PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983
96 STAT. 2117
"(d) For all purposes of this title, a bicycle project authorized by subsection (b) of this section shall be deemed to be a highway project, and the Federal share payable on account of such bicycle project shall be 100 per centum. "(e) Funds authorized for forest highways, forest development roads and trails, public lands development roads and trails, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways shall be available, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of pedestrian walkways in conjunction with such trails, roads, highways, and parkways. "(f) Funds authorized for forest highways, forest development roads and trails, public lands development roads and trails, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways shall be available, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of bicycle routes. "(g) No motorized vehicles shall be permitted on trails and walkways authorized under this section except for maintenance purposes and, when snow conditions and State or local regulations permit, snowmobiles. "(h) Not more than $45,000,000 of funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year may be obligated for projects authorized by subsections (a), (b), (e), and (f) of this section. No State shall obligate more than $4,500,000 for such projects in any fiscal year, except that the Secretary may, upon application, waive this limitation for a State for any fiscal year.".
Federal share payable on bicycle project.
Motorized vehicle prohibition. Appropriation authorization. Waiver.
PARKING RAMPS AND FRONTAGE ROADS
SEC. 127. (a) Subsection (b) of section 108 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, as amended, is further amended by adding before the last sentence thereof a new sentence as follows: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including any other provision of this subsection, where a project is to be constructed (1) to provide parking garage ramps in conjunction with high occupancy vehicle lanes which flow into a distributor system emptying directly into ramps for off-street parking with preferential parking for carpools, vanpools, and buses and the ramps are part of an environmental mitigation effort and are designed to feed into an aerial walkway system, or (2) to provide a parking lot near the terminus of an Interstate System spur route which radiates from an Interstate System beltway which will be used as an intermodal transfer facility for a light rail transit project to be constructed in the median of the spur route and the parking lot is part of an environmental mitigation effort, or (3) to provide a parking garage and associated facilities as part of an intermodal transfer facility with a transit system near or within an Interstate System route right-of-way which will have direct and indirect access to the facility by way of local streets and the parking garage and associated facilities are part of an environmental mitigation effort, or (4) to provide for the comprehensive upgrading of existing high occupancy vehicle lanes, new ramps and parking facilities at mass transit intermodal transfer points on an existing Interstate System route which has temporary high occupancy vehicle lanes in the median and the parking facilities and ramps are part of an environmental mitigation effort, the costs of such parking garage ramps, parking lots, parking garages, asso-
23 USC 101 note.
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