WHEREAS, the federal government, under authority granted by the Federal Transit Act, as amended, is authorized to provide financial assistance to states to improve public transportation; and 

        WHEREAS, such aid has been offered to Idaho; and 

        WHEREAS, it is necessary that an agency of the State of Idaho be designated and authorized to receive and expend such financial assistance; and 

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, by the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of this state do hereby continue the designation of the Idaho Transportation Department and its Director to receive and expend monies from the federal government for public transportation assistance as provided under the applicable federal statutes. This Executive Order repeals and replaces Executive Order No. 96-05. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord two-thousand and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred twenty-fourth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred tenth.

PETE T. CENARRUSA
SECRETARY OF STATE