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    Sec. 319. <<NOTE: 49 USC 5327 note.>> Beginning in fiscal year 2002 
and thereafter, the Secretary may use up to 1 percent of the amounts 
made available to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5309 for oversight activities 
under 49 U.S.C. 5327.

    Sec. 320. Funds made available for Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats or 
ferry terminal facilities pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(2)(B) may be 
used to construct new vessels and facilities, or to improve existing 
vessels and facilities, including both the passenger and vehicle-related 
elements of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities: 
Provided, That not more than $3,000,000 of the funds made available 
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5309(m)(2)(B) may be used by the State of Hawaii 
to initiate and operate a passenger ferryboat services demonstration 
project to test the viability of different intra-island and inter-island 
ferry routes.

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    Sec. 321. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received by the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, for 
necessary expenses incurred pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 111 may be credited to 
the Federal-aid highways account for the purpose of reimbursing the 
Bureau for such expenses: Provided, That such funds shall be subject to 
the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways and highway safety 
construction.
    Sec. 322. Section 3030(a) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 
21st Century (Public Law 105-178) <<NOTE: 112 Stat. 373.>> is amended by 
adding at the end, the following line: ``Washington County--Wilsonville 
to Beaverton commuter rail.''.

    Sec. 323. Section 3030(b) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 
21st Century (Public Law 105-178) <<NOTE: 112 Stat. 375.>> is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Detroit, Michigan Metropolitan 
Airport rail project.''.

    Sec. 324. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated or expended 
for employee training which: (a) does not meet identified needs for 
knowledge, skills and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of 
official duties; (b) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
emotional response or psychological stress in some participants; (c) 
does not require prior employee notification of the content and methods 
to be used in the training and written end of course evaluations; (d) 
contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-
religious belief systems or ``new age'' belief systems as defined in 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice N-915.022, dated 
September 2, 1988; (e) is offensive to, or designed to change, 
participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or (f) 
includes content related to human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune 
deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other than that necessary to make 
employees more aware of the medical ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the 
workplace rights of HIV-positive employees.
    Sec. 325. None of the funds in this Act shall, in the absence of 
express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay 
for any personal service, advertisement, telegraph, telephone, letter, 
printed or written material, radio, television, video presentation, 
electronic communications, or other device, intended or designed to 
influence in any manner a Member of Congress or of a State legislature 
to favor or oppose by vote or otherwise, any legislation or 
appropriation by Congress or a State legislature after the introduction 
of any bill or resolution in Congress proposing such legislation or 
appropriation, or after the introduction of any bill or resolution in a 
State legislature proposing such legislation or appropriation: Provided, 
That this shall not prevent officers or employees of the Department of 
Transportation or related agencies funded in this Act from communicating 
to Members of Congress or to Congress, on the request of any Member, or 
to members of State legislature, or to a State legislature, through the 
proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations 
which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of business.
    Sec. 326. (a) In General.--None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in 
expending the funds the entity will comply with the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    (b) Sense of the Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--

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            (1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In 
        the case of any equipment or product that may be authorized to 
        be purchased with financial assistance provided using funds made 
        available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that 
        entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the 
        assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products 
        to the greatest extent practicable.
            (2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing 
        financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, the 
        head of each Federal agency shall provide to each recipient of 
        the assistance a notice describing the statement made in 
        paragraph (1) by the Congress.

