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 PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005

119 STAT. 1711

(24) INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC, AND LAND USE SYSTEM.—$500,000 in fiscal year 2006, $540,000 in fiscal year 2007, $540,000 in fiscal year 2008, and $625,000 in fiscal year 2009 for the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Transportation, Economic, and Land Use System program (TELUS). (25) REGIONAL TRANSIT TRAINING CONSORTIUM PILOT PROGRAM.—$270,000 in fiscal year 2006, $380,000 in fiscal year 2007, $380,000 in fiscal year 2008, and $450,000 in fiscal year 2009 for the Southern California Regional Transit Training Consortium Pilot Program. (b) REMAINDER.—After making allocations under subsection (a), the remainder of funds made available by section 5338(d) of title 49, United States Code, for national research and technology programs under sections 5312, 5314, and 5322 for a fiscal year shall be allocated at the discretion of the Secretary to other transit research, development, demonstration and deployment projects authorized by sections 5312, 5314, and 5322 of such title. SEC. 3047. FORGIVENESS OF GRANT AGREEMENT.

(a) LANE COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any regulation), any outstanding balances on the following grant agreements made to the Lane County Transit District, Oregon, do not have to be repaid: (1) Federal Contract Number OR–03–0087. (2) Federal Contract Number OR–90–X094. (b) PEE DEE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY.—The debt identified in the 2000 Triennial Review of the Pee Dee Regional Transit Authority as owed to the Federal Transit Administration by the Pee Dee Regional Transit Authority does not have to be repaid. SEC. 3048. COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT.

Deadline.

Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall undertake a 30-day review of efforts to use cooperative procurement to determine whether benefits are sufficient to formally incorporate cooperative procurement into the mass transit program. In particular, the Secretary shall review the progress made under the pilot program authorized under section 166 of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 (49 U.S.C. 5397 note; 118 Stat. 309), based on experience to date in the pilot program and any available reports to Congress submitted under such section 166. The Secretary shall also consider information gathered from grantees about cooperative procurement, whether or not related to the pilot program. SEC. 3049. TRANSPORTATION FRINGE BENEFITS.

5 USC 7905 note.

(a) TRANSIT PASS TRANSPORTATION FRINGE BENEFITS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Effective as of the first day of the next fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, each covered agency shall implement a program under which all qualified Federal employees serving in or under such agency shall be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits, as described in paragraph (2). (2) BENEFITS DESCRIBED.—The benefits described in this paragraph are the transit pass transportation fringe benefits which, under section 2 of Executive Order No. 13150, are required to be offered by Federal agencies in the National Capital Region on the date of the enactment of this Act.

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