110 STAT. 2980
PUBLIC LAW 104-205—SEPT. 30, 1996
Contracts.
(a) take such action as may be necessary to provide for
an independent assessment of the acquisition management system of the Federal Aviation Administration that includes a
review of any efforts of the Administrator in promoting and
encouraging the use of full and open competition as the preferred method of procurement with respect to any contract
that involves an amount greater than $50,000,000; and
Reports.
(b) submit to the Congress a report on the findings of
that independent assessment: Provided, That for purposes of
this section, the term "full and open competition" has the
meaning provided that term in section 4(6) of the Office of
Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(6)).
SEC. 352. 49 U.S.C. 31112 is amended by adding the following
new subsection:
"(4) Nebraska may continue to allow to be operated under
paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section, the State of
Nebraska may allow longer combination vehicles that were
not in actual operation on June 1, 1991 to be operated within
its boundaries to transport sugar beets from the field where
such sugar beets are harvested to storage, market, factory
or stockpile or from stockpile to storage, market or factory.
Expiration date.
This provision shall expire on September 30, 1997.".
SEC. 353. (a) Section 120(c) of title 23, United States Code,
is amended by inserting "rail-highway crossing closure," after "carpooling and vanpooling,".
(b) Section 130 of such title is amended by adding at the
end the following:
"(i) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS FOR AT-GRADE CROSSING CLOSURES.—
"(1) IN GENERAL.— Notwithstanding any other provision of
this section and subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a State
may, from sums available to the State under this section,
make incentive payments to local governments in the State
upon the permanent closure by such governments of public
at-grade railway-highway crossings under the jurisdiction of
such governments.
"(2) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS BY RAILROADS.— ^A State may not
make an incentive payment under paragraph (1) to a local
government with respect to the closure of a crossing unless
the railroad owning the tracks on which the crossing is located
makes an incentive payment to the government with respect
to the closure.
"(3) AMOUNT OF STATE PAYMENT. —The amount of the incentive payment payable to a local government by a State under
paragraph (1) with respect to a crossing may not exceed the
lesser of—
"(A) the amount of the incentive payment paid to the
government with respect to the crossing by the railroad
concerned under paragraph (2); or
"(B) $7,500.
"(4) USE OF STATE PAYMENTS. —A local government receiving an incentive payment from a State under paragraph (1)
shall use the amount of the incentive payment for transportation SEifety improvements.".
SEC. 354. LIMITATION ON FUNDS USED TO ENFORCE REGULA-
TIONS REGARDING ANIMAL FATS AND VEGETABLE OILS.— None of
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