- Appalachian region
has the same meaning as in section 14102 of title 40;
- applicant
means a State or local governmental authority that applies for a grant under this section.
- assault on a transit worker
means a circumstance in which an individual knowingly, without lawful authority or permission, and with intent to endanger the safety of any individual, or with a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, interferes with, disables, or incapacitates a transit worker while the transit worker is performing the duties of the transit worker.
- associated transit improvement
means, with respect to any project or an area to be served by a project, projects that are designed to enhance public transportation service or use and that are physically or functionally related to transit facilities.
- Bi-State Metropolitan Planning Organization
has the meaning given the term “region” in subsection (a) of Article II of the Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Compact (Public Law 96–551;
- binding obligation
means a substantive policy statement, rule, or guidance document issued by the Federal Transit Administration that grants rights, imposes obligations, produces significant effects on private interests, or effects a significant change in existing policy.
- bus rapid transit system
means a bus transit system—
- capital asset
includes equipment, rolling stock, infrastructure, and facilities for use in public transportation and owned or leased by a recipient or subrecipient of Federal financial assistance under this chapter.
- capital project
means a project for—
- commuter highway vehicle or vanpool vehicle
means any vehicle—
- controlled substance
means any substance under section 102 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 802) whose use the Secretary decides has a risk to transportation safety.
- core capacity improvement project
means a substantial corridor-based capital investment in an existing fixed guideway system that increases the capacity of a corridor by not less than 10 percent.
- corridor-based bus rapid transit project
means a small start project utilizing buses in which the project represents a substantial investment in a defined corridor as demonstrated by features that emulate the services provided by rail fixed guideway public transportation systems, including defined stations;
- covered institution of higher education
means an institution of higher education with which the Secretary enters into a contract or cooperative agreement, or to which the Secretary makes a grant, under paragraph (2)(B) to operate a facility selected under paragraph (2)(A);
- designated recipient
means—
- direct carbon emissions
means the quantity of direct greenhouse gas emissions from a vehicle, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
- disability
has the same meaning as in section 3(1) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102).
- eligible area
means an urbanized area with a population of less than 200,000 that meets or exceeds in one or more performance categories the industry average for all urbanized areas with a population of at least 200,000 but not more than 999,999, as determined by the Secretary in accordance with subsection (c)(2).
- eligible low-income individual
means an individual whose family income is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line (as that term is defined in section 673(2) of the Community Service Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision required by that section) for a family of the size involved.
- eligible operating costs
means costs relating to—
- eligible project
means a project or program of projects in an eligible area for—
- eligible recipient
means a State that participates in a program established under subtitle IV of title 40.
- eligible State
means a State that has—
- emergency
means a natural disaster affecting a wide area (such as a flood, hurricane, tidal wave, earthquake, severe storm, or landslide) or a catastrophic failure from any external cause, as a result of which—
- emergency regulation
means a regulation—
- fixed guideway
means a public transportation facility—
- fixed guideway bus rapid transit project
means a bus capital project—
- future bundling request
means a letter described in subparagraph (B) that requests future funding for additional projects.
- high intensity motorbus
means public transportation that is provided on a facility with access for other high-occupancy vehicles.
- immediate bundling request
means a letter described in subparagraph (B) that requests immediate funding for multiple projects.
- institution of higher education
has the meaning given the term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002);
- job access and reverse commute project
means a transportation project to finance planning, capital, and operating costs that support the development and maintenance of transportation services designed to transport welfare recipients and eligible low-income individuals to and from jobs and activities related to their employment, including transportation projects that facilitate the provision of public transportation services from urbanized areas and rural areas to suburban employment locations.
- leased power source
means a removable power source, as defined in subsection (c)(3) of section 3019 of the Federal Public Transportation Act of 2015 that is made available through a capital lease under such section;
- local governmental authority
includes—
- low or no emission bus
means a bus that is a low or no emission vehicle;
- low or no emission vehicle
means—
- low or no emission vehicle component
means an item that is separately installed in and removable from a low or no emission vehicle.
- low-income individual
means an individual whose family income is at or below 100 percent of the poverty line, as that term is defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision required by that section, for a family of the size involved.
- metropolitan planning area
means the geographic area determined by agreement between the metropolitan planning organization for the area and the Governor under subsection (e).
- metropolitan planning organization
means the policy board of an organization established as a result of the designation process under subsection (d).
- net project cost
means the part of a project that reasonably cannot be financed from revenues.
- new bus model
means a bus model (including a model using alternative fuel)—
- new fixed guideway capital project
means—
- nonmetropolitan area
means a geographic area outside designated metropolitan planning areas.
- nonmetropolitan local official
means elected and appointed officials of general purpose local government in a nonmetropolitan area with responsibility for transportation.
- performance category
means each of the following:
- person
includes any entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, a State, territory, or possession of the United States, or a foreign country.
- private provider of public transportation by vanpool
means a private entity providing vanpool services in the service area of a recipient of assistance under this chapter using a commuter highway vehicle or vanpool vehicle.
- public transportation
means any form of public transportation, except a form the Secretary decides is covered adequately, for employee alcohol and controlled substances testing purposes, under section 20140 or 31306 of this title or section 2303a, 7101(i), or 7302(e) of title 46.
- recipient
means a State or Indian tribe that receives a Federal transit program grant directly from the Government.
- regional transportation planning organization
means a policy board of an organization established as the result of a designation under section 5304(l).
- regulation
means any part of a statement of general or particular applicability of the Secretary designed to carry out, interpret, or prescribe law or policy in carrying out this chapter.
- rural area
means an area encompassing a population of less than 50,000 people that has not been designated in the most recent decennial census as an “urbanized area” by the Secretary of Commerce.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of Transportation.
- senior
means an individual who is 65 years of age or older.
- small purchase
means a purchase of not more than $150,000.
- small start project
means a new fixed guideway capital project or corridor-based bus rapid transit project for which—
- State
means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- state of good repair
has the meaning given that term by the Secretary, by rule, under section 5326(b).
- subrecipient
means a State or local governmental authority, a nonprofit organization, or an operator of public transportation or intercity bus service that receives Federal transit program grant funds indirectly through a recipient.
- territory
means the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.
- TIP
means a transportation improvement program developed by a metropolitan planning organization under subsection (j).
- transit
means public transportation.
- transit asset management plan
means a plan developed by a recipient of funding under this chapter that—
- transit asset management system
means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving public transportation capital assets effectively throughout the life cycle of such assets.
- urban area
means an area that includes a municipality or other built-up place that the Secretary, after considering local patterns and trends of urban growth, decides is appropriate for a local public transportation system to serve individuals in the locality.
- urbanized area
means a geographic area with a population of 50,000 or more, as determined by the Bureau of the Census.
- value capture
means recovering the increased property value to property located near public transportation resulting from investments in public transportation.
- welfare recipient
means an individual who has received assistance under a State or tribal program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) at any time during the 3-year period before the date on which the applicant applies for a grant under section 5307 or 5311.
- zero emission vehicle
means a low or no emission vehicle that produces no carbon or particulate matter.