PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 827 (2) a budget covering the project management organization, appropriate consultants, property acquisition, utility relocation, systems demonstration staff, audits, and miscellaneous pay- ments the recipient may be prepared to justify; (3) a construction schedule for the project; (4) a document control procedure and recordkeeping system; (5) a change order procedure that includes a documented, systematic approach to the handling of construction change orders; (6) organizational structures, management skills, and staff- ing levels required throughout the construction phase; (7) quality control and quality assurance functions, procedures, and responsibilities for construction, system installation, and integration of system components; (8) material testing policies and procedures; (9) internal plan implementation and reporting requirements; (10) criteria and procedures to be used for testing the operational system or its major components; (11) periodic updates of the plan, especially related to project budget and project schedule, financing, ridership estimates, and the status of local efforts to enhance ridership where ridership estimates partly depend on the success of those efforts; and (12) the recipient's commitment to submit a project budget and project schedule to the Secretary each month, (b) PLAN APPROVAL,.^ 1) The Secretary shall approve a plan not later than 60 days after it is submitted. If the approval cannot be completed within 60 days, the Secretary shall notify the recipient, explain the reasons for the delay, and estimate the additional time that will be required. (2) The Secretary shall inform the recipient of the reasons when a plan is disapproved. (c) LIMITATIONS ON USE OF AVAILABLE AMOUNTS.— (1) The Secretary may use not more than.5 percent of amounts made available for a fiscal year to carry out section 5307, 5309, or 5311 of this title, an interstate transfer mass transportation project under section 103(e)(4) of title 23 as in effect on September 30, 1991, or a project under the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-143, 83 Stat. 320) to make a contract to oversee the construction of a major project under section 5307, 5309, 5311, or 103(e)(4) of that Act. The Secretary may use when necessary not more than an additional.25 percent of amounts made available in a fiscal year to cany out a major project under section 5307 to make a contract to oversee the construction of the project. (2) The Secretary may use amounts available under paragraph (1) of this subsection to make contracts for safety, procurement, management, and financial compliance reviews and audits of a recipient of amounts under paragraph (1). Subsections (a), (b), and (e) of this section do not apply to contracts under this paragraph. (3) The Government shall pay the entire cost of carrying out a contract under this subsection. (d) ACCESS TO SITES AND RECORDS.— Each recipient of assistance under this chapter or section 14(b) of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-143, 83 Stat. 320), as added by section 2 of the National Capital Transportation Amendments of 1979 (Public Law 96-184, 93 Stat. 1320), shall
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