Section 99613 Of Chapter 2. The Clean Air And Transportation Improvement Fund From California Public Utilities Code >> Division 10. >> Part 11.5. >> Chapter 2.
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. (a) The commission shall allocate money from the fund in
accordance with the allocations specified in Chapter 3 (commencing
with Section 99620) to the department, to the Department of Parks and
Recreation, and to local agencies as grants for expenditure for the
preservation, acquisition, construction, or improvement of any of the
following:
(1) Rights-of-way for rail purposes.
(2) Rail terminals and stations.
(3) Rolling stock, including locomotives, passenger cars, and
related rail equipment and facilities.
(4) Grade separations and other improvements along rail
rights-of-way for rail purposes.
(5) Rail maintenance facilities.
(6) Other capital facilities deemed necessary for a specified rail
service, including soundwalls.
(7) Capital expenditures for the purposes specified in subdivision
(b) of Section 1 of Article XIX of the California Constitution.
(8) Paratransit vehicles, bicycle facilities, and water-borne
ferry vessels and facilities.
(9) The project described in Section 99648.
(b) The commission shall require each applicant for a grant
pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 99620), including the
department, to demonstrate in its application that if the grant funds
being applied for are awarded, no other funds which were previously
planned, programmed, or approved for rail purposes will be used for
other than rail purposes.
(c) Consistent with Section 99665, money from the fund may be used
to satisfy any federal, state or local matching fund requirement for
the project to be funded. Money from the fund may be used to provide
local matching funds for grade separations pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 1202 or Section 1202.5.
(d) Authorized expenditures listed in paragraphs (1) to (7),
inclusive, of subdivision (a) are "rail projects" as defined in
subdivision (j) of Section 99602.
(e) Grant funds shall be expended only for capital expenditures.
(f) Projects to be funded shall include, to the greatest extent
possible, projects which integrate and facilitate transfers between
rail lines, including all rail lines for which funding is provided by
this part.