Section 83.604. Apportionment criteria

(a) The Commission will apportion the amount of funds for each participating district under the program, based on the act and the criteria in subsection (c).

(b) The Commission may reallocate funds if an agreement cannot be fulfilled by the district, local government, contractor, and agency or cooperating organization.

(c) Apportionment criteria shall be based on the verified need to correct pollution problems related to the road and shall include consideration of the following:

(1) The total number of miles of dirt and gravel roads maintained by local municipalities or State agencies that are open to the public during any period of the year.

(2) The total miles of dirt and gravel roads within watersheds protected as of November 1996 as exceptional value or high quality waters of this Commonwealth.

(3) Allowances for the local costs of limestone aggregate.

(4) The commitments of grant applicants to comply with the nonpollution requirements established.

(5) Other factors determined by the Commission to be appropriate.

(d) In the first fiscal year, top priority shall be given to specific trouble spot locations already mapped by the Task Force on Dirt and Gravel Roads. The Commission may extend this priority beyond the first fiscal year.

(e) The Commission may allocate funds for training or road demonstration project, or both, to an aggregated budget managed by the Commission and may establish spending limits, consistent with the act, which includes the portion of the aggregated funds administered by the Commission.

(f) Public notice of the apportionment of funds for this Program will be published by the Commission in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.