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(a) The federal act provides that sums apportioned to a state under this program be made available for projects throughout the state on a fair and equitable basis. It is in the interest of the state and its counties and cities that the federal funds made available for the Safer Off-System Roads Program be made available by the commission for use on county roads and city streets.
  (b) The funds shall be apportioned among the counties in accordance with the formula prescribed by federal law for apportionment among the states, except that no county shall receive less than one-half of 1 percent of each year's apportionment.
  (c) The distribution of funds among the cities within each county and the county shall be determined by agreement between the county and a majority of the cities, which cities shall include a majority of the municipal population within the county. A copy of the agreement shall be filed with the department.

Within 60 days after the apportionment is made pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 2530, each county shall notify the department as to the amount of the apportionment the county and its cities wish to claim.

The county or city responsible for the construction of a safer off-system road project shall prepare the plans, specifications, and estimates of costs for the construction of the project in conformance with federal requirements for off-system roads, shall certify the necessary right-of-way, and shall submit such documents to the department in order to qualify for federal funds.

All funds not claimed pursuant to Section 2532 shall lapse. The lapsed funds of a county may be reallocated for expenditure upon safer off-system road projects of counties and cities within the other counties of the county group, as specified in Section 187, which included that county, based upon their proportional share of the original apportionment within that county group.

By agreement with the department, a county or city may transfer all or part of the funds apportioned to it under this chapter to a qualifying safer off-system roads project on a road under other governmental jurisdiction in the same county, or to a qualifying project in another county under such terms and conditions as are agreed upon by the department and the counties or cities, as the case may be, involved.

The counties and cities may use any funds available to them to match federal funds made available under this chapter, if the use of funds for such matching purposes is not prohibited by federal law. "Match," as used in this chapter, means to provide for the payment of the cost of any project to the extent that such cost is not to be reimbursed from federal funds.