112 STAT. 256 PUBLIC LAW 105-178-JUNE 9, 1998 the Secretary, upon the approval of the application of a State, shall pay to the State the Federal share of the cost of construction of the project when additional funds are allocated for such project under this section and section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, "(f) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.— Funds made available to carry out this section shall remain available until expended. "(g) AVAILABILITY OF OBLIGATION LIMITATION.—O bligation authority attributable to funds made available to carry out this section shall only be available for the purposes of this section and shall remain available until obligated pursuant to section 1102(g) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. "(h) TREATMENT. —Funds allocated to a State in accordance with this section shall be treated as amounts in addition to the amounts a State is apportioned under sections 104, 105, and 144 for programmatic purposes.". 23 USC 145. (b) PURPOSE OF PROJECTS.— Section 145 of such title is amended— (1) by inserting "(a) PROTECTION OF STATE SOV- EREIGNTY. — " before "The authorization"; and (2) by adding at the end the following: "(b) PURPOSE OF PROJECTS. — The projects described in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2027 et seq.), and section 149(a) of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 (101 Stat. 181 et seq.) are intended to establish eligibility for Federal-aid highway funds made available for such projects by section 1101(a)(13) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, 117 of title 23, United States Code, sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, and subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 149 of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, respectively, and are not intended to define the scope or limits of Federal action in a manner inconsistent with subsection (a). ". (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT. — The analysis for chapter 1 of such title'is amended by striking the item relating to section 117 and inserting the following: "117. High priority projects program.". SEC. 1602. PROJECT AUTHORIZATIONS. Subject to section 117 of title 23, United States Code, the amount listed for each high priority project in the following table shall be available (from amounts made available by section 1101(a)(13) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century) for fiscal years 1998 through 2003 to carry out each such project:
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