    (c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling Products 
as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a court or 
Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 
``Made in America'' inscription, or any inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is 
not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive 
any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, 
pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures 
described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal 
Regulations.
    Sec. 327. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees and other 
funds received by the Department from travel management centers, charge 
card programs, the subleasing of building space, and miscellaneous 
sources are to be credited to appropriations of the Department and 
allocated to elements of the Department using fair and equitable 
criteria and such funds shall be available until December 31, 2002.
    Sec. 328. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or 
regulation, the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to allow the 
issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department to 
redeem or repurchase such stock upon the payment to the Department of an 
amount determined by the Secretary.
    Sec. 329. For necessary expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council 
authorized under section 203 of Public Law 105-134, $225,000.
    Sec. 330. In addition to amounts otherwise made available in this 
Act, to enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for 
surface transportation projects, $144,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.
    Sec. 331. During fiscal year 2002, for providing support to the 
Department of Defense, the Coast Guard Yard and other Coast Guard 
specialized facilities designated by the Commandant shall qualify as 
components of the Department of Defense for competition and workload 
assignment purposes: Provided, That in addition, for purposes of 
entering into joint public-private partnerships and other cooperative 
arrangements for the performance of work, the Coast Guard Yard and other 
Coast Guard specialized facilities may enter into agreements or other 
arrangements, receive and retain funds from and pay funds to such public 
and private entities, and may accept contributions of funds, materials, 
services, and the use of facilities from such entities: Provided 
further, That amounts received under this section may be credited to 
appropriate Coast Guard accounts for fiscal year 2002.
    Sec. 332. None of the funds in this Act may be used to make a grant 
unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the House

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and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full business 
days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full 
funding grant agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is announced by the 
department or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary 
grant program of the Federal Highway Administration other than the 
emergency relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the 
Federal Aviation Administration; or (3) any program of the Federal 
Transit Administration other than the formula grants and fixed guideway 
modernization programs: Provided, That no notification shall involve 
funds that are not available for obligation.
    Sec. 333. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
available for the design or construction of a light rail system in 
Houston, Texas.
    (b) Notwithstanding (a), amounts made available in this Act under 
the heading ``Federal Transit Administration, Capital investment 
grants'' for a Houston, Texas, Metro advanced transit plan project shall 
be available for obligation or expenditure subject to the following 
conditions:
            (1) Sufficient amounts shall be used for major investment 
        studies in 4 major corridors.
            (2) The Texas Department of Transportation shall review and 
        comment on the findings of the studies under paragraph (1). Any 
        comments by such department on such findings shall be included 
        in any final report on such studies.
            (3) If a final report on the studies under paragraph (1) is 
        not available for at least the 1-month period preceding the date 
        of any referendum held by the City of Houston, Texas, or by a 
        county of Texas, regarding approval of the issuance of bonds for 
        funding a light rail system in Houston, Texas, all information 
        developed by such studies regarding passenger and cost estimates 
        for such a system shall be made available to the public at least 
        1 month before the date of the referendum.

    Sec. 334. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
for engineering work related to an additional runway at New Orleans 
International Airport.
    Sec. 335. None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pursue or 
adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to 
the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building construction, 
maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned 
buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation 
or weather reporting: Provided, That the prohibition of funds in this 
section does not apply to negotiations between the agency and airport 
sponsors to achieve agreement on ``below-market'' rates for these items 
or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land 
without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities.
    Sec. 336. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever an 
allocation is made of the sums authorized to be appropriated for 
expenditure on the Federal lands highway program, and whenever an 
apportionment is made of the sums authorized to be appropriated for 
expenditure on the surface transportation program, the congestion 
mitigation and air quality improvement program, the National Highway 
System, the Interstate maintenance program, the bridge program, the 
Appalachian development highway system, and the minimum guarantee 
program, the Secretary of Transportation shall deduct a sum in such 
amount not to exceed two-

