RES-2012-008 Resolution authorizing the submission of grant application for the Community Transportation Program for FY 2013

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State Fiscal Year 2013 Public Transportation Programs Federal and State Assistance Certifications and Assurances 3. Theproject equipment and facilities will be adequately maintained, 4. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)(C)(i), its program has provided for a fair distribution of Federal funding authorized for 49 U.S.C. 5311 within the State, including Indian reservations within the State, 5. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5311(b)(2)(C)(ii), its program provides or will provide the maximum feasible coordination of public transportation service to receive funding under 49 U.S.C. 5311 with transportation service assisted by other Federal sources, 6. The projects in its Nonurbanized Area Formula Program are included in: a. The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, and b. To the extent applicable, a metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program, 7. It has or will have the amount of funds required for the local share, as required by 49 U.S.C. 5311(g), and a. Will provide the local share funds from approved non-Federal sources except as permitted by Federal law, and b. Will provide the local share funds when needed, and 8. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5311(f), each fiscal year: a. It (NCDOT) will spend at least fifteen (15) percent of its 49 U.S.C. 5311 funding available that fiscal year to develop and support intercity bus transportation within the State, with eligible activities including: (1) Planning and marketing for intercity bus transportation, (2) Capital grants for intercity bus shelters, (3) Joint-use. stops and depots, (4) Operating grants through purchase-of-service agreements, user-side subsidies, and demonstration projects, and (5) Coordinating rural connections between small public transportation operations and intercity bus carriers, or b. It (NCDOT) will provide to the Federal Transit Administrator a certification of the State's chief executive officer that: (1) After consulting with the affected intercity bus service providers about the intercity bus needs of the State, (2) The State's intercity bus service needs are being met adequately. 17. JOS ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE (JARC) FORMULA GRANT PROGRAM Each Applicant for Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) Formula Grant Program assistance authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5316 is required to provide the following certifications. NCDOT may not award Federal assistance for the JARC Formula Grant Program until the Applicant provides these certifications by selecting Category "17. " The following certifications and assurances apply to each Applicant for and Subrecipient of funding under the Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) Formula Grant funding authorized under 49 U.S.C: 5316. 1. The Applicant certifies that: a. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5316(d)(4), it will make awards of JARC funding on a competitive basis following: (1) An areawide solicitation in cooperation with the appropriate metropolitan planning organization for applications for funding under 5316(c)(1)(A) (see 49 U.S.C. 5316(d)(1)), and (2) A statewide solicitation for applications for JARC funding under 49 U.S.C. 5316(c)(1)(B) or 49 U.S.C. 5316(c)(1)(C), (see 49 U.S.C. 5316(d)(2)) and b. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5316(f)(2), any allocations to Subrecipients of funding authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5316 will be distributed on a fair and equitable basis, c. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5316(g)(3): (1) -The projects it has selected or will select for funding under that program were derived from a public transit-human services transportation plan that has been: (a) Locally developed, and (b) Coordinated, (2) That locally developed, coordinated plan was produced through a process that included: (a) Representatives of public, private, and nonprofit transportation providers, 17