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such corporation, including maintaining and improving facilities of other Government agencies in the Canal Zone for Panama Canal Company use.

LIMITATION ON GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

Not to exceed $21,037,000 of the funds available to the Panama Canal Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for general and administrative expenses of the Company, including operation of tourist vessels and guide services, which shall be computed on an accrual basis. Funds available to the Panama Canal Company for operating expenses shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed twenty-five passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only, and for uniforms or allowances there for as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).

[Total, the Panama Canal, $62,500,000.]

WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT
AUTHORITY

FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION

To enable the Department of Transportation to pay the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, as part of the Federal contribution toward expenses necessary to design, engineer, construct, and equip a rail rapid transit system, as authorized by the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969 (Public Law 91-143) as amended, including acquisition of rights-of-way, land, and interest therein, to remain available until expended, $90,360,000 for the fiscal year 1975, and for the fiscal year 1974, $7,385,000 for design and construction of the Arlington Cemetery station and an additional Smithsonian Station entrance, as authorized by Public Law 92–517.

INTEREST SUBSIDY

To enable the Department of Transportation to pay the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority the interest subsidy authorized by Public Law 92-349, $12,728,000, to remain available until expended. [Total, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, $110,473.000.]

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TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; and uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902).

SEC. 302. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with commitments for grants-in-aid for airport development aggregating more than $300,000,000 in fiscal year 1974.

SEC. 303. None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of programs the obligations for

$21.037.000 (limitation)

90,360,000 (fy 1975) 7,385,000

12,728,000

which are in excess of $50,000,000 for "Highway Beautification" in fiscal year 1974.

SEC. 304. 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 $80,000,000 in fiscal year 1974 for "State and Community Highway Safety" and "Highway-Related Safety Grants".

SEC. 305. 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 $4,000,000 in fiscal year 1974 for "Territorial Highways".

SEC. 306. 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 $18,000,000, exclusive of the reimbursable program, in fiscal year 1974 for "Forest Highways".

SEC. 307. 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 $10,000,000 in fiscal year 1974 for "Public Lands Highways".

SEC. 308. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with commitments for "Urban Mass Transportation Fund" aggregating more than $985,550,000 in fiscal year 1974.

SEC. 309. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.

SEC. 310. 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. 311. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, in an amount not exceeding $150,000.

SEC. 312. Funds appropriated for operating expenses of the Canal Zone Government 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. 313. Funds appropriated under this Act for expenditure by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Coast Guard shall be available (1) for expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of Federal Aviation Administration and Coast Guard 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. 314. 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. 315. None of the funds in this Act shall be available for the implementation or execution of a program in the Department of Transportation to collect fees, charges or prices for approvals, tests, authorizations, certificates, permits, registrations, and ratings which are in excess of the levels in effect on January 1, 1973, or which did not exist as of January 1, 1973, until such program is reviewed and approved by the appropriate committees of the Congress.

This Act may be cited as the "Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1974”.

Approved August 16, 1973.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 93-285 (Committee on Appropriations) and No. 93-426 (Committee of Conference).

SENATE REPORT No. 93-346 (Committee on Appropriations).

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 119 (1973):

June 20, considered and passed House.

July 28, considered and passed Senate, amended.

August 3, House and Senate agreed to conference report.

Grand total:

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NOTE. In addition to the new budget (obligational) authority for fiscal year 1974 contained in the foregoing annual appropriation Act, the following additional amounts are available for the Department of Transportation for such fiscal year:

Adjustment-rescission of fiscal year 1975 appropriations deducted in arriving at new budget (obligational) authority in Act (See "grand total" on p. 253).

Permanent appropriations (p. 1063).

Trust funds (pp. 1076-1077) -

Contract authority (in other than appropriation acts):

Federal funds..

Trust funds____

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1974 (p. 290) –

Subtotal, additions__.

$9, 100, 000

73, 500, 000 5,781, 030, 000

2, 991, 010, 000

-11, 642, 940, 000

30, 335, 000

20, 527, 915,000

Deduct amounts for independent agencies transferred to General Government and Department of Defense, Civil totals:

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TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL
GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATION ACT, 1974

Public Law 93-143

93rd Congress, H.R. 9590

October 30, 1973

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postai Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses in the Office of the Secretary, including the operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex thereof; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $7,500 for official reception and representation expenses; $17,892,000, of which not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be allocated and expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be accounted for solely on his certificate.

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles, $2,200,000.

BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Accounts, $70,000,000.

$17,892,000

2,200,000

70,000,000

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