Sec. 11001. Amounts in this Act
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Except as provided in subsection (c), or except as explicitly provided otherwise by this Act or in title 23, United States Code, all funding provided by this Act is contract authority as defined in section 3(2)(A)(iii) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 622(2)(A)(iii) ), and all such contract authority shall become available for obligation in the fiscal year specified in this Act and shall remain available until expended. Except as explicitly provided, obligation limits established by this Act shall apply for a term of one year and shall apply to obligations to be incurred in the fiscal year specified.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, obligation limits established by this Act shall not apply after 2018. Except as provided in this Act, obligation limits established by this Act shall apply to unobligated contract authority from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Obligation limitations established by this Act shall not apply to— unobligated contract authority provided by this Act that could have been obligated in a prior year within any obligation limits applicable to that prior year or was exempt from such limitations, but was not so obligated; the use of fees authorized or provided by this Act as described in subsection (d); and reimbursable programs undertaken by accounts established in this Act on behalf of discretionary accounts.
During any session of Congress, appropriations Acts may increase or decrease any obligation limit established by this Act for any current year or budget year prior to fiscal year 2019. During any session of Congress, it shall not be in order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate for any appropriations Act to alter obligation limits under this Act for any outyear. This paragraph is enacted by the Congress— as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such is deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, and such procedures supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure of that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of that House.
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the liquidation of obligations incurred under contract authority created by this Act or under contract authority provided from the Highway Trust Fund as it existed in any version at any time prior to the effective date of this Act. The collection and expenditure of fees to cover certain administrative costs under this Act for a fiscal year, if subject to annual appropriations, shall be treated as discretionary offsetting collections and discretionary appropriations, respectively.
The collection and expenditure of fees to cover certain administrative costs under this Act for a fiscal year, if not subject to annual appropriations, shall be treated as mandatory offsetting collections and mandatory appropriations, respectively.
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