Sec. 3032. CONTRACTING OUT STUDY

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## SEC. 3032 CONTRACTING OUT STUDY ###

(a)Study Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the effect of contracting out mass transportation operation and administrative functions on cost, availability and level of service, efficiency, safety, quality of services provided to transit-dependent populations, and employer-employee relations. ###

(b)Terms of Agreement The agreement entered into in subsection

(a)shall provide that— ####

(1)the Transportation Research Board, in conducting the study, consider the number of grant recipients that have contracted out services, the size of the population served by such grant recipients, the basis for decisions regarding contracting out, and the extent to which contracting out was affected by the integration and coordination of resources of transit agencies and other Federal agencies and programs; and ####

(2)the panel conducting the study shall include representatives of transit agencies, employees of transit agencies, private contractors, academic and policy analysts, and other interested persons. ###

(c)Report Not later than 24 months after the date of entry into the agreement under subsection (a), the Secretary shall transmit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report containing the results of the study. ###

(d)Funding There shall be available from funds made available under section 5338(f)(2) of title 49, United States Code, to carry out this section $250,000 for fiscal year 1999. ###

(e)Contractual Obligation Entry into an agreement to carry out this section that is financed with amounts made available under subsection

(d)is a contractual obligation of the United States to pay the Government's share of the cost of the study.