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 PUBLIC LAW 96-131—NOV. 30, 1979

93 STAT. 1037

which are in excess of $640,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 for "Grants-inaid for airports" under 49 U.S.C. 1714 (a) and (b), of which $30,000,000 shall be added to the discretionary fund available for distribution pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 1715(a)(3)(B) and (a)(4)(C). SEC. 303. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs, the obligations for which are in excess of $28,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 for "Highway-related safety grants". SEC. 304. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs the total obligations for which are in excess of $175,000,000 in fiscal year 1980 for "State and Community Highway Safety''. SEC. 305. Funds appropriated for the Panama Canal Commission may be apportioned notwithstanding section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases for officers or employees as may be authorized by administrative action pursuant to law which are not in excess of statutory increases granted for the same period in corresponding rates of compensation for other employees of the Government in comparable positions. SEC. 306. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs for any further construction of the Miami jetport or of any other air facility in the State of Florida lying south of the Okeechobee Waterway and in the drainage basins contributing water to the Everglades National Park until it has been shown by an appropriate study made jointly by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Transportation that such an airport will not have an adverse environmental effect on the ecology of the Everglades and until any site selected on the basis of such study is approved by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Transportation: Provided, That nothing in this section shall affect the availability of such funds to carry out this study. SEC. 307. Funds appropriated under this Act for expenditure by the Federal Aviation Administration shall be available (1) except as otherwise authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950 (20 U.S.C. 236-244), for expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of Federal Aviation Administration personnel stationed outside the continental United States at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined by the Secretary that the schools, if any, available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the education of such dependents and (2) for transportation of said dependents between schools serving the area which they attend and their places of residence when the Secretary, under such regulations as he may prescribe, determines that such schools are not accessible by public means of transportation on a regular basis. SEC. 308. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-18. SEC. 309. None of the funds provided in this Act for liquidation of contractual obligations under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, shall be made available for liquidation of obligations entered into under section 5 of that Act to support mass transit facilities, equipment, or operating expenses unless the applicant for such assistance has given satisfactory assurances in such manner and forms as the Secretary may require, and in accordance with such terms and conditions as the Secretary may prescribe, that the rates charged elderly and handicapped persons during nonpeak hours shall

Highwayrelated safety grants. State and Community Highway Safety. Panama Csinal Commission, pay increases for officers or employees.

Everglades National Park, Fla., ecology study.

FAA personnel, dependents' school expenses. 20 USC 241 note.

5 USC 5332 note. Mass transit fares for elderly and handicapped. 49 USC 1601 note. 49 USC 1604.

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