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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 1962 Groton, Conn. Stonington, Conn.

49 CFR Part 396.

49 USC app. 1617.

Washington National Airport. 23 USC 104 note.

PUBLIC LAW 98-473—OCT. 12, 1984

(1) School street crossing in Groton, Connecticut; and (2) Broadway Extension crossing in Stonington, Connecticut. SEC. 308. 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 adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. SEC. 309. 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 registered 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. 310. None of the funds contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 311. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, total amounts of contract authority authorized for fiscal year 1985 in section 21(a)(2)(B) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, shall be available for obligation through fiscal year 1988. SEC. 312. None of the funds in this or any other Act shall be available for the planning or implementation of any change in the current Federal status of the Transportation Systems Center. SEC. 313. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 314. None of the funds in this Act may be used to implement a rulemaking which would lower the annual passenger ceiling at Washington National Airport. SEC. 315. (a) For fiscal year 1985 the Secretary of Transportation shall distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways by allocation in the ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to each State for such fiscal year bear to the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction which are apportioned or allocated to all the States for such fiscal year. (b) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1984, no State shall obligate more than 40 per centum of the amount distributed to such State under subsection (a), 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. (c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), 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, 1985, revise a distribution of the funds made available under subsection (a) 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