[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR605.1]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
CHAPTER VI--FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 605_SCHOOL BUS OPERATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  605.1  Purpose.


    (a) The purpose of this part is to prescribe policies and procedures 
to implement section 109(a) of the National Mass Transportation 
Assistance Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-503; November 26, 1974; 88 Stat. 
1565). Section 109(a) adds a new section 3(g) to the Federal Mass 
Transit Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1602(g)) and differs from 
section 164(b) of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 (49 U.S.C. 
1602a(b)) in that section 3(g) applies to all grants for the 
construction or operation of mass transportation facilities and 
equipment under the Federal Mass Transit Act, and is not limited to 
grants for the purchase of buses as is section 164(b).
    (b) By the terms of section 3(g) no Federal financial assistance may 
be provided for the construction or operation of facilities and 
equipment for use in providing public mass transportation service to an 
applicant unless the applicant and the Administrator enter into an 
agreement that the applicant will not engage in school bus operations 
exclusively for the transportation of students and school personnel, in 
competition with private school bus operators.