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 ^J^% '^"^ PUBLIC LAW 105-178-JUNE 9, 1998 112 STAT. 127 (1) IN GENERAL.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to section 2(c) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997, the Secretary shall ensure that the total apportionments for a State (other than Massachusetts) for fiscal year 1998 made under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (including amendments made by such Act) shall be reduced by the amount apportioned to such State (other than Massachusetts) under section 1003(d)(1) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. (2) REPAYMENT OF TRANSFERRED FUNDS. — The Secretary shall ensure that any apportionments made to a State for fiscal year 1998 and adjusted under paragraph (1) shall first be used to restore in accordance with section 3(c) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997 any funds that a State transferred under section 3 of such Act. (3) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS FOR REPAYMENT. —I f a State has insufficient funds apportioned in fiscal year 199^ under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (including amendments made by such Act) to make the adjustment required by paragraph (1), then the Secretary shall make an adjustment to any funds apportioned to such State in fiscal year 1999. (4) ALLOCATED PROGRAMS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts made available for fiscal year 1998 by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (including amendments made by such Act) for a program that is continued by both of sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997 (including amendments made by such sections) and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (including amendments made by such Act) shall be reduced by the amount made available by such sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 for such programs. (5) TREATMENT OF STEA OBLIGATION AUTHORiTY.The amount of obligation authority made available under section 2(e) of the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 1997 shall be considered to be an amount of obligation authority made available for fiscal year 1998 under section 1102(a) of this Act. (n) STATE DEFINED. —For the purposes of apportioning funds 23 USC loi note. under sections 104, 105, 144, and 206, the term "State" means any of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. SEC. 1104. MINIMUM GUARANTEE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 105 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "(a) GENERAL RULE. —For each of fiscal years 1998 through 2003, the Secretary shall allocate among the States amounts sufficient to ensure that each State's percentage of the total apportionments for such fiscal year of Interstate maintenance, national highway system, bridge, congestion mitigation and air quality improvement, surface transportation, metropolitan planning, minimum guarantee, high priority projects, Appalachian development highway system, and recreational trails programs shall equal the percentage listed for each State in subsection (b).
 * § 105. Minimum guarantee

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