Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982

(House receded and concurred in certain Senate amendments with an amendment)

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Appropriates specified sums for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for fiscal year 1982. Lists the offices that shall receive such funds: (1) Office of the Secretary; (2) Coast Guard (including funds for recreational boat safety from the National Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Fund and for the drug interdiction program); (3) Federal Aviation Administration (with a sum for an air traffic control training facility at the University of North Dakota); (4) Federal Highway Administration (with funds for highway beautification and territorial highways); (5) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (including specified sums for the National Driver Register and for activities at the Transportation Systems Center); (6) Federal Railroad Administration (including funds for rail labor assistance, the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) workforce reduction program, Conrail labor protection, commuter rail service, and the Alaska Railroad Revolving Fund); (7) Urban Mass Transportation Administration (including a rescission of funds for a waterborne transportation demonstration project); (8) Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (9) Research and Special Programs Administration; and (10) Office of the Inspector General.

Directs the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to provide through rail passenger service between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Illinois, via Cincinnati, Ohio.

Prohibits Amtrak funds from being used to pay taxes levied upon Amtrak by any State or political subdivision thereof, except Beech Grove, Indiana.

Declares congressional disapproval of deferral D82-217 relating to the Federal Railroad Administration, grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.

Title II: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) National Transportation Safety Board; (3) Civil Aeronautics Board (with limitations on rates for air transportation of mail); (4) Interstate Commerce Commission; (5) Panama Canal Commission; (6) Department of the Treasury (fund anticipation notes); (7) United States Railway Association; and (8) Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Title III: General Provisions - Declares that appropriations made by this Act shall be available for: (1) maintenance and operation of aircraft; (2) hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; (3) purchase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in foreign countries on official business; and (4) uniforms or allowances therefor.

Limits, to specified sums, the appropriations available for: (1) grants-in-aid for airport planning, noise compatibility planning and programs, and development; (2) highway-related safety grants; (3) State and Community Highway Safety; (4) the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund; and (5) the Deepwater Port Liability Funds.

Permits funds appropriated for the Panama Canal Commission to be apportioned for salary increases for officers or employees as may be authorized by administrative action.

Restricts the use of certain appropriations for: (1) the Federal Aviation Administration; (2) experts and consultants; (3) mass transit facilities, equipment, or operation expenses; and (4) Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs.

Prohibits funds provided under this Act from being available for: (1) railroad branchline abandonments (except Conrail abandonments) in any State in excess of three percent of a State's total mileage of railroad lines operated; (2) the Panama Canal Commission unless expended in conformance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977; (3) rail-highway crossings in Groton and Stonington, Connecticut; (4) the expenses of non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act; and (5) mandatory State inspection fees or sticker requirements for vehicles that are lawfully registered in another State.

Continues funding for the Bismarck-Mandan Bridge in North Dakota, the Steubenville-Weirton Bridge in West Virginia, and the Dickey Road and U.S. 12 Bridges in Indiana.

Requires each department or establishment to submit annually to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees the estimated amount of funds requested for consulting services.

Designates the weeks of June 13 through July 4, 1982, as National Clean-up and Flag-up America's Highways Weeks.

Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used to: (1) provide personal servants to any officer or employee of the departments and agencies specified in this Act; (2) procure passenger automobiles with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon; and (3) implement or enforce any order of the Civil Aeronautics Board that prohibits any United States air carrier from participating in the International Air Transport Association's North Atlantic Traffic Conference under its existing articles and provisions.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue letters of intent for: (1) the Dade County, Florida, Circulator System; (2) non-rail projects in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan region; and (3) the Southeast Michigan Central Automated Transit System.

Authorizes the Maryland Transportation Authority to continue to collect tolls from its existing transportation facilities projects and to use such revenues for specified new transportation projects.

Authorizes the Secretary to release from certain restrictions specified properties owned by: (1) Liberal, Kansas; (2) the Greater Rockford, Illinois, Airport Authority; and (3) the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to include a Conrail representative on the board of directors of the Amtrak Commuter Services Corporation until January 1, 1983.

Title IV: Reduces appropriations for certain projects and activities of the Department of Transportation and related agencies as provided for in this Act.

Prohibits the Interstate Commerce Commission from approving railroad branchline abandonments by the Burlington Northern Railroad in North Dakota in excess of 350 miles.

Directs that one half of the funds provided for nonurban and urban formula grants shall be allocated using data from the 1970 decennial census and one half using data from the 1980 census.

Makes available a specified sum from the Highway Trust Fund for damaged highways in the area affected by eruptions of the Mount Saint Helens volcano, Washington.

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to approve, upon request, the construction of a specified highway interchange near Michigan City, Indiana.

Directs that budget authority deferral proposals concerning certain rail, highway, and transit grants shall be referred to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and any amount of budget authority proposed to be deferred therein shall be made available under specified circumstances.