PUBLIC LAW 94-210—FEB. 5, 1976 plan') which is administered or coordinated by a designated State agency and such plan includes a suitable process for updating, revising, and amending such plan and provides for the equitable distribution of such financial assistance among State, local, and regional transportation authorities; "(B) the State agency (i) has authority and administrative jurisdiction to develop, promote, supervise, and support safe, adequate, and efficient rail services, (ii) employs or will employ, directly or indirectly, sufficient trained and qualilied personnel, and (^iii) maintains or will maintain adequate programs of investigation, research, promotion, and development with provision for public participation; "(C) the State provides satisfactory assurance that such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be adopted as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for. Federal funds paid under this title to the State; and "(D) the State complies with the regulations of the Secretary issued under this section. "(2) The rail freight services which are eligible for rail service continuation assistance pursuant to this section are— "(A) those rail services of railroads in reorganization in the region, or persons leased, operated, or controlled by any such railroad, which the final system plan does not designate to be continued; "(B) those rail services on rail properties referred to in section 304(a)(2) of this Act; "(C) those rail services in the region which have been, at any time during the 5-year period prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or which, are subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act, owned, leased, or operated by a State agency or by a local or regional transportation authority, or with respect to which a State, a political subdivision thereof, or a local or regional transportation authority has invested (at any time during the 5-year period prior to the date of enactment of this Act), or invests (subsequent to the date of enactment of this Act), substantial sums for improvement or maintenance of rail service; or "(D) those rail services in the region with respect to which the Commission authorizes the discontinuance of rail services or the abandonment of rail properties, effective on or after the date of enactment of this Act. "(3) The rail freight properties which are eligible to be acquired or modernized with financial assistance pursuant to subsection (b) of this section are those rail properties which are used for services eligible for rail service continuation assistance, pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, including those properties which are identified, in the applicable State rail plan as having potential for future use for rail freight service. " (4) The facilities which are eligible to be constructed or improved with financial assistance pursuant to subsection (b) of this section are those facilities in the region (including intermodal terminals and highways or bridges) which are needed in orde^-to provide rail freight service which will no longer be available because of the discontinuance of rail freight service under section 304 of this Act or other lawful authority. No funds provided under this paragraph may be used to pay the State share of any highway projects under title 23, United States Code. "(5) Rail properties are eligible to be acquired with financial assistance pursuant to subsection (b) of this section if (A) they are
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