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PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005 ‘‘(B) promoting public transportation by low-income workers, including the use of public transportation by workers with nontraditional work schedules; ‘‘(C) promoting the use of transit vouchers for welfare recipients and eligible low-income individuals; and ‘‘(D) promoting the use of employer-provided transportation, including the transit pass benefit program under section 132 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘eligible low-income individual’ means an individual whose family income is at or below 150 percent of the poverty line (as that term is defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision required by that section) for a family of the size involved. ‘‘(3) RECIPIENT.—The term ‘recipient’ means a designated recipient (as defined in section 5307(a)(2)) and a State that receives a grant under this section directly. ‘‘(4) REVERSE COMMUTE PROJECT.—The term ‘reverse commute project’ means a public transportation project designed to transport residents of urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas to suburban employment opportunities, including any projects to— ‘‘(A) subsidize the costs associated with adding reverse commute bus, train, carpool, van routes, or service from urbanized areas and other than urbanized areas to suburban workplaces; ‘‘(B) subsidize the purchase or lease by a nonprofit organization or public agency of a van or bus dedicated to shuttling employees from their residences to a suburban workplace; or ‘‘(C) otherwise facilitate the provision of public transportation services to suburban employment opportunities. ‘‘(5) SUBRECIPIENT.—The term ‘subrecipient’ means a State or local governmental authority, nonprofit organization, or operator of public transportation services that receives a grant under this section indirectly through a recipient. ‘‘(6) WELFARE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘welfare recipient’ means an individual who has received assistance under a State or tribal program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act at any time during the 3-year period before the date on which the applicant applies for a grant under this section. ‘‘(b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.— ‘‘(1) GRANTS.—The Secretary may make grants under this section to a recipient for access to jobs and reverse commute projects carried out by the recipient or a subrecipient. ‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—A recipient may use not more than 10 percent of the amounts apportioned to the recipient under this section to administer, plan, and provide technical assistance for a project funded under this section. ‘‘(c) APPORTIONMENTS.— ‘‘(1) FORMULA.—The Secretary shall apportion amounts made available for a fiscal year to carry out this section as follows: ‘‘(A) 60 percent of the funds shall be apportioned among designated recipients (as defined in section 5307(a)(2)) for

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