PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-452 General for costs associated with the audit and review of new fixed guideway systems. FORMULA GRANTS For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5307, 5308, 5310, 5311, 5327, and section 3038 of Public Law 105-178, $570,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no more than $2,850,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided further. That notwithstsinding section 3008 of Public Law 105-178, the $50,000,000 to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5308 shall be transferred to and merged with funding provided for the replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities under "Federal Transit Administration, Capital investment grants". UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5505, $1,200,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no more than $6,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these purposes. TRANSIT PLANNING AND RESEARCH For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, 5305, 5311(b)(2), 5312, 5313(a), 5314, 5315, and 5322, $19,800,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That no more than $98,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these purposes: Provided further. That $5,250,000 is available to provide rural transportation assistance (49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)); $4,000,000 is available to carry out programs under the National Transit Institute (49 U.S.C. 5315); $8,250,000 is available to carry out transit cooperative research programs (49 U.S.C. 5313(a)); $43,841,600 is available for metropolitan planning (49 U.S.C. 5303, 5304, and 5305); $9,158,400 is available for state planning (49 U.S.C. 5313(b)); and $27,500,000 is available for the national planning and research program (49 U.S.C. 5314): Provided further. That of the total budget authority made available for the national planning and research program, the Federal Transit Administration shall provide the following amounts for the projects and activities listed below: City of Branson, MO congestion study, $450,000; Skagit County, WA North Sound connecting communities project, Skagit County Council of Governments, $50,000; Desert air quality comprehensive analysis. Las Vegas, NV, $1,000,000; Vegetation control on rail rights-of-way survey, $250,000; Zinc-air battery bus technology demonstration, $1,500,000; North Orange-South Seminole County, FL fixed guideway technology, $750,000; Galveston, TX fixed guideway activities, $750,000; Washoe County, NV transit technology, $1,250,000; Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority advanced electric transit buses and related infrastructure, $1,500,000; Palm Springs, CA fuel cell buses, $1,000,000; Gloucester, MA intermodal technology center, $1,500,000; Southeastern Pennsylvania Trsinsit Authority adveinced propulsion control system, $2,000,000; 59-194O-98 -16:QL3Part4
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