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 106 STAT. 1560 PUBLIC LAW 102-388 —OCT. 6, 1992 Intergovernme ntal relations. 49 USC app. 1348a. Vermont. of Brooklyn, New York, and Staten Island, New York, shall continue to be collected for only those vehicles exiting from such bridge in Staten Island. SEC. 359. Projects to research, develop and test technologies to control highway related emissions which contribute to the nonattainment of any ambient air quality standard or the impairment of visibility within an urbanized area shall be deemed to be eligible under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, SEC. 360. Not later than September 30, 1993, the Secretary of Transportation shall issue proposed rules under Docket No. HM - 175A (Specifications for Tank Cars) and Docket No. HM-201 (Detection and Repair of Cracks, Pits, Corrosion, Lining Flaws, Thermal Protection Flaws, and Other Defects of Tank Cars). SEC. 361. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Transportation shall waive the State matching share for the construction of any portion of an international road project located outside of the borders of any State of the United States for which funds are earmarked in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 or in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992. SEC. 362. COLLEGIATE TRAINING INITIATIVE. — <a) The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may hereafter continue the Collegiate Training Initiative program, by entering into new agreements, and by maintaining existing agreements, with post-secondary educational institutions, as defined by the Administrator, whereby such institutions prepare students for the position of air traffic controller with the Department of Transportation, as defined in section 2109 of title 5, United States Code. (b) The Administrator may establish standards for the entry of institutions into such program and for their continued participation in it. (c) The Administrator may appoint persons who have successfully completed a course of training in such program to the position of air traffic controller noncompetitively in the excepted service, as defined in section 2103, of title 5, United States Code. Persons so appointed shall serve at the pleasure of the Administrator, subject to section 7511, of title 5, United States Code (pertaining to adverse actions). However, an appointment under this subsection may be converted from one in the excepted service to a career conditional or career appointment in the competitive civil service, as defined in section 2102, of title 5, United States Code, when the incimibent achieves full performance level air traffic controller status, as determined by the Administrator. The authority conferred by this subsection to make new appointments in the excepted service shall expire at the end of five years from the date of enactment of this Act, except that the Administrator may determine to extend such authority tor one or more successive one-year periods thereafter. SEC. 363. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State of Vermont shall be reimbursed, in an amount not to exceed $1,400,000, for its share of work performed on major and minor reconstruction of roadways and bridges on United States Interstate Routes 89 and 91, in Vermont.

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