2016-207 OPT - FY2016 FTA Certifications and Assurances

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FTA FISCAL YEAR 2016 CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES but not limited to, obtaining sufficient documentation from each Subrecipient and any other Third Party Participant as necessary to assure your Applicant's compliance with the applicable Certifications and Assurances selected on its behalf. Except as FTA determines otherwise in writing, if your Applicant is a team, consortium, joint venture, or partnership, it understands and agrees that you must identify the activities that each member will perform and the extent to which each member will be responsible for compliance with the Certifications and Assurances selected on its behalf. You also must identify each member's role in the Award, whether as a Recipient, Subrecipient, Third Party Contractor, or other Third Party Participant. It is important that your Applicant and you also understand that these Certifications and Assurances are pre-award requirements, generally imposed by federal law or regulation, and do not include all federal requirements that may apply to it or its Award. We expect you to submit your Applicant's FY 2016 Certifications and Assurances and its applications for federal assistance in FTA's electronic award and management system, currently the Transit Award Management System (TrAMS). You must be registered in TrAMS to submit to FTA your Applicant's FY 2016 Certifications and Assurances. TrAMS contains fields for selecting among the twenty-three (23) Categories of Certifications and Assurances and a designated field for selecting all twenty-three (23) Categories of Certifications and Assurances. If FTA agrees that you are unable to submit your Applicant's FY 2016 Certifications and Assurances electronically,you must submit the Signature Pages at the end of this document, as FTA directs, marked to show the Categories of Certifications and Assurances that you are submitting. Be aware that these Certifications and Assurances have been prepared in light of: • The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST)Act, Public Law No. 114-94, December 4, 2015, • The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act(MAP-21), Public Law No. 112-141, July 6, 2012, as amended by the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015, Public Law No. 114-41, July 31, 2015 and other authorizing legislation to be enacted, • FTA's authorizing legislation in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year, except as superseded by the FAST Act cross-cutting requirements that apply, and • Appropriations Acts or Continuing Resolutions funding the U.S. Department of Transportation during Fiscal Year 2016 2