Sec. 2502. Rural persistent poverty formula
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Section 5311 of title 49, United States Code, as amended in section 2204, is further amended— in subsection
(a)by adding at the end the following: The term persistent poverty county means any county with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent— as determined in each of the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses; in the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates of the Bureau of the Census for the most recent year for which the estimates are available; and has at least 25 percent of its population in rural areas. ; in subsection (b)(2)(C)(i) by inserting and persistent poverty counties before the semicolon; and in subsection
(c)by striking paragraph
(2)and inserting the following: The Secretary shall carry out a public transportation assistance program for areas of persistent poverty. Of amounts made available or appropriated for each fiscal year under section 5338(a)(2)(E)(ii) to carry out this paragraph, the Secretary shall apportion funds to recipients for service in, or directly benefitting, persistent poverty counties for any eligible purpose under this section in the ratio that— the number of individuals in each such rural area residing in a persistent poverty county; bears to the number of individuals in all such rural areas residing in a persistent poverty county. .