Pub.L. 107-088 To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5472 Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, as the ``Congressman Julian C. Dixon Post Office''. <> ...

	Web GovRecords.org

<DOC>



[[Page 115 STAT. 833]]

Public Law 107-87
107th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 Making appropriations for the Department of Transportation and related 
 agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
            purposes. <<NOTE: Dec. 18, 2001 -  [H.R. 2299]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Department of 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002.>> That the 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other 
purposes, namely:

                                 TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                         OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                          Salaries and Expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, $67,778,000, 
of which not to exceed $1,929,000 shall be available for the immediate 
Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $619,000 shall be available for 
the immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $13,355,000 
shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed 
$3,058,000 shall be for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Policy; not to exceed $7,421,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs; not to 
exceed $7,728,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed $2,282,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Government 
Affairs; not to exceed $19,250,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $1,723,000 
shall be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,204,000 shall be available for the Office of the Executive 
Secretariat; not to exceed $507,000 shall be available for the Board of 
Contract Appeals; not to exceed $1,240,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed 
$1,321,000 shall be available for the Office of Intelligence and 
Security; not to exceed $6,141,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Chief Information Officer: Provided, That not to exceed $60,000 
shall be for allocation within the Department for official reception and 
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, excluding fees 
authorized in Public Law 107-71, there may be credited to this 
appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds

[[Page 115 STAT. 834]]

received in user fees: Provided further, That the Secretary of 
Transportation is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any 
office of the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office 
of the Secretary: Provided further, That no appropriation for any office 
shall be increased or decreased by more than 7 percent by all such 
transfers: Provided further, That any such transfer shall be submitted 
for approval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                         Office of Civil Rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $8,500,000.

                 Transportation Security Administration

    For necessary expenses of the Transportation Security Administration 
related to providing civil aviation security services pursuant to Public 
Law 107-71, $1,250,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That, security service fees authorized under 49 U.S.C. 44940 
shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections and 
used for providing civil aviation security services authorized by that 
section: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from the 
General Fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are 
received during fiscal year 2002 so as to result in a final fiscal year 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at not more than $0.

           Transportation Planning, Research, and Development

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $11,993,000.

              Transportation Administrative Service Center

    Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of the 
Transportation Administrative Service Center, not to exceed 
$125,323,000, shall be paid from appropriations made available to the 
Department of Transportation: Provided, That such services shall be 
provided on a competitive basis to entities within the Department of 
Transportation: Provided further, That the above limitation on operating 
expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided further, That no 
funds appropriated in this Act to an agency of the Department shall be 
transferred to the Transportation Administrative Service Center without 
the approval of the agency modal administrator: Provided further, That 
no assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, 
subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice of such 
assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations and are approved by such Committees.

                Minority Business Resource Center Program

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $500,000, as authorized by 49 
U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these

[[Page 115 STAT. 835]]

funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000. In addition, for 
administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, 
$400,000.

                       Minority Business Outreach

    For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center outreach 
activities, $3,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2003: 
Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used 
for business opportunities related to any mode of transportation.

                        Payments to Air Carriers

                     (airport and airway trust fund)

    In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry 
out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 41731 through 
41742, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$13,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                               COAST GUARD

                           Operating Expenses

    For necessary expenses for the operation and maintenance of the 
Coast Guard, not otherwise provided for; purchase of not to exceed five 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; payments pursuant to 
section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and 
section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)); and 
recreation and welfare, $3,382,000,000, of which $440,000,000 shall be 
available for defense-related activities; and of which $24,945,000 shall 
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall be available 
for pay of administrative expenses in connection with shipping 
commissioners in the United States: Provided further, That none of the 
funds provided in this Act shall be available for expenses incurred for 
yacht documentation under 46 U.S.C. 12109, except to the extent fees are 
collected from yacht owners and credited to this appropriation: Provided 
further, That of the amounts made available under this heading, not less 
than $14,541,000 shall be used solely to increase staffing at Search and 
Rescue stations, surf stations and command centers, increase the 
training and experience level of individuals serving in said stations 
through targeted retention efforts, revise personnel policies and expand 
training programs, and to modernize and improve the quantity and quality 
of personal safety equipment, including survival suits, for personnel 
assigned to said stations: Provided further, That the Department of 
Transportation Inspector General shall audit and certify to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations that the funding described in 
the preceding proviso is being used solely to supplement and not 
supplant the Coast Guard's level of effort in this area in fiscal year 
2001.

