---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 602.13"
title: "49"
number: "602.13"
heading: "Eligible activities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/602.13"
---

# §602.13. Eligible activities.

- (a) An affected recipient may apply for emergency relief funds on behalf of itself as well as affected subrecipients.
- (b) **Eligible uses of Emergency Relief funds include—**
  - (1) Emergency operations;
  - (2) Emergency protective measures;
  - (3) Emergency repairs;
  - (4) Permanent repairs;
  - (5) Actual engineering and construction costs on approved projects;
  - (6) 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
  - (7) **Resilience projects.**
- (c) **Ineligible uses of Emergency Relief funds include—**
  - (1) Heavy maintenance;
  - (2) Project costs for which the recipient has received funding from another Federal agency;
  - (3) Project costs for which the recipient has received funding through payments from insurance policies;
  - (4) Except for resilience projects that have been approved in advance, projects that change the function of the original infrastructure;
  - (5) Projects for which funds were obligated in an FTA grant prior to the declared emergency or major disaster;
  - (6) Reimbursements for lost revenue due to service disruptions caused by an emergency or major disaster;
  - (7) 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
  - (8) **Other project costs FTA determines are not appropriate for the Emergency Relief Program.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5324 and 5334; 49 CFR 1.91.

### Source

Source: 79 FR 60361, Oct. 7, 2014, unless otherwise noted.