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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".12" citation="COMAR 14.39.02.12" title_num="14" subtitle_num="39" chapter_num="02" heading="Eligible Expenditures.">
  <text>The following expenditures may be eligible for State funding:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Planning, including feasibility studies, programs, educational specifications, equipment specifications, and other planning work that occurs prior to the start of design.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Design expenses and other ancillary costs, including architectural and engineering fees, construction management services, geotechnical surveys, and other services necessary to complete the architectural specifications for a school project.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>New construction, as follows:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Construction of a new school facility, that is, work necessary to construct a new school facility, including building and site development;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Additions to an existing facility, that is, work necessary to increase space at an existing school facility, including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Building and site development; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Work to physically integrate the addition into the existing school;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Replacement of a building or building portion, that is, work necessary to reconstruct a school facility that cannot be economically repaired or renovated, including building and site development; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Modular construction, that is, factory-fabricated structures that have the same quality systems and materials as used for permanent school construction and that meet the standards of the COMAR 05.02.04;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Renewal or renovation, that is, the work necessary to restore and modernize an existing school facility or a portion of a facility that is 16 years or older;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Capital maintenance projects as set forth in Regulation .16 of this chapter;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>State-owned relocatable facilities as set forth in Regulation .16 of this chapter;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Temporary facilities, including utilities and relocatable facilities, that are necessary on-site during construction of a State-funded project;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Equipment and furnishings as defined by the IAC;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Real time utilities metering measurement and verification equipment as defined by the IAC;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="J.">
    <text>Off-site development costs required by local, State, or federal agencies;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="K.">
    <text>Emergency repairs as set forth in Regulation .17 of this chapter;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="L.">
    <text>E-rate eligible special construction broadband infrastructure projects, including offsite development costs, for E-rate eligible applicants consistent with 47 C.F.R. 54.505, through the State funding of grants to local boards of education.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>