This division may be cited as the “Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024”. Editorial note: The text above is the only information printed on this page of the signed law.
Division F — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
DIVISION F Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
TITLE I Department of Transportation
Office of the Secretary
administrative provisions—office of the secretary of transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
administrative provisions—federal aviation administration
Federal Highway Administration
administrative provisions—federal highway administration
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Sec. 130. administrative provisions—federal motor carrier safety administration
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall send notice of section 385.308 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, violations by certified mail, registered mail, or another manner of delivery, which records the receipt of the notice by the persons responsible for the violations.
Sec. 131.
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Transportation by this Act or any other Act may be obligated or expended to implement, administer, or enforce the requirements of section 31137 of title 49, United States Code, or any regulation issued by the Secretary pursuant to such section, with respect to the use of electronic logging devices by operators of commercial motor vehicles, as defined in section 31132(1) of such title, transporting livestock as defined in section 602 of the Emergency Livestock Feed Assistance Act of 1988 (7 U.S.C. 1471) or insects.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Sec. 140. administrative provisions—national highway traffic safety administration
The limitations on obligations for the programs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act shall not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.
Sec. 141.
An additional $130,000 shall be made available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, out of the amount limited for section 402 of title 23, United States Code, to pay for travel and related expenses for State management reviews and to pay for core competency development training and related expenses for highway safety staff.
Federal Railroad Administration
administrative provisions—federal railroad administration
Federal Transit Administration
administrative provisions—federal transit administration
(including rescission)
Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations, as provided by section 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Corporation’s budget for the current fiscal year.
Maritime Administration
Sec. 170. administrative provisions—maritime administration
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in addition to any existing authority, the Maritime Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government property under control of the Maritime Administration: Provided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Sec. 171.
There is hereby appropriated $12,000,000, to remain available until expended, for expenses necessary for the Secretary of Transportation to enter into a contract to complete the designs of ten sealift vessels for the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Office of Inspector General
General Provisions—Department of Transportation
This title may be cited as the “Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2024”. Editorial note: The text above is the only information printed on this page of the signed law.
TITLE II Department of Housing and Urban Development
Management and Administration
Public and Indian Housing
Community Planning and Development
Housing Programs
Federal Housing Administration
Government National Mortgage Association
Policy Development and Research
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
Information Technology Fund
For Department-wide and program-specific information technology systems and infrastructure, $383,050,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, of which up to $23,950,000 shall be for development, modernization, and enhancement projects, including planning for such projects: Provided, That not later than 30 days after the end of each quarter, the Secretary shall brief the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all information technology modernization efforts as required in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act).
Office of Inspector General
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, $152,924,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have independent authority over all personnel issues within this office.
General Provisions—Department of Housing and Urban Development
This title may be cited as the “Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2024”. Editorial note: The text above is the only information printed on this page of the signed law.
TITLE III Related Agencies
Access Board
Federal Maritime Commission
National Railroad Passenger Corporation
National Transportation Safety Board
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
Surface Transportation Board
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
TITLE IV General Provisions—this Act
Sec. 401.
None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
Sec. 402.
None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 403.
The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through a procurement contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 404.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee training that—
does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official duties;
contains elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some participants;
does not require prior employee notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written end of course evaluation;
contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or “new age” belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the performance of official duties.
Sec. 405.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2024, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that—
creates a new program;
eliminates a program, project, or activity;
increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress;
proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for a different purpose;
augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or department different from the budget justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or the table accompanying the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act), whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:
Provided, That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report shall include—
Sec. 406.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2024 from appropriations made available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2024 in this Act, shall remain available through September 30, 2025, for each such account for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 of this Act.
Sec. 407.
No funds in this Act may be used to support any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use: Provided, That for purposes of this section, public use shall not be construed to include economic development that primarily benefits private entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects, as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public (including energy-related, communication-related, water-related and wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the general public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and oversight by the government, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public use for purposes of eminent domain.
Sec. 408.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
Sec. 409.
No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305, popularly known as the “Buy American Act”).
Sec. 410.
No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act shall be made available to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305).
Sec. 411.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
Sec. 412.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees of a single agency or department of the United States Government, who are stationed in the United States, at any single international conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance that such attendance is important to the national interest: Provided, That for purposes of this section the term “international conference” shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United States attended by representatives of the United States Government and of foreign governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental organizations.
