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49 U.S.C. § 5301 — Policies and purposes

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49 U.S.C. § 5301 — Policies and purposes

**(a) Declaration of Policy.—** It is in the interest of the United States, including the economic interest of the United States, to foster the development and revitalization of public transportation systems with the cooperation of both public transportation companies and private companies engaged in public transportation. **(b) General Purposes.—** The purposes of this chapter are to— (1) provide funding to support public transportation; (2) improve the development and delivery of capital projects; (3) establish standards for the state of good repair of public transportation infrastructure and vehicles; (4) promote continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning that improves the performance of the transportation network; (5) establish a technical assistance program to assist recipients under this chapter to more effectively and efficiently provide public transportation service; (6) continue Federal support for public transportation providers to deliver high quality service to all users, including individuals with disabilities, seniors, and individuals who depend on public transportation; (7) support research, development, demonstration, and deployment projects dedicated to assisting in the delivery of efficient and effective public transportation service; and (8) promote the development of the public transportation workforce.

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49 U.S.C. § 5310 — Formula grants for the enhanced mobility of seniors and individuals with disabilities

**(a) Definitions.—** In this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) **Recipient.—** — The term “recipient” means— (A) a designated recipient or a State that receives a grant under this section directly; or (B) a State or local governmental entity that operates a public transportation service. (2) **Subrecipient.—** — The term “subrecipient” means a State or local governmental authority, a private nonprofit organization, or an operator of public transportation that receives a grant under this section indirectly through a recipient. **(b) General Authority.—** (1) **Grants.—** — The Secretary may make grants under this section to recipients for— (A) public transportation projects planned, designed, and carried out to meet the special needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities when public transportation is insufficient, inappropriate, or unavailable; (B) public transportation projects that exceed the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ([42 U.S.C. 12101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.); (C) public transportation projects that improve access to fixed route service and decrease reliance by individuals with disabilities on complementary paratransit; and (D) alternatives to public transportation that assist seniors and individuals with disabilities with transportation. (2) **Limitations for capital projects.—** (A) *Amount available.—* — The amount available for capital projects under paragraph (1)(A) shall be not less than 55 percent of the funds apportioned to the recipient under this section. (B) *Allocation to subrecipients.—* — A recipient of a grant under paragraph (1)(A) may allocate the amounts provided under the gr

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49 U.S.C. § 5302 — Definitions

Except as otherwise specifically provided, in this chapter the following definitions apply: (1) **Assault on a transit worker.—** — The term “assault on a transit worker” means a circumstance in which an individual knowingly, without lawful authority or permission, and with intent to endanger the safety of any individual, or with a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, interferes with, disables, or incapacitates a transit worker while the transit worker is performing the duties of the transit worker. (2) **Associated transit improvement.—** — The term “associated transit improvement” means, with respect to any project or an area to be served by a project, projects that are designed to enhance public transportation service or use and that are physically or functionally related to transit facilities. Eligible projects are— (A) historic preservation, rehabilitation, and operation of historic public transportation buildings, structures, and facilities (including historic bus and railroad facilities) intended for use in public transportation service; (B) bus shelters; (C) functional landscaping and streetscaping, including benches, trash receptacles, and street lights; (D) pedestrian access and walkways; (E) bicycle access, including bicycle storage shelters and parking facilities and the installation of equipment for transporting bicycles on public transportation vehicles; (F) signage; or (G) enhanced access for persons with disabilities to public transportation. (3) **Bus rapid transit system.—** — The term “bus rapid transit system” means a bus transit system— (A) in which the majority of each line operates in a separated right-of-way dedicated for public transportation use during peak periods; and (B) that includes features that e

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49 U.S.C. § 5311 — Formula grants for rural areas

