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The FASTLANE statute defines a rural area as an area outside an Urbanized Area with a population of over 200,000. In this notice, urban area is defined as inside an Urbanized Area, as a designated by the U.S. Census Bureau, with a population of 200,000 or more.5 Cost share requirements and minimum grant awards are the same for projects located in rural and urban areas. The Department will consider a project to be in a rural area if the majority of the project (determined by geographic location(s)where the majority of the money is to be spent) is located in a rural area. Rural and urban definitions differ in some other USDOT programs, including TIFIA and the FY 2016 TIGER Discretionary Grants Program. v. Application Limit To encourage applicants to prioritize their FASTLANE submissions, each eligible applicant may submit no more than three applications. The three- application limit applies only to applications where the applicant is the lead applicant. There is no limit on applications for which an applicant can be listed as a partnering agency. If a lead applicant submits more than three applications as the lead applicant, only the first three received will be considered. vi. Project Components 4 For Census 2010,the Census Bureau defined an Urbanized Area(UA)as an area that consists of densely settled territory that contains 50,000 or more people. Updated lists of UAs are available on the Census Bureau website at http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dcl0map/UAUC_RefN4ap/ua/. For the purposes of the FASTLANE program, Urbanized Areas with populations fewer than 200,000 will be considered rural. 5 See www.transportation.gov/FASTLANEgrants for a list of Urbanized Areas with a population of 200,000 or more. Page 16 of 48