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[CITE: 40USC1302]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
    CHAPTER 24--NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA INTEREST ARBITRATION STANDARDS
 
Sec. 1302. Definitions

    As used in this chapter--
        (1) the term ``arbitration'' means--
            (A) the arbitration of disputes, regarding the terms and 
        conditions of employment, that is required under an interstate 
        compact governing an interstate compact agency operating in the 
        national capital area; and
            (B) does not include the interpretation and application of 
        rights arising from an existing collective bargaining agreement;

        (2) the term ``arbitrator'' refers to either a single 
    arbitrator, or a board of arbitrators, chosen under applicable 
    procedures;
        (3) an interstate compact agency's ``funding ability'' is the 
    ability of the interstate compact agency, or of any governmental 
    jurisdiction which provides subsidy payments or budgetary assistance 
    to the interstate compact agency, to obtain the necessary financial 
    resources to pay for wage and benefit increases for employees of the 
    interstate compact agency;
        (4) the term ``interstate compact agency operating in the 
    national capital area'' means any interstate compact agency which 
    provides public transit services;
        (5) the term ``interstate compact agency'' means any agency 
    established by an interstate compact to which the District of 
    Columbia is a signatory; and
        (6) the term ``public welfare'' includes, with respect to 
    arbitration under an interstate compact--
            (A) the financial ability of the individual jurisdictions 
        participating in the compact to pay for the costs of providing 
        public transit services; and
            (B) the average per capita tax burden, during the term of 
        the collective bargaining agreement to which the arbitration 
        relates, of the residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan 
        area, and the effect of an arbitration award rendered pursuant 
        to such arbitration on the respective income or property tax 
        rates of the jurisdictions which provide subsidy payments to the 
        interstate compact agency established under the compact.

(Pub. L. 104-50, title IV, Sec. 403, Nov. 15, 1995, 109 Stat. 464.)
