A. A total of $30,525,032 $42,710,032 the first year and $20,818,148 $33,025,148 the second year from the general fund and $3,100,000 the first year and $12,207,000 the second year from the special fund is provided to state agencies and institutions for maintenance reserve subprojects.

B. The Director of the Department of Planning and Budget is hereby directed to transfer to agencies and institutions the following sums:

C. The transfer of appropriations directed in paragraph B above shall be divided between years on a pro rata basis in relation to the amounts appropriated in this Item for the first year and the second year.

D. Nongeneral fund appropriations totaling $17,859,000 in the first year are included in this Item to supplement approved general fund maintenance reserve subprojects for the 1998-2000 biennium, which shall be allocated among the agencies and institutions as follows:

E. Institutions of higher education may use maintenance reserve funds in the first year to plan projects to be funded from allocations in the second year. Any institution of higher education which has not expended or contractually obligated itself in a legally binding manner to expend 85 percent or more of its biennial general fund appropriation for maintenance reserve by June 30, 2000, shall revert to the general fund of the Commonwealth the amount related to the difference between its percentage actually expended or obligated and the 85 percent standard. For good cause the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget may grant exceptions to this requirement.

F. Institutions of higher education may use maintenance reserve funds: to repair or replace damaged or inoperable equipment, components of plant, and utility systems; to correct deficiencies in property and plant required to conform with building and safety codes or those associated with hazardous condition corrections, including asbestos abatement; to correct deficiencies in fire protection, energy conservation and handicapped access; and to address such other physical plant deficiencies as the Department of General Services may approve. Institutions of higher education may also use maintenance reserve funds to make other necessary improvements or address minor deficiencies that do not meet the criteria for maintenance reserve funding with the prior approval of the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget.

G. The Department of General Services may transfer up to $2,000,000 from the balances in its building operations internal services fund to supplement its maintenance reserve project code 14260 for necessary repair and renovations of state office buildings.

H. Of the amount specified for the Frontier Culture Museum, $47,000 shall be used for the replacement of its phone system.

I. Of the amount specified for the School for the Deaf and the Blind - Hampton, $300,000 shall be used to renovate the auditorium.

J. Of the amount specified for the Department of General Services $57,000 shall be used to clean and repair the windows on the Ninth Street Office Building.

K. Of the amount specified for George Mason University, $2,300,000 shall be used to replace and upsize chillers 1 and 2 in the central power plant on the Fairfax campus.