[[Page 115 STAT. 836]]

               Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements

    For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction, renovation, and 
improvement of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and 
aircraft, including equipment related thereto, $636,354,000, of which 
$20,000,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of 
which $89,640,000 shall be available to acquire, repair, renovate or 
improve vessels, small boats and related equipment, to remain available 
until September 30, 2006; $9,500,000 shall be available to acquire new 
aircraft and increase aviation capability, to remain available until 
September 30, 2004; $79,293,000 shall be available for other equipment, 
to remain available until September 30, 2004; $73,100,000 shall be 
available for shore facilities and aids to navigation facilities, to 
remain available until September 30, 2004; $64,631,000 shall be 
available for personnel compensation and benefits and related costs, to 
remain available until September 30, 2003; and $320,190,000 shall be 
available for the Integrated Deepwater Systems program, to remain 
available until September 30, 2006: Provided, That the Commandant of the 
Coast Guard is authorized to dispose of surplus real property, by sale 
or lease, and the proceeds shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and made available only for the National Distress 
and Response System Modernization program, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2004: Provided further, That none of the 
funds provided under this heading may be obligated or expended for the 
Integrated Deepwater Systems (IDS) system integration contract until the 
Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Transportation and the Director, Office 
of Management and Budget jointly certify to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations that funding for the IDS program for fiscal 
years 2003 through 2007, funding for the National Distress and Response 
System Modernization program to allow for full deployment of said system 
by 2006, and funding for other essential search and rescue procurements, 
are fully funded in the Coast Guard Capital Investment Plan and within 
the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary projections for the 
Coast Guard for those years: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided under this heading may be obligated or expended for the 
Integrated Deepwater Systems (IDS) integration contract until the 
Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Transportation and the Director, Office 
of Management and Budget jointly approve a contingency procurement 
strategy for the recapitalization of assets and capabilities envisioned 
in the IDS: Provided further, That upon initial submission to the 
Congress of the fiscal year 2003 President's budget, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall transmit to the Congress a comprehensive capital 
investment plan for the United States Coast Guard which includes funding 
for each budget line item for fiscal years 2003 through 2007, with total 
funding for each year of the plan constrained to the funding targets for 
those years as estimated and approved by the Office of Management and 
Budget: Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall be 
reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after initial submission of the 
President's budget that the plan has not been submitted to the Congress: 
Provided further, That the Director, Office of Management and Budget 
shall submit the budget request for the IDS integration

[[Page 115 STAT. 837]]

contract delineating sub-headings which include the following: systems 
integrator, ship construction, aircraft, equipment, and communications, 
providing specific assets and costs under each sub-heading.

                Environmental Compliance and Restoration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Coast Guard's environmental 
compliance and restoration functions under chapter 19 of title 14, 
United States Code, $16,927,000, to remain available until expended.

                          Alteration of Bridges

    For necessary expenses for alteration or removal of obstructive 
bridges, $15,466,000, to remain available until expended.

                               Retired Pay

    For retired pay, including the payment of obligations therefor 
otherwise chargeable to lapsed appropriations for this purpose, payments 
under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits 
Plans, payment for career status bonuses under the National Defense 
Authorization Act, and for payments for medical care of retired 
personnel and their dependents under the Dependents Medical Care Act (10 
U.S.C. ch. 55), $876,346,000.

                            Reserve Training

                      (including transfer of funds)

    For all necessary expenses of the Coast Guard Reserve, as authorized 
by law; maintenance and operation of facilities; and supplies, 
equipment, and services, $83,194,000: Provided, That no more than 
$25,800,000 of funds made available under this heading may be 
transferred to Coast Guard ``Operating expenses'' or otherwise made 
available to reimburse the Coast Guard for financial support of the 
Coast Guard Reserve: Provided further, That none of the funds in this 
Act may be used by the Coast Guard to assess direct charges on the Coast 
Guard Reserves for items or activities which were not so charged during 
fiscal year 1997.

               Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for applied 
scientific research, development, test, and evaluation; maintenance, 
rehabilitation, lease and operation of facilities and equipment, as 
authorized by law, $20,222,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $3,492,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust 
Fund: Provided, That there may be credited to and used for the purposes 
of this appropriation funds received from State and local governments, 
other public authorities, private sources, and foreign countries, for 
expenses incurred for research, development, testing, and evaluation.

[[Page 115 STAT. 838]]

                     FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

                               Operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, including operations and research activities 
related to commercial space transportation, administrative expenses for 
research and development, establishment of air navigation facilities, 
the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, 
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the public, 
lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, in 
addition to amounts made available by Public Law 104-264, 
$6,886,000,000, of which $5,773,519,000 shall be derived from the 
Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed $5,452,871,000 
shall be available for air traffic services program activities; not to 
exceed $768,769,000 shall be available for aviation regulation and 
certification program activities; not to exceed $150,154,000 shall be 
available for civil aviation security program activities; not to exceed 

Other Popular 107th Congressional Public Laws Documents:

Other Documents:

107th Congressional Public Laws Records and Documents