(30 ILCS 740/4-2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 699.13)
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.
(Source: P.A. 86-16.)
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