Okaloosa County BOCC — May 4, 2013 — FTA FFY13 Certifications and Assurances — reading text

writing, you must select the Certifications in Group 15, on behalf of your Applicant, if your Applicant seeks financing for its:  Urbanized Area Formula Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for 49 U.S.C. 5307, as amended by MAP-21, which among other things, authorizes funding for JARC Projects and Project Activities,  Urbanized Area Formula Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for former 49 U.S.C. 5307 in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year, or  Job Access and Reverse Commute Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for former 49 U.S.C. 5316 in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year. In administering these programs, MAP-21 cross-cutting requirements supersede inconsistent former requirements. These three programs have or will have funding available during FY 2013. Accordingly, if your Applicant seeks funding made available or authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5307 or former 49 U.S.C. 5316, you should provide the three subgroups of Certifications in Group 15, on behalf of your Applicant, to assure that FTA can select the type of funding it considers most suitable. Before FTA may provide funding made available or appropriated for any of these Projects, on behalf of your Applicant, you must have selected the Certifications in Group 15 and other Certifications and Assurances listed previously that are required for the funding your Applicant seeks. Any provision of the Certifications in Group 15 that does not apply will not be enforced. A. Urbanized Area Formula Program under MAP-21. You must select the Certification in Group 15.A if your Applicant seeks funding for its Urbanized Area Formula Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for 49 U.S.C. 5307, as amended by MAP-21. The following Certification for the Urbanized Area Formula Program funding made available or appropriated for MAP-21 are required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(c)(1), as amended by MAP-21. Therefore, except as FTA determines otherwise in writing, on behalf of your Applicant, you certify that: 1. Your Applicant has or will have the: a. Legal capacity to carry out its proposed Projects,  FTA FISCAL YEAR 2013 CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES 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. Your Applicant has or will have satisfactory continuing control over the use of Project equipment and facilities, 3. Your Applicant will maintain its Project equipment and facilities adequately, 4. Your Applicant will ensure that when, during non-peak hours for transportation using or involving a facility or equipment of a Project financed under 49 U.S.C. 5307, as amended by MAP-21, the following individuals will be charged a fare not exceeding fifty (50) percent of the peak hour fare: a. Any senior, b. Any individual who, because of illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other incapacity or temporary or permanent disability (including an individual who is a wheelchair user or has semi-ambulatory capability), cannot use a public transportation service or a public transportation facility effectively without special facilities, planning, or design, c. Any individual presenting a Medicare card issued to himself or herself pursuant to title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), or d. Any individual presenting a Medicare card issued to himself or herself pursuant to title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.), 5. When carrying out a procurement under 49 U.S.C. 5307, as amended by MAP-21, your Applicant will comply with the: a. General provisions for FTA programs of 49 U.S.C. 5323, and b. Third party procurement requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5325, 6. Your Applicant has complied with or will comply with 49 U.S.C. 5307(b), as amended by MAP-21, because it: a. Has made or will make available to the public information on amounts of its funding available to it under 49 U.S.C. 5307, b. Has developed or will develop, in consultation with interested parties, including private transportation providers, a proposed Program of Projects for activities to be funded, c. Has published or will publish a Program of Projects in a way that affected individuals, private transportation providers, and local elected officials will have an opportunity to examine and submit comments on the proposed Program of Projects and its performance as an Applicant or Recipient, d. Has provided or will provide an opportunity for a public hearing to obtain the views of individuals on the proposed Program of Projects, e. Has ensured or will ensure that the proposed Program of Projects provide for coordination of transportation services funded by U.S. DOT under 49 U.S.C. 5336 with federally funded transportation services supported by United States Government sources other than U.S. DOT, f. Has considered or will consider the comments and views received, especially those of private transportation providers, in preparing its final Program of  FTA FISCAL YEAR 2013 CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES Projects, and g. Has made or will make the final Program of Projects available to the public, 7. