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State Fiscal Year 2012 Community Transportation Programs <br />Federal and State Assistance Certifications and Assurance <br />provisions of Section V (Regional ITS Architecture) and Section VI (Project Implementation) of FTA Notice, <br />"FTA National ITS Architecture Policy on Transit Projects," at 66 FR 1455 et seq., January 8, 2001, and other <br />FTA policies that may be issued in connection with any ITS project it undertakes financed with funds <br />authorized under Title 49 or Title 23, United States Code, except to the extent that FTA expressly determines <br />otherwise in writing. <br />B. With respect to any ITS project financed with Federal assistance derived from a source other than Title 49 or <br />Title 23, United States Code, the Applicant assures that it will use its best efforts to assure that any ITS project <br />it undertakes will not preclude interface with other intelligent transportation systems in the Region. <br />14. URBANIZED AREA FORMULA PROGRAM <br />Each Applicant for Urbanized Area Formula Program assistance authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5307 is required to <br />provide the following certifications on behalf of itself and arty subrecipients participating in its projects. Unless FTA <br />determines otherwise in writing, the Applicant is ultimately responsible for compliance with its certifications and <br />assurances even though a subrecipient, lessee, third party contractor, or other participant may participate in that <br />project. Consequently, in providing certifications and assurances that involve the compliance of its prospective <br />subrecipients, the Applicant is strongly encouraged to take appropriate measures, including but not limited to <br />obtaining sufficient documentation from each subrecipient, to assure the validity of all certifications and assurances <br />the Applicant has made to FTA. If, however a "Designated Recipient" as defined at 49 U.S.C. 5307(a)(2)(A) enters <br />into a Supplemental Agreement with FTA and a Prospective Grantee, that Grantee is recognized as the Applicant <br />for Urbanized Area Formula Program assistance and must provide the following certifications and assurances. <br />Each Applicant is required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(J) to expend at least one (1) percent of its Urbanized Area <br />Formula Program assistance for public transportation security projects, unless the Applicant has certifted that such <br />expenditures are not necessary. Information about the Applicant's intentions will be recorded in the "Security" tab <br />page of the TEAM-Web "Project Information" window when the Applicant enters its Urbanized Area Formula <br />Program application in TEAM-Web. <br />FTA may not award Urbanized Area Formula Program assistance to arty Applicant that is required by 49 U.S.C. <br />5307(d)(1)(K) to expend one (1) percent of its Urbanized Area Formula Program assistance for eligible transit <br />enhancements unless that Applicant's quarterly report for the fourth quarter of the preceding Federal fiscal year <br />has been submitted to FTA and includes the requisite list or the Applicant attaches in TEAM-Web or includes in its <br />quarterly report information suff cient to demonstrate that the Designated Recipients in its area together have <br />expended one (1) percent of the amount of Urbanized Area Program assistance made available to them for transit <br />enhancement projects. <br />FTA may not award Federal assistance for the Urbanized Area Formula Program to the Applicant until the <br />Applicant provides these certifications and assurances by selecting Category "14. " <br />As required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1), the Applicant certifies as follows: <br />A. In compliance with 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(A), the Applicant has or will have the legal, financial, and technical <br />capacity to carry out its proposed program of projects, including the safety and security aspects of that <br />program; <br />B. In compliance with 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(B), the Applicant has or will have satisfactory continuing control <br />over the use of Project equipment and facilities; <br />C. In compliance with 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(C), the Applicant will adequately maintain the Project equipment <br />and facilities; <br />D. In compliance with 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(D), the Applicant will assure that any elderly individual, any <br />individual with disabilities, or any person presenting a Medicare card issued to himself or herself pursuant to <br />title II or title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq. or 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.), will be <br />charged for transportation during non-peak hours using or involving a facility or equipment of a project <br />financed with Federal assistance authorized for 49 U.S.C. 5307, not more than fifty (50) percent of the peak <br />hour fare; <br />E. In compliance with 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1)(E), the Applicant, in carrying out a procurement financed with <br />Federal assistance authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5307: (1) will use competitive procurement (as defined or <br />14 <br />11 <br />