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[CITE: 40USC814]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
     CHAPTER 18--NATIONAL VISITOR CENTER FACILITIES; UNION STATION 
                  REDEVELOPMENT; CAPITOL GUIDE SERVICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER I--UNION STATION
 
                   Part B--Union Station Redevelopment
 
Sec. 814. Studies to determine feasibility of rehabilitation and 
        improvements; implementation of recommendations
        

(a) Engineering survey

    The Secretary of Transportation shall, on an emergency basis, carry 
out an engineering survey of all existing structures at the Union 
Station complex for the following purposes:
        (1) to determine those actions necessary or desirable to 
    preserve the long-term structural integrity of, and provide 
    functional utility systems for, the historic Union Station building;
        (2) in cooperation with Amtrak, to determine those actions 
    necessary or desirable to restore rail passenger handling functions 
    to the historic Union Station building and otherwise improve rail 
    passenger service facilities at Union Station, including improved 
    passenger access to the trains; and
        (3) to prepare detailed estimates of the costs of such 
    rehabilitation and improvement.

(b) Planning and market feasibility studies to assess commercial 
        development potential

    Concurrently with the engineering survey required by subsection (a) 
of this section, the Secretary of Transportation, in cooperation with 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, shall carry out a planning 
and market feasibility study to assess the commercial development 
potential of the Union Station complex. Such study shall also include, 
but not be limited to, an assessment of the feasibility and desirability 
of:
        (1) providing passenger transportation services from Union 
    Station to the commercial airports in the area;
        (2) constructing a heliport at or near the Union Station 
    complex; and
        (3) relocating to office space in Union Station the offices of 
    Federal or other public transportation agencies.

(c) Time for completion of studies

    The Secretary of Transportation shall complete the engineering 
survey required by this section not later than six months after December 
29, 1981, and shall complete the planning and market feasibility study 
required by this section not later than twelve months after December 29, 
1981.

(d) Availability of appropriated funds

    Of amounts appropriated under section 704(a)(1) and (2) of the 
Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (45 U.S.C. 
854(a)(1) and (2)), $1,000,000 shall be available to and be utilized by 
the Secretary of Transportation to carry out the purposes of subsections 
(a) and (b) of this section.

(e) Reports to Congress; commitment of Federal funds

    Within twelve months following December 29, 1981, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall submit a report to the Congress on the results of 
the engineering survey and planning and market feasibility studies 
carried out under this section. Such report shall be referred to the 
Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate and the Committees on Energy and Commerce and 
Public Works and Transportation of the House, respectively. Such report 
shall include a specific commitment of Federal funds for completion of 
the rehabilitation of the historic Union Station building, together with 
any necessary request for appropriations, in the amount determined by 
the Secretary of Transportation to be necessary in light of the survey 
and studies carried out under this section, from either or both of the 
following sources:
        (1) funds authorized to be appropriated and not yet appropriated 
    under section 704(a) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory 
    Reform Act of 1976 (45 U.S.C. 854(a)) that are in excess of the 
    amounts set out in the last sentence of such section 704(a); and
        (2) funds programed or reprogramed from any other appropriation 
    available to the Secretary of Transportation.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, no funds from 
the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project and other rail or rail-
related programs in excess of $29,000,000 shall be available for the 
completion of the rehabilitation of the historic Union Station building 
or other purposes determined by the Secretary of Transportation to be 
necessary in light of the survey and studies carried out under this 
section if within ninety calendar days of continuous session of the 
Congress after any request for such excess funds either the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives or the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate disapproves of the 
availability of such excess funds for such purposes by majority vote. 
For purposes of this subsection, continuity of session of the Congress 
is broken only by an adjournment sine die, and the days on which either 
House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three 
days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the period 
described in this subsection.

(Pub. L. 90-264, title I, Sec. 114, as added Pub. L. 97-125, Sec. 3(3), 
Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1669.)

                       References in Text

    Section 704(a) of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform 
Act of 1976, referred to in subsecs. (d) and (e)(1), is section 704(a) 
of Pub. L. 97-125, which enacted section 854(a) of Title 45, Railroads, 
and was repealed and the provisions thereof reenacted in section 24909 
of Title 49, Transportation, by Pub. L. 103-272, July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 
745, the first section of which enacted subtitles II, III, and V to X of 
Title 49.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives and 
Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of Representatives 
treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out 
as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
