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 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-478 Management and the Mobile District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and all other non-environmental federal laws shall remain in effect. SEC. 366. Item 1083 contained in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 297) is amended by striking "between Southwest Drive and U.S. 277". SEC. 367. Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, the State of Minnesota may obligate funds apportioned in fiscal years 1998 through 2003 pursuant to section 117 of title 23, United States Code, for high priority project numbers 1628 and 1195 authorized in section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178): Provided, That such obligation shall be subject to the allocation percentages of section 1602(b) as modified by section 1212(m) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178). SEC. 368. Item number 577 in the table contained in Section 1602 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178) is amended by striking "Construct" and all that follows through "Ketchikan" and insert "For the purposes set forth in item number 1496". SEC. 3769. Section 5117(b)(6) of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (23 U.S.C. 502 note; 112 Stat. 450) is amended by striking "Pennsylvania Transportation Institute" and inserting "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania". SEC. 370. Section 5204 of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (23 U.S.C. 502 note; 112 Stat. 453-455) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(k) USE OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY. —Intelligent transportation system projects specified in section 5117(b)(3) and 5117(b)(6) and involving privately owned intelligent transportation system components that is carried out using funds made available from the Highway Trust Fund shall not be subject to any law or regulation of a State or political subdivision of a State prohibiting or regulating commercial activities in the rights-of-way of a highway for which Federsilaid highway funds have been utilized for planning, design, construction, or maintenance, if the Secretary of Transportation determines that such use is in the public interest. Nothing in this subsection shall affect the authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to regulate highway safety.". SEC. 371. (a) The Commeindant of the Coast Guard shall convey, without consideration, to the Town of New Castle, New Hampshire (in this section referred to as the "Town"), all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel oi real property comprising approximately 2 acres and having approximately 100 feet of ocean front that is located in New Castle, New Hampshire. The property is bordered to the west by property owned by the Town and to the east by Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire. (b)(1) The Commandant shall, in connection with the convey- ance required by subsection (a), grant to the Town such easements and rights-of-way as the Commandant considers necessary to permit access to the property conveyed under that subsection. (2) The Commandant may, in connection with the conveyance required by subsection (a), reserve in favor of the United States such easements and rights-of-way as the Commandant considers necessary to protect the mterests of the United States. (c)(1) The conveyance of property under subsection (a) shall be subject to the following conditions:

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