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 96 STAT. 2120 Highway repair methods.

Report to Congress.

23 USC 101 et seq. Traffic congestion reduction project.

Appropriation authorization.

Report to Congress.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983

(c)(1) The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a project to demonstrate state of the art methods of repairing damaged highways, and preventing damage to highways, resulting from shoreline erosion. Such project shall be carried out in the vicinity of Buhne Point, Humboldt Bay, California, at a cost not to exceed $9,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982, out of the Highway Trust Fund. (2) The Secretary of Transportation may enter with the heads of other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government into such arrangements as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection. (3) The Secretary of Transportation shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the demonstration project not later than 180 days after completion of such project. (4) Funds authorized by this subsection shall be available for obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as if such funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, except that the Federal share of the cost of any project under this subsection shall be 100 per centum of the total cost thereof and such funds shall remain available until expended. (d)(l) The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to carry out a demonstration project in the vicinity of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the purpose of demonstrating the efficacy of reducing traffic congestion in the immediate vicinity of a partial-diamond, partialcloverleaf interchange which connects an east-west highway on the Interstate System and a four lane highway not on such system by providing a direct access ramp to, and a travel lane on, the Interstate highway and by eliminating a crossover which is used for access to the Interstate highway. (2) There is authorized to be appropriated to cany out this subsection, out of the Highway Trust Fund, not to exceed $5,000,000 for the fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982. (3) Funds authorized by this subsection shall be available for obligation in the seune manner and to the same extent as if such funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, except that the Federal share of the cost of any project under this subsection shall be 100 per centum of the total cost thereof and such funds shall remain available until expended. (e)(1) The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to carry out a demonstration project in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, for the purpose of demonstrating methods of accelerating construction of high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which are directly connected to the Interstate System. (2) The Secretary of Transportation shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the demonstration project carried out under this subsection not later than 180 days after completion of such project. (3) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection, out of the Highway Trust Fund, not to exceed $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and not to exceed $27,000,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984. Any amount obligated after December 1, 1982, and before the date of enactment of this Act for a project described in paragraph (1) of this subsection from funds apportioned under section 104 of title 23, United States Code, may be deobligated and funds authorized by this subsection may be obligated for such project in place of such deobligated amounts. Any amounts deobligated under the preceding sen-

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