Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 101 Part 2.djvu/721

 PUBLIC LAW 100-202—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1329-378

SEC. 308. None of the funds in this or any previous or subsequent Act shall be available for the planning or implementation of any change in the current Federal status of the Transportation Systems Center; and none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the implementation of any change in the current Federal status of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. SEC. 309. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 310. (a) For fiscal year 1988 the Secretary of Transportation shall distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways by allocation in the ratio which sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction that are apportioned or allocated to each State for such fiscal year bear to the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction that are apportioned or allocated to all the States for such fiscal year. (b) During the period October 1 through December 31, 1987, no State shall obligate more than 35 per centum of the amount distributed to such State under subsection (a), and the total of all State obligations during such period shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total amount distributed to all States under such subsection. (c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary shall— (1) provide all States with authority sufficient to prevent lapses of sums authorized to be appropriated for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction that have been apportioned to a Stote, except in those instonces in which a Stote indicates its intention to lapse sums apportioned under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code; (2) after August 1, 1988, revise a distribution of the funds made available under subsection (a) if a Stote will not obligate the amount distributed during that fiscal year and redistribute sufficient amounts to those Stotes able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed during that fiscal year giving priority to those Stotes having large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under section 104 of title 23, United Stotes Code, and giving priority to those States which, because of stotutory changes made by the Surface Transportotion Assistance Act of 1982 and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981, have experienced substantial proportional reductions in their apportionments and allocations; and (3) not distribute amounts authorized for administrative expenses, the Federal lands highway program, the strategic highway research program and amounts made available under sections 149(d), 158, 159, 164, 165, and 167 of Public Law 100-17. (d) The limitotion on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for fiscal year 1988 shall not apply to obligations for emergency relief under section 125 of title 23, United Stotes Code, obligations under section 157 of title 23, United Stotes Code, projects covered under section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978, section 9 of the FederalAid Highway Act of 1981, subsections 131(b) and (j) of Public Law 97-424, section 118 of the National Visitors Center Facilities Act of

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