New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Chapter VI - Transportation Regulations
Subchapter G - Mass Transportation Operating Assistance
Part 980 - Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program Rules And Regulations
Section 980.13 - Relationships to other programs that fund rural transportation
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Human Service Programs. State or county agencies administering or overseeing federal or State programs which are being, or can be, used in part to pay for the transport of agency program clientele should adopt new or revised program policies or procedures which re-direct portions of such programs' funds and other transportation resources to a rural county's coordinated public transportation service. Agencies should take other policy or administrative actions that would facilitate or provide incentives to their local agency counterparts to participate in a rural county's coordination program funded by this Part.
(b) Section 16(b)(2)Program.
(c) New York State Mass Transportation Operating Assistance (NYSTOA). Those portions of a county's coordinated public transportation service which meet the eligibility and other requirements of the State mass transportation operating assistance program shall be eligible for assistance through that program, in accordance with 17 NYCRR Part 975 and related Department guidelines. If a private operator subject to maximum operating assistance guidelines under NYSTOA receives operating assistance through this Part, then both sources of operating assistance will be considered in establishing the maximum operating assistance under the NYSTOA program.
(d) Federal Mass Transportation Operating and Capital Assistance (Sections 18 and 9). Those portions of a county's coordinated public transportation service which are eligible for and receive New York State mass transportation operating assistance and which meet the eligibility and other requirements of the UMTA Section 18 or Section 9 programs shall be eligible for assistance through those programs, in accordance with UMTA Circulars and/or Department guidelines, up to the eligibility limits of such assistance prescribed therein and contingent upon the amount of such Federal funds made available to the county by the Department or the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
(e) Should a county's coordinated public transportation service receive operating assistance through this Part and also receive public transportation operating assistance through the NYSTOA and/or Federal Section 18 or 9 programs, then the total of assistance in any fiscal year from all sources plus any local share required for such sources shall not exceed the total eligible operating expenses, minus operating income and any applicable allowance for profit.
(f) Federal Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP). A rural county's designated coordinated service operator and any of its subcontractors shall be eligible to receive technical assistance and training through the Department's Rural Transit Assistance Program.
(g) Failure to comply with any of the regulations of the Department shall result in a suspension of payments of funds under this Part.