123STA T .9 2 6PUBLIC LA W 111 –8—M A R .11 , 2 0 09 ofsecti o n149 oft h e Sur f a ce T rans p ortation an dU nifor mR e l ocation A ssistance Act of 19 87;(6) under sections 11 03 throu g h 1108 of the I ntermodal Surface Transportation E fficienc y Act of 1991; (7) under section 1 5 7 of title 2 3 , United States C ode, as in effect on the day b efore the date of the enactment of the Transportation E q uity Act for the 21st Century; (8) under section 105 of title 23, United States Code, as in effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in an amount equal to $ 639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years; (9) for F ederal - aid high w ay programs for which obligation authority was made a v ailable under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century or subsequent public laws for multiple years or to remain available until used, but only to the e x tent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or been used; (10) under section 105 of title 23, United States Code, but only in an amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009; and (11) under section 1603 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act
A L egacy for Users, to the extent that funds obligated in accordance with that section were not sub j ect to a limitation on obligations at the time at which the funds were initially made available for obligation . (c) R EDISTR I BU TI ON O F UNUSED O B L I GA TION AUT H ORIT Y . —N ot- withstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal year, revise a distribution of the obligation limitation made available under subsection (a) if the amount distributed cannot be obligated during that fiscal year and redistribute suffi- cient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year, giving pri- ority to those States having large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under sections 104 and 144 of title 23, United States Code. (d) A P PLI C ABILITY OF OBLIGATION LI M ITATIONS TO TRANSPOR- TATION RESEARCH P ROGRAMS.—The obligation limitation shall apply to transportation research programs carried out under chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code, and title V (research title) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, except that obligation authority made available for such programs under such limitation shall remain available for a period of 3 fiscal years and shall be in addition to the amount of any limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs for future fiscal years. (e) REDISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN AUTHORI Z ED FUNDS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds that— (A) are authori z ed to be appropriated for such fiscal year for Federal-aid highways programs; and ( B ) the Secretary determines will not be allocated to the States, and will not be available for obligation, in such fiscal year due to the imposition of any obligation limitation for such fiscal year. (2) RATIO.—Funds shall be distributed under paragraph (1) in the same ratio as the distribution of obligation authority under subsection (a)(6). Deadlin e . Di str i bu ti o n date.
