Mr. HERRINGER. That is hard to estimate at this time because many of these are preliminary applications. Over the next year we would anticipate approving $1,225 million. Our capital grant estimate for fiscal 1975. Mr. McFALL. Provide a listing of these for the committee, indicating the nature of the applications. [The information follows:] C-2. Rapid transit system improvements, continued funding of subway extension, rapid transit plant modernization....... Total, first quarter___ 5 44 51 214 314 2 Second quarter: A. 175 buses, system acquisitions, garage facilities_. 12 45 C-1. 600 buses, maintenance facilities__ 43 C-2. Continued funding of rapid transit extensions_ 108 C-3. Electrification and commuter rail rolling stock.. 90 Total, second quarter. 298 Third quarter: A. 175 buses, garage facilities.. B. 600 buses, system acquisitions, maintenance facilities... C-2. Continued funding of new rapid transit systems_. C-3. Commuter rail improvements, continued funding of commuter rail extension___. B. 1550 buses, system acquisitions, garage maintenance facilities, miscellaneous equipment--- 77 C-1. 150 buses, miscellaneous equipment_ 11 C-2. Continued funding of rail extensions, plant and equipment modernizations C-3. Population over 1,000,000 (commuter rail and other). 32-880 (Pt. 4) 074 38 6-YEAR SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SYSTEMS Mr. McFALL. Provide for the record a comparison of the number of privately owned versus publicly owned transit systems over the past 6 years. [The information follows:] Mr. McFALL. Privately owned systems are disappearing, are they not? Mr. HERRINGER. There are still about 1,000 of them. PUBLIC ENTERPRISE FUND Mr. McFALL. We turn now to the Public Enterprise Fund. Insert pages PE-1 through PE-27. [The justification pages follow:] 1 URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION FUND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES For necessary administrative expenses of the urban mass transportation RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TRAINING For an additional amount for the urban mass transportation program, as authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U. S. C. 1601 et seq.), to remain available until expended; [$35,050,000] $79,000,000: Provided, That [$32,300,000] $75,000,000 shall be available for research, development, and demonstrations [$2,250,000] $2,500,000 shall be available for university research and training, and not to exceed [$500, 000] $1,500,000 shall be available for managerial training as authorized under the authority of the said act. LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION For payment to the urban mass transportation fund, for liquidation of (Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1973.) EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE Language proposes for the 1975 Appropriations Act includes restoring the no-year provisions for the Administrative Expenses item. This provision was deleted in the 1973 and 1974 Acts but, since the urban mass transportation program is being conducted within a defined budget authority amount over several years, the ability to carry over unobligated balances in these appropriations will simplify the accounting and reporting for the program. AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION CITATIONS" Authorization: Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, "Section 4(b): To finance grants under this Act there is hereby authorized to be appropriated at any time after its enactment not to exceed $75, 000, 000 for fiscal year 1966; $150, 000, 000 for each of the fiscal years 1967, 1968, and 1969; $190,000,000 for fiscal year 1970; and $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1971. Any amount so appropriated shall remain available until expended; and any amount authorized but not appropriated for any fiscal year may be appropriated for any succeeding year. The Secretary is authorized, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to make advance or progress payments on account of any grant or contract made pursuant to this Act. "Section 4(c): To finance grants and loans under Section 3, 7(b), and 9 of this Act", the Secretary is authorized to incur obligations on behalf of the United States in the form of grant agreements or otherwise in amounts aggregating not to exceed $6, 100, 000, 000 less amounts appropriated pursuant to Section 12(d) of this Act and the amount appropriated to the Urban Mass Transportation Fund by Public Law 91-168. This amount (which shall be in addition to any amounts available to finance such activities under subsection (b) of this section) shall become available for obligation upon the effective date of this subsection and shall remain available until · obligated. There are authorized to be appropriated for liquidation of the obligations incurred under this subsection not to exceed $80, 000, 000 prior to July 1, 1971, which amount may be increased to not to exceed an aggregate of $310, 000, 000 prior to July 1, 1972, not to exceed an aggregate od $710,000,000 prior to July 1, 1973, not to exceed an aggregate of $1,260, 000, 000 prior to July 1, 1974, not to exceed an aggregate of $1,860, 000, 000 prior to July 1, 1975, and not to exceed an aggregate $6,100,000,000 thereafter. The total amounts appropriated under this subsection and Section 12(d) of this Act shall not exceed the limitations in the foregoing schedule. Sums so appropriated shall remain available until expended. "Section 6(a): The Secretary is authorized to undertake research, development, and demonstration projects in all phases of urban mass transportation (including the development, testing, and demonstration of new facilities, equipment, techniques, and methods) which he determines will assist in the reduction of urban transportation needs, the improvement of mass transportation service, or the contribution of such service toward meeting total urban transportation needs at minimum cost. He may undertake such projects independently or by grant or contract (including working agreements with other Federal departments and agencies), in carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary is authorized to request and receive such information or data as he deems appropriate from public or private sources." "Section 10(a): The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States, local bodies, and agencies thereof to provide fellowships for training of personnel employed in managerial, technical, and professional positions in the urban mass transportation field. Fellowships shall be for not more than one year of advanced training in public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education offering programs of graduate study in business or public administration, or in other fields having application to the urban mass transportation industry. The State, local body, or agency receiving a grant under this section shall select persons for such fellowships on the basis of demonstrated ability and for the contribution which they can reasonably be expected to make to an efficient mass transportation operation. Not more than one hundred fellowships shall be awarded in any year. The grant assistance under this section toward each such fellowship shall not exceed $12,000, nor 75 per centum of the sum of (1) tuition and other charges to the fellowship recipient, (2) any additional costs incurred by the educational institution in connection with the fellowship and billed to the grant recipient, and (3) the regular salary of the fellowship recipient for the period of the fellowship (to the extent that salary is actually paid or reimbursed by the grant recipient). " "Section 10(b): Not more than 12-1/2 per centum of the fellowships authorized pursuant to subsection (a) shall be awarded for the training of employees of mass transportation companies in any one State." "Section 11(a): The Secretary is authorized to make grants to public and private nonprofit institutions of higher learning to assist in establishing or carrying on comprehensive research in the problems of transportation in urban areas. Such grants shall be used to conduct competent and qualified research and investigations into the theoretical or practical problems of urban transportation, or both, and to provide for the training of persons to carry on further research or to obtain employment in private or public organizations which plan, construct, operate, or manage urban transportation systems. Such research and investigations may include, without being limited to, the design and functioning of urban mass transit systems; the design and functioning of urban roads and highways; the interrelationship between various modes of urban and interurban transportation; the role of transportation planning in overall urban planning; public preferences in transportation; the economic allocation of transportation resources; and the legal, financial, engineering, and esthetic aspects of urban transportation. In making such grants, the Secretary shall give preference to institutions of higher learning that undertake such research and training by bringing together knowledge and expertise in the various social science and technical disciplines that relate to urban transportation problems." "Section 12(d): There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the funds necessary to carry out the functions under this Act. " N. B. Appropriations being requested for Sections 6, 10, 11 and Administrative Expenses are requested pursuant to the authority contained in Section 12(d) of the amended Act. The appropriations for the Liquidation of Contract Authorization is being requested pursuant to the authority contained in Section 4(c) of the amended Act. Appropriations contained in this Act are within the constraints imposed by Section 4(c). (see page S-10). |