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(d), as amended by MAP-21, your Applicant: a. Has or will have the amount of funds required for the local share, b. Will provide the local share funds from approved non-Federal sources except if otherwise authorized by law, and c. Will provide the local share funds when needed, 8. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(c)(1)(H) and 49 U.S.C. 5309(c)(2), as amended by MAP-21, your Applicant will comply with: a. The Metropolitan Planning requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5303, as amended by MAP-21, and b. The State Planning requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5304, as amended by MAP-21, 9. As required by 49 U.S.C. 5307(c)(1)(I), as amended by MAP-21, your Applicant has a locally developed process to solicit and consider public comment before: a. Raising a fare, or b. Implementing a major reduction of public transportation, 10. Each fiscal year: a. Your Applicant will ensure that at least one (1) percent of the amount of the 49 U.S.C. 5307 funding apportioned to the urbanized area is spent for public transportation security Projects as described in 49 U.S.C. 5307(c)(1)(J)(i) including: (1) Increased lighting in or adjacent to a public transportation system (including bus stops, subway stations, parking lots, and garages), (2) Increased camera surveillance of an area in or adjacent to that system, (3) Emergency telephone line or lines to contact law enforcement or security personnel in an area in or adjacent to that system, and (4) Any other Project intended to increase the security and safety of an existing or planned public transportation, or b. The Designated Recipients in your Applicant’s urbanized area will certify that such expenditures for transportation security Projects are not necessary, (Information about the intentions of your Designated Recipients in the Applicant’s urbanized area must be recorded in the “Security” tab page of the TEAM-Web “Project Information” window when it submits its Urbanized Area Formula Program application in TEAM-Web), 11. If your Applicant serves an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the Census: a. Each fiscal year, your Applicant will ensure that at least one (1) percent of the amount apportioned to the urbanized area is spent for Associated Transit Improvements, as defined in 49 U.S.C. 5302(1), as amended by MAP-21, b. Your Applicant will include in its quarterly report for the fourth quarter of the preceding Federal fiscal year: (1) A list of its Associated Transit Improvement Projects or Project activities during that Federal fiscal year using those 49 U.S.C. 5307 funds, or (2) Sufficient information to demonstrate that the Designated Recipients in  FTA FISCAL YEAR 2013 CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES its area together have spent one (1) percent of the amount of funding that must be made available to them for Associated Transit Improvement Projects or Project activities, or have included the same information in a separate report attached in TEAM-Web, and c. The report of your Applicant’s Associated Transit Improvement Projects or Project activities is or will be incorporated by reference and made part of its Certifications and Assurances, and 12. Your Applicant will comply with its Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan as required by 49 U.S.C. 5329, as amended by MAP-21. B. Urbanized Area Formula Program Before MAP-21 Became Effective. You must select the Certification in Group 15.B if your Applicant seeks funding for its Urbanized Area Formula Project financed with funds made available or appropriated for former 49 U.S.C. 5307 in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year. In administering this program, MAP-21 cross-cutting requirements supersede inconsistent former requirements. The following Certification for the Urbanized Area Formula Grants Program are required by former 49 U.S.C. 5307(d)(1) in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year, except as superseded by MAP-21 cross-cutting requirements that apply instead. Therefore, except as FTA determines otherwise in writing, on behalf of your Applicant, you certify that: 1. Your Applicant 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. Your Applicant has or will have satisfactory continuing control over the use of Project equipment and facilities, 3. Your Applicant will maintain its Project equipment and facilities adequately, 4. Your Applicant will ensure that for transportation using or involving a facility or equipment of a Project financed under former 49 U.S.C. 5307 in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year, the following individuals will be charged a fare not exceeding fifty (50) percent of the peak hour fare: a. Any elderly individual, b. Any handicapped individual, as described in 49 CFR part 27, c. Any individual presenting a Medicare card issued to himself or herself pursuant to title II of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), or d. Any individual presenting a Medicare card issued to himself or herself pursuant to title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.), 5. When carrying out a procurement under former 49 U.S.C. 5307 in effect in FY 2012 or a previous fiscal year, except as superseded by MAP-21 cross cutting  FTA FISCAL YEAR 2013 CERTIFICATIONS AND ASSURANCES requirements that apply instead: a. Your Applicant will use competitive procurement (as defined or approved by FTA), as required by 49 U.S.C. 5325(a), b. Your Applicant will not use exclusionary or