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Summary

The Secretary of Transportation may use money from the Highway Trust Fund (not the Mass Transit Account) to pay the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s administrative costs. The law allows these amounts: $360,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; $367,500,000 for 2023; $375,000,000 for 2024; $382,500,000 for 2025; and $390,000,000 for 2026. The money can pay for staff, office space, computers and IT, research and technology work, information and rulemaking systems, outreach and education, safety reviews of new carriers, and other needed operating costs. The Secretary may run outreach and education projects through grants, contracts, or agreements. These projects may help with recognizing, preventing, and reporting human trafficking. The federal share of such a project can be up to 100 percent, and no more than $4,000,000 each year may be used for this purpose from the amounts above. Funds are available for obligation when apportioned or allocated or on October 1 of the fiscal year, whichever comes first, remain available until spent, and the Secretary’s approval creates a federal contractual obligation to pay the government’s share.

Title 49, §31110

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(a)Administrative Expenses.—

There are authorized to be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the Secretary of Transportation to pay administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration—

(1)$360,000,000 for fiscal year 2022;

(2)$367,500,000 for fiscal year 2023;

(3)$375,000,000 for fiscal year 2024;

(4)$382,500,000 for fiscal year 2025; and

(5)$390,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.

(b)Use of Funds.—

The funds authorized by this section shall be used for— (1)

(2)administrative infrastructure;

(3)rent;

(4)information technology;

(5)programs for research and technology, information management, regulatory development, and the administration of performance and registration information systems management under section 31106(b);

(6)programs for outreach and education under subsection (c);

(7)other operating expenses;

(8)conducting safety reviews of new operators; and

(9)such other expenses as may from time to time become necessary to implement statutory mandates of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not funded from other sources.

(c)Outreach and Education Program.—

(1)In general.—

The Secretary may conduct, through any combination of grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other activities, an internal and external outreach and education program to be administered by the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The program authorized under this subsection may support, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking, while deferring to existing resources, as practicable.

(2)Federal share.—

The Federal share of an outreach and education project for which a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement is made under this subsection may be up to 100 percent of the cost of the project.

(3)Funding.—

From amounts made available under subsection (a), the Secretary shall make available not more than $4,000,000 each fiscal year to carry out this subsection.

(d)Contract Authority; Initial Date of Availability.—

Amounts authorized from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) by this section shall be available for obligation on the date of their apportionment or allocation or on October 1 of the fiscal year for which they are authorized, whichever occurs first.

(e)Funding Availability.—

Amounts made available under this section shall remain available until expended.

(f)Contractual Obligation.—

The approval of funds by the Secretary under this section is a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for payment of the Federal Government’s share of costs.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–58 added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which authorized appropriations for administrative expenses of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for fiscal years 2016 to 2020. 2018—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 115–99 inserted at end “The program authorized under this subsection may support, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purposes, the recognition, prevention, and reporting of human trafficking, while deferring to existing resources, as practicable.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2015, see section 1003 of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2015 Amendment note under section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§31110 Authorization of Appropriations

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