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 PUBLIC LAW 106-69—OCT. 9, 1999 113 STAT. 1029 (B) For purposes of compliance with the Clean Air Act, entities that are regulated under such Act with respect to such emissions would obtain the credits through a commercial trading and exchange forum (established for such purpose) and through direct trades and exchanges with participating employers and other persons who hold the credits. (3) To determine whether, if the proposed pilot program were to be carried out, the program— (A) could provide significant incentives for increasing the use of telecommuting, thereby reducing vehicle-milestraveled and improving air quality; and (B) could have positive effects on national. State, and local transportation and infrastructure policies, and on energy conservation and consumption. (b) The Administrator shall ensure that the design developed under subsection (a)(2) includes recommendations for carrying out the proposed pilot program described in such subsection in each of the following geographic areas (which recommendations for an area shall be developed in consultation with State and local governments and business leaders and organizations in the designated areas): (1) The greater metropolitan region of the District of Columbia (including areas in the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia). (2) The greater metropolitan region of Los Angeles, in the State of California. (3) The greater metropolitan region of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (including areas in the State of New Jersey). (4) Two additional areas to be selected by the grantee under subsection (a), after consultation with the Administrator (or the designee of the Administrator). (c) The grant under subsection (a) shall be made to the National Environmental Policy Institute (a nonprofit private entity incorporated under the laws of and located in the District of Columbia). The grant may not be made in an amount exceeding $500,000. (d) The Administrator shall make the grant under subsection Deadlines, (a) not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The Administrator shall require that, not later than 180 Reports, days after receiving the first payment under the grant, the grantee under subsection (a) complete the study under such subsection and submit to the Administrator a report describing the methods developed and evaluated under paragraph (1) of such subsection, and containing the design required in paragraph (2) of such subsection and the determinations required in paragraph (3) of such subsection. (e) The Administrator shall carry out this section (including subsection (b)(3)) in collaboration with the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Energy. (f) To carry out this section, $500,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Transportation, "Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy", to be transferred to and administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, to be available until expended. SEC. 366. Notwithstanding the Federal Airport Act (as in effect on April 3, 1956) or sections 47125 and 47153 of title 49, United States Code, and subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of Transportation may waive any term contained in the deed of convey- ance dated April 3, 1956, by which the United States conveyed lands to the City of Safford, Arizona, for use by the city for airport

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