1. PURPOSE. To transmit the revised certificate of apportionment for the Apportionment Adjustment funds authorized for FY 1996 by Section 1015 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-240). This Notice revises Notice 4510.352 dated November 29, 1995, pursuant to Comptroller General opinion B-275490 (December 5, 1996). On December 24, 1996, revised FY 1994 Highway Trust Fund income statements were received from the Department of the Treasury.

    

2. APPORTIONMENT. The apportionment of these funds is in accordance with Section 1015 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. This apportionment is effective immediately.

    

3. AVAILABILITY

    

   1. The Apportionment Adjustment funds resulting from this apportionment are subject to lapse on September 30, 1999, if they have not been obligated for projects.

       

   2. The authorization of this apportionment has been reduced by 13.35402537 percent to comply with section 1003(c) of P.L. 102-240.

       

   3. Supplementary tables providing the appropriation codes and suballocation of these funds to the Surface Transportation Program will be issued in a separate memorandum.

    

4. ACTION. Division Administrators should assure that copies of this Notice are furnished to State highway agencies.

Attachment

TO--

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and the State Highway Departments:

Pursuant to section 9503 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, title 23, United States Code, entitled Highway, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, and the delegation of authority from the Secretary of Transportation to the Federal Highway Administrator, section 1.48 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, I hereby certify--

First, that the Secretary of the Treasury has made the estimates required by section 9503(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and based on such estimates, I have determined that $948,585,663 can be apportioned for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, for apportionment adjustments, which is the amount needed to carry out section 1015 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 for that fiscal year and which is authorized to be appropriated in section 1015(e) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

Second, that I have computed the apportionment for apportionment adjustments among the eligible States in the manner provided by law in accord with section 1015(a), (b), and (c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

Third, that one-half of the amounts apportioned herein are subject to the provisions of section 133(d)(1),(2), and (3) of title 23, United States Code, concerning the allocation of apportioned Surface Transportation Program Funds.

Fourth, that such sums are adjusted as required by section 1003(c) of Public Law 102-240.

Fifth, that the sums which are apportioned and made available to the eligible States, effective immediately, are as follows: