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State Fiscal Year 2014 Public Transportation Programs Federal and State Assistance Certifications and Assurances required for the funding you seeks. Any provision of the Certifications and Assurances in Group 14 that does not apply will not be enforced. A. Formula Grants for Rural Areas Program The Applicant must select the Certification in Group 14.A if it seeks funding for its Formula Grants for Rural Areas Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for 49 U.S.C. 5311(b), as amended by MAP-21. The following Certification applies to each State or State organization(NCDOT)serving as the Applicant for funding made available or appropriated for the Rural Areas Formula Project authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5311(b), as amended by MAP-21.The Applicant assures and requires each Subrecipient to certify and assure that: 1. It has or will have the: a. Legal capacity to carry out its proposed Projects, b. Financial capacity to carry out its proposed Projects, c. Technical capacity to carry out its proposed Projects, d. Necessary capacity to carry out the safety aspects of its proposed Projects, and e. Necessary capacity to carry out the security aspects of its proposed Projects, 2. It has or will have satisfactory continuing control over the use of Project equipment and facilities, 3. The Project equipment and facilities will be adequately maintained, 4. The program has provided for a fair distribution of Federal funding made available or appropriated for 49 U.S.C. 5311(b), as amended by MAP-21 within the State, including Indian "reservations, 5. The program provides or will provide the maximum feasible coordination of public transportation service funded by 49 U.S.C. 5311(b),as amended by MAP-21,with transportation service funded by other Federal sources, 6. Projects in its Formula Grants for Rural Areas 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), as amended by MAP-21,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, 8. It may transfer a facility or equipment acquired using a grant under 49 U.S.C. 531 l(b)to any other recipient eligible to receive assistance under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53, if: a. The recipient in possession of the facility or equipment consents to the transfer, and b. The facility or equipment will continue to be used as required under 49 U.S.C. 5311,as amended by MAP-21,and 9. 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 facilities, (3) Joint-use facilities, (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 Governor of the State that: (1) It has consulted with the affected intercity bus service providers about the intercity bus needs of the State,and (2) The State's intercity bus service needs are being met adequately. 33