Sec. 4-2. (a) The Department is authorized to receive UMTA Section 9 funds and to make grants for eligible grant activities to participants which are eligible to receive.
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Sec. 4-2.
(a)The Department is authorized to receive UMTA Section 9 funds and to make grants for eligible grant activities to participants which are eligible to receive such funds in accordance with federal regulations and requirements affecting UMTA Section 9. Such grants shall not exceed the funds to be made available to the State from the federal government for such purposes.
(b)The Department shall establish forms for the submittal of applications, and the reporting of projected and actual eligible grant activities and other required information by the participants, and may promulgate rules and regulations implementing this Article.
(c)Each participant applying for a grant pursuant to this Article shall submit a formal application to the Department. An application for assistance shall include all information which is required under the federal regulations and requirements affecting UMTA Section 9 assistance. For federal fiscal year 1991 and thereafter, an operating assistance application shall be submitted no later than April 1 of the year immediately preceding such fiscal year. An approved Transportation Improvement Program shall be submitted to the Department by July 1 of such year.
(d)Each participant shall undertake to meet operating deficits directly. Nothing in this Article shall prohibit any participant from including, in a program of proposed expenditures, funding for a portion of a cooperative public transportation project or purpose, the total cost of which is shared among one or more other participants or other financial contributors.