**(a) Definitions.—** As used in this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) **Recipient.—** — The term “recipient” means a State or Indian tribe that receives a Federal transit program grant directly from the Government. (2) **Subrecipient.—** — The term “subrecipient” means a State or local governmental authority, a nonprofit organization, or an operator of public transportation or intercity bus service that receives Federal transit program grant funds indirectly through a recipient. **(b) General Authority.—** (1) **Grants authorized.—** — Except as provided by paragraph (2), the Secretary may award grants under this section to recipients located in rural areas for— (A) planning, provided that a grant under this section for planning activities shall be in addition to funding awarded to a State under section 5305 for planning activities that are directed specifically at the needs of rural areas in the State; (B) public transportation capital projects; (C) operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation; (D) job access and reverse commute projects; and (E) the acquisition of public transportation services, including service agreements with private providers of public transportation service. (2) **State program.—** (A) *In general.—* — A project eligible for a grant under this section shall be included in a State program for public transportation service projects, including agreements with private providers of public transportation service. (B) *Submission to secretary.—* — Each State shall submit to the Secretary annually the program described in subparagraph (A). (C) *Approval.—* — The Secretary may not approve the program unless the Secretary determines that— (i) the program provides a fair d

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23 U.S.C. § 101 — Definitions and declaration of policy

**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply: (1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws. (2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost. (3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided. (4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon

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49 U.S.C. § 5307 — Urbanized area formula grants

**(a) General Authority.—** (1) **Grants.—** — The Secretary may make grants under this section for— (A) capital projects; (B) planning; (C) job access and reverse commute projects; and (D) operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation in an urbanized area with a population of fewer than 200,000 individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the Census. (2) The Secretary may make grants under this section to finance the operating cost of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation, excluding rail fixed guideway, in an urbanized area with a population of not fewer than 200,000 individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the Census— (A) for public transportation systems that— (i) operate 75 or fewer buses in fixed route service or demand response service, excluding ADA complementary paratransit service, during peak service hours, in an amount not to exceed 75 percent of the share of the apportionment which is attributable to such systems within the urbanized area, as measured by vehicle revenue hours; or (ii) operate a minimum of 76 buses and a maximum of 100 buses in fixed route service or demand response service, excluding ADA complementary paratransit service, during peak service hours, in an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the share of the apportionment which is attributable to such systems within the urbanized area, as measured by vehicle revenue hours; or (B) subject to paragraph (3), for public transportation systems that— (i) operate 75 or fewer buses in fixed route service or demand response service, excluding ADA complementary paratransit service, during peak service hours, in an amount not to exceed 75 percent of the share of the apportionment allocated to such systems within the ur

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49 U.S.C. § 5309 — Fixed guideway capital investment grants

**(a) Definitions.—** In this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) **Applicant.—** — The term “applicant” means a State or local governmental authority that applies for a grant under this section. (2) **Core capacity improvement project.—** — The term “core capacity improvement project” means a substantial corridor-based capital investment in an existing fixed guideway system that increases the capacity of a corridor by not less than 10 percent. The term does not include project elements designed to maintain a state of good repair of the existing fixed guideway system. (3) **Corridor-based bus rapid transit project.—** — The term “corridor-based bus rapid transit project” means a small start project utilizing buses in which the project represents a substantial investment in a defined corridor as demonstrated by features that emulate the services provided by rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, including defined stations; traffic signal priority for public transportation vehicles; short headway bidirectional services for a substantial part of weekdays; and any other features the Secretary may determine support a long-term corridor investment, but the majority of which does not operate in a separated right-of-way dedicated for public transportation use during peak periods. (4) **Fixed guideway bus rapid transit project.—** — The term “fixed guideway bus rapid transit project” means a bus capital project— (A) in which the majority of the project operates in a separated right-of-way dedicated for public transportation use during peak periods; (B) that represents a substantial investment in a single route in a defined corridor or subarea; and (C) that includes features that emulate the services provided by rail fixed guideway public

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23 U.S.C. § 134 — Metropolitan transportation planning