Sec. 413.
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation Board to charge or collect any filing fee for rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the amount authorized for district court civil suit filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United States Code.
Sec. 414.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography.
Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities.
Sec. 415.
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely access to any records, documents, or other materials available to the department or agency over which that Inspector General has responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), or to prevent or impede that Inspector General’s access to such records, documents, or other materials, under any provision of law, except a provision of law that expressly refers to the Inspector General and expressly limits the Inspector General’s right of access.
A department or agency covered by this section shall provide its Inspector General with access to all such records, documents, and other materials in a timely manner.
Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance with statutory limitations on disclosure relevant to the information provided by the establishment over which that Inspector General has responsibilities under the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).
Each Inspector General covered by this section shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 calendar days any failures to comply with this requirement.
Sec. 416.
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive fees for contractors whose performance has been judged to be below satisfactory, behind schedule, over budget, or has failed to meet the basic requirements of a contract, unless the Agency determines that any such deviations are due to unforeseeable events, government-driven scope changes, or are not significant within the overall scope of the project and/or program unless such awards or incentive fees are consistent with 16.401(e)(2) of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
Sec. 417.
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military or naval service, and has within 90 days after his or her release from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his or her former position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position and has not been restored thereto.
Sec. 418.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption application under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding an air operators certificate issued by a country that is party to the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such approval would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign air carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where such authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement and United States law.
Sec. 419.
In the table of projects in the explanatory statement referenced in section 417 of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022 (division L of Public Law 117–103)—
the item relating to “Midland Center for the Arts only for structural improvements” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ City of Midland” and inserting “ Midland Center for the Arts”;
the item relating to “Barren County Fiscal Court—Chapatcha Industrial Park Development” is deemed to be amended by striking project “ Barren County Fiscal Court—Chapatcha Industrial Park Development” and inserting “ Barren County Fiscal Court—Chapatcha Industrial Park or South Cooper Industrial Park Development”;
the item relating to “Pasco County Board of County Commissioners—Rural Northwest Pasco Community Park Site Acquisition” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Northwest” and inserting “ Northeast”;
the item relating to “Wood County Development Authority—Site Readiness & Redevelopment Downtown Parkersburg” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Wood County Development Authority—Site Readiness & Redevelopment Downtown Parkersburg” and inserting “ Redevelopment of Downtown Parkersburg”;
the item relating to “Rosemary’s Way Penacook Affordable Housing” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ CATCH Neighborhood Housing” and inserting “ Concord Area Trust for Community Housing”;
the item relating to “Lead Safe Home Fund” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition” and inserting “ Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation”;
the item relating to “Boys & Girls Club in Miami Gardens” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Club in Miami Gardens” and inserting “ Clubs within the Miami-Dade area”;
the item relating to “Acquisition of new commercial space” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Acquisition of new commercial space” and inserting “ Renovation of community center”;
the item relating to “North Commons Regional Vision” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board” and inserting “ City of Minneapolis”;
the item relating to “Electric school bus and associated electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Falls Church City Public Schools” and inserting “ City of Falls Church”;
the item relating to “A PLACE 4 ALICE facility improvement” is deemed to be amended by striking “ A PLACE 4 ALICE facility improvement” and inserting “ Affordable Housing and Community Facilities”; and
In the table of projects entitled “Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending” in the explanatory statement for division L of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–328) described in section 4 in the matter preceding division A of such Act—
the item relating to “River Road Homes Affordable Housing Infrastructure” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Town of Canaan” and inserting “ Falls Village Housing Trust Inc.”;
the item relating to “The Star Community Family Life Center” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ The Star Community Family Life Center” and inserting “ MSBC Five Star Program, Inc.”;
the item relating to “Early Learning Childcare Center Construction” (recipient “The Caring Place”) is deemed to be amended by striking “ Early Learning Childcare Center Construction” and inserting “ CARE Center construction”;
