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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 1460

Railroad branchline abandonments.

Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Panama Canal Commission.

Rail-highway crossings.

45 USC 851, 853. Regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. Motor vehicles, State inspection fees or sticker requirements.

49 CFR Part 396. Consulting service contracts.

PUBLIC LAW 97-102—DEC. 23, 1981

uted to such State under subsection (b), and the total of all State obligations during such period shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total amount distributed to all States under such subsection, (d) Notwithstanding subsections (b) and (c), the Secretary shall— (1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which have been apportioned to a State, except in those instances in which a State indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code; (2) after August 1, 1982, revise a distribution of the funds made available under subsection (b) if a State will not obligate the amount distributed during that fiscal year and redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year; and (3) not distribute amounts authorized for administrative expenses, forest highways and $15,000,000 for the BismarckMandan Bridge, $4,000,000 for the Steubenville-Weirton Bridge, and necessary funds tequired during fiscal year 1982 for the Dickey Road Bridge in East Chicago, Indiana, and the U.S. 12 Bridge over Trail Creek in Michigan Cityy Indiana. SEC. 311. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be used by the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve railroad branchline abandonments in fiscal year 1982 in any State in excess of 3 per centum of a State's total mileage of railroad lines operated: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to any abandonment of Conrail railroad lines: Provided further, lliat exceptions to this limitation shall be made only upon the specific approval of each of the appropriate committees of Congress. SEC. 312. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for the implementation or execution of programs the obligations of which are in excess of $60,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 for the ^'Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund". SEC. 313. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Panama Canal Commission may be expended unless in conformance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and any law implementing those treaties. SEC. 314. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used for planning or construction of i^-highway crossings under section B22(a) of title 23, United States Code, or under section 701(a)(5) or section 703(1)(A) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 at the— (1) School Street crossing in Groton, Connecticut; and (2) Broadway Extension crossing in Stonington, Connecticut. SEC. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicator proceedings funded in this Act. SEC. 316. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to assist, directly or indirectly, any State in imposing mandatory State inspection fees or sticker requirements on vehicles which are lawfully roistered in another State, including vehicles engaged in interstate commercial transportation which are in compliance with Part 396— Inspection and Maintenance of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation. SEC. 317. Except as otherwise provided under existing law or under an existing ^ecutive order issued pursuant to an existing law, the