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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 22 (EAS) — 114 HR 22 EAS: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act · Sec. 32505

Sec. 32505. Authorization of appropriations

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Subchapter I of chapter 311 is amended by adding at the end the following: There are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the Secretary of Transportation to pay administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration— $264,439,000 for fiscal year 2016; $269,992,000 for fiscal year 2017; $275,662,000 for fiscal year 2018; $281,451,000 for fiscal year 2019; $287,361,000 for fiscal year 2020; and $293,396,000 for fiscal year 2021.
The funds authorized by this section shall be used— for personnel costs; for administrative infrastructure; for rent; for information technology; for programs for research and technology, information management, regulatory development, the administration of the performance and registration information systems management; for programs for outreach and education under subsection (d); to fund the motor carrier safety facility working capital fund established under subsection (c); for other operating expenses; to conduct safety reviews of new operators; and for such other expenses as may from time to time become necessary to implement statutory mandates of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not funded from other sources.
The Secretary may establish a motor carrier safety facility working capital fund. Amounts in the fund shall be available for modernization, construction, leases, and expenses related to vacating, occupying, maintaining, and expanding motor carrier safety facilities, and associated activities. Amounts in the fund shall be available without regard to fiscal year limitation. Amounts may be appropriated to the fund from the amounts made available in subsection (a). The Secretary may transfer funds to the working capital fund from the amounts made available in subsection
(a)or from other funds as identified by the Secretary. The Secretary may conduct, through any combination of grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other activities, an internal and external outreach and education program to be administered by the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The Federal share of an outreach and education program for which a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement is made under this subsection may be up to 100 percent of the cost of the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement. From amounts made available in subsection (a), the Secretary shall make available such sums as are necessary to carry out this subsection each fiscal year. Amounts authorized from the Highway Trust Fund by this section shall be available for obligation on the date of their apportionment or allocation or on October 1 of the fiscal year for which they are authorized, whichever occurs first. Amounts made available under this section shall remain available until expended. The approval of funds by the Secretary under this section is a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for payment of the Federal Government's share of costs. . Section 31104 is amended— by striking subsection (i); and by redesignating subsections
(j)and
(k)and subsections
(i)and (j), respectively. Section 4116(d) of SAFETEA–LU ( 49 U.S.C. 31104 note) is amended by striking section 31104(i) and inserting section 31110 . Section 31161 is amended by striking 31104(i) and inserting 31110 . Section 4127 of SAFETEA–LU (119 Stat. 1741; Public Law 109–59 ) is repealed. The table of contents of subchapter I of chapter 311 is amended by adding at the end the following: 31110. Authorization of appropriations. .
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