the item relating to “Upper Bucks Rail Trail” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Appalachian Mountain Club” and inserting “ The County of Bucks”;
the item relating to “YMCA & Albion College Initiative of the Washington Gardner Center Building Renovation and Expansion” is deemed to be amended by striking “ YMCA & Albion College Initiative of the Washington Gardner Center Building Renovation and Expansion” and inserting “ Site improvements”;
the item relating to “Wood County Industrial Site Readiness and Redevelopment” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Wood County Industrial Site Readiness & Redevelopment” and inserting “ Redevelopment of Downtown Parkersburg”;
the item relating to “B–360 Educational Campus” is deemed to be amended by striking “ I Am Mentality, Inc.” and inserting “ B–360 Baltimore, Inc.”;
the item relating to “Riverbrook Regional YMCA” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Riverbrook Regional Young Men’s Christian Association, Inc.” and inserting “ City of Norwalk”;
the item relating to “Miami Veterans Housing Project” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ United Way Miami” and inserting “ CRC Leadership, Inc.”;
the item relating to “Supportive Living, Community Day Services, and Housing Site Project for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” is deemed to be amended by striking “ , Community Day Services, and Housing”;
the item relating to “Public Library Addition” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Addition” and inserting “ Renovation”;
the item relating to “Renovation of Snelling Motel to Affordable Housing for Veterans” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Snelling Motel to” and inserting “ Hotel for”;
the item relating to “Indigenous Farm Hub” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Tides Center” and inserting “ Native American Community Academy Inspired Schools Network (NISN)”;
the item relating to “El Centro de la Raza—Pattison’s West Community Campus Property Acquisition” is deemed to be amended by striking “ El Centro de la Raza—Pattison’s West Community Campus Property Acquisition” and inserting “ Pattison’s West Community Campus”;
the item relating to “Road Raising & Flood Resiliency for Amity Harbor and American Venice Project” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Road Raising & Flood Resiliency for Amity Harbor and American Venice Project” and inserting “ Town of Babylon Federal Aid Roadway Improvement Project”;
the item relating to “Dayton International Airport (DAY)—Northeast Logistics Access Project” is amended by striking “ Dayton International Airport (DAY)—Northeast Logistics Access Project” and inserting “ Infrastructure capital improvements, including street, wastewater and sewer line improvements”;
the item relating to “Help Me Grow Skagit Family Resource Center Expansion” is deemed to be amended by striking recipient “ Children’s Council of Skagit County” and inserting “ Children’s Museum of Skagit County”; and
the item relating to “Permanent Supportive Housing Properties Acquisition” is deemed to be amended by striking “ Permanent Supportive Housing Properties Acquisition” and inserting “ Permanent Supportive Housing Acquisition, Development and Rehabilitation”.
Sec. 420.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in contravention of section 312 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5155).
Sec. 421.
None of the funds made available by this Act to the Department of Transportation may be used in contravention of section 306108 of title 54, United States Code.
Sec. 422.
None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to require the use of inward facing cameras or require a motor carrier to register an apprenticeship program with the Department of Labor as a condition for participation in the safe driver apprenticeship pilot program.
Sec. 423.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to direct a grantee to undertake specific changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying out the final rule entitled “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) or the notice entitled “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assessment Tool” (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 2014)).
Sec. 424.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of existing Federal law regarding non-citizen eligibility and ineligibility for occupancy in federally assisted housing or for participation in and assistance under Federal housing programs, including section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) and title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.).
Sec. 425.
Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the following:
“(x) Certain agricultural vehicles in the state of mississippi.—
“(1) In general.—The State of Mississippi may allow, by special permit, the operation of a covered agricultural vehicle on the Interstate System in the State of Mississippi if such vehicle does not exceed—
“(A) a gross vehicle weight of 88,000 pounds; and
“(B) 110 percent of the maximum weight on any axle or axle group described in subsection (a)(2), including any enforcement tolerance.
“(2) Covered agricultural vehicle defined.—In this subsection, the term ‘covered agricultural vehicle’ means a vehicle that is transporting unprocessed agricultural crops used for food, feed or fiber, or raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass or wood chips.
“(y) Operation of Certain Vehicles in West Virginia.—
“(1) In general.—The State of West Virginia may allow, by special permit, the operation of a vehicle that is transporting materials and equipment on the Interstate System in the State of West Virginia if such vehicle does not exceed 110 percent of the maximum weight on any axle or axle group described in subsection (a)(2), including any enforcement tolerance, provided the remaining gross vehicle weight requirements of subsection (a) are met.
“(2) Definition.—In this subsection, the term ‘materials and equipment’ means materials and equipment that are used on a project eligible under this chapter.”
Sec. 426.
None of the funds appropriated or made available by this division for the Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2024 may be used to enforce a mask mandate in response to the COVID–19 virus.