Texas Administrative Code › Title 43 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 31 - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION › Subchapter D - PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION › Section 31.48 - Project Oversight

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Purpose. This
				  section describes reporting requirements for designated recipients and
				  subrecipients of state or federal public transportation grant funds and
				  monitoring activities to be performed by the department.
(b) Reporting requirements. The subrecipient
				  shall submit reports to the department in a format prescribed by the department
				  within deadlines established by the department.
(1) Incident reports. Subrecipients shall
				  report all incidents that meet criteria established by the department. The
				  subrecipient shall submit the report within five days of the incident or
				  discovery of the incident.
(2)
				  Asset inventory. Each subrecipient shall provide information on state and
				  federally funded equipment as described in §
											31.50
				  of this chapter (relating to Recordkeeping and Inventory
				  Requirements).
(3) Charter service.
				  Section 5311 subrecipients shall provide charter service only under the
				  specific circumstances established by the FTA. Operators shall advise the
				  department of any charter service provided and the exemption under which
				  charter service is provided.
(4)
				  Disadvantaged Business Enterprises. Subrecipients shall submit reports in
				  accordance with 49 C.F.R. Part 26, Participation by Disadvantaged Business
				  Enterprises in Department of Transportation Financial Assistance
				  Programs.
(5) Operations reports.
				  All FTA recipients and subrecipients shall submit quarterly and annual
				  operations reports.
(A) Pursuant to the
				  requirements of
				  49 U.S.C. §
													5311 and §
												5335,
				  subrecipients of assistance under §5311 shall submit to the department
				  data required by the department for reporting to the National Transit
				  Database.
(B) Pursuant to the
				  requirements of
				  49 U.S.C. §
													5326, subrecipients of FTA assistance through
				  the department shall provide the data required by the department to report on
				  transit asset management.
(C)
				  Pursuant to the requirements of Transportation Code, §
												456.008(a)
				  and (b), the department will collect monthly
				  data from transit operators in urbanized areas, including transit authorities,
				  and publish annually data on industry utilized standards that best reflect
				  ridership, mileage, revenue by source and service effectiveness. These
				  standards include:
(i) Service
				  efficiency--Operating expense per vehicle revenue hour and operating expense
				  per vehicle revenue mile.
(ii) Cost
				  effectiveness--Operating expense per unlinked passenger trip.
(iii) Service effectiveness--Unlinked
				  passenger trips per vehicle revenue mile and unlinked passenger trips per
				  vehicle revenue hour.
(iv)
				  Safety--Total incidents per 100,000 miles of service and average number of
				  miles between revenue vehicle mechanical system failures that prevent the
				  vehicle from completing a scheduled revenue trip.
(D) Pursuant to the requirements of
				  Transportation Code, §
												456.008(a)
				  and (b), and
				  49 U.S.C. §
													5311, the department will collect monthly
				  from transit operators in rural areas, and publish annually data on industry
				  utilized standards that best reflect ridership, mileage, revenue by source and
				  service effectiveness. These standards include:
(i) Service efficiency--Operating expense per
				  vehicle mile.
(ii) Cost
				  effectiveness--Operating expense per unlinked passenger trip.
(iii) Service effectiveness--Unlinked
				  passenger trips per vehicle mile.
(iv) Safety--Total incidents per 100,000
				  miles of service and average number of miles between revenue vehicle mechanical
				  system failures that prevent the vehicle from completing a scheduled revenue
				  trip.
(E) Pursuant to
				  the requirements of Transportation Code, §
												456.008(a)
				  and (b), the department will collect monthly
				  from public transportation providers, as defined in Transportation Code, §
												461.002, that receive
				  funding under
				  49
				  U.S.C. §
													5310, or §
												5316 and §
												5317 (with regard to the grant of
				  funds appropriated under federal authorization bills prior to MAP-21), and
				  publish annually data on industry utilized standards that best reflect
				  ridership, mileage, revenue by source and service effectiveness. These
				  standards include:
(i) Service
				  efficiency--Operating expense per vehicle mile.
(ii) Cost effectiveness--Operating expense
				  per unlinked passenger trip.
(iii)
				  Service effectiveness--Unlinked passenger trips per vehicle mile.
(iv) Any other measure appropriate to the
				  type of project financed using funds from §5310, or §5316 and
				  §5317 with regard to the grant of funds appropriated under federal
				  authorization bills prior to MAP-21.
(6) Significant events. The recipient shall
				  promptly advise the department in writing of events that have a significant
				  effect on the delivery of public transportation services, including:
(A) problems, delays, and adverse conditions
				  that will materially affect the ability to attain program objectives, prevent
				  the meeting of time schedules and goals, or preclude the attainment of project
				  work units by established time periods, accompanied by a statement of the
				  action taken or contemplated and any departmental assistance needed to resolve
				  the situation; and
(B) favorable
				  developments and events that will enable meeting time schedules and goals
				  sooner than anticipated or producing more work units than originally
				  projected.
(7)
				  Miscellaneous reports. Entities receiving funds from either the department or
				  the FTA shall cooperate with the department in providing other information as
				  requested by state and federal funding agencies.