Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1698

 95 STAT. 1672

PUBLIC LAW 97-125—DEC. 29, 1981

specified in annual appropriation Acts for making expenditures authorized by this subtitle. Parking facility. "SEC. 118. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of title 23, 40 USC 818. United States Code, and other Acts pertaining to Federal-Aid Highways, the Secretary of Transportation shall immediately approve the completion of the parking facility, and associated ramps (mcluding any necessary pedestrian access and walkways, escalators, elevators, moving sidewalk access, and connections) at Union Station, to be financed with interstate highway funds apportioned to the District of Columbia. To the extent necessary to complete such prolect, such apportionment shall not be subject to any obligation limitation enacted for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982, or the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983. The amount of such apportionment necessary to complete such project, not to exceed $40,000,000, shall remain available to the District of Columbia until esroended, without regard to the provisions of section 118(b) of title 23, United States Code. The Federal share shall be 100 per centum of the total cost of such project. Parking facility, "(b) Within sixty days of the enactment of this section, the agreement. Secretary of Transportation shall enter into an agreement with the District of Columbia's Department of Transportation for the Secretary of Transportetion's administration of the project described in subsection (a) of this section. Such project agreement shall provide that all right, title, and interest in such parking facility shall remain in the United States. The rate of fees charged for use of the parking facility may exceed the rate required for maintenance and operation of the facility, and shall be established in a manner that encourages its use by rail passengers and participants in activities in the Union Station complex and area. Agreement, "SEC. 119. (a) The Secretary of Transportotion is authorized, on release. such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, to release the 40 USC 819. Washington Terminal Company from any or all of its obligations under agreements and leases entered into under subtitle A of this title, including, without limitetion, the obligation to construct a new 40 USC 802. railroad passenger stetion as provided in section 102(a)(4) of this title. Waiver. "(b) The Secretary of Transportotion shall waive such stotutory or contractual restrictions on the use of the parking structure and Supra. associated ramps described in section 118 of this subtitle as would otherwise be required or imposed because funds for such construction were or are provided under the Urban Mass Transportotion Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.). "(c) The Secretary of Transportotion is authorized to use funds appropriated under section 704(a)(2) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (45 U.S.C. 854(a)(2)) to cany out the purposes of this subtitle without r^ard to the matehing mnds requirement of section 703(1)(B) of such Act (45 U.S.C. 853(1)(B)). Funding Funds appropriated under section 704(a) of such Act may not be used prohibition. for design, construction, or operation of a heliport at or near Union Stotion. Agreements. "(d) The Architect of the Capitol ia authorized to entor into agreements with the Secretary of Transportotion or his designee or assign to furnish steam or chilled wator or bothfiromthe Capitol Power Plant to the Union Stotion complex, at no expense to the legislative branch.". Repeals. SEC. 4. (a) The Act approved November 5, 1966 (Public Law 89-759) and section 108 of the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-264) are repealed.

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