North Carolina § 136-214 - Matching funds for federal State Planning and Research Program Grants.

§ 136-214. Matching funds for federal State Planning and Research Program Grants.

The Department of Transportation shall annually allocate funds to qualifying Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Rural Transportation Planning Organizations to be used to fund a portion of the local match required for federal State Planning and Research Program funds under 23 U.S.C. § 505. A Metropolitan Planning Organization is only eligible for funding under this section if it has a population of 500,000 or less, as determined by the most recent census. The funds shall be allocated as follows: For a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Rural Transportation Planning Organization that includes at least one representative from a development tier one area, as determined under G.S. 143B-437.08, the Department shall allocate an amount equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of the total local match required. For a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Rural Transportation Planning Organization that does not qualify under subdivision (1) of this section, but includes at least one representative from a development tier two area, as determined under G.S. 143B-437.08, the Department shall allocate an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the total local match required. The Department shall not allocate any funds under this section to a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Rural Transportation Planning Organization that does not qualify under this section. History (2017-57, s. 34.8(a).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2017-57, s. 39.7, made this section effective July 1, 2017. Session Laws 2017-57, s. 34.8(b), (c), provides: "(b) Establish Corridor Development Unit. - The Department shall establish a Corridor Development Unit within, and under the direction of, the Division of Planning and Programming of the Department. The Corridor Development Unit shall work with organizations that receive funding under subsection (a) of this section to develop detailed corridor studies on highway projects prior to submitting the project for inclusion and prioritization in a long-term transportation planning document. The studies required under this subsection shall include an identification of each segment of a highway project, cost estimates for each segment, and an identification of logical termini for each segment. "(c) Report. - The Department shall develop a report for each fiscal year of the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium on the usage of federal State Planning and Research Program funds allocated in accordance with G.S. 136-214, as enacted by subsection (a) of this section, for that fiscal year. The Department shall submit the reports, including any legislative recommendations for improving the development of rural transportation projects, to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee by (i) April 1, 2018, for the first report and (ii) April 1, 2019, for the second report." Session Laws 2017-57, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2017.'" Session Laws 2017-57, s. 39.4, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2017-2019 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2017-57, s. 39.6, is a severability clause. §§ 136-215 through 136-219: Reserved for future codification purposes. :ao §136-219