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 108 STAT. 818 PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 facility. The contract may provide for the testing of rail cars and other vehicles at the facility. (c) FEES. —The person operating and maintaining the facility shall establish and collect fees for the testing of vehicles at the facility. The Secretary must approve the fees. Contracts. (d) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS To PAY FOR TESTiNG.The Secretary shall make a contract with the operator of the facility under which the Secretary shall pay 80 percent of the cost of testing a vehicle at the facility from amounts available under section 5338(j)(5) of this title. The entity having the vehicle tested shall pay 20 percent of the cost. (e) REVOLVING LOAN FUND.—The Secretary has a bus testing revolving loan fund consisting of amounts authorized for the fund under section 317(b)(5) of the Surface Transportation and Relocation Assistance Act of 1987. The Secretary shall make available as repayable advances from the fund to the person operating and maintaining the facility amounts to operate and maintain the facility. § 5319. Bicycle facilities A project to provide access for bicycles to mass transportation facilities, to provide shelters and parking facilities for bicycles in or around mass transportation facilities, or to install equipment for transporting bicycles on mass transportation vehicles is a capital project eligible for assistance under sections 5307, 5309, and 5311 of this title. Notwithstanding sections 5307(e), 5309(h), and 5311(g) of this title, a grant of the United States Government under this chapter for a project under this section is for 90 percent of the cost of the project. §5320. Suspended light rail system technology pilot project (a) PURPOSE. —The purpose of this section is to provide for the construction by a public entity of a suspended light rail system technology pilot project— (1) to assess the state of new technology for a suspended light rail system; and (2) to establish the feasibility, costs, and benefits of using the system to transport passengers. (b) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS. —The project shall— (1) use new rail technology with individual vehicles on a prefabricated elevated steel guideway; (2) be stability-seeking with a center of gravity for the detachable passenger vehicles located below the point of wheelrail contact; and (3) use vehicles that are driven by overhead bogies with high efficiency, low maintenance electric motors for each wheel, operating in a slightly sloped plane from vertical for the wheels and the running rails, to further increase stability, acceleration, and braking performance. Contracts. (c) COMPETITION. — (1) The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a national competition to select a public entity with which to make a full financing grant agreement to construct the project. Not later than April 16, 1992, the Secretary shall select 3 public entities to be finalists in the competition. In conducting the competition and selecting public entities, the Secretary shall consider— (A) the public entity's demonstrated understanding and knowledge of the project and its technical, managerial, and

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