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 95 STAT. 1702

Appropriation authorization.

23 USC 101 et seq. Cost estimates, transmittal to Congress.

Federal-aid system.

23 USC 103.

23 USC 104.

Maine Turnpike. Repayment. 92 Stat. 2713.

PUBLIC LAW 97-134—DEC. 29, 1981

(b) The Secretary of Transportation shall prior to approval of such project enter into an agreement with such States and the District for future maintenance and rehabilitation of the bridge. (c) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated $60,000,000, out of the Highway Trust Fund, to be available until expended, to carry out the provisions of this section. Such sums shall be available for obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as if such funds were apportioned for the Interstate System under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code. The Federal share of the project cost shall be 100 per centum. (d) In making any revised estimate of the cost completing the Interstate System, which estimate is required by section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code, to be transmitted to the Congress after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall not include any costs for any bridge eligible for approval under subsection (a). The Secretary shall reduce apportionments made under section 104(b)(5) of title 23, United States Code, to such States or District by an amount, if any, equal to amounts apportioned under such section to any such State or District with respect to any such bridge for any fiscal year ending before October 1, 1982. The reduction, if any, made by the preceding sentence for each State or the District shall be made out of app|Ortionments under such section to such State or the District, beginning with the apportionment for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and shall be made, in equal shares, over the number of fiscal years in which apportionments described in the preceding sentence were made. SEC. 10. Section 139 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding a new subsection (c) as follows: "(c) The Secretary shall designate those portions of highway segments on the Federal-aid primary system in States which have no Interstate System that are logical components to a system serving the State's principal cities, national defense needs and military installations, and traffic generated by rail, water, and air transportation modes. The designated segments shall have been constructed to the geometric and construction standards adequate for current and probable future traffic demands and the needs of the locality of the segment. The milesige of any highway designated as part of the Interstate System under this subsection shall not be charged against the limitation established by the first sentence of section 103(e)(1) of this title. The designation of a highway under this subsection shall create no Federal financial responsibility with respect to such highway, except that the State involved may use Federal-aid highway funds available to it under sections 104(b)(l) and 104(b)(5)(B) of this title, for the resurfacing, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction of a highway designated as a route on the Interstate System under this subsection.". SEC. 11. Section 145 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 145. (a) Upon satisfaction by the State of Maine or the Maine Turnpike Authority of the following conditions, the State of Maine and the Maine Turnpike Authority shall be free of all restrictions with respect to the imposition and collection of tolls or other charges on the Maine Turnpike or for the use thereof contained in title 23, United States Code, or in any regulation or agreement thereunder: repayment by the State of Maine or the Maine Turnpike Authority to the Treasurer of the United States of the sum of $8,577,900 which is the amount of Federal-aid highway funds received for construction of interchanges or connections with the Maine Turnpike at West

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