Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1984

(Senate agreed to House amendment to certain Senate amendment with an amendment,r.c.#243(75-18))

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1984 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1984 for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation for salaries and expenses, transportation planning, research and development, and the Working Capital Fund; and (2) the Coast Guard for operating expenses, acquisition, construction and improvements, alteration of bridges, retired pay, reserve training, research, development, test and evaluation, the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, the Deepwater Port Liability Fund, and the National Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Fund. Sets aside funds for the development and testing of a sealed electronic ocean dumping surveillance system.

Appropriates funds for the necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration for: (1) operations, facilities, engineering, and development; (2) grants-in-aid for airports; (3) operation, maintenance, and construction at the Metropolitan Washington airports; (4) headquarters administration; and (5) the Aviation Insurance Revolving Fund. Prohibits, during FY 1984, any commitments under the aircraft purchase loan guarantee program. Permits the Secretary of Transportation to issue notes or other obligations to finance defaults.

Authorizes the purchase of 14 buses for use at federally owned civil airports in the vicinity of the District of Columbia.

Appropriates funds to the Federal Highway Administration for: (1) general operating expenses; (2) motor carrier safety; (3) highway safety research and development; (4) highway-related safety grants; (5) federal-aid highways; (6) railroad-highway crossings demonstration projects; (7) the Right-of-Way Revolving Fund; (8) access highways to public recreation areas on certain lakes; and (9) Waste Isolation Pilot Project roads. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to provide that funds for the access control demonstration project shall not lapse until September 30, 1985.

Makes funds available from the Highway Trust Fund for transfer to the Emergency Relief Fund to repair or replace the Mianus Bridge on Interstate 95 in Connecticut, Makes funds available for repair of local roads and ancillary expenses incurred by the towns of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Portchester, New York.

Appropriates funds to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for operations and research, and for highway traffic safety grants.

Appropriates funds to the Federal Railroad Administration for: (1) the Office of the Administrator; (2) railroad safety; (3) railroad research and development; (4) rail service assistance; (5) Conrail labor protection; (6) the Northeast Corridor improvement program; (7) grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation; and (8) Rock Island labor protection. Authorizes the issuance of notes to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment of loan guarantees from railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing funds. Sets the ceiling for FY 1984 total commitments to guarantee new loans for railroad rehabilitation and improvement. Authorizes the Secretary to issue notes or other obligations on certain loan defaults. Authorizes expenditures for the redeemable preference shares program, including assistance for the Illinois Feeder Line.

Continues the Alaska Railroad Revolving Fund.

Appropriates funds to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration for: (1) administrative expenses; (2) research, development, and demonstrations and university research and training; (3) discretionary grants; (4) formula grants; (5) liquidation of contract authorization; (6) the Washington Metro; and (7) interstate transfer grants.

Appropriates funds to: (1) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation for administrative expenses; (2) the Research and Special Programs Administration for research and development and grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety program; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General for salaries and expenses and bid rigging investigative efforts.

Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the necessary expenses of: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the National Transportation Safety Board; (3) the Civil Aeronautics Board for salaries and expenses and payments to air carriers; (4) the Interstate Commerce Commission for salaries and expenses and payments for directed rail service; (5) the Panama Canal Commission for operating expenses and capital outlay; (6) the United States Railway Association; and (7) the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for interest payments.

Title III: General Provisions - Permits the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide for the expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of FAA personnel stationed outside the United States when the Secretary of Transportation determines that adequate schooling is unavailable in the locality and that adequate schools are not accessible by public transportation.

Prohibits the use of appropriated funds under this Act for formula grants for urban mass transit unless the applicants for such grants assure the Secretary that rates charged the elderly and handicapped persons during nonpeak hours do not exceed one-half the rates applicable to other persons at peak hours.

Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the planning or construction of rail-highway crossings at the School Street crossing in Groton, Connecticut, and the Broadway Extension crossing in Stonington, Connecticut.

Prohibits the use of appropriated funds: (1) to plan or execute any program to compensate non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings under this Act; or (2) to assist any State in imposing mandatory State inspection fees or sticker requirements on vehicles lawfully registered in another State, including certain vehicles engaged in interstate commercial transportation.

Prohibits appropriated funds from being available beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided.

Prohibits the approval of any project or action which would interfere with the reasonable needs of navigation on the Columbia Slough, Oregon.

Releases the city of Gadsden, Alabama, from all the terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions contained in a certain deed which conveyed real property to such city for airport purposes.

Requires that the proposed rulemaking to adjust the annual passenger ceiling at Washington National Airport be held in abeyance for at least 60 days after enactment of this Act.

Prohibits, until 60 days after promulgation (but in no event sooner than 60 days after enactment of this Act), the use of such funds to promulgate or enforce any rule with respect to the repayment of construction differential subsidy for the permanent release of vessels from certain restrictions under the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.

Limits the use of appropriated funds for consulting services to those contracts that are a matter of public record and available for public inspection and those contracts included in a publicly available list.

Prohibits the use of funds to pay for any travel by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as passenger or crew member aboard any Department of Transportation aircraft to any destination served by a regularly scheduled air carrier. Sets forth situations for which such limitation shall not apply.

Requires the FAA to submit a comprehensive plan, not later than October 1, 1983, on facilities closures or consolidations and provides for congressional review.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the States: (1) adopt the International Symbol of Access to identify vehicles carrying the physically handicapped and for such vehicles to have access to special parking privileges; and (2) enter into agreements of reciprocity relating to special parking privileges granted to handicapped persons.

Reduces the limitation on total obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1984 contained in Title I of this Act.

Prohibits implementation of Office of Personnel Management pay for performance and reduction in force regulations until October 15, 1983.