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 PUBLIC LAW 102-240—DEC. 18, 1991 105 STAT. 2119 " (5) ADVANCED FARE COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROJECT.— From amounts authorized under section 21(c)(4), the Secretary shall make available $1,000,000 in fiscal year 1992 for the purpose of conducting a pilot project to evaluate, develop, and test advanced fare technology systems. Such project shall be carried out by the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority. " (6) INERTIAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. — "(A) PROJECT. —There is authorized to be appropriated from amounts made available under section 21(c), $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 to support an inertial navigation system demonstration project for the purpose of determining the safety, economic, and environmental benefits of deploying inertial navigation tracking and control systems in urban and rural environments. " (B) PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPANTS. — The project described in subparagraph (A) shall be conducted by the Transit Safety Research Alliance, a nonprofit public-private sector consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "(7) SUPPLEMENTARY FUNDS.— The Secretary may use funds appropriated under this subsection to supplement funds available under subsection (a)(1), as the Secretary deems appropriate. "(8) FEDERAL SHARE.—Where there would be a clear and direct financial benefit to an entity under a grant or contract funded under this subsection or subsection (a)(1), the Secretary shall establish a Federal share consistent with that benefit. ' (c) SUSPENDED LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY PILOT PROJECT.— "(1) FULL FUNDING GRANT AGREEMENT. —Not later than 60 days after the fulfillment of the requirements under paragraph (5), the Secretary shall negotiate and enter into a full funding grant agreement under section 3 with a public entity selected under paragraph (4) for construction of a suspended light rail system technology pilot project. "(2) PROJECT PURPOSE.—The purpose of the project under this subsection shall be to assess the state of new technology for a suspended light rail system and to determine the feasibility and costs and benefits of using such a system for transporting passengers. "(3) PROJECT DESCRIPTION. — The project under this subsection shall— "(A) utilize new rail technology with individual vehicles on a prefabricated, elevated steel guideway; "(B) be stability seeking with a center of gravity for the detachable passenger vehicles located below the point of wheel-rail contact; and "(C) utilize vehicles which are driven by overhead bogies with high efficiency, low maintenance electric motors for each wheel, operating in a slightly sloped plane from vertical for both the wheels and the running rails, to further increase stability, acceleration, and braking performance. " (4) COMPETITION. — "(A) IN GENERAL. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall conduct a national competition to select a public entity with which to enter into a full funding grant agreement under paragraph (1) for construction of the project under this subsection. "(B) PUBLICATION OF NOTICE. —Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary Grants. Contracts. Federal Register, publication.

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