000, out of the Highway Trust Fund, to be available until expended, to carry out the provisions of this section. Such sums shall be available for obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as if such funds were apportioned for the Interstate System under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code. The Federal share of the project cost shall be 100 per centum.

(d) In making any revised estimate of the cost completing the Interstate System, which estimate is required by section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code, to be transmitted to the Congress after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall not include any costs for any bridge eligible for approval under subsection (a). The Secretary shall reduce apportionments made under section 104(b)(5) of title 23, United States Code, to such States or District by an amount, if any, equal to amounts apportioned under such section to any such State or District with respect to any such bridge for any fiscal year ending before October 1, 1982. The reduction, if any, made by the preceding sentence for each State or the District shall be made out of apportionments under such section to such State or the District, beginning with the apportionment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and shall be made, in equal shares, over the number of fiscal years in which apportionments described in the preceding sentence were made.

SEC. 13. This Act may be cited as the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981".

FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACT OF 1982

Public Law 97-327, 97th. Congress, S. 2574, Oct. 15, 1982

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Transportation shall apportion for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, the sums authorized to be apportioned

for such year by section 108(b) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, as amended, for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, using the apportionment factors contained in revised table 5 of the committee print numbered 97-53 of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives.

SEC. 4. (a) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States Code, the following sums (multiplied by a factor determined by dividing the maximum number of days in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for which funds are appropriated by Public Law 97-276, by 365 days) are hereby authorized to be appropriated:

(1) For the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas, including the extensions of the Federal-aid primary system in urban areas, and the priority primary routes, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $1,500,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983. For the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $400,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

(2) For the Federal-aid urban system, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $800,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983. (3) For the forest highways, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $33,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

(4) For public lands highways, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $16,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

(5) For economic growth center development highways under section 143 of title 23, United States Code, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

(6) For the Great River Road, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for construction or reconstruction of roads on a Federal-aid highway system.

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(b) Repealed. 64

(c) In the case of priority primary routes, $125,000,000 (multiplied by the factor determined under subsection (a) of this section) of the sums authorized for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, by subsection (a)(1) of this section for such routes, shall not be apportioned. Such $125,000,000 (multiplied by such factor) shall be available for obligation on the date of apportionment of funds for such fiscal year, in the same manner and to the same extent as the sums apportioned on such date, except that such $125,000,000 (multiplied by such factor) shall be available for obligation at the discretion of the Secretary of Transportation only for projects of unusually high cost or which require long periods

63 Amended by sec. 105(e), Public Law 97-424, Jan. 6, 1983 (96 Stat. 2100). 64 Repealed by sec. 103(b), Public Law 97-424, Jan. 6, 1983 (96 Stat. 2098).

of time for their construction. Any part of such $125,000,000 (multiplied by such factor) not obligated by such Secretary on or before the last day of such fiscal year shall be immediately apportioned in the same manner as funds apportioned for the next succeeding fiscal year for primary system routes, and available for obligation for the same periods as such apportionment.

SEC. 5. (a) The following sums are hereby authorized to be appropriated:

(1) For bridge replacement and rehabilitation under section 144 of title 23, United States Code, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $900,000,000 (multiplied by the factor determined under section 4(a) of this Act) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

(2) For projects for elimination of hazards under section 152 of title 23, United States Code, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $200,000,000 (multiplied by the factor determined under section 4(a) of this Act) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1982

Public Law 97-424, 97th, Cong. Jan. 6, 1983

AN ACT To authorize appropriations for construction of certain highways in accordance with title 23, United States Code, for highway safety, for mass transportation in urban and rural areas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982”

TITLE I

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 101. This title may be cited as the "Highway Improvement Act

of 1982".

MINIMUM APPORTIONMENT

SEC. 103. (a) For each of the fiscal years 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987, no State, including the State of Alaska, shall receive less than one-half of 1 per centum of the total apportionment for the Interstate System under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code. Whenever amounts made available under this subsection for the Interstate System in any State exceed the estimated cost of completing that State's portion of the Interstate System, and exceed the estimated cost of necessary resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of the Interstate System within such State, the excess amount shall be eligible for expenditure for those purposes for which funds apportioned under

paragraphs (1), (2), and (6) of such section 104(b) may be expended and shall also be available for expenditure to carry out section 152 of title 23, United States Code.

OBLIGATION CEILING

SEC. 104. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the total of all obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs shall not exceed—

(1) $12,100,000,000 for fiscal year 1983;

(2) $12,750,000,000 for fiscal year 1984;

(3) $13,550,000,000 for fiscal year 1985; and

(4) $14,450,000,000 for fiscal year 1986.

These limitations shall not apply to obligations for emergency relief under section 125 of title 23, United States Code, or projects covered under section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, or section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 or section 118 of the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968. No obligation constraints shall be placed upon any ongoing emergency project carried out under section 125 of title 23, United States Code, or section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978.

(b) For each of the fiscal years 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986, the Secretary of Transportation shall distribute the limitation imposed by subsection (a) by allocation in the ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to each State for such fiscal year bears to the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated for Federalaid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to all the States for such fiscal year.

(c) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1982, no State shall obligate more than 35 per centum of the amount distributed to such State under subsection (b) for fiscal year 1983, and the total of all State obligations during such period shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total amount distributed to all States under such subsection for such fiscal year.

(d) Notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c), the Secretary shall— (1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which have been apportioned or allocated to a State, except in those instances in which a State indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code;

(2) after August 1 of each of the fiscal years 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986, revise a distribution of the funds made available under subsection (b) for such fiscal year if a State will not obligate the amount distributed during such fiscal year and redistribute suffi