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 88 STAT. J

PUBLIC LAW 93-503-NOV. 26, 1974

use in providing public mass transportation service to any applicant for such assistance unless such applicant and the Secretary shall have first entered into an agreement that such applicant will not engage in schoolbus operations, exclusively for the transportation of students and school personnel, in competition with private schoolbus operators. This subsection shall not apply to an applicant with respect to operation of a schoolbus program if the applicant operates a school system in the area to be served and operates a separate and exclusive schoolbus program for this school system. This subsection shall not apply unless private schoolbus operators are able to provide adequate transportation, at reasonable rates, and in conformance with applicable safety standards; and this subsection shall not apply with respect to any State or local public body or agency thereof if it (or a direct predecessor in interest from which it acquired the function of so transporting schoolchildren and personnel along with facilities to be used therefor) was so engaged in schoolbus operations any time during the twelve-month period immediately prior to the date of the enactment of this subsection. A violation of an agreement under this subsection shall bar such applicant from receiving any other Federal financial assistance under this Act." (b) The first sentence of section 3(f) of such Act is amended by striking out "purchase of buses" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "purchase or operation of buses".

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AI^TERNATE U S E OF CAPITAL GRANTS

SEC. 110. Section 3 of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 is amended by adding at the end thereof (after the new subsection added by section 109 of this Act) the following new subsection: " (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, or of any contract or agreement entered into under this Act, up to one-half of any financial assistance provided under this Act (other than under section 5) to any State or local public body or agency thereof for the fiscal year 1975 or any subsequent fiscal year may, at the option of such State or local public body or agency, be used exclusively for the payment of operating expenses (incurred in connection with the provision of mass transportation service in an urban area or areas) to improve or to continue such service, if the Secretary finds (in any case where the financial assistance to be so used was originally provided for another project) that effective arrangements have been made to substitute and, by the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which such sums are used, make available (for such other project) an equal amount of State or local funds (in addition to any State or local funds otherwise required by this Act to be contributed toward the cost of such project). Any amounts used for the payment of operating expenses pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to such terms and conditions (including the requirement for local matching contributions), required for the payment of operating expenses under other provisions of this Act, as the Secretary may deem necessary and appropriate."

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DATA A N D F I N A N C I A L REPORTING SYSTEMS

SEC. 111. Section 15 of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 is amended by striking out the entire section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

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