92 STAT. 2736
Fair share payment.
45 USC 851. Federal share.
49 USC 1603. Determinations.
Post, p. 2743. Obligative letter of intent.
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PUBLIC LAW 95-599—NOV. 6, 1978 "eligible costs" includes property acquisition, demolition of existing structures, site preparation, utilities, building foundations, walkways, open space, and the acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for intermodal transfer facilities and transit malls, but does not include the construction of commercial revenue-producing facilities, whether publicly or privately owned, or of those portions of public facilities not related to mass transportation. The Secretary shall require that all grants and loans under this paragraph be subject to such terms, conditions, requirements, and provisions as the Secretary determines necessary or appropriate for purposes of this section, including requirements for the disposition of net increases in value of real property resulting from the project assisted under this section. The Secretary shall require in all grants and loans under this subparagraph that any person or entity that contracts to occupy space in facilities funded under this subparagraph shall pay a fair share of the cost of such facilities, through rental payments and other means; (E) the modification of equipment and fixed facilities (other than stations) which the Secretary determines t« be necessaryJ;D-avoid any adverse effects resulting from the implementation of the Northeast Corridor project pursuant to title VII of Public Law 94-210. Notwithstanding the Federal share provisions of section 4(a) of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to make grants for 100 per centum of the net project cost of projects assisted under this subparagraph. " (2)(A) No grant or loan shall be provided under this section unless the Secretary determines that the applicant has or will have— "(i) the legal, financial, and technical capacity to carry out the proposed project; and " (ii) satisfactory continuing control, through operation or lease or otherwise, over the use of the facilities and the equipment. "(B) The Secretary may make loans for real property acquisition pursuant to subsection (b) upon a determination, which shall be in lieu of the determination required by subparagraph (A), that the real property is reasonably expected to be required in connection with a mass transportation system and that it will be used for that purpose within a reasonable period. "(C) No grant or loan funds shall be used for payment of ordinary governmental or nonproject operating expenses, nor shall any grant or loan funds be used to support procurements utilizing exclusionary or discriminatory specifications. "(3) The Secretary shall not approve a grant or loan for a project under this section unless the Secretary finds that such project is part of an approved program of projects required by section 8 of this Act. "(4) The Secretary is authorized to announce an intention to obligate for a project under this section through the issuance of a letter of intent to the applicant. Such an action shall not be deemed an obligation as defined under section 1311 of the Act of August 26, 1954, as amended (31 U.S.C. 200), nor shall such a letter be deemed an administrative commitment. The letter shall be regarded as an intention to obligate from future available budget authority provided in an appropriation Act not to exceed an amount stipulated as the Secretary's financial participation in the defined project under this section. The amount stipulated in the letter, when issued for a fixed guideway
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