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 PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 937 (c) IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION. —Amtrak, its board of directors, and its individual directors are not liable because Amtrak has given or issued the note or agreement to the Government under subsection (a) of this section. Immunity granted under this subsection also applies to a transaction related to the note or agreement,. The Government shall indemnify Amtrak, its board, and individual directors against costs and expenses actually and reasonably incurred in defending a civil action testing the validity of the note, agreement, or transaction. § 24908. Transfer taxes and levies and recording charges A transfer of an interest in rail property under this chapter is exempt from a tax or levy related to the transfer that is imposed by the United States Government, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. On payment of the appropriate and generally applicable charge for the service performed, a transferee or transferor may record an instrument and, consistent with the final system plan, the release or removal of a pre-existing lien or encumbrance of record related to the interest transferred. § 24909. Authorization of appropriations (a) GENERAL. — <1) Not more than $2,313,000,000 may be appropriated to the Secretary of Transportation to achieve the goals of section 24902(a)(1) of this title. From this amount, the following amounts shall be expended by Amtrak: (A) at least $27,000,000 for equipment modification and replacement that a State or a local or regional transportation authority must bear because of the electrification conversion system of the Northeast Corridor under this chapter. (B) $30,000,00a- (i) to improve the main line track between the Northeast Corridor main line and Atlantic City, New Jersey, to ensure that the track, consistent with a plan New Jersey developed in consultation with Amtrak to provide rail passenger transportation between the Northeast Corridor main line and Atlantic City, New Jersey, would be of sufficient quality to allow safe rail passenger transportation at a minimum of 79 miles an hour not later than September 30, 1985; and (ii) to promote rail passenger use of the track. (C) necessary amounts to— (i) develop Union Station in the District of Columbia; (ii) install 189 track-miles, and renew 133 track-miles, of concrete ties with continuously welded rail between the District of Columbia and New York, New York; (iii) install reverse signaling between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on numbers 2 and 3 track; (iv) restore ditch drainage in concrete tie locations between the District of Columbia and New York, New York; (v) undercut 83 track-miles between the District of Columbia and New York, New York; (vi) rehabilitate bridges between the District of Columbia and New York, New York (including Hi line); (vii) develop a maintenance of way equipment repair facility between the District of Columbia and New York,

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