WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 626

[(c)] (B) Subject to the appropriation requirements and
budgetary provisions of § 3-216 of this article and upon receipt
of an approval of a grant application in the form or detail as
the Secretary shall reasonably require, the Department shall
provide for annual grants to Prince George's County and
Montgomery County for [a share of the annual operating deficits
beginning on July 1, 1984 of the local bus systems for bus
service that a local bus system provides after January 1, 1978 to
replace comparable bus service in each county that the bus
transit system of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority operated prior to the effective date of this section.
The amount of comparable bus service eligible for the
Department's grants shall be limited to the number of bus
platform miles and platform hours previously operated by the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority on the replaced
service] ELIGIBLE LOCAL BUS SERVICE AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.
THE AMOUNT OF THESE GRANTS SHALL BE EQUAL TO:

(1)  75 PERCENT OF THE SERVICE DEFICIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO
EACH COUNTY; LESS

(2)  EACH COUNTY'S SHARE OF THE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL
GRANT TO THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN TRANSIT DISTRICT AS DETERMINED
UNDER SECTION 10-205(B) OF THIS SUBTITLE.

(C)  THE DEPARTMENT'S GRANT FOR ANY ELIGIBLE LOCAL BUS
SERVICE MAY NOT BE GREATER THAN THE OPERATING GRANT THAT THE
DEPARTMENT WOULD INCUR FROM THE SAME BUS SERVICE IF OPERATED BY
THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY. THIS
REQUIREMENT SHALL BE APPLIED ON A LINE BY LINE BASIS.

(D)  EXCEPT WITH THE SPECIFIC APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY,
NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 10-205 OF THIS
SUBTITLE, THE COMBINED GRANTS FOR BUS SERVICE TO EACH COUNTY
UNDER SECTIONS 10-205(B) AND 10-207 OF THIS SUBTITLE MAY NOT
EXCEED THE LEVEL OF THE COMBINED GRANTS FOR THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR
ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION BY THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CPI U
PROJECTED CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CPI-U FOR THE FISCAL YEAR IN WHICH
THE GRANT UNDER THIS SECTION IS BEING AWARDED, USING THE ACTUAL
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CPI-U AT THE CLOSE OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
ADJUSTMENTS SHALL BE MADE TO INCREASE OR DECREASE THE COMBINED
GRANTS IN THE SUBSEQUENT FISCAL YEAR TO REFLECT THE ACTUAL
INFLATION RATE.

[(d) The Department's share shall equal 75 percent of the
operating deficit of a local bus system for bus service described
in subsection (c) of this section.]

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1 of
this Act shall take effect June 1, 1989.

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