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the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan of a public transportation agency; responsibility for carrying <br /> out the agency's Transit Asset Management Plan; and control or direction over the human and capital <br /> resources needed to develop and maintain both the agency's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan in <br /> accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5329(d), and the agency's Transit Asset Management Plan in accordance with <br /> 49 U.S.C. 5326. <br /> • Equivalent Authority means an entity that carries out duties similar to that of a Board of Directors for a <br /> recipient or subrecipient of FTA funds under 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53, including sufficient authority to review <br /> and approve a recipient or subrecipient's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan. <br /> • Event means any Accident, Incident,or Occurrence. <br /> • Hazard means any real or potential condition that can cause injury, illness,or death; damage to or loss of <br /> the facilities,equipment, rolling stock,or infrastructure of a public transportation system; or damage to the <br /> environment. <br /> • Incident means an event that involves any of the following: a personal injury that is not serious; one or <br /> more injuries requiring medical transport; or damage to facilities, equipment, rolling stock,or <br /> infrastructure that disrupts the operations of a transit agency. <br /> • Investigation means the process of determining the causal and contributing factors of an accident, <br /> incident, or hazard,for the purpose of preventing recurrence and mitigating risk. <br /> • National Public Transportation Safety Plan means the plan to improve the safety of all public <br /> transportation systems that receive Federal financial assistance under 49 U.S.C. Chapter 53. <br /> • Occurrence means an Event without any personal injury in which any damage to facilities, equipment, <br /> rolling stock, or infrastructure does not disrupt the operations of a transit agency. <br /> • Operator of a public transportation system means a provider of public transportation as defined under 49 <br /> U.S.C. 5302. <br /> • Performance measure is an expression based on a quantifiable indicator of performance or condition <br /> that is used to establish targets and to assess progress toward meeting the established targets. <br /> • Performance target means a quantifiable level of performance or condition,expressed as a value for <br /> the measure,to be achieved within a time period required by the FTA. <br /> • Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (or Agency Safety Plan) means the documented <br /> comprehensive Agency Safety Plan for a transit agency as required by 49 U.S.C. 5329 and Part 673. <br /> • Risk means the composite of predicted severity and likelihood of the potential effect of a hazard. <br /> • Risk mitigation means a method or methods to eliminate or reduce the effects of hazards. <br /> • Safety Assurance means a process within a transit agency's Safety Management System that functions to <br /> ensure the implementation and effectiveness of safety risk mitigation, and to ensure that the transit <br /> agency meets or exceeds its safety objectives through the collection, analysis, and assessment of <br /> information. <br /> • Safety Management Policy means a transit agency's documented commitment to safety,which <br /> defines the transit agency's safety objectives and the accountabilities and responsibilities of its <br /> 25 <br />