**(a) Policy.—** It is in the national interest— (1) to encourage and promote the safe and efficient management, operation, and development of surface transportation systems that will serve the mobility needs of people and freight, foster economic growth and development within and between States and urbanized areas better connect housing and employment,,11 So in original. Probably should be “urbanized areas, better connect housing and employment,”. and take into consideration resiliency needs while minimizing transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution through metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes identified in this chapter; and (2) to encourage the continued improvement and evolution of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes by metropolitan planning organizations, State departments of transportation, and public transit operators as guided by the planning factors identified in subsection (h) and section 135(d). **(b) Definitions.—** In this section and section 135, the following definitions apply: (1) **Metropolitan planning area.—** — The term “metropolitan planning area” means the geographic area determined by agreement between the metropolitan planning organization for the area and the Governor under subsection (e). (2) **Metropolitan planning organization.—** — The term “metropolitan planning organization” means the policy board of an organization established as a result of the designation process under subsection (d). (3) **Nonmetropolitan area.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan area” means a geographic area outside designated metropolitan planning areas. (4) **Nonmetropolitan local official.—** — The term “nonmetropolitan local official” means elected and appointed officials of general purpose loca

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23 U.S.C. § 135 — Statewide and nonmetropolitan transportation planning

**(a) General Requirements.—** (1) **Development of plans and programs.—** — Subject to section 134, to accomplish the objectives stated in section 134(a), each State shall develop a statewide transportation plan and a statewide transportation improvement program for all areas of the State. (2) **Contents.—** — The statewide transportation plan and the transportation improvement program developed for each State shall provide for the development and integrated management and operation of transportation systems and facilities (including accessible pedestrian walkways, bicycle transportation facilities, and intermodal facilities that support intercity transportation, including intercity buses and intercity bus facilities and commuter van pool providers) that will function as an intermodal transportation system for the State and an integral part of an intermodal transportation system for the United States. (3) **Process of development.—** — The process for developing the statewide plan and the transportation improvement program shall provide for consideration of all modes of transportation and the policies stated in section 134(a) and shall be continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive to the degree appropriate, based on the complexity of the transportation problems to be addressed. **(b) Coordination With Metropolitan Planning; State Implementation Plan.—** A State shall— (1) coordinate planning carried out under this section with the transportation planning activities carried out under section 134 for metropolitan areas of the State and with statewide trade and economic development planning activities and related multistate planning efforts; and (2) develop the transportation portion of the State implementation plan as required by the Clean Air Act ([42 U.S.C. 7401]

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49 U.S.C. § 5301 — Policies and purposes

Page 234 TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION § 5301 areas’’ for ‘‘Formula grants for other than urbanized areas’’ in item 5311, ‘‘Technical assistance and stand- ards development’’ for ‘‘National research programs’’ in item 5314, ‘‘Private sector participation’’ for ‘‘National transit institute’’ in item 5315, ‘‘Human resources and training’’ for ‘‘Human resource programs’’ in item 5322, ‘‘General provisions’’ for ‘‘General provisions on assist- ance’’ in item 5323, ‘‘Public transportation emergency relief program’’ for ‘‘Special provisions for capital projects’’ in item 5324, ‘‘Public transportation safety program’’ for ‘‘Investigations of safety hazards and se- curity risks’’ in item 5329, ‘‘State of good repair grants’’ for ‘‘Apportionment based on fixed guideway factors’’ in item 5337, and ‘‘Bus and bus facilities for- mula grants’’ for ‘‘Alternatives analysis program’’ in item 5339, and striking out items 5308 ‘‘Clean fuels grant program’’, 5316 ‘‘Job access and reverse commute formula grants’’, 5317 ‘‘New freedom program’’, 5320 ‘‘Alternative transportation in parks and public lands, and 5328 ‘‘Project review’’. 2005—Pub. L. 109–59, title III, §§ 3002(b)(1), 3005(c), 3006(c), 3007(b), 3010(b), 3011(b), 3012(c), 3013(i), 3014(e)(2), 3015(b)(2), 3016(d), 3018(b), 3019(b), 3021(b), 3024(b), 3025(b), 3028(d), 3029(b), 3033(b), 3035(b), 3038(b), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1544, 1559, 1566, 1568, 1573, 1588, 1593, 1596, 1597, 1600, 1605, 1608, 1614, 1620, 1622, 1625, 1627, 1629, 1638, sub- stituted ‘‘PUBLIC’’ for ‘‘MASS’’ in chapter heading, substituted ‘‘transportation planning’’ for ‘‘planning’’ in item 5303, ‘‘Statewide transportation planning’’ for ‘‘Transportation improvement program’’ in item 5304, ‘‘Planning programs’’ for ‘‘Transportation management

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