(a) Coordination.--Coordination is required in regions where two or more award recipients have services or activities for which financial assistance is being provided under this chapter to assure that the services or activities are provided efficiently and effectively.
(b) Consolidation and mutual cooperation.--
(1) The department, in consultation with local governments and local transportation organizations, shall study the feasibility of consolidation and mutual cooperation among local transportation organizations as a means of reducing annual expenses without loss of service to the communities they serve. The study shall examine the creation of service regions or mutual cooperation pacts to determine whether either method would reduce annual expenses. The feasibility analysis is to include a cost-benefit analysis and operational analysis.
(2) If the results of a feasibility analysis under paragraph (1) estimate an annual net savings at the time of completion of the study, the local transportation organization and local government may implement the recommended action.
(3) The department shall waive the match requirement under sections 1513 (relating to operating program) and 1514 (relating to asset improvement program) for five fiscal years for the local transportation organization's participation in the recommended action under paragraph (2) in an amount not to exceed the estimated annual net savings of the implemented recommendations.
(c) Funding for merger and consolidation incentives and mutual cooperation pacts.--A capital project that is needed to support a local transportation organization that has agreed to merge and consolidate operations and administration or share facilities or staff through a mutual cooperation pact to achieve cost and service efficiencies shall be eligible for financial assistance under this chapter. The application for financial assistance must do all of the following:
(1) Identify the efficiencies in a merger and consolidation plan or mutual cooperation pact.
(2) Include the expected net dollar savings that will result from the merger, consolidation or pact.
(Nov. 25, 2013, P.L.974, No.89, eff. imd.)
2013 Amendment. Section 43(2) of Act 89 provided that section 1512 shall apply to feasibility studies performed prior to or after the effective date of section 43. See the preamble to Act 89 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to legislative findings and declarations.
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