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fifths of 1 percent of all sums so made available, as the Secretary 
determines necessary, to administer the provisions of law to be financed 
from appropriations for motor carrier safety programs and motor carrier 
safety research. The sum so deducted shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That any deduction by the Secretary of 
Transportation in accordance with this paragraph shall be deemed to be a 
deduction under section 104(a)(1)(B) of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 337. For an airport project that the Administrator of the 
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) determines will add critical 
airport capacity to the national air transportation system, the 
Administrator is authorized to accept funds from an airport sponsor, 
including entitlement funds provided under the ``Grants-in-Aid for 
Airports'' program, for the FAA to hire additional staff or obtain the 
services of consultants: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized 
to accept and utilize such funds only for the purpose of facilitating 
the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental 
activities associated with such project.
    Sec. 338. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to further any efforts toward developing a new regional airport for 
southeast Louisiana until a comprehensive plan is submitted by a 
commission of stakeholders to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration and that plan, as approved by the Administrator, is 
submitted to and approved by the Senate Committee on Appropriations and 
the House Committee on Appropriations.
    Sec. 339. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, States may use 
funds provided in this Act under section 402 of title 23, United States 
Code, to produce and place highway safety public service messages in 
television, radio, cinema and print media, and on the Internet in 
accordance with guidance issued by the Secretary of Transportation: 
Provided, <<NOTE: Reports.>> That any State that uses funds for such 
public service messages shall submit to the Secretary a report 
describing and assessing the effectiveness of the messages: Provided 
further, That $8,000,000 of the funds allocated for innovative seat belt 
projects under section 157 of title 23, United States Code, shall be 
used by the States, as directed by the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administrator, to purchase advertising in broadcast or print media to 
publicize the States' seat belt enforcement efforts during one or more 
of the Operation ABC National Mobilizations: Provided further, That up 
to $2,000,000 of the funds allocated for innovative seat belt projects 
under section 157 of title 23, United States Code, shall be used by the 
Administrator to evaluate the effectiveness of State seat belt programs 
that purchase advertising as provided by this section.

    Sec. 340. Item 1348 of the table contained in section 1602 of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century <<NOTE: 112 Stat. 306.>>  
is amended by striking ``Extend West Douglas Road'' and inserting 
``Construct Gastineau Channel Second Crossing to Douglas Island''.

    Sec. 341. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated for the 
Office of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification.

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    Sec. 342. Item 642 in the table contained in section 1602 of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, relating to 
Washington, <<NOTE: 112 Stat. 281.>> is amended by striking ``Construct 
passenger ferry facility to serve Southworth, Seattle'' and inserting 
``Passenger only ferry to serve Kitsap and King Counties to Seattle''.

    Sec. 343. Item 1793 in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century, relating to Washington, <<NOTE: 112 Stat. 
322.>> is amended by striking ``Southworth Seattle Ferry'' and inserting 
``Passenger only ferry to serve Kitsap and King Counties to Seattle''.

    Sec. 344. Item 576 in the table contained in section 1602 of the 
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 278) is 
amended by striking ``Bull Shoals Lake Ferry in Taney County'' and 
inserting ``Construct the Missouri Center for Advanced Highway Safety 
(MOCAHS)''.
    Sec. 345. The transit station operated by the Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority located at Ronald Reagan Washington 
National Airport, and known as the National Airport Station, shall be 
known and designated as the ``Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 
Station''. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority shall 
modify the signs at the transit station, and all maps, directories, 
documents, and other records published by the Authority, to reflect the 
redesignation.
    Sec. 346. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
in this Act may be made available to any person or entity convicted of 
violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    Sec. 347. For fiscal year 2002, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, historic covered bridges eligible for Federal assistance under 
section 1224 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, as 
amended, may be funded from amounts set aside for the discretionary 
bridge program.
    Sec. 348. None of the funds provided in this Act or prior 
Appropriations Acts for Coast Guard ``Acquisition, construction, and 
improvements'' shall be available after the fifteenth day of any quarter 
of any fiscal year, unless the Commandant of the Coast Guard first 
submits a quarterly report to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations on all major Coast Guard acquisition projects including 
projects executed for the Coast Guard by the United States Navy and 
vessel traffic service projects: Provided, That such reports shall 
include an acquisition schedule, estimated current and year funding 
requirements, and a schedule of anticipated obligations and outlays for 
each major acquisition project: Provided further, That such reports 
shall rate on a relative scale the cost risk, schedule risk, and 
technical risk associated with each acquisition project and include a 
table detailing unobligated balances to date and anticipated unobligated 
balances at the close of the fiscal year and the close of the following 
fiscal year should the Administration's pending budget request for the 
acquisition, construction, and improvements account be fully funded: 

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