§602.13. Eligible activities.
49 C.F.R. § 602.13
An affected recipient may apply for emergency relief funds on behalf of itself as well as affected subrecipients.
Eligible uses of Emergency Relief funds include—
Emergency operations;
Emergency protective measures;
Emergency repairs;
Permanent repairs;
Actual engineering and construction costs on approved projects;
Repair or replacement of spare parts that are the property of an affected recipient or subrecipient and held in the normal course of business that are damaged or destroyed; and
Resilience projects.
Ineligible uses of Emergency Relief funds include—
Heavy maintenance;
Project costs for which the recipient has received funding from another Federal agency;
Project costs for which the recipient has received funding through payments from insurance policies;
Except for resilience projects that have been approved in advance, projects that change the function of the original infrastructure;
Projects for which funds were obligated in an FTA grant prior to the declared emergency or major disaster;
Reimbursements for lost revenue due to service disruptions caused by an emergency or major disaster;
Project costs associated with the replacement or replenishment of damaged or lost material that are not the property of the affected recipient and not incorporated into a public transportation system such as stockpiled materials or items awaiting installation; and
Other project costs FTA determines are not appropriate for the Emergency Relief Program.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5324 and 5334; 49 CFR 1.91.
Source
Source: 79 FR 60361, Oct. 7, 2014, unless